| MIURA CO., LTD. Patent applications |
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| 20120090340 | HEAT RECOVERY SYSTEM - A heat recovery system includes a first air cooler for cooling compressed air from a compressor, a first oil cooler for cooling a lubricant from the compressor, and a second air cooler and/or a second oil cooler serving as a heat recovering heat exchanger. The second air cooler heats water with the heat of the compressed air to be fed to the first air cooler. In contrast, the second oil cooler heats water with the heat of a lubricant to be fed to the first oil cooler. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120042839 | BOILER - There is provided a boiler capable of preventing occurrence of a trouble accompanying transition cancel while enabling the transition cancel between combustion stages, in the boiler that controls a combustion amount in multiple combustion stages. The boiler according to the present invention includes an air supply device capable of varying a supply amount of combustion air, a fuel supply device capable of varying a supply amount of fuel, and control means for controlling the air supply device and the fuel supply device so as to obtain the supply amounts in accordance with respective combustion stages in order to realize the multiple combustion stages, wherein the control means controls the air supply device and the fuel supply device so as to return to a predetermined combustion stage when a request for transition cancel is received during transition from the predetermined combustion stage to another combustion stage, and controls so as not to perform the transition to the other combustion stage until a recancel prohibition period has elapsed. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120006285 | CONTROLLER AND BOILER SYSTEM - A controller includes a program for controlling a group of boilers having boilers with a plurality of staged combustion positions. The program is arranged to control the boilers and the combustion positions such that a total load following evaporation amount obtained by summing up load following evaporation amounts of the respective boilers comprising the group of boilers becomes equal to or more than a setup load following evaporation amount which is an evaporation amount that the group of boilers is to follow. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120000434 | METHOD OF OPERATING STEAM BOILER - Boiler water is heated in a steam boiler while feed water, which has a hardness of 5 mgCaCO | 01-05-2012 |
| 20110303163 | BOILER SYSTEM - A boiler system has a boiler and a combustion amount control unit. The boiler includes a boiler body, a discharge unit, a discharge passage, a feedwater preheater and a feedwater temperature measuring unit. The feedwater preheater includes a heat exchanger. The feedwater temperature measuring unit measures a feedwater temperature that is the temperature of the feedwater flowing in the heat exchanger. The combustion amount control unit controls combustion amount in the boiler, and has a feedwater temperature threshold as a threshold relating to the feedwater temperature. The combustion amount control unit minimizes the combustion amount in the boiler in a case where the feedwater temperature measured by the feedwater temperature measuring unit is the feedwater temperature threshold or lower. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110272360 | METHOD FOR OPERATING ION EXCHANGE EQUIPMENT, AND ION EXCHANGE EQUIPMENT - A regeneration process in the operating method of the invention includes a first regeneration process, and a second regeneration process after the end of the first regeneration process. In the first regeneration process, a regenerant ( | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110238216 | PROGRAM, CONTROLLER, AND BOILER SYSTEM - A storage medium stores a program which, when executed by a controller, causes the controller to control a boiler group including boilers each of which has a plurality of stepwise combustion positions. The program includes the steps of calculating a number of a presently combustion shiftable boilers, a number of their combustion positions, or a gross evaporation quantity, calculating a deviation quantity between a set physical quantity and a present time physical quantity, calculating a ratio between the deviation quantity and a control width that corresponding to the set physical quantity, and calculating the combustion subject boilers and their combustion positions based on the number of the combustion shiftable boilers, the number of their combustion positions, or the gross evaporation quantity and the ratio. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110165048 | METHOD OF TREATING NITROGEN OXIDE-CONTAINING GAS - First, the emission amount of nitrogen oxides can be decreased close to zero as much as possible, and the emission amount of carbon monoxide is decreased to a permissible range. Second, energy saving by combustion at a low air ratio close to 1.0 is realized. Third, air ratio control is performed stably in a combustion region at a low air ratio. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110162593 | CONTROL PROGRAM, CONTROLLER, AND BOILER SYSTEM - The present invention relates to a control program, a controller, and a boiler system that are related to a boiler group including a plurality of boilers controlled in combustion at stepwise combustion positions. It is well suitable, in a control program for conducting control on a boiler system that includes a boiler group having a plurality of boilers which can be controlled in combustion quantity at stepwise combustion positions and in which at least one of the combustion positions is assumed to be a high-efficiency combustion position and that is configured to be controlled in combustion based on an increase/decrease in desired loads, that in the case of increasing a quantity of combustion in the boiler group, after a high-efficiency combustion shift signal that makes the shift to the high-efficiency combustion position is output to all of the boilers subject to high-efficiency control by which control is conducted on the basis of combustion at the high-efficiency combustion position, a control signal may be output that makes the shift to a higher combustion position than the high-efficiency combustion positions for any one of the high-efficiency control subject boilers. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110088636 | BOILER - The present invention relates to a various kinds of boilers including a steam boiler, a hot water boiler, a waste-heat boiler and an exhaust gas boiler. Projections are provided on a heat-transfer tube which connects an upper header and a lower header with each other such that a heat-transfer area pet unit length of the heat-transfer tube becomes smaller in an upstream region than that in a downstream region of combustion gas. It is preferable that installation pitches between adjacent upper and lower projections and/or projecting lengths of the projections from the heat-transfer tube are changed such that the heat-transfer area per unit length of the heat-transfer tube becomes smaller in the upstream region than those in the downstream region of the combustion gas. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110005228 | STEAM SYSTEM - A steam engine and an electric motor are arranged, which respectively drives an air compressor. The compressed air from the air compressor is supplied to a compressed air using device through a common air tank. The steam is supplied to the steam engine through a steam supply path, and the steam used in the steam engine is supplied to a steam using device through a steam exhaust path. The steam pressure is monitored by a pressure sensor arranged in a steam header ahead of the steam exhaust path. The air pressure is monitored by a pressure sensor arranged in an air tank. A steam supply valve is controlled based on the steam pressure and the air pressure, and the electric motor is controlled based on the air pressure. The steam engine is preferentially driven over the electric motor by shifting the target value of the air pressure. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110000180 | STEAM SYSTEM - An air compressor is driven by a steam engine that generates power using steam. The steam is supplied to the steam engine through a steam supply path, and the steam is exhausted through a steam exhaust path. The steam from the steam engine is supplied to a steam using device through a steam header. The usage load of the steam is monitored by a pressure sensor arranged in the steam header. The compressed air from the air compressor is supplied to a compressed air using device through a compressed air path. The usage load of the compressed air is monitored by a pressure sensor arranged on the compressed air path. The steam supply to the steam engine is controlled based on the usage load of the steam and the usage load of the compressed air. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20100243569 | STEAM BOILER APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREFOR - It is intended to effectively suppress corrosion of a feed-water supply pipe in a preheater, by means of recirculation of boiler water to feed-water to be supplied to a steam boiler, even if a concentration of an alkaline component of the feed-water is relatively high. An alkali metal hydroxide is added from an agent-adding unit ( | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100227283 | COMBUSTION METHOD AND COMBUSTION APPARATUS - A combustion method applied to a water-tube boiler and a regenerator of an absorption-type refrigerator includes a concentration ratio adjusting step of adjusting a concentration ratio of nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, and oxygen in a gas from a gas generation source to a predetermined reference concentration ratio, and a hazardous-substance decreasing step of decreasing nitrogen oxides, using an oxidation catalyst having characteristics of decreasing the concentrations of nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide on a secondary side to substantially zero when the concentration ratio on a primary side is set to be a reference concentration ratio, in which the concentration ratio adjusting step detects the concentration of oxygen on the secondary side of the oxidation catalyst to control the concentration ratio so that a detected oxygen concentration becomes a set oxygen concentration substantially close to zero. According to the combustion method, the emission amount of nitrogen oxides can be decreased to close to zero as much as possible, and the emission amount of carbon monoxide can be decreased to a permissible range. Further, the control of a concentration ratio can be performed stably by detecting the concentration of oxygen. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100212603 | BOILER - An amount of scale adhering onto inner surfaces of water tubes in any one of various boilers including a steam boiler, a hot water boiler, a waste heat boiler, and an exhaust gas boiler is accurately known by providing a temperature sensor at an appropriate position of the boiler. A plurality of water tubes ( | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100136493 | LOW NOx COMBUSTION APPARATUS - Prvided is a catalyst degradation preventing apparatus of a catalyst device containing a catalyst component that comes into contact with gas to chemically change the gas, including a burner for burning a fuel by combustible air to generate a gas containing nitrogen oxides by combustion, an endothermic device for absorbing heat from gas, a catalyst device having a catalyst component for decreasing nitrogen oxides contained in the gas after passing through the endothermic device, and a first poisoning substance removing device for removing a poisoning substance containing at least sulfur, which is contained in the fuel and adsorbs to a catalyst component or reacts with the catalyst component to form a compound. According to the apparatus, the decrease in performance of the catalyst device is prevented, and the effect of decreasing pollution can be retained over a long period of time. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20090325112 | CATALYST DEGRADATION PREVENTING APPARATUS AND LOW NOx COMBUSTION APPARATUS - Provided is a catalyst degradation preventing apparatus, which is for a catalyst device containing a catalyst component that comes into contact with gas to chemically change the gas, in which the catalyst device is provided with a poisoning substance removing device on a primary side thereof, for removing a poisoning substance which is contained in the gas and adsorbs to the catalyst component or forms a compound with the catalyst component. Further, the poisoning substance removing device and the catalyst device are provided with an interval placed therebetween and to be exchangeable with each other, or a carrier of a component that adsorbs to the poisoning substance of the poisoning substance removing device or forms a compound with the poisoning substance and a carrier of a catalyst component of the catalyst device are integrally formed so as to be exchangeable. According to the apparatus, the decrease in performance of the catalyst device can be prevented, and the effect of low pollution can be retained for a long period of time. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20090183661 | COMBUSTION DEVICE - [Object] To provide a combustion device capable of suppressing poisoning and deterioration of a CO oxidation catalyst due to adhesion of S (sulfur) to the CO oxidation catalyst, which is provided in the combustion device such as a boiler for the purpose of reducing and removing the CO in the combustion gas. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090042152 | COMBUSTION METHOD AND COMBUSTION APPARATUS - First, to decrease an amount of emitted nitrogen oxides to zero as much as possible and also decrease an amount of emitted carbon monoxide to a permissible level. Second, to save energy on combustion at a low air ratio close to 1.0. Third, to attain a stable air ratio control in a low air ratio combustion region. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090025655 | BOILER - First, an emission amount of nitrogen oxide can be decreased to zero as much as possible and, an emission amount of carbon monoxide is decreased to a permissible range. Second, energy saving by combustion at a low air ratio close to 1.0 is realized. Third, air ratio control is performed stably in a combustion region at a low air ratio. Provided is a boiler, including: a premixed burner; a water pipe group for, by heat exchanging with a gas produced by the premixed burner, suppressing a temperature of the gas to thereby suppress a concentration of nitrogen oxide to a predetermined value or less; an oxidation catalyst for oxidizing carbon monoxide contained in the gas after the passage through the water pipe group by oxygen and for reducing nitrogen oxide contained therein by carbon monoxide; and an air-ratio adjusting device for adjusting an air ratio of the premixed burner, in which: the premixed burner and the water pipe group have such characteristics that when the air ratio is a set air ratio, a concentration ratio of oxygen, nitrogen oxides, and carbon monoxide in the gas on a primary side of the oxidation catalyst becomes a predetermined concentration ratio; the oxidation catalyst has such characteristics that when the concentration ratio is a predetermined concentration ratio, a concentration of nitrogen oxides on a secondary side of the oxidation catalyst is substantially zero while a concentration of carbon monoxide is decreased to substantially zero or a predetermined value or less; and the predetermined concentration ratio is kept to be constant by being controlled to the set air ratio by the air-ratio adjusting device. | 01-29-2009 |
