Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Engineering Services Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Engineering Service Co., Ltd.

Hiraku Ikeda

Isao Sato

Naoyuki Nagafuchi

Yasushi Iwai

Akira Shimura

Minoru Takaba

Fumiyuki Hirose

Michio Kuroda

Nobuyuki Iizuka

Akira Okabe

Tetsuo Sasada

Koji Takahashi

Kazuhiko Kumata

Yoshikazu Moritomo

Yasutaka Komatsu

Yasuhiko Otawara

Noriyuki Hayashi

Shoei Takahashi

Takeshi Iwamiya

Tooru Horie

Zenji Yamaguchi

Akiyo Ichihashi

Shozo Nakamura

Masayuki Taniguchi

Hiroshi Inoue

Osamu Arai

Yoji Ishibashi

Kazuhito Koyama

Yasushi Hayasaka

Haruo Urushidani

Hidekazu Fujimura

Kazumi Iwai

Satoshi Tsukahara

Shigeo Sakurai

Seisaku Takihana

Tamio Innami

Hidesumi Kuwashima

Yoshiharu Nakayama

Naohiko Iwata

Tomoyoshi Endo

Yasuhiko Ootawara

Kazuyuki Itoh

Takeshi Ishida

Toshiyuki Ueda

Kenzo Semba

Jinichiro Gotoh

Takumi Yamanobe

Kinichi Suzuki

Seio Kanda

Quick recovery or recovery support of a faulty power generating facility by real time diagnoses such as facility failure diagnosis, supervision for failure symptoms, facility diagnosis by evaluation of performance using databases between the power generating facilities and an operation control system. The operation control system transfers information on operating status and secular characteristic changes of apparatus from power generating facilities or information from operators of selected power generating facilities. The level of a failure of a power generating facility which has a failure is evaluated and repairing information (e.g. recovery procedures, processes, required parts, inventory of the parts, possible failure causes, etc.) is automatically created from repairing information prepared in advance for each evaluation condition. The repairing information is then sent to the operation supporting section of the power generating facility.

Power plant operation control system and a power plant maintaining and managing method

Quick recovery or recovery support of a faulty power generating facility by real time diagnoses such as facility failure diagnosis, supervision for failure symptoms, facility diagnosis by evaluation of performance using databases between the power generating facilities and an operation control system. The operation control system transfers information on operating status and secular characteristic changes of apparatus from power generating facilities or information from operators of selected power generating facilities. The level of a failure of a power generating facility which has a failure is evaluated and repairing information (e.g. recovery procedures, processes, required parts, inventory of the parts, possible failure causes, etc.) created from repairing information prepared in advance for each evaluation condition. The repairing information is then sent to the operation supporting section of the power generating facility.

An answer system for technical support comprises an web server for receiving information of an inquiry sent from a user via an internet; an inquiry-information data base for storing the inquiry information which has been received by the web server; a fire wall for preventing the information of the inquiry, which is stored in the inquiry-information data base, from being accessed by outsiders via the telecommunication network; an intranet for communicating the information of the inquiry, which is stored by the web server, to an information service furnisher; an input unit for inputting an answer to the information of the inquiry, which has been communicated via the intranet; and a mail server for sending the answer to the information of the inquiry, which has been input by the input unit.

Answer system for technical support, and technical support method

In a maintenance management system and a method of providing engineering support, maintenance information concerning generating plants owned by a user is provided to a maker, and the maker analyzes such items of information, and manages the information in a structure maintenance management system. The user accesses the maintenance management system through the Internet, extracts information to be obtained from databases, and implements maintenance activities or drafts a plan. Engineers of the maker register maintenance information through an intranet, and provide engineering support for the maintenance activities promoted by the user.

Maintenance information management system and method of providing a maintenance plan

An operation monitoring unitfor acquiring process data from sensorsinstalled to a gas turbine and operation information of the gas turbine; communication unitsfor transmitting each of said two kinds of data on the gas turbine acquired in the operation monitoring unit; an analysis serverwhich calculates values of equivalent operating time using each of the two kinds of data obtained through the communication units, the value of equivalent operating time evaluating a degree of damage of a diagnosed position for each of a plurality of degradation-and-damage modes, and calculates a value of whole equivalent operating time by adding the values of equivalent operating time for the individual degradation-and-damage modes; and a facility management unitclient-server systemized using the analysis serverand a WWW browseror WWW serverare provided. By acquiring the above-described two kinds of data relating to the gas turbine during operating the gas turbine into the analysis serverthrough the communication units, a highly accurate analysis result of damage condition can be speedy obtained from values of equivalent operating time for a plurality of degradation-and-damage modes. Further, it is also possible to provide convenience that a person in a remote site can speedy and easily view the analysis results using the WWW browserthrough the client server system.

Method and system for diagnosing state of gas turbine

The remote monitoring diagnostic system and method includes a data storage file used to collect the plant data representing the operation status of a plant and to store the plant data, a monitoring system to monitor the field plant according to the collected plant data, a database storing the past plant data associated with errors having occurred to the plant and actions taken to cope with the errors, a diagnostic system to analyze the plant data sent according to the database, and a reporting system to send a report to the user of the plant regarding the causes for the error and/or actions taken to cope with the error based on the result of the analysis. An error is judged in a combustor, when a difference in temperature of two exhaust gas temperature datum detected from adjacent combustors is larger than a predetermined value.

Remote monitoring diagnostic system and method thereof

An operation control system for a plurality of power generating plants and a method of maintaining and managing a plurality of power generating plants which supply power to arbitrary power systems. The operation control system includes a general supervision/diagnosis system which maintains and controls a plurality of power generating plants wherein the general supervision/diagnosis system selects from repairing periods and procedures required to repair failures which occur in the plurality of power generating plants according to levels of failures and performs maintenance and management of power generating plants which have failures. The system also includes means for maintaining a stable total power supply of the plurality of power generating plants.

The present invention comprises a data storage file used to collect the plant data representing the operation status of a plant and to store the plant data, a monitoring system to monitor the field plant according to the collected plant data, a database storing the past plant data associated with errors having occurred to the plant and actions taken to cope with the errors, a diagnostic system to analyze the plant data sent according to the database, and a reporting system to send a report to the user of the plant regarding the causes for the error and/or actions taken to cope with the error based on the result of the analysis.

Quick recovery or recovery support of a faulty power generating facility by real time diagnosis such as facility failure diagnosis, supervision for failure symptoms, facility diagnosis by evaluation of performance using databases between said power generating facilities and an operation control system. The operation control system transfers information on operating status and secular characteristic changes of apparatus from power generating facilities or information from operators of selected power generating facilities. The level of a failure of a power generating facility which has a failure is evaluated and repairing information (e.g. recovery procedures, processes, required parts, inventory of the parts, possible failure causes, etc.) is automatically created from repairing information prepared in advance for each evaluation condition. The repairing information is then sent to the operation supporting section of the power generating facility.

A control method of a gas turbine which is provided with a multi can type combustor consisting of a plurality of unit combustors, each of which has a first stage combustion section for diffusion combustion and a second stage combustion section for premix combustion. Combustion states in the first and second stage combustion sections are monitored to take in quantities representative of the combustion conditions as control factors. The combustion in the second stage combustion section is assumed to be abnormal when the taken in quantities exceed an allowable limit and the combustion in the first and second stage combustion sections is changed to independent combustion only in the first stage combustion section when the number of unit combustors, each of which is assumed to be abnormal, exceeds a predetermined number of the unit combustors.

Gas turbine and a gas turbine control method

A gas turbine engine control method and apparatus as disclosed for optimizing fuel/air mixture, especially during decreasing load conditions. In a large capacity gas turbine engine system used for generation of electric power, the system is designed to operate at a relatively constant rotational speed of the turbine which drives an electric generator unit. The load of the turbine engine varies throughout the day due to changes in electrical power demands. During normal rated load conditions, the control of the fuel/air mixture is by way of changes in fuel supply, corrected to return the turbine exhaust temperature to a desired rated temperature. During this mode of operation, the compressor inlet guide vanes are maintained in a substantially constant open position. For accommodating decreasing load conditions where the temperature drops below a predetermined temperature level below the rated temperature operation, the system is switched to an inlet guide vane control mode of operation. During the guide vane control mode of operation, the inlet guide vanes are controlled at a more precise temperature correction sensitivity than is the case for normal load operations. This more precise inlet guide vane control during decreasing load conditions assures improved fuel/air mixture during decreasing load and consequent improved efficiency and minimal NO.sub.x compound emissions, especially during changing ambient temperature conditions where cold air would otherwise increase the air supply.

Gas turbine control method and apparatus

A control apparatus of a gas turbine combustor for effecting a stable combustion with limited NOx emission through a control of a fuel flow rate according to a turbine output and a control of a flow rate of intake air mixed with the fuel comprises: means for detecting at least one of the temperature and the humidity of an intake air to be taken into the combustor; means for determining and storing, in advance, a stable combustion limit line between a stable combustion region and an unstable combustion region, on a plane of coordinates of a ratio of fuel flow rate/intake air flow rate or an intake air flow rate and the temperature or the humidity of the intake air, on each turbine load; means for detecting an instant operational point of the combustor on the plane of coordinates; and means for correcting an intake air flow rate or a ratio of fuel flow rate to the intake air flow rate according to an increase in the detected temperature or humidity so that the operational point does not cross the stable combustion limit line.

Control apparatus and a control method of a gas turbine combustor

A control apparatus of a gas turbine combustor obtains a stable combustion with limited NOx emission through a control of a fuel flow rate according to a turbine output and a control of a flow rate of intake air mixed with the fuel. The control apparatus includes an apparatus for detecting at least one of the temperature and the humidity of intake air taken into the combustor, an apparatus for determining and storing, in advance, a stable combustion limit line between a stable combustion region and an unstable combustion region, on a plane of coordinates of a ratio of fuel flow rate to an intake air flow rate or an intake air flow rate and the temperature or the humidity of the intake air, on each turbine load, an apparatus for detecting an instant operational point of the combustor on the plane of coordinates, and an apparatus for correcting the intake air flow rate or the ratio of fuel flow rate to the intake air flow rate according to an increase in the detected temperature or humidity so that the instant operational point does not cross the stable combustion limit line.

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Hiraku Ikeda