Development of Triple Cycle Power Generation System by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry
Mitsubishi Heavy Industry has announced the development of a basic technology for a triple combined cycle power generation system. The new technology will combined the solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) and a gas turbine combined cycle (GTCC) power generation system. In the new system the SOFC power generation system is placed before the GTCC system. Read more
Japan’s First High-Pressure Gas Supply System for Marine Engines by MHI
Mitsubishi Heavy Industry has announced the development of Japan’s first system for supplying high-pressure gas enabling use of natural gas as fuel for marine engines. The new high-pressure gas supply system delivers liquefied natural gas (LNG) at 30 megapascals (MPa) through liquid pumping, featuring a compact configuration with reduced power consumption. The liquid pump on this system adopts a hydraulic driver without speed reduction mechanism, facilitating variable speed adjustment and high flexibility of layout. Read more
Industry’s First 12-Inch Wafer Bonding Machine with Capability of making 3D Integrated LSI Circuits
Mitsubishi Heavy Industry has announced the development of world’s first fully automated 12-inch wafer bonding machine capable of making 3D integrated LSI circuit at room temperature. The newly developed “Bond Meister MWB-12-ST” operates based on fast atom beam (FAB) gun that irradiate atoms for activating a material surface to bond. The FAB offers 20 times greater energy per particle than an ion gun capable of effectively removing oxide film from the surface of the bonding metal material which normally prevents bonding. The new equipment is capable of continuous bonding of up to five 12-inch wafers plus it can perform wafer transfer and alignment for automatic bonding. Read more
Delivery of Japan Largest Indoor Lithium-Ion Battery Based Microgrid Energy Storage System
Mitsubishi Heavy Industry (MHI) has announced the delivery of Japan largest lithium-ion based microgrid energy storage system for indoor use. The system has the output capacity of 100 kW and storage capacity of 60 kWh. The new system will be delivered to Shimizu Institute of Technology in Tokyo who will be conducting verification testing, based on their expertise in various advance studies which includes verification testing of different technological areas including microgrids which are a localized power management systems as well as smart BEMS (building and energy management system). Read more
Development of Industry’s First High-Speed, High-Precision Single Gear Grinding Machine capable of machining a Wide range of Precision Gears
Mitsubishi Heavy Industry has announced earlier this month that it has developed world’s first Gear girding machine that is capable of machining all sort of precision gears which are used in vehicle transmission systems as well as other applications. The new grinding machine employs two different multi-treated grinding wheels to match the specific machining task, company’s proprietary technology. Through use of this new technology, the new system is capable of mass production of gears which require difficult machining, including internal ring gears as well as some external gears such as stepped gears and pinion gears with shafts. Read more
Development of Next-Generation LNG Carrier by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry
Mitsubishi Heavy Industry has successfully developed “EXTREM”, the next generation Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) carrier. The EXTREM is a newly developed “Sayanedo” series carrier, featuring a peapod-shaped continuous cover for the Moss spherical tanks which is integrated with the ship’s hull instead of conventional hemispherical cover. The new design provides a greater structural efficiency, plus a reduction in size and weight, resulting in improvement in fuel consumption as well as compatibility with LNG terminal and its maintainability. The new design will be used as the hull reinforced material for overall strength on the ship. Read more
Production of Cost Effective Biofuel from Rice and Barley Straw by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry
Mitsubishi Heavy Industry (MHI) has announced the production of ethanol for automobile fuel from lignocellulose (soft cellulose) such as rice and barley straw. The project was carried out in a joint effort by Hakutsuru Sake Brewing for fermentation and Kansai Chemical Engineering for distillation and dehydration. MHI was responsible for preprocessing and saccharification, which company adopted a hydrothermal treatment system enabling a continuous processing of feedstocks. Read more
Development of New Gear Cutting Machine by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry
Demand for high efficiency and accuracy equipment for machining of various gears including transmission gears, at low cost has been increasing in the automobile industry. Mitsubishi Heavy Industry (MHI) with its world’s first dry cutting gear production system using no cutting fluid back in 1997, has led the industry with diverse gear cutting machines and cutting tools. IN response to market demand, MHI has introduced a new gear grinding machines suitable for volume production of gears for up to 150 mm in diameter. The new ZE15B gear grinding machine is equipped with a newly developed workpiece changer resulting in shorter amount of time required for changeover, plus the twin tailstock model is capable of reducing non-operational time to just five seconds. The shorter high efficiency grinding has been achieved through an increase in machine rigidity and by adopting a 30 percent faster grinding wheel with the speed of maximum 6000rpm. Read more
Introduction of Heat Pump Water Heater with Industry’s First CO2 Scroll-Rotary Two Stage Compressor by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry
The introduction of heat pump in cold climate so far has been limited, due to dramatic reduction of heating output and COP value. To overcome this issue, Mitsubishi Heavy Industry (MHI) has developed a new heat pump with world’s first CO2 refrigerant Scrotary two stage compressors for commercial use in ambient temperature down to -25 degrees Celsius. The new ESA30 is capable of maintaining rated heating output at output at outdoor conditions of -7 degrees Celsius as well as being able to heat water up to 90 Degrees Celsius in an extremely cold outdoor condition of -25 degrees Celsius. Introduction of new Scroll-rotary technology, combining scroll and rotary technology is capable of delivering high efficiency at high and low pressure rations, respectively. Through introduction of a gas injection system in the medium-pressure housing, MHI has managed to increase the circulating volume of the refrigerant. The new ESA30 supports multiple installation connection and controlling up to 16 units, while being capable of supplying up to 120 tons of hot water at 60 degrees Celsius. Read more
