Hitachi, Ltd.

Petroleum Energy Center

Babcock-hitachi Kabushiki Kaisha

Babcock-hitachi K.k.

Nobuyuki Hokari

Hirokazu Takahashi

Tomohiko Miyamoto

Osami Yokota

Akinori Hayashi

Shinichi Inage

Masahiko Yamagishi

Hiromi Koizumi

Jinichi Tomuro

Koji Nishida

Atsushi Morihara

Tooru Inada

Hisayuki Orita

Yasuo Yoshii

Masaaki Mukaide

Shinsuke Kokubo

Katsuya Oki

Hiroshi Matsumoto

Masayuki Taniguchi

Tetsuo Sasada

Toshifumi Sasao

Masahide Nomura

Jun Shimamura

Tsuyoshi Shibata

Kouichi Yokoyama

Tsunemasa Nishijima

Katsunori Ouchi

Shin-ichi Inage

Youji Ishibashi

Noriko Yoshida

Kouji Nishida

The COcapture system by chemical absorption for removing COfrom a combustion exhaust gas by a solvent, comprising: an absorber for absorbing COby a solvent, a regenerator for heating a rich solvent absorbed COthereby releasing CO, a gas exhaust system for discharging gas from the regenerator, a gas compressor installed in the gas exhaust system, a heat exchanger disposed downstream of the gas compressor for exchanging heat between compressed gas and rich solvent to be supplied to the regenerator, a gas-liquid separator disposed downstream of the heat exchanger for separating gas from condensed water, a condensed water supply system for supplying condensed water from the gas-liquid separator to the regenerator, another gas exhaust system for discharging gas containing high-concentration COfrom the gas-liquid separator, and a compressor disposed downstream of the gas-liquid separator in the another gas exhaust system for pressurizing the gas containing high-concentration CO.

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The present invention discloses a carbon dioxide capture power generation system provided with a boiler to combust a fuel in the oxygen atmosphere, a carbon dioxide capture equipment to remove carbon dioxide in the wake flow of the boiler, a piping branching from the wake flow of the boiler to recycle the combustion exhaust gas to the boiler, and a desulfurization equipment to remove sulfur oxides and a sulfuric acid removal equipment to remove a sulfuric acid gas in the upstream of carbon dioxide capture equipment and in the wake flow of the boiler.

Carbon dioxide capture power generation system

The reforming of heavy oil with supercritical water or subcritical water is accomplished by mixing together supercritical water, heavy oil, and oxidizing agent, thereby oxidizing vanadium in heavy oil with the oxidizing agent at the time of treatment with supercritical water and separate vanadium oxide. The separated vanadium oxide is removed by the scavenger after treatment with supercritical water. In this way it is possible to solve the long-standing problem with corrosion of turbine blades by vanadium which arises when heavy oil is used as gas turbine fuel.

Process and apparatus for treating heavy oil with supercritical water and power generation system equipped with heavy oil treating apparatus

A gas turbine system burning heavy-oil modified fuel and a method of operating the gas turbine system, which covers from a stage of modifying heavy oil and producing gas turbine fuel to a stage of operating a gas turbine, including startup, ordinary shutdown and emergency shutdown of the gas turbine. The gas turbine system burning heavy-oil modified fuel comprises a reactor for mixing heavy oil and water to cause reaction, thereby separating and removing a heavy component from the heavy oil, a gas-liquid separator for separating hydrocarbon gas and modified oil obtained in the reactor from each other, a gas turbine combustor for burning the hydrocarbon gas supplied from the gas-liquid separator, and a gas turbine driven by combustion gas produced in the gas turbine combustor. The system further comprises another line for extracting the hydrocarbon gas externally of a relevant system region. The other line is branched from a line for supplying the hydrocarbon gas from the gas-liquid separator to the gas turbine combustor.

Gas turbine system burning heavy-oil modified fuel and method of operating same

A heavy oil reforming system includes a reforming preheater raising the temperature of a mixed fluid comprising a high pressure heavy oil and high pressure steam up to a temperature for reforming reaction. The mixed fluid having been heated up to the temperature for reforming reaction is introduced into a reformer kept at the temperature for reforming reaction and thereby the heavy oil is reformed. This reforming system allows the attainment of a residence time of 1 to 10 min necessary for reforming in a uniform or nearly uniform temperature field, thereby implementing the manufacturing of reformed fuels from a large volume of heavy oil.

System for reforming heavy oil, method therefor, and combined cycle power system

In a method for producing gas turbine fuel through the step of modifying heavy fuel oil with the use of an asphaltene-insoluble solvent, the utilization factor of the heavy fuel oil usable as gas turbine fuel is increased by making asphaltene selectively removable. A solvent having a specific inductive capacity in the range of 1.4 to 2.0 is used as the asphaltene-insoluble solvent. In particular, water controlled in temperature and pressure so as to have a specific inductive capacity in the above range is used as the asphaltene-insoluble solvent. By using such a solvent, an asphaltene component contained in the heavy fuel oil can be selectively removed and power generation can be performed while utilizing 95% or more of the heavy fuel oil.

Method for producing gas turbine fuel, and method and system for generating electric power by gas turbine

A gas turbine which can be easily employed in an area where it is hard to obtain a sufficient amount of water, such as an isolated island. Heated and pressurized heavy oil and water in a supercritical state are mixed with each other in a modifying unit to produce fuel-purpose modified oil. The fuel-purpose modified oil is depressurized by a depressurizing valve. Due to a temperature fall caused by adiabatic expansion with the depressurization, the fuel-purpose modified oil is brought into a two-phase state where moisture is in a gas phase (steam) and modified oil is in a liquid phase. The fuel-purpose modified oil is separated into the steam and the modified oil by a gas-liquid separator. The separated steam is condensed to water in a condenser and returned to a water supply line. The modified oil in the liquid phase is supplied to a combustor, thereby driving a gas turbine.

Modified fuel burning gas turbine

The invention is intended to produce high-pressure light fuel gas with good combustibility by contacting and reacting high-temperature, high-pressure water and heavy oil with each other in a contact-reaction unit to extract light oil components from the heavy oil and to remove metals. The high-temperature, high-pressure water and the heavy oil are introduced to the contact-reaction unit for contact and reaction with each other therein. Heavy oil components not dissolved in the high-temperature, high-pressure water are separated by precipitation from hydrocarbon gases and light oil components which are dissolved in the high-temperature, high-pressure water. The separated heavy oil components are burnt or incinerated without any further modification.

Heavy oil treating method and heavy oil treating system

A heavy oil reforming method which reforms a heavy oil to give a fuel suitable for a gas turbine, eliminates sulfur and vanadium, i.e., harmful components, from a heavy oil, and enables almost all the hydrocarbons in the heavy oil to be used in gas turbine combustion; an apparatus therefor; and a gas turbine power generation system using the reformed heavy oil as fuel is disclosed. The method includes reacting a heavy oil with supercritical water and then with a scavenger for sulfur and vanadium to eliminate sulfur and vanadium from the heavy oil.

Heavy oil reforming method, an apparatus therefor, and gas turbine power generation system

The reforming of heavy oil with supercritical water or subcritical water is accomplished by mixing together supercriticai water, heavy oil, and oxidizing agent, thereby oxidizing vanadium in heavy oil with the oxidizing agent at the time of treatment with supercritical water and separate vanadium oxide. The separated vanadium oxide is removed by the scavenger after treatment with supercritical water. In this way it is possible to solve the long-standing problem with corrosion of turbine blades by vanadium which arises when heavy oil is used as gas turbine fuel.

The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for predicting and calculating an amount of harmful oxide such as NOx contained in an exhaust gas from a reference concentration of harmful oxide, which is previously determined by a type of fuel supplied to a fluidized bed combustor, an amount of change of an air ratio and an amount of change of a gas residence time to the conditions of a specific air ratio and gas residence time in the combustor, and injecting a treatment agent such as NH.sub.3 in an amount optimum to the predicted amount into an exhaust gas. With this arrangement, an amount of harmful oxide in the exhaust gas can be securely lowered to a target value.

Method of predicting and controlling harmful oxide and apparatus therefor

A method of and apparatus for detecting an abnormality of a fluidized bed boiler is characterized in that an abnormality of the fluidized bed boiler is detected on the basis of a physical quantity related to a condition change of a gas existing in a space defined by a pressure vessel and the fluidized bed boiler accommodated within the pressure vessel.

Method of and apparatus for abnormality detection of a fluidized bed

A combined cycle power generating plant has a fluidized bed furnace and a heat exchanger disposed therein, a steam turbine which is driven by steam generated in the heat exchanger and a gas turbine which is driven by combustion gas generated in the fluidized bed furnace. If the output of the whole of the plant is increased, the pressure in the fluid bed furnace is increased by supplying water into the fluidized bed furnace and then the amount of steam generated in the heat exchanger is increased by elevating the height of the fluidized bed.

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