Nihon Parkerizing Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Oxy Metal Industries Corporation

San-ai Oil Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Ltd.

Occidental Chemical Corporation

Hideaki Kaneko

Takao Ogino

Ryosuke Sako

Masanori Suzuki

Masayoshi Nishikawa

Yasuoki Tomita

Kuniji Yashiro

Noriaki Kishi

Hiroyoshi Mizuno

Naomasa Shimotomai

Yasushi Miyazaki

Kenji Yamamoto

Yoshiaki Inoue

Kazutaka Mori

Kuniaki Aoyama

Ikuo Okada

Taiji Torigoe

Masahiko Mega

Masumi Nomura

Katsuhiko Abe

Toshio Ohara

Keizo Tsukagoshi

Ichiro Nagano

Yoshitaka Uemura

Yoshifumi Okajima

Kengo Yamaguchi

Yasunobu Matsushima

Shigehiro Shiozaki

Norifumi Hirata

Haruyoshi Terada

Yuichiro Yamada

Atsunori Yoshida

Toshinobu Ohara

Toshio Takahashi

Takanori Karato

Youji Ono

Kotaro Ohshima

Kakuro Muro

Kazuhisa Naito

Junichi Negita

Kiyoichi Yamazaki

Yoshitomo Miyagi

Yokichi Satoh

Tutomu Niwa

Naoya Fujita

A state quantity acquisition unit acquires a state quantity of a target apparatus including a temperature of the target apparatus. A load specification unit specifies a load history of the target apparatus, based on the state quantity. A remaining life calculation unit calculates a parameter related to a remaining life of the target apparatus for each of a plurality of degradation types, based on the load history specified by the load specification unit.

Apparatus state estimation device, apparatus state estimation method and program

A damage probability calculation device which calculates a damage probability in an evaluation target region of a gas turbine computes strength distributions including a mean, a standard deviation and a certainty factor of the strength of a material used for the evaluation target region with respect to stresses on the basis of strength test data of the material. In addition, the damage probability calculation device computes stress distributions including the mean, the standard deviation and the certainty factor of stresses input to the evaluation target region on the basis of operation data of the gas turbine acquired through a sensor. Further, the damage probability calculation device computes damage probability distributions indicating distributions of damage probabilities of the evaluation target region on the basis of the strength distributions and the stress distributions.

Damage probability calculation device and damage probability calculation method

A turbine blade designing method is for designing a turbine blade formed using a metal material in which creep including diffusion creep and dislocation creep occurs by heating. The turbine blade designing method includes: acquiring temperature distribution data relating to temperature distribution in the turbine blade to be heated; acquiring creep strength distribution data relating to distribution of the creep strength required for the turbine blade to be heated; from the correlation data, based on the temperature distribution data and the creep strength distribution data, setting the crystal grain size of a high-temperature portion that is the diffusion creep temperature range of the turbine blade to a size coarser than the reference crystal grain size, and setting the crystal grain size of a low-temperature portion that is the dislocation creep temperature range of the turbine blade to a size finer than the reference crystal grain size.

Turbine blade designing method, turbine blade manufacturing method, and turbine blade

A process for producing a thermal barrier coating having an excellent thermal barrier effect and superior durability to thermal cycling. Also, a turbine member having a thermal barrier coating that has been formed using the production process, and a gas turbine. The process for producing a thermal barrier coating includes: forming a metal bonding layer () on a heat-resistant alloy substrate (), and forming a ceramic layer () on the metal bonding layer () by thermal spraying of thermal spray particles having a particle size distribution in which the 10% cumulative particle size is not less than 30 &#x3bc;m and not more than 100 &#x3bc;m.

Process for producing thermal barrier coating

The present invention provides a turbine moving blade, a turbine stationary blade, and a turbine split ring which are capable of restraining the deterioration and peeling-off of a thermal barrier coating easily and surely, and a gas turbine capable of enhancing the energy efficiency by increasing the temperature of combustion gas. The turbine moving blade provided in a turbine constituting the gas turbine includes a platform having a gas path surface extending in the combustion gas flow direction, and a blade portion erecting on the platform. The thermal barrier coating covering the gas path surface is formed so as to go around from the gas path surface to an upstream-side end face and a downstream-side end face of the outer peripheral faces of the platform.

Turbine moving blade, turbine stationary blade, turbine split ring, and gas turbine

A heat exchanger made of aluminum includes a plurality of tubes made of aluminum through which a fluid to be heat exchanged flows, the tubes having a metal surface of aluminum; fins made of aluminum arranged between the tubes for accelerating heat exchange between the fluid to be heat-exchanged and air, the fins having a metal surface of aluminum; a first protecting film of a chemical conversion coating formed on the metal surfaces of the tubes and fins and containing a metal component; and a second protecting film of an antimicrobial agent coating on the first protecting film, at least on the fins among the tubes and fins, the second protecting film having a chemical bond with the metal component of the first protecting film. An example of the antimicrobial agent is 2,2'-dithiobis(pyridine-1-oxide).

Method of manufacturing an aluminum heat exchanger

A heat exchanger made of aluminum comprises a plurality of tubes made of aluminum through which a fluid to be heat exchanged flows, the tubes having a metal surface of aluminum; fins made of aluminum arranged between the tubes for accelerating heat exchange between the fluid to be heat-exchanged and air, the fins having a metal surface of aluminum; a first protecting film of a chemical conversion coating formed on the metal surfaces of the tubes and fins and containing a metal component; and a second protecting film of an antimicrobial agent coating on the first protecting film, at least on the fins among the tubes and fins, the second protecting film having a chemical bond with the metal component of the first protecting film. An example of the antimicrobial agent is 2,2'-dithiobis(pyridine-1-oxide).

Aluminum heat exchanger and method of manufacturing same

The present invention offers a cleaning agent for aluminium surface which is an aqueous acidic liquid containing peroxo acid and/or peroxide in 0.05-10 g/l and further one or more kinds out of sulphuric acid, phosphoric acid and nitric acid.

Cleaning chemical for aluminium surface

A heat exchanger has special usage such as an evaporator of an automotive air conditioner. This heat exchanger can improve wettability and can reduce a scattering of condensed water. This heat exchanger is treated by a special chemical conversion treatment so that this heat exchanger has two layers of coating on the surface thereof. One of the two layers is a chemical conversion coating formed on the surface of the heat exchanger. The other one is a resin coating formed over the chemical conversion coating. The chemical conversion coating is treated by immersing the heat exchanger into a water solution. The resin coating is also treated by immersing the heat exchanger having the chemical conversion coating into a water solution of organic high polymer material.

Aluminum heat exchanger and method for producing aluminum heat exchanger

A method for imparting wettability to an aluminum heat exchanger comprises immersing the heat exchanger in an aqueous medium containing a silanol compound and polyvinyl pyrrolidone. If desired, the exchanger may be conversion coated or anodized prior to the immersion.

Aluminum heat exchanger coating

A composition and process useful in forming films on the surface of aluminum or its alloys is disclosed. The composition is an aqueous solution containing an alkali metal, silicon, fluorine, zinc and iron. The film is an adherent hydrophilic corrosion resistant film useful as such and/or as a lubricating film in metal forming.

Surface treatment of aluminum and its alloys

A method for the treatment of aluminum surfaces to provide them with a corrosion resistant, hydrophilic coating. The aluminum surfaces are first provided with a corrosion-resistant film and, thereafter, a coating of fine silica particles is applied to the corrosion resistant film. Suitable corrosion resistant films which may be used are anodized films, boehmite films, chromated films and organic resin films. The coated aluminum surfaces produced by this method are found to have particular application for aluminum heat exchangers.

Process for treating the surfaces of aluminum heat exchangers

An aluminum heat exchanger with excellent corrosion resistance and particularly suited for adaptation as radiator for automobiles, the heat exchanger having a 2- or 3-layer coating film structure consisting of a zinc-diffused layer formed on the surface of an aluminum base and a waterproof organic film formed on the zinc-diffused layer with or without a phosphoric acid-chromate coating therebetween, whereby the surface of the aluminum base is not directly contacted with at least the water-containing heat exchange medium is provided.

Aluminum heat exchanger

An environmentally acceptable composition and process imparts improved corrosion resistance and paint adhesion to a conversion coated surface of zinc or zinc alloy. The coated surface is post-treated with an aqueous composition containing a thiourea compound and a vegetable tannin.

Post treating zinc surfaces

Disclosed is a composition and process useful for improving the corrosion resistance and/or paint adhesion of an aluminum surface. The composition is an aqueous acidic one containing an organic film-forming polymer and a titanium compound in a weight ratio of polymer : Ti of 100 : 1 to 1 : 10. The aluminum surface is contacted with the composition at a temperature not in excess of 70.degree. C.

Process for treating an aluminum surface

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Hideaki Kaneko