166 patents
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Method for Changing the Operating Mode of an Electrolysis System, and Electrolysis System
13 Jan 22
A device comprising an electrolyser, a compressor, and a membrane separating device, and to a method for changing the operating mode between normal and standby operation of said device, in the normal operation of which an electrolysis raw product comprising carbon dioxide is converted in the electrolyser into an electrolysis product containing carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, at least one portion of which is conducted via the compressor and is fed at an increased pressure to the membrane separating device in order to obtain a retentate which is enriched in carbon monoxide and depleted of carbon dioxide compared with the electrolysis product.
Thomas CICHY, Andreas PESCHEL, Benjamin HENTSCHEL
Filed: 5 Nov 19
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Burner Module and Method for the Additive Manufacture of a Burner Module of This Kind
30 Dec 21
A burner module according to the invention comprises at least three or four or five or six or seven or eight functional walls which delimit at least one first functional space and form a module body, wherein the module body has at least three or four or five or six or six or seven gas passage openings and at least two of these gas passage openings are connected to one another communicatively via the first functional space, and wherein at least one nozzle device having a fuel gas opening is formed in an upper wall of the burner module, which fuel gas opening is connected communicatively to the first functional space via a gas channel.
Heinz-Dieter EßER, Matthias RIECKER, Florian LANG, Fabian NEUNER
Filed: 6 Nov 19
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Transport container
28 Dec 21
A transport container for helium, with an inner container for receiving the helium, a coolant container for receiving a cryogenic liquid (N2), an outer container, in which the inner container and the coolant container are contained, a thermal shield, in which the inner container is contained and which can be actively cooled with the aid of a liquid phase of the cryogenic liquid (LN2), the thermal shield having at least one first cooling line, in which the liquid phase of the cryogenic liquid can be received for actively cooling the thermal shield, and an insulating element, which is arranged between the outer container and the thermal shield and which can be actively cooled with the aid of a gaseous phase of the cryogenic liquid (GN2), the insulating element having at least one second cooling line, in which the gaseous phase of the cryogenic liquid can be received.
Heinz Posselt
Filed: 12 Feb 18
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Method and apparatus for the production of ethylene
23 Dec 21
A process (100, 200, 300) for the production of ethylene is proposed in which a first feed gas (A) and a second feed gas (B) are fed to a reactor (1) and processed therein by vapour cracking to obtain a product mixture (C), the first feed gas (A) comprising more than 90 weight percent saturated hydrocarbons and more than 80 weight percent ethane, and wherein the product mixture (C) or a part thereof is subjected to a treatment (2, 3, 4) and the resulting mixture (F) or a part thereof is subjected to a separation (10) to obtain a resulting mixture (F) containing hydrogen, methane, ethane, ethylene and hydrocarbons having three, four and at least five carbon atoms.
Torben HÖFEL
Filed: 17 Oct 19
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Method and system for obtaining polymerizable aromatic compounds
21 Dec 21
The invention relates to a process (100) for deriving polymerizable aromatic compounds having nine carbon atoms (S) in which a component mixture (B) is formed at least partially by steam cracking, in which the component mixture (B) is subjected to a workup (2, 3, 4, 5) comprising a gasoline removal (5) and thereafter is a compression (8) and a fractionation (10), and wherein one or more pyrolysis gasoline fractions (H, L) is or are formed in the gasoline removal (5) and/or the compression (8).
David Bruder, Helmut Fritz
Filed: 23 Nov 18
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Method for Producing a Wound Heat Exchanger
16 Dec 21
The invention relates to a method for producing a wound heat exchanger which has a core tube and a tube bundle, said tube bundle having a plurality of tubes wound about the core tube in a helical manner for conducting a first fluid.
Christoph SEEHOLZER
Filed: 11 Oct 19
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Method and Unit for Low-temperature Air Separation
9 Dec 21
The invention relates to a method for a low-temperature air separation in which an air separation unit is used comprising a first rectification column and a second rectification column.
Christian KUNZ, Stefan LOCHNER, Wolfgang HAAG, Lars KIRCHNER, Tobias LAUTENSCHLAGER, Dimitri GOLUBEV
Filed: 22 Oct 19
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Method for Obtaining One or More Air Products, and Air Separation Unit
9 Dec 21
A method for obtaining one or more air products by means of an air separation unit comprising a first booster, a second booster, a first decompression machine, and a rectification column system which has a high-pressure column operated at a first pressure level and a low-pressure column operated at a second pressure level below the first pressure level.
Dimitri GOLUBEV, Daniel Palaniswamy OTTE
Filed: 9 Oct 19
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Cooling Method for Liquefying a Feed Gas
9 Dec 21
The present invention pertains to a cooling method for liquefying a feed gas, comprising the steps of providing a cooling cycle with a refrigerant stream; dividing the refrigerant stream into a first partial stream and a second partial stream; expanding the first partial stream in a first expansion device; and transferring cooling energy from the expanded first partial stream to a feed gas stream to be cooled, particularly comprising hydrogen and/or helium.
Lutz DECKER, Martin KNOCHE
Filed: 14 Jan 20
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Method for the Theoretical Analysis of a Process Apparatus Through Which Fluid Flows
9 Dec 21
The present invention relates to a method for the theoretical analysis of a process apparatus through which fluid flows, wherein a theoretical, in particular numerical simulation of the apparatus or of at least one part of the apparatus is carried out, wherein at least one element of the apparatus which does not comprise concrete as a material is replaced in the theoretical simulation by at least one concrete element which is manufactured from concrete, and wherein a load analysis of the apparatus is carried out with the aid of the theoretical simulation.
Reinhold HÖLZL, Alexander WOITALKA
Filed: 10 Oct 19
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Method and Device for Cooling a Synthesis Gas Flow
18 Nov 21
The invention relates to a method and to a device for performing a process (P) having at least one heat-consuming process step (F).
Martin LANG, Alexander HIRSCH
Filed: 4 Jul 19
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Method for Calculating the Strength and the Service Life of a Process Apparatus Through Which Fluid Flows
4 Nov 21
The invention relates to a method for calculating the strength and the service life of a process apparatus through which fluid flows, wherein: temperatures existing at a plurality of different points of the apparatus are measured at a first time point in order to obtain temperature measurement values (201); the temperature measurement values are used as constraints in a finite element method (203) in order to determine mechanical stresses existing at a plurality of different points in the material of the apparatus as stress values (204); the remaining service life of the material of the apparatus is determined from the obtained stress values (205); the remaining service life of the material of the apparatus is determined also in dependence on data regarding the apparatus that were determined at a second time point (207), which second time point is earlier than the first time point.
Manfred STEINBAUER, Rainer FLÜGGEN, Pascal FREKO, Paul HEINZ, Alexander WOITALKA, Patrick HAIDER, Dino MEHANOVIC, Thomas REITER
Filed: 11 Sep 19
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High Temperature Superconductor Refrigeration System
4 Nov 21
A cryogenic refrigeration system and a corresponding method for increasing the cooling efficiency of the system, preferably the cooling of a thermally coupled load.
Lutz DECKER, Alexander ALEKSEEV, Martin KNOCHE
Filed: 24 Jul 19
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Method and Installation for Low Temperature Separation of Air
21 Oct 21
A method for low temperature separation of air using an air separating installation having a distillation column system which has a first, a second, a third and a fourth separating unit.
Stefan LOCHNER
Filed: 20 Aug 19
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Method for Operating a Temperature Swing Adsorption Plant and Temperature Swing Adsorption Plant
7 Oct 21
A method for operating a temperature swing adsorption plant having three adsorption units which are operated in an adsorption phase, a feed phase, a regeneration phase, a flush phase, and a cooling phase, wherein in the adsorption phase a first gas mixture at a first temperature is guided over an adsorbent in the adsorption units with obtention of a second gas mixture and adsorption onto the adsorbent of components of the first gas mixture, in the regeneration phase the adsorption units are heated and the components adsorbed by the adsorbent during the adsorption mode are at least partially desorbed, and in the flush phase the components which were desorbed during the regeneration mode are at least partially flushed using a third gas mixture with obtention of a fourth gas mixture.
Thomas RIED, Gabriel SALAZAR DUARTE
Filed: 20 Aug 19
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Support of Heat Exchangers Made of Wound Tubes
7 Oct 21
A heat exchanger, comprising: a tube bundle having at least one tube for receiving a fluid medium, wherein the at least one tube is wound about a core tube which extends along a longitudinal axis, and a first tube section of the at least one tube rests against at least one web which extends along the tube core and at least one first bracket element for securing the first tube section to the at least one web, the at least one first bracket element having a lower face which faces the first tube section and rests against the first tube section.
Manfred SCHÖNBERGER, Günther DRESE, Alexander RANDLINGER
Filed: 23 Jul 19
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Method and arrangement for recovering a helium product from natural gas by membrane unit
23 Sep 21
A method for recovering a helium product or intermediate product, wherein a first natural gas stream containing helium is supplied to a first natural gas processing unit and at least one second natural gas stream containing helium is supplied to at least one second natural gas processing unit, at least the first natural gas processing unit comprising helium recovery means via which the helium product is formed from at least a part of the first natural gas stream.
Martin Bauer, Konstantinos Rallis
Filed: 7 Aug 19
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Directed Decoupling Between Bundle and Core Tube In Wound Heat Exchangers
2 Sep 21
The invention relates to a device (1) for use in the production of a tube bundle (3) of a wound heat exchanger (100), wherein tubes (30) are wound in a plurality of tube layers (4) onto a core tube (300) running in an axial direction (z), webs (10) which run in the axial direction (z) being arranged between the tube layers (4).
Manfred SCHÖNBERGER, Roland HILLER, Christian Michael HERWERTH
Filed: 24 Jun 19
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Temperature Compensating Element, Pipe and Method for Producing a Pipe
2 Sep 21
The invention concerns a temperature compensating element (40) for a pipe (30), wherein the temperature compensating element (40) has at least one phase-change element (20) and can be inserted into the pipe (30) in such a way that the temperature compensating element (40) lies flat against an inside surface (32a) of a pipe casing (32) of the pipe (30) and that the phase-change element (40) is in thermal contact with the pipe (30), and wherein the temperature compensating element (40) forms a through-channel (22) along a running direction (100) of the pipe (30).
Manfred STEINBAUER, Konrad BRAUN, Alexander WOITALKA, Stefan GEWALD
Filed: 11 Jul 19
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Method for the electrochemical production of a gas product containing CO
31 Aug 21
A device for the electrochemical production of a product containing CO, and a method for the electrochemical production of a product containing CO, in which a return of a material stream containing the educt and CO is carried out after the electrochemical production.
Clara Delhomme-Neudecker, Marc Hanebuth, Andreas Peschel, Günter Schmid, Nicole Schödel, Dan Taroata
Filed: 18 Jan 19