US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES on July 14 for "Method for estimating erosion of steam turbine rotor blade using concentration of substance in feed water" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,469, issued on July 14, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Method for estimating erosion of steam turbine rotor blade using concentration of substance in feed water" was invented by Shigeki Senoo (Tokyo), Soichiro Tabata (Tokyo) and Tetsuya Sawatsubashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An erosion estimation method is for estimating a degree of progress of erosion of a last-stage rotor blade of a steam turbine. The erosion estimation method includes: sampling supplied water containing a substance to be detected, which is included in a material constituting the last-stage rotor blade, from a water supply li...