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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the occurrence of the local buckling of a lower flange of an I-beam and a lower portion of a web and the lateral buckling of the whole I-beam, and to increase the load bearing capacity of the I-beam near an intermediate supporting point of a continuous I-beam bridge by enhancing the combined effect of steel and concrete in each cross section orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the I-beam. SOLUTION: A plurality of deviation stoppers 40 are arranged on the top surface of the lower flange 34 near the intermediate supporting point 12 of the continuous I-beam bridge 10; fresh concrete is placed in a space, which includes the deviation stoppers 40 and which is surrounded by the top surface of the lower flange 34, the lower portion of the web 36 and a lower portion of a vertical stiffener 38A, in such a manner that the concrete 46 obtained by the hardening of the fresh concrete is contained in a compression area as an area below a neutral axis of plasticity; the whole deviation stopper 40, the top surface of the lower flange 34, the lower portion of the web 36 and the lower portion of the vertical stiffener 38 are integrated with the concrete 46, so as to prevent the local buckling of the lower flange 34 and the lower portion of the web 36 and the lateral buckling of the whole I-beam 30. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an apparatus for preventing a screening device from clogging which is simple in structure and stably durable for a long period of use, and to provide a screening apparatus equipped with the above apparatus and a mixing, stirring and sorting device equipped with the above apparatus. SOLUTION: The apparatus 33 for preventing the screening device from clogging which prevents clogging by hitting the screen surface of a rotary screen is provided with: a cam-rail 35 installed on a rotating body rotating by accompanying the rotation of the rotary screen; a rotary shaft 37 rotatably installed by facing the screen surface of the above rotary screen; a driven piece 39 fixed to the one side of the rotary shaft 37, abutting against the cam-rail 35, and moving in a direction of rotating the rotary shaft 37 along the rail shape of the cam-rail 35; and a hammer 41 attached to the rotary shaft 37 and hitting the screen surface of the rotary screen. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide operation technique of a refrigerating cycle easy and inexpensive and low in energy consumption, for melting a latent heat storage material adhered to a heat exchanger for generating the latent heat storage material, and operation technique of an inclusion hydrate slurry manufacturing device for melting inclusion hydrate adhered to a heat exchanger for generating the inclusion hydrate. SOLUTION: The operation method of the refrigerating cycle wherein a compressor, a condenser, a pressure reducing device, and an evaporator are successively connected by piping, and compression, condensation, reduction of the pressure and evaporation of the refrigerant passing through the piping are successively performed is provided with a process for supplying the thermal energy of the refrigerant existing in any of the compressor, the condenser, the piping connecting them, and the condenser, the pressure reducing device, and the piping connecting them to the evaporator through the piping connecting the pressure reducing device and the evaporator and/or the piping connecting the evaporator and the compressor, raising a temperature of the refrigerant in the evaporator, and melting the latent heat storage material existing in the evaporator. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ballast water treatment apparatus and a ballast water treatment method capable of surely killing plankton and bacteria in the ballast water and preventing the discharge of residual chlorine. SOLUTION: The ballast water treatment apparatus is provided with: a chlorine disinfectant supplier 5 for supplying a chlorine disinfectant to seawater discharged from the ballast tank 8 of a ship; and a chlorine reducing agent supplier 11 for supplying a chlorine reducing agent to the ballast water when discharging the ballast water to which the chlorine disinfectant is supplied to the sea. The chlorine reducing agent supplier 11 comprises: a residual chlorine concentration meter 27 for measuring the residual chlorine concentration of the ballast water; a computing means 31 for computing a theoretical chlorine reducing agent amount required for the reduction to the ballast water of the residual chlorine concentration measured by the residual chlorine concentration meter 27 and computing a chlorine reducing agent amount to be 1.2 to 1.6 times of the computed theoretical chlorine reducing agent amount; and a control means 33 for adjusting a chlorine reducing agent supply amount so as to supply the reducing agent amount computed by the computing means 31. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a ballast water treatment apparatus and method which surely and inexpensively satisfy ballast water standards establish by IMO when using water of any quality. SOLUTION: The ballast water treatment apparatus comprises a sterilizer feeder 5 feeding a sterilizer into seawater, a Venturi tube 6 receiving feeding of the sterilizer-fed seawater and generating cavitation in the seawater to diffuse the sterilizer in the seawater and to damage or kill aquatic organisms in the seawater, and a sterilizer feed amount controller 31 measuring a sterilizer concentration in the seawater discharged from the Venturi tube 6 to obtain an average value of the sterilizer concentrations at a predetermined time, and adjusting a feed amount of the sterilizer fed from the sterilizer feeder so as to equalize the feed amount to an amount obtained by multiplying a sterilizer feed amount corresponding to a target sterilizer concentration by a dead zone control ratio when the average value of the sterilizer concentrations deviates from the dead zone range of a predetermined sterilizer concentration. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a circulating flow rate generator for an endless channel which is maintenance free and can ensure a flow rate in the bottom part with low power. SOLUTION: The endless channel comprises a propeller stirrer which is driven from the outside of a tank and installed downward, and a reflection plate which converts a downward flow discharged by the propeller stirrer into a horizontal flow. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a partial anticorrosion method for a steel bridge, which enables a surface to be clearly divided into a region for undergoing anticorrosion coating and a region for dispensing with the anticorrosion coating, and to provide the steel bridge. SOLUTION: This steel bridge 1 for supporting a floor slab 30 is composed of right and left main girders 20 and 10, both of which are formed of weatherable steel. A right-side additional member 28 as a nonstructural member, which is protruded from a windward side surface 241 of a right-side web of the right main girder 20, is mounted on the windward side surface 241 of the right-side web of the right main girder 20. A position to mount the right-side additional member 28 is set as a position to divide the windward side surface 241 into a windward side highly-corroded portion 241A of the right-side web, which is estimated to be corroded to a predetermined degree of corrosion or above, and a windward side low-corroded portion 241B of the right-side web, which is estimated to be corroded to a degree of corrosion under the predetermined degree of corrosion. A coating film M is formed by applying the anticorrosion coating to the highly-corroded portion 241A. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technology related to a refrigerating machine and its operating method that can effectively utilize the refrigerating machine constituting a hydrate slurry air-conditioning facility. SOLUTION: The refrigerating machine forms a refrigerating cycle in which a compressor 1, a condenser 3 and an evaporator are connected by piping through which a refrigerant flows. The evaporator is constituted an evaporator 5 for hydrate slurry production and an evaporator 4 for cold water production are provided to be alternatively connectable to the condenser 3 and the compressor 1. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a manufacturing method of a fuel storable in a liquefied state from a by-produced gas from an iron mill that permits the stable manufacture at a lower cost of the fuel storable in a liquefied state by effectively utilizing a gas separated from the fuel storable in a liquefied state when the fuel storable in a liquefied state is manufactured from the by-produced gas from an iron mill. SOLUTION: The manufacturing method of the fuel storable in a liquefied state from the by-produced gas from an iron mill comprises manufacturing the fuel storable in a liquefied state from a raw material gas by using a part of the by-produced gas generated in an iron mill as a raw material gas, where at least a part of carbon dioxide gas is separated from a surplus gas as a residue of the raw material gas cleared of the manufactured fuel storable in a liquefied state and the surplus gas cleared of the carbon dioxide gas is utilized by mixing it with the remainder of the by-produced gas. Preferably, the removal ratio of carbon dioxide gas from the surplus gas is 10-100 mol% and the by-produced gas is a mixed gas of one or two or more selected from among a converter gas, a blast furnace gas and a coke oven gas. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase the acceleration effect of an inclined settling-accelerator of an inclined-plate settler by preventing sludge from sticking thereto. SOLUTION: The inclined-plate settler is constituted of a settling tank and an inclined settling-accelerator such as an inclined plate disposed therein with the surface of the inclined settling-accelerator covered with a layer formed by hydrophilization treatment. The inclined settling-accelerator is a member made from a material such as stainless steel, a titanium alloy and a resin, the surface of which has been subjected to hydrophilization treatment. The layer formed by hydrophilization treatment preferably has hydrophilicity represented by a contact angle with water of 40° or lower. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT