Patents Assigned to Linde AG
  • Patent number: 10758881
    Abstract: A method for processing an oligomerization product stream includes discharging the oligomerization product stream from an oligomerization reactor through a product outlet line, and heating the oligomerization product stream, heating a wall of the product outlet line, or both. The oligomerization product stream includes solvent, linear alpha olefins, a polymer byproduct, or a combination of at least one of the foregoing. The heating is to a temperature that is greater than the melting temperature of the polymer byproduct present in the oligomerization product stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignees: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V., LINDE AG
    Inventors: Abdullah Alqahtani, Shahid Azam, Anina Wöhl, Wolfgang Müller, Andreas Meiswinkel, Heinz Bölt, Ralf Noack, Andreas Metzner, Andre Porebski, Tobias Meier
  • Patent number: 10647639
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing butadiene from n-butenes having the steps: A) providing an n-butene-comprising feed gas stream a; B) feeding the n-butene-comprising feed gas stream a and an oxygen-comprising gas into at least one oxidative dehydrogenation zone and oxidatively dehydrogenating n-butenes to butadiene, wherein a product gas stream b comprising butadiene, unreacted n-butenes, steam, oxygen, low-boiling hydrocarbons, high-boiling minor components, optionally carbon oxides and optionally inert gases is obtained; Ca) cooling the product gas stream b by contacting it with a refrigerant and condensing at least a part of the high-boiling minor components; Cb) compressing the remaining product gas stream b in at least one compression step, wherein at least one aqueous condensate stream c1 and a gas stream c2 comprising butadiene, n-butenes, steam, oxygen, low-boiling hydrocarbons, optionally carbon oxides and optionally inert gases is obtained; Da) separating off non-condensable and lo
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignees: BASF SE, Linde AG
    Inventors: Jan Pablo Josch, Ragavendra Prasad Balegedde Ramachandran, Ulrike Wenning, Anton Wellenhofer, Christine Toegel, Hendrik Reyneke, Heinz Boelt
  • Publication number: 20190277564
    Abstract: The invention provides a cryogenic pump reservoir (100), for a cryogenic liquid to be fed to a pump (208), with an interior reservoir space (103) extending between a reservoir bottom (101) and a reservoir top (102) and comprising a liquid feeding region (104), which is positioned at a first distance from the reservoir bottom (101) in the direction of the reservoir top (102), and a liquid removing region (105), which is positioned at a second distance from the reservoir bottom (101) in the direction of the reservoir top (102), the second distance being greater than the first distance. It is provided that in the liquid feeding region (104) there is formed a liquid feeding opening (106), that the interior reservoir space (103) is at least partially divided in the liquid feeding region (104) by means of a dividing wall (106), which is arranged in such a way that one of its surfaces (107) is aligned in the direction of the liquid feeding opening (106.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicant: Linde AG
    Inventors: Michael Baus, Felix Flegiel, Daniela Lauchner, Christian Matten
  • Publication number: 20190257477
    Abstract: A gas cylinder monitoring system (10) for monitoring the contents of a gas cylinder in an EMS vehicle (50) including a gas cylinder (12) for receiving and distributing gas therein, an individual cylinder monitoring system (14) operable to monitor data associated with the gas cylinder (12) and having a cylinder monitoring transmitter (16) operable to broadcast the data, and at least one receiving station (60,70) having a receiver (18,20) operable to receive the data from the individual cylinder monitoring system (14) and indicate if the contents of the gas cylinder (12) are below a pre-determined threshold and require replacing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: LINDE AG
    Inventors: Brian JACOBSEN, Rigoberto PEREZ DE ALEJO, Mandip THIND
  • Patent number: 10384990
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing 1,3-butadiene from n-butenes, comprising the steps of: A) providing an input gas stream a comprising butanes, 1-butene, 2-butene and isobutene, with or without 1,3-butadiene, from a fluid catalytic cracking plant; B) removing isobutene from the input gas stream a, giving a stream b comprising butanes, 1-butene and 2-butene, with or without 1,3-butadiene; C) feeding the stream b comprising butanes, 1-butene and 2-butene and optionally an, oxygenous gas and optionally water vapor into at least one dehydrogenating zone and dehydrogenating 1-butene and 2-butene to 1,3-butadiene, giving a product gas stream c comprising 1,3-butadiene, butanes, 2-butene and water vapor, with or without oxygen, with low-boiling hydrocarbons, with high-boiling secondary components, with or without carbon oxides and with or without inert gases; D) cooling and compressing the product gas stream c, giving at least one aqueous condensate stream d1 and a gas stream d2 comprising 1,3-buta
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignees: BASF SE, Linde AG
    Inventors: Jan Ungelenk, Philipp Grüne, Christian Walsdorff, Jan Pablo Josch, Michael Bender
  • Patent number: 10370310
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing butadiene from n-butenes having the steps: A) providing a feed gas stream a comprising n-butenes; B) feeding the feed gas stream a comprising the n-butenes and an oxygen-comprising gas into at least one oxidative dehydrogenation zone and oxidatively dehydrogenating n-butenes to butadiene, wherein a product gas stream b comprising butadiene, unreacted n-butenes, steam, oxygen, low-boiling hydrocarbons, high-boiling minor components, possibly carbon oxides and possibly inert gases is obtained; Ca) cooling the product gas stream b by contacting it with a refrigerant and condensing at least a part of the high-boiling minor components; Cb) compressing the remaining product gas stream b in at least one compression stage, wherein at least one aqueous condensate stream c1 and a gas stream c2 comprising butadiene, n-butenes, steam, oxygen, low-boiling hydrocarbons, possibly carbon oxides and possibly inert gases are obtained; Da) separating off non-condensable and low-b
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: BASF SE (ISENBRUCK BÖSL HÖRSCHLER LLP), Linde AG
    Inventors: Jan Pablo Josch, Georgios Karanikoulis, Oliver Hammen, Claudia Mossbacher, Ulrike Wenning, Anton Wellenhofer, Christine Toegel, Hendrik Reyneke
  • Patent number: 10358399
    Abstract: A process for preparing butadiene from n-butenes, comprising the steps of: A) providing an input gas stream comprising n-butenes; B) feeding the input gas stream comprising n-butenes and a gas containing at least oxygen into at least one oxidative dehydrogenation zone and oxidatively dehydrogenating n-butenes to butadiene, giving a product gas stream; Ca) cooling the product gas stream by contacting with a circulating cooling medium in at least one cooling zone; Cb) compressing the cooled product gas stream in at least one compression stage, giving at least one aqueous condensate stream c1 and one gas stream c2; D) removing uncondensable and low-boiling gas constituents comprising oxygen and low-boiling hydrocarbons as gas stream d2 from the gas stream c2 by absorbing the C4 hydrocarbons in an absorbent, giving an absorbent stream laden with C4 hydrocarbons and the gas stream d2, and then desorbing the C4 hydrocarbons from the laden absorbent stream, giving a C4 product gas stream d1; E) separating the C4
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignees: BASF SE, Linde AG
    Inventors: Philipp Grüne, Stephan Deublein, Christian Walsdorff, Jan Pablo Josch, Rainer Rahm, Hendrik Reyneke, Anton Wellenhofer, Ulrike Wenning, Christine Toegel, Heinz Boelt
  • Patent number: 10351422
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of carrying out heat-consuming processes, wherein the total energy required averaged over a year for the heat-consuming process originates from at least two different energy sources, where one of the energy sources is an electric energy source whose power varies in the range from 0 to 100% of the total power required, and three different energy modes can individually provide the total power required for the heat-consuming process: (i) exclusively electric energy, (ii) a mixture of electric energy and at least one further nonelectric energy source or (iii) exclusively nonelectric energy, where the changeover time in which the change from one energy mode to another energy mode is completed is not more than 30 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignees: BASF SE, Linde AG
    Inventors: Otto Machhammer, Wolfgang Alois Hormuth, Christian Schneider, Andreas Bode, Volker Goeke, Hans-Juergen Maass, Matthias Kern, Dirk Klingler, Rene Koenig, Philipp Brueggemann, Jens Bernnat, Grigorios Kolios
  • Patent number: 10308569
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing butadiene from n-butenes, comprising the steps of: A) providing an input gas stream a comprising n-butenes, B) feeding the input gas stream a comprising n-butenes and a gas containing at least oxygen into at least one oxidative dehydrogenation zone and oxidatively dehydrogenating n-butenes to butadiene, giving a product gas stream b comprising butadiene, unconverted n-butenes, water vapor, oxygen, low-boiling hydrocarbons and high-boiling secondary components, with or without carbon oxides and with or without inert gases; Ca) cooling the product gas stream b by contacting with a cooling medium in at least one cooling zone, the cooling medium being at least partly recycled and having an aqueous phase and an organic phase, Cb) compressing the cooled product gas stream b which may have been depleted of high-boiling secondary components in at least one compression stage, giving at least one aqueous condensate stream c1 and one gas stream c2 comprising butadiene, n
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignees: BASF SE, Linde AG
    Inventors: Jan Pablo Josch, Philipp Grüne, Regina Benfer, Maximilian Vicari, Andre Biegner, Gergor Bloch, Heinz Boelt, Hendrik Reyneke, Christine Toegel, Ulrike Wenning
  • Patent number: 10265690
    Abstract: A catalyst composition including: (a) a chromium compound; (b) a ligand of the general structure R1R2P—N(R3)—P(R4)—NR5R6 or??(A) R1R2P—N(R3)—P(XR7)R8 or R1R2P—N(R3)—P(XR7)2, with X?O or S,??(B) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and R8 are independently C1-C10-alkyl, C6-C20-aryl, C3-C10-cycloalkyl, aralkyl, alkylaryl, or trialkylsilyl, or any cyclic derivatives of (A) and (B), wherein at least one of the P or N atoms of the PNPN-unit or PNP-unit is a member of the ring system, the ring system being formed from one or more constituent compounds of structures (A) or (B) by substitution; and (c) an activator or co-catalyst; and a process for tri- and/or tetramerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignees: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION, LINDE AG
    Inventors: Anina Woehl, Andreas Meiswinkel, Heinz Boelt, Bernd H. Mueller, Wolfgang Mueller, Normen Peulecke, Uwe Rosenthal, Marco Harff, Mohammed H. Al-Hazmi, Abdullah Alqahtani
  • Patent number: 10233078
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for utilizing a hydrocarbon-comprising and/or carbon dioxide-comprising coproduct gas, accompanying gas and/or biogas, wherein hydrocarbon-comprising and/or carbon dioxide-comprising coproduct gas, accompanying gas and/or biogas is introduced into a reaction space and the multicomponent mixture comprised in the coproduct gas, accompanying gas and/or biogas is converted in a high-temperature zone at temperatures of more than 1000° C. and in the presence of a carrier into a product gas mixture which comprises more than 95% by volume of CO, CO2, H2, H2O, CH4 and N2 and optionally into a carbon-comprising solid which is deposited to an extent of at least 75% by weight, based on the total mass of the carbon-comprising solid, on the carrier where the flow velocity of the gas mixture of coproduct gas, accompanying gas and/or biogas in the reaction zone is less than 20 m/s.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignees: BASF SE, Linde AG, ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions AG
    Inventors: Christian Schneider, Andreas Bode, Dirk Klingler, Otto Machhammer, Philipp Brueggemann, Matthias Kern, Wolfgang Alois Hormuth, Marcus Guzmann, Rene Koenig, Jens Bernnat, Grigorios Kolios, Volker Goeke, Hans-Juergen Maass, Karsten Bueker
  • Publication number: 20190016650
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing butadiene from n-butenes having the steps: A) providing a feed gas stream a comprising n-butenes; B) feeding the feed gas stream a comprising the n-butenes and an oxygen-comprising gas into at least one oxidative dehydrogenation zone and oxidatively dehydrogenating n-butenes to butadiene, wherein a product gas stream b comprising butadiene, unreacted n-butenes, steam, oxygen, low-boiling hydrocarbons, high-boiling minor components, possibly carbon oxides and possibly inert gases is obtained; Ca) cooling the product gas stream b by contacting it with a refrigerant and condensing at least a part of the high-boiling minor components; Cb) compressing the remaining product gas stream b in at least one compression stage, wherein at least one aqueous condensate stream c1 and a gas stream c2 comprising butadiene, n-butenes, steam, oxygen, low-boiling hydrocarbons, possibly carbon oxides and possibly inert gases are obtained; Da) separating off non-condensable and low-b
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicants: BASF SE, Linde AG
    Inventors: Jan Pablo JOSCH, Georgios KARANIKOULIS, Oliver HAMMEN, Claudia MOSSBACHER, Ulrike WENNING, Anton WELLENHOFER, Christine TOEGEL, Hendrik REYNEKE
  • Publication number: 20180282246
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing 1,3-butadiene from n-butenes, comprising the steps of: A) providing an input gas stream a comprising butanes, 1-butene, 2-butene and isobutene, with or without 1,3-butadiene, from a fluid catalytic cracking plant; B) removing isobutene from the input gas stream a, giving a stream b comprising butanes, 1-butene and 2-butene, with or without 1,3-butadiene; C) feeding the stream b comprising butanes, 1-butene and 2-butene and optionally an, oxygenous gas and optionally water vapor into at least one dehydrogenating zone and dehydrogenating 1-butene and 2-butene to 1,3-butadiene, giving a product gas stream c comprising 1,3-butadiene, butanes, 2-butene and water vapor, with or without oxygen, with low-boiling hydrocarbons, with high-boiling secondary components, with or without carbon oxides and with or without inert gases; D) cooling and compressing the product gas stream c, giving at least one aqueous condensate stream d1 and a gas stream d2 comprising 1,3-buta
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicants: BASF SE, Linde AG
    Inventors: Jan UNGELENK, Philipp GRÜNE, Christian WALSDORFF, Jan Pablo JOSCH, Michael BENDER
  • Publication number: 20180258009
    Abstract: A process for deactivation of an olefin oligomerization catalyst is described, including contacting a catalyst composition with a catalyst quenching medium to form a deactivated catalyst composition, and recovering excess catalyst quenching medium. The catalyst quenching medium includes an alcohol having at least 6 carbon atoms, an organic amine, an amino alcohol, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing. The catalyst quenching medium is present in a molar ratio of catalyst quenching medium to catalyst of at least 3:1. A process for the oligomerization of an olefin is also described, including feeding the olefin, a solvent, and a catalyst composition into a reactor, oligomerizing the olefin in the reactor to form a reaction product stream including linear alpha olefins, solvent, and the catalyst composition, and contacting the reaction product stream with a catalyst quenching medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicants: SABIC Global Technologies B.V., LINDE AG
    Inventors: Abdullah Alqahtani, Anina Wöhl, Wolfgang Müller, Marco Harff, Heinz Bölt, Andreas Metzner, Ralf Noack, Lars-Erik Gärtner, Andreas Meiswinkel
  • Patent number: 9957208
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing butadiene from n-butenes, comprising the steps of: A) providing an input gas stream a comprising n-butenes, B) feeding the input gas stream a comprising n-butenes and a gas containing at least oxygen into at least one oxidative dehydrogenation zone and oxidatively dehydrogenating n-butenes to butadiene, giving a product gas stream b comprising butadiene, unconverted n-butenes, water vapor, oxygen, low-boiling hydrocarbons and high-boiling secondary components, with or without carbon oxides and with or without inert gases; Ca) cooling the product gas stream b by contacting with a cooling medium in at least one cooling zone, the cooling medium being at least partly recycled and having an aqueous phase and an organic phase of an organic solvent, wherein the organic solvent is selected from the group consisting of toluene, o-, m- and p-xylene, mesitylene, mono-, di- and triethylbenzene, mono-, di- and triisopropylbenzene and mixtures thereof, and the mass ratio of
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignees: BASF SE, Linde AG
    Inventors: Philipp Grüne, Oliver Hammen, Rainer Eckrich, Jan Pablo Josch, Christian Walsdorff, Andre Biegner, Gregor Bloch, Heinz Boelt, Hendrik Reyneke, Christine Toegel, Ulrike Wenning
  • Publication number: 20180104435
    Abstract: A clinical oxygen supply device (100) adapted to supply supplemental oxygen to a patient, comprising an oxygen inlet section (110) with a first coupling unit (111) adapted to be releasably coupled to a standardized oxygen wall outlet (1), an oxygen outlet section (120) with a second coupling unit (121) adapted to be releasably coupled to an oxygen dispensing device (2) attached to a patient (3), and an oxygen flow control section (130) with a regulation unit (132) adapted to regulate an oxygen flow between the oxygen inlet section (110) and the oxygen outlet section (120) on the basis of a control signal is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Applicant: Linde AG
    Inventors: Sabine Häussermann, Peter Forsberg
  • Patent number: 9896392
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for oligomerization of ethylene, comprising the steps: a) feeding ethylene, solvent and a catalyst composition comprising catalyst and cocatalyst into a reactor, b) oligomerizing ethylene in the reactor, c) discharging a reactor effluent comprising linear alpha-olefins including 1-butene, solvent, unconsumed ethylene dissolved in the reactor effluent, and catalyst composition from the reactor, d) separating ethylene and 1-butene collectively from the remaining reactor effluent, and e) recycling at least a part of the ethylene and the 1-butene separated in step d) into the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignees: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION, LINDE AG
    Inventors: Andreas Meiswinkel, Wolfgang Mueller, Anina Woehl, Marco Harff, Heinz Bolt, Karl-Heinz Hofmann, Hans-Jorg Zander, Anton Wellenhofer, Abduljelil Iliyas, Shehzada Khurram, Shahid Azam, Abdullah Al-Qahtani
  • Patent number: 9593055
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing linear alpha-olefins (LAO) by oligomerization of ethylene in the presence of solvent and homogenous catalyst, comprising the steps of: (i) feeding ethylene, solvent and catalyst into an oligomerization reactor, (ii) oligomerizing the ethylene in the reactor, (iii) removing a reactor outlet stream comprising solvent, linear alpha-olefins, ethylene, and catalyst from the reactor via a reactor outlet piping system, (iv) transferring the reactor outlet stream to a catalyst deactivation and removal step, and (v) deactivating and removing the catalyst from the reactor outlet stream, characterized in that at least one organic amine is added into the oligomerization reactor and/or into the reactor outlet piping system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignees: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION, LINDE AG
    Inventors: Vugar Aliyev, Fuad Mosa, Mohammed Al-Hazmi, Syriac Palackal, Ayed Al-Ayed, Sultan Al-Otaibi, Mohammed Zahoor, Wolfgang Müller, Peter M. Fritz, Heinz Bölt, Anton Wellenhofer, Florian Winkler, Uwe Rosenthal, Hans-Jörg Zander, Normen Peulecke, Bernd H. Müller, Karl-Heinz Hofmann, Helmut Fritz, Carsten Taube, Andreas Meiswinkel, Richard Schneider, Anina Woehl
  • Patent number: 9561500
    Abstract: A catalyst composition including: (a) a chromium compound; (b) a ligand of the general structure (A) R1R2P—N(R3)—P(R4)—NR5R6 or (B) R1R2P—N(R3)—P(XR7)R8 or R1R2P—N(R3)—P(XR7)2, with X=O or S, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and R8 are independently C1-C10-alkyl, C6-C20-aryl, C3-C10-cycloalkyl, aralkyl, alkylaryl, or trialkylsilyl, or any cyclic derivatives of (A) and (B), wherein at least one of the P or N atoms of the PNPN-unit or PNP-unit is a member of the ring system, the ring system being formed from one or more constituent compounds of structures (A) or (B) by substitution; and (c) an activator or co-catalyst; and a process for tri- and/or tetramerization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignees: SAUDI BASIC INDUSTRIES CORPORATION, LINDE AG
    Inventors: Anina Woehl, Andreas Meiswinkle, Heinz Boelt, Bernd H. Mueller, Wolfgang Mueller, Normen Peulecke, Uwe Rosenthal, Marco Harff, Mohammed H. Al-Hazmi, Abdullah Al-Qahtani
  • Patent number: D812421
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: LINDE AG
    Inventors: Sven Schaarschmidt, Tobias Neuber, Dominik Michel