Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated

Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry

Chubu Electric Power Company, Inc.

The Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc.

Tohoku Electric Power Company, Inc.

Electric Power Development Co., Ltd.

Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc.

Hokkaido Electric Power Company, Inc.

Shikoku Electric Power Co., Inc.

Hokuriku Electric Power Company

Clean Coal Power R&d Co., Ltd.

Hirata Valve Industry Co., Ltd.

Hirofumi Yamada

Yoshinori Koyama

Yasunari Shibata

Yasuhiro Suzuki

Shuji Kameyama

Soken Takase

Taizo Hoshino

Yoshihiko Horie

Hitoshi Terada

An object is to provide a gate valve capable of preventing operational deficiencies caused by particulate materials accumulating in a valve box, thus providing superior sealing properties and high durability, having a simple structure, and allowing inspection and maintenance to be performed easily. A gate valve installed in a transport line for transporting fluid containing particulate material at a coal gasification plant includes a valve box having an inlet portion and an outlet portion in which a channel constituting a part of the transport line is formed; a valve unit, provided between the inlet portion and the outlet portion, which extends in an opening-and-closing direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the channel, and which is movable in the opening-and-closing direction; a wedge plate provided between the valve unit and the inlet portion so as to extend in the opening-and-closing direction; and a guide plate provided between the valve unit and the outlet portion so as to extend in the opening-and-closing direction. Areas between the valve unit and the wedge plate and between and the valve unit and guide plate are sealed by means of surface contact.

Gate valve

Growing community of inventors

Iwaki, Japan

Hirofumi Yamada