Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Fujitsu Corporation

Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation

Kunihiko Wada

Seiichi Suenaga

Kazuhiro Yasuda

Hiroki Inagaki

Yutaka Ishiwata

Kazuhiro Saito

Masayuki Itoh

Katsuya Yamashita

Takeo Suga

Asako Inomata

Hisashi Matsuda

Motofumi Tanaka

Masako Nakahashi

Hiroyuki Yasui

Naohiko Shimura

Susumu Kinoshita

Masashi Takahashi

Shogo Iwai

Motoo Nakano

Hideyuki Maeda

Toshiki Osako

Iwataro Sato

Takeo Takahashi

Yasuhiro Goto

Kazuo Saito

Tsuneji Kameda

Kazutaka Ikeda

Yusuke Suzuki

Takao Inukai

Akira Takei

Ryoiku Togei

Shohei Goshima

Tamon Ozaki

Shinichi Noda

Sueyoshi Mizuno

Daizo Saito

Nobuhiro Okizono

Satoru Kuboya

Masahiro Saitou

Kazuhide Matsumoto

Masahiro Asayama

Noriaki Sato

Akinori Koga

Tsutomu Ogawa

Masataka Tamura

Shinji Arai

Kazutaka Tsuruta

Haruhisa Mori

Satoru Yamaguchi

Yutaka Uchida

Hiroshi Kaneta

Toshimasa Yamada

Yoshihiko Hika

Naoyuki Okamura

Ryoichi Hamazaki

Kazutoshi Takaishi

Noriyuki Katagiri

Atsuhiko Izumi

Fumiyo Kuno

Yuujiro Nakatani

Toshiaki Fuse

Tetsuzou Sakamoto

Hiroyuki Ikubo

A thermal insulation coating member includes: a substrate having a surface; a binding layer on the surface, and a thermal insulation layer on the binding layer. The thermal insulation layer includes: a first ceramic layer including a plurality of first flat pores, the plurality of first flat pores being inclined at a first angle with respect to the surface and extending in a first direction; and a second ceramic layer including a plurality of second flat pores, the plurality of second flat pores being inclined at a second angle with respect to the surface and extending in a second direction. The second angle differs from the first angle, the second direction differing from the first direction, or the second angle and the second direction respectively differing from the first angle and the first direction.

Thermal insulation coating member, axial flow turbine, and method for producing thermal insulation coating member

A turbine according to an embodiment includes: a formation object member; a facing member; and a seal part. A formation object member is one of a static part and a rotation part. A facing member is the other of the static part and the rotation part. A seal part at the formation object member is configured to reduce combustion gas leaking between the formation object member and the facing member. The seal part including a ceramics layer. The ceramics layer has a heat conductivity lower than that of the formation object member, and has a concave and convex shape at a surface thereof. The ceramics layer is not in contact with the facing member, or has hardness higher than that of the facing member so that the facing member is preferentially abraded when the facing member and the ceramics layer are in contact with each other.

Turbine, manufacturing method thereof, and power generating system

An airflow control devicein an embodiment includes: a vortex shedding structure portiondischarging an airflow flowing on a surface in a flow direction as a vortex flow; and a first electrodeand a second electrodedisposed on a downstream side of the vortex shedding structure portionvia a dielectric. By applying a voltage between the first electrodeand the second electrode, flow of the airflow on the downstream side of the vortex shedding structure portionis controlled.

Airflow control device and airflow control method

A steam turbineof an embodiment has seal ringsbetween an inlet sleevefor introducing steam and an inner casingand an outer casinginto which the inlet sleeveis inserted. The seal ringshave high-temperature side seal ringswhich are disposed their inner circumferences contacted to the outer circumference of the inlet sleeve, and low-temperature side seal ringswhich are formed to have inner and outer diameters larger than those of the high-temperature side seal ringsand disposed with their outer circumferences contacted to the inner casingor the outer casing. A thermal barrier layeris disposed between the inner circumferences of the high-temperature side seal ringsand the outer circumference of the inlet sleeveand between the high-temperature side seal ringsand the low-temperature side seal rings

Steam turbine

There is provided a holding device which can hold a molten corium for a predetermined period even when the molten corium is exposed to heat or undergoes any chemical reaction and which is applicable to practical use. There is provided a holding device provided below a nuclear reactor pressure vessel for holding a molten corium, wherein the holding device includes a base material in contact with a cooling medium, and a multilayer stack structure on the base material. The multilayer stack structure has a first layer having heat-resistant property, a second layer formed on the first layer and having heat-resistant property with lower heat conductivity than that of the first layer, and a third layer formed on the second layer and having corrosion-resistant property and impact-absorbing property.

Holding device

A wind power generation systemof an embodiment includes a rotorhaving a huband blades, a nacellepivotally supporting the rotor, a towersupporting the nacelle, an airflow generation deviceprovided in a leading edge of each of the bladesand having a first electrodeand a second electrodewhich are separated via a dielectric, and a discharge power supplycapable of applying a voltage between the electrodes of the airflow generation device. Further, the system includes a measurement device detecting information related to at least one of output in the wind power generation system, torque in the rotorand a rotation speed of the blades, and a control unitcontrolling the discharge power supplybased on an output from the measurement device.

Wind power generation system and control method for the same

A steam turbineis provided with a double-structure comprising an inner casingand an outer casing. A turbine rotor, in which plural stages of moving bladesare circumferentially implanted, is operatively disposed in inner casing. A diaphragm outer ringand a diaphragm inner ring are disposed along the circumferential direction in inner casing. Stationary bladesare circumferentially provided between diaphragm outer ringand the diaphragm inner ring, so that diaphragm outer ring, the diaphragm inner ring and stationary bladesform a stage of stationary blades. The stages of the stationary blades are arranged alternately with the stages of moving bladesin the axial direction of turbine rotor. A cooling medium passagefor passing a cooling medium CM which is supplied through a supply pipeis formed between inner casingand diaphragm outer ring

Steam turbine, method of cooling steam turbine, and heat insulating method for steam turbine

A wind power generation systemof an embodiment includes a rotorhaving blades, an airflow generation deviceprovided in a leading edge of each of the bladesand having a first electrodeand a second electrodewhich are separated via a dielectric, a discharge power supplyapplying a voltage between the electrodes of the airflow generation device, and a control unitcontrolling the discharge power supply. The control unitcontrols the voltage to perform pulse modulation so that the value of a relational expression fC/U is 0.1 or larger and 9 or smaller where f is a pulse modulation frequency of the voltage, C is a chord length of the blades, and U is a relative velocity combining a peripheral velocity of the bladesand a wind velocity, so as to generate plasma induced flow.

In one embodiment, a steam device includes a high-temperature member and a low-temperature member. One surface of the high-temperature member is exposed to high-temperature steam, and the other surface is cooled by cooling steam having a temperature lower than the high-temperature steam. The low-temperature member is disposed to face the high-temperature member with a passage for the cooling steam therebetween and is formed of a material having a heat resistance lower than that of the high-temperature member. The steam device has at least one high-reflectance film selected from a first high-reflectance film, which is formed on the surface of the high-temperature member which is exposed to the high-temperature steam and has a higher reflectance with respect to infrared rays than the high-temperature member, and a second high-reflectance film, which is formed on the surface of the low-temperature member facing the high-temperature member and has a higher reflectance with respect to infrared rays than the low-temperature member.

Steam device

A separator of a proton exchange fuel cell. In a cell stack of a proton exchange fuel cell, the cell stack composed by laminating a plurality of unit cells and a plurality of separators, each of the unit cells composed of an anode electrode, a cathode electrode and a solid polymer electrolytic membrane arranged between the anode and cathode electrodes, each of the separators arranged between the unit cells, respectively, the separator of the proton exchange fuel cell includes a separator substrate and a multi-coating layer formed on the separator substrate. The multi-coating layer includes at least two layers of a low electric resistance layer, a corrosion resistance layer and a peeling resistance layer.

Separator of proton exchange fuel cell and its manufacturing method

A high temperature component such a gas turbine high temperature component, for example, constituting movable or stationary blade portion, thereby comprises a base material and a thermal barrier coating coated on a surface of the base material. The thermal barrier coating has a thermal barrier characteristic controlled in accordance with an environment to which a high temperature component is exposed so as to make substantially uniform a surface temperature of the base material. The thermal barrier coating comprises a thermal barrier ceramic layer having a thermal barrier characteristic capable of being controlled by varying a thickness thereof at portions of the thermal barrier ceramic layer.

High temperature component, gas turbine high temperature component and manufacturing method thereof

A ceramic composite material comprises a ceramic material constituting a matrix, and dispersion particles disposed in the matrix in a dispersing manner. A specific shape of a ceramic composite material is, for instance, a sinter or a thermally sprayed layer. The dispersion particles are consisting of a composite oxide including at least one kind of a first metallic element selected from alkaline earth metals such as Mg and Ca, and at least one kind of a second metallic element selected from W, Ti, Ta, Mo, Nb, V, B, Te, Ge and Si, for instance, are composite oxide particles precipitated by reacting a compound containing a first metallic element and a compound including a second metallic element through heat treatment. The precipitated particles consisting of such a composite oxide can be dispersed as planar particles or acicular particles in the ceramic layer to which, for instance, thermal spraying is applied. The dispersion particles suppress deterioration of strength or toughness of the oxide based ceramic material under high temperature atmosphere.

Ceramic composite material and its manufacturing method, and heat resistant member using thereof

A gas turbine apparatus having a plurality of stages of rotor.stator blade and utilizing fuel containing 0.5 ppm or more of vanadium. A plurality of stages of the rotor.stator blade have a stage which is driven by combustion gas not including vanadium corrosion suppressing agent and a stage which is driven by combustion gas including vanadium corrosion suppressing agent and is controlled in its combustion gas temperature at below 1,458 K. In addition, the plurality of stages of the gas turbine are supplied with different kinds of combustion gases according to the temperature of each stage. Or, by disposing at least two systems of fuel supplying mechanism to one combustion chamber, the combustion temperature is controlled according to the kinds and the mixing ratio of the fuels. Therewith, while suppressing corrosion of high temperature member due to V and S, the deposition of the reaction products due to the vanadium corrosion suppressing agent and the like can be suppressed. Thereby, the system availability ratio can be improved and long life of the gas turbine can be realized. Further, due to high combustion gas temperature, efficiency can be enhanced.

Gas turbine apparatus using fuel containing vanadium

A ceramic coating layer which is not less than 70 .mu.m in the maximum height Rmax of its profile curves and not less than 45 .mu.m in the 10-point average roughness, or which is less than 650 HV in Vickers hardness is provided on a metallic substrate. A heat-resistant member of such composition is excellent in thermal fatigue resistance and keeps an excellent heat resistance for a long period of time. Quality of a heat-resistant member is evaluated by, measuring at least one of roughness and hardness of a ceramic coating layer on a metallic substrate. According to this method, it is possible to easily and accurately evaluate a thermal resistant life of a heat-resistant member.

Heat-resistant member and a method for evaluating quality of a

A heat resisting member having ceramics heat shield layers which is directly formed on a metal base material or formed on it via a metal bonded layer formed on the metal base material. The ceramics heat shield layers comprise a first ceramics layer which is formed on the metal base material or the metal bonded layer and has a high elastic modulus, high hardness and high density, and a second ceramics layer which is formed on the first ceramics layer and has a low elastic modulus, low hardness and low density. Delamination from the neighborhood of the interface or oxidation of the lower layer can be prevented by the first ceramics layer which is formed on the metal base material or the metal bonded layer. Thermal shock resistance and heat shielding effect of the ceramics heat shield layers as the whole can be enhanced by the second ceramics layer. And, if necessary, a third ceramics layer having a high elastic modulus, high hardness and high density may be formed on the second ceramics layer in order to improve the abrasion resistance and the resistance against a damage due to flying substances.

Heat resisting member and its production method

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