Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Tatsuya Okihara

Koichi Yoshimura

Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Shunji Kawano

Takafumi Kamada

A hygroscopic moisture separating and heating apparatus () comprises a main body container () having a cylindrical shape, a partition plate () provided to define a space together with an inner circumferential face of the main body container () and configured to divide the internal space of the main body container () into a lower temperature area () and a higher temperature area (), a steam inlet () provided to the lower temperature area () of the main body container (), a steam outlet () provided to the higher temperature area () of the main body container (), a hygroscopic moisture separator () located in the lower temperature area () of the main body container (), and a U-shaped pipe () through which heated steam for heating the steam to be heated is fed. The U-shaped pipe includes an advancing part (), a retracting part (), and a U-shaped part () connecting the advancing part () with the retracting part (). Either of the advancing part () and the retracting part () of the U-shaped pipe () extends through the partition plate across the lower temperature area () and the higher temperature area ().

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Yokohama, Japan

Tatsuya Okihara