Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Ajinomoto Co., Ltd.

Yuji Nakata

Asako Inomata

Yoshitaka Fukuyama

Fumio Ohtomo

Shoko Ito

Akinori Koga

Junji Ishii

Sachio Shibuya

Hironobu Yamamoto

Hitoshi Sato

Osamu Mori

Hisashi Matsuda

Yasushi Morinaga

Akihiro Nakatani

Yukio Akiyama

Yoichi Ozawa

Hideo Nomoto

The purpose of the present invention is to extract oil from the soybean material containing soybean germ as a main component, and to utilize it. The present invention relates to a method for producing a soybean material, comprising crudely crushing selected soybeans into a size of less than &#xbd;, and separating and concentrating a soybean germ fraction by means of sieving, sorting with air, separation based on the grain shape and the like, to the soybean germ fraction produced by said method, to oil prepared from the soybean material containing soybean germ as a main component, to oil containing 0.8% by weight or more of sterols' content, and to foods containing said oil.

Soybean embryo fat/oil and process for producing soybean material with high embryo concentration

A combined cycle power plant comprises a gas turbine system and a steam cycle system having a steam turbine to be driven by the steam generated by the waste heat of the exhaust gas of the gas turbine system, wherein the steam from the steam cycle system flows through a gas turbine cooling system of the gas turbine to cool the gas turbine blades and other elements of the gas turbine system to be cooled and the waste heat of the gas turbine system is effectively collected. The gas turbine cooling system is supplied selectively with bleed air from the compressor of the gas turbine or the steam provided from another steam cycle system in order to ensure a sufficient coolant supply at the time of starting and stopping the plant and during the operation with a partial load.

Combined cycle power plant with gas turbine cooling system

A combined cycle power plant comprises a gas turbine system and a steam cycle system having a steam turbine to be driven by the steam generated by the waste heat of the exhaust gas of the gas turbine system, wherein the steam from the steam cycle system flows through a gas turbine cooling system of the gas turbine to cool the gas turbine blades and other elements of the gas turbine system to be cooled and the waste heat of the gas turbine system is effectively collected. The gas turbine cooling system has two or more than two cooling ducts formed in two or more than two elements of the gas turbine system to be cooled such as the gas turbine blades and the combustor of the gas turbine system so that steam is made to flow through the cooling ducts of these two or more than two elements to be cooled to effectively and maximally exploit the cooling potential and the waste heat collecting potential of the steam and hence improve the overall thermal efficiency of the plant.

Combined cycle power plant

A combined cycle power plant comprises a gas turbine system and a steam cycle system having a steam turbine to be driven by the steam generated by the waste heat of the exhaust gas of the gas turbine system, wherein the steam from the steam cycle system flows through a gas turbine cooling system of the gas turbine to cool the gas turbine blades and other elements of the gas turbine system to be cooled and the waste heat of the gas turbine system is effectively collected. The gas turbine cooling system has two or more than two coolooling ducts formed in two or more than two elements of the gas turbine system to be cooled such as the gas turbine blades and the combustor of the gas turbine system so that steam is made to flow through the cooling ducts of these two or more than two elements to be cooled to effectively and maximally exploit the cooling potential and the waste heat collecting potential of the steam and hence improve the overall thermal efficiency of the plant.

A turbine blade performs internal cooling by a cooling gas flowing through internal cooling flow passages and FCFC cooling by a cooling gas jetted out through film holes arranged on the substantially whole area of the blade surface. The film holes are arranged in rows extending in the span direction at predetermined pitches in the chord direction. The dimensions of the elements of the turbine blade are determined by a mathematical formula 5.ltoreq.L/N.multidot.D.ltoreq.50, where L is the length of any interval of the surface of the cooled turbine blade, N is the number of rows of the film holes in the interval and D is an average diameter of the film holes in the interval. With this arrangement, the maximum cooling efficiency at a small amount of cooling gas flow is attained, and both the quantity of heat per unit area of the blade surface transmitted from the main flow gas to the blade surface and the thermal stresses are reduced.

Cooled turbine blade for a gas turbine

A cooling flow passage assembly consisting of pressure side cooling flow passages extending in a span direction and suction side cooling flow passages extending in the span direction and serially connected to the pressure side cooling flow passages is formed in a turbine blade. A cooling medium flows through the pressure side cooling flow passages in the direction toward the tip portion and through the suction side cooling flow passages in the direction toward the root. Cooling effect is improved by a Coriolis force. The number of the suction side cooling flow passages is larger than the number of the pressure side cooling flow passages. At least one of the suction side cooling flow passages forms at least one most downstream cooling flow passage. The cooling medium flows through the most downstream cooling flow passage and is exhausted outside of the turbine blade through nozzles, whereby the flow of the cooling medium through the most downstream cooling flow passage is speeded up.

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Yokohama, Japan

Yuji Nakata