Kobe Steel, Ltd.

Kochi Prefectural Public University Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho

Motomichi Sonobe

Yoshio Inoue

Naoki Sugano

Satoshi Maekawa

The energy recovery system includes an inertial fluid container, a low pressure container, a high pressure container, a low pressure valve, and a high pressure valve, a valve flow conduit, and a valve controller. The valve controller switches, in response to a decrease in volume of the fluid chamber, the inertial fluid container between communicating with the low pressure container and the high pressure container, thereby generating inertial forces of the working fluid flowing toward the low pressure container in the inertial fluid container, and causing the working fluid to flow into the high pressure container by the inertial forces. The valve controller sets a switching frequency for the valves to a frequency close to an Nth-order (where N is a natural number) anti-resonance frequency of a flow conduit for the working fluid.

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Motomichi Sonobe