Patents Assigned to MAN Energy Solutions SE
  • Patent number: 11973359
    Abstract: A method for operating a battery system connected to an electric energy system, having battery strings connected in parallel, including a battery, an inverter and a transformer Each battery is chargeable and dischargeable. Each battery has an installed, maximum charge capacity and a capacity that is available in the current operating state. During discharging the currently available capacity corresponds to a state-of-charge of the respective battery, and during charging the currently available capacity corresponds to a difference between the maximum charge capacity and the state-of-charge of the respective battery. A total charge output requested during the charging of the battery system and/or a total discharge output requested during the discharging of the battery system is distributed as part outputs over the battery strings and thus over the batteries dependent on the currently available capacities of the batteries of the battery strings connected in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
    Inventors: Moritz Henke, Susanne Lehner
  • Patent number: 11920596
    Abstract: A screw compressor having screw rotors for compressing a process gas, a pipe bend conducting compressed process gas towards a silencer. The pipe bend at an inlet-side portion comprises a first connecting piece fastening the pipe bend to a pressure port and on an outlet-side portion a second connecting piece for fastening the pipe bend to the silencer. The pipe bend has a flow channel between the connecting pieces defined by an inner wall and an insert that projects into the inlet-side portion of the pipe bend. An outer wall of the insert projecting into the flow channel of the pipe bend and a portion of the inner wall of the pipe bend enclosing this outer wall on the outside delimit a space acting as resonator, coupled to the flow channel of the pipe bend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
    Inventor: Ralf Gödde
  • Patent number: 11891970
    Abstract: A fuel supply system of an engine designed as a gas engine or dual-fuel engine, has at least one solenoid valve. The solenoid valve is designed for introducing gas fuel into charge air or into a charge air line leading to at least one cylinder of the engine. The respective solenoid valve includes a valve body and an actuator with at least one magnetic plate and with at least one coil for actuating the valve body. The at least one solenoid valve of the solenoid valve is formed out of a corrosion-resistant material or is coated with a corrosion-resistant material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
    Inventors: Johannes Bär, Matthias Birner
  • Patent number: 11806707
    Abstract: A method for carrying out catalytic gas phase reactions including providing a tube bundle reactor which has a bundle of reaction tubes that are filled with a catalyst charge and are cooled by a heat transfer medium, conveying a reaction gas through the catalyst charge, the reaction gas flowing into each reaction tube divided into two part flows introduced in the axial direction of the reaction tube at different points in the catalyst charge the catalyst charge has at least two catalyst layers of different activity, wherein the activity of the first catalyst layer, in the flow direction of the reaction gas, is lower than the activity of the at least one other catalyst layer and in step a first part flow is introduced into the first catalyst layer and each further part flow is introduced past the first catalyst layer into the at least one further catalyst layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
    Inventors: Christian Schuhbauer, Dieter Verbeek, Rolf Bank
  • Patent number: 11761414
    Abstract: A contacting device of a voltage transmission device of an ignition device of a large engine, whose cylinders have piston diameters of at least 140 mm having a first spring portion for the electrical contacting of a cable contacting piece of the voltage transmission device and a second spring portion for the electrical contacting of a spark plug connection of a spark-plug of the ignition device. The second spring portion tapers in a direction of its end, which comes to lie against the spark-plug connector of the spark-plug. The spark-plug connector of the spark-plug interacting with the contacting device includes a trough into which the contacting device can be introduced with a spring portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
    Inventors: Björn Dirumdam, Christian Hummel, Matthias Birner
  • Patent number: 11719147
    Abstract: The exhaust gas after-treatment system of an engine configured as a gas engine or as a dual-fuel engine includes a catalyst, that can be flowed through by exhaust gas, a control tube extending through a recess in the catalyst, which control tube is movable relative to the catalyst and is flowable through by exhaust gas, and an actuator which is equipped to move the control tube relative to the catalyst dependent on at least one operating condition of the engine and/or at least one operating condition of the exhaust gas after-treatment system such that in a first relative position of the control tube relative to the catalyst, the catalyst can be flowed through by exhaust gas but not the control tube, and in a second relative position of the control tube relative to the catalyst, the control tube can be flowed through by the exhaust gas but not the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
    Inventor: Klaus Strobl
  • Patent number: 11705597
    Abstract: An energy storage unit mounting facility, having a basic body, which defines multiple mounting regions arranged vertically on top of one another for at least one electric energy storage unit. The electric energy storage unit is introducible into the mounting region in the horizontal direction and removable from the mounting region in the horizontal direction. Securing devices are provided to secure the electric energy storage unit in the mounting region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
    Inventors: Susanne Lehner, Carina Kern, Michael Pilawa
  • Patent number: 11686423
    Abstract: A tool for disassembling and assembling bearings which support an engine mounting frame of an internal combustion engine, is mounted on a base, a bearing having opposing metal securing plates and a resiliently deformable damping element extending between the securing plates, said tool comprising opposing, parallel mounting plates, each mounting plate being mountable on a securing plate of a bearing to be dissassembled or assembled, and comprising a turnbuckle, via which the opposing mounting plates are operatively connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
    Inventor: Andreas Thoma
  • Patent number: 11649774
    Abstract: A fuel injector feeds fuel to a combustion chamber of a cylinder of a dual-fuel engine and includes: a main body having a needle guide; a nozzle needle guidable in the needle guide; a needle fuel chamber defined by the main body, coupleable to the combustion chamber, wherein the orifices are open in a first position of the nozzle needle and closed in a second position of the nozzle needle; a first line arranged in the main body, and being coupled to the needle fuel chamber, via the first line a fuel being introduceable into the needle fuel chamber. In the main body a second line is coupleable to the needle guide and to a control chamber of a control valve of the fuel injector, wherein via the second line a fuel is feedable to the needle guide as barrier fluid and to the control chamber as working fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
    Inventor: Johann Wloka
  • Patent number: 11637445
    Abstract: A method for operating an electric island power network having a renewable energy generation plant, a conventional energy generation plant, an energy store, and an energy consumer, includes: defining first operating parameters for the network for when a frequency and/or voltage of the network is outside defined limits; operating the network using the first operating parameters causing the frequency and voltage of the network to both be within the defined limits; defining second operating parameters for the network after the expiration of a defined time span over which the frequency and voltage have remained within the defined limits, the second operating parameters being defined such that operating the network using the second operating parameters causes the network to operate cost-optimally. If verified that the second operating parameters ensure that the frequency and voltage remain within the defined limits, operation using the second operating parameters is maintained. Otherwise, it is discontinued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E. V. MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
    Inventors: Christian Olenberger, Björn Häckel, Stephan Berger, Michael Raila
  • Patent number: 11628522
    Abstract: A handling device for servicing a piston with a small end attached to the piston via a piston pin, having a basic frame, a receiving device that is pivotable or tiltable relative to the basic frame for the piston removed from an internal combustion engine, an actuator for pivoting or tilting the receiving device relative to the basic frame, and a locking device via which the receiving device is lockable on the basic frame in different pivot positions or tilting positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
    Inventors: Ewald Kottre, Mario Stegmayr
  • Patent number: 11592181
    Abstract: A gas turbine combustion chamber, having a combustion chamber housing, a burner positioned at least partially in the combustion chamber housing and a flame tube positioned in the combustion chamber housing. An upstream end of the flame tube has a flame tube cover. In the region of the flame tube cover radially inside the flame tube cover a mixing tube of the burner extends, which defines a pre-primary combustion zone. Between the mixing tube of the burner and the flame tube cover an axial air flow passage is formed, via which air can be conducted in the axial direction outside along the mixing tube, and into the flame tube cover radial air flow passages are introduced via which the air following the axial air flow passage can be conducted in the radial direction of the flame tube cover for cooling the flame tube cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
    Inventors: Jaman El Masalme, Stefan Clauss, Jan-Niklas Bleyl
  • Patent number: 11585303
    Abstract: A dual-fuel internal combustion engine includes: cylinders for combusting a first liquid fuel having a first ignitability in a first operating mode, and a second liquid fuel having a second lesser ignitability, in a second operating mode; a main injection system including a main injector for each cylinder, for feeding the first liquid fuel to the respective cylinders in the first operating mode and for feeding the second liquid fuel to the respective cylinders in the second operating mode; and a pilot injection system including a pilot injector for each cylinder, via which the first liquid fuel can is feedable to the respective cylinders in the second operating mode for igniting the second liquid fuel. The main and pilot injection systems are coupled such that in the second operating mode the first liquid fuel, is feedable to the respective main injector as a working fluid and/or a barrier fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
    Inventors: Johann Wloka, Ludwig Maier, Thomas Klaua
  • Patent number: 11525368
    Abstract: A turbine guide apparatus, having multiple guide blades. Each guide blade has a first shroud and a second shroud formed on radial ends of a blade leaf having a first carrier for the guide blades. Each guide blade is fastened to the first carrier via a first shroud projection having a second carrier for the guide blades and is fastened on the second carrier via a second shroud projection. The first shroud projection is inserted into a groove of the first carrier in the radial direction and fastened in this groove via a bolt extending in the axial direction through the projection of the first shroud with radial mobility in this groove. The second shroud projection of the guide blade is fastened in the circumferential and radial direction via a pin extending in the axial direction into the projection of the second shroud and the second carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
    Inventors: Thorsten Pöhler, Dirk Frank, Jan Philipp Schnitzler
  • Patent number: 11506285
    Abstract: A piston of a cylinder of an internal combustion engine includes: a piston skirt; a grooved ring belt on a first axial side of the piston skirt, the ring belt grooves being limited by, and separated from one another by, ring lands, the ring grooves for receiving a piston ring; and an oil collection channel between the piston skirt and the ring belt. The oil collection channel has a greater depth than in the circumferential position of a coupling side of the piston and/or in the circumferential position of a coupling opposite side of the piston. The oil collection channel has a gradient, the gradient emanating from an axial depth in a region of the coupling side and/or of the coupling opposite side in the direction of the axial depth in the region of the pressure side and/or of the pressure opposite side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
    Inventors: Talat Schaer, Ulf Waldenmaier
  • Patent number: 11486258
    Abstract: A blade of a turbo machine, having a blade leaf, with a flow leading edge, a flow trailing edge, and flow conducting surfaces, and a cooling passage integrated in the blade leaf. In the region of the blade leaf cooling passage portions extend substantially in the radial direction. Adjacent cooling passage portions merge into one another via a diversion passage portion having a material web extending between the adjacent cooling passage portions. The respective material web ends in the region of the respective diversion passage portion. The respective material web has a defined axial width between the respective adjacent cooling passage portions and the respective material web in the region of the respective diversion passage portion has a material thickening enlarging the axial width by at least 20%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
    Inventors: Thorsten Pöhler, Dirk Frank
  • Patent number: 11473522
    Abstract: An engine piston having a piston upper part, a piston lower part connected to the piston upper part, a piston pin mounted in the piston lower part connects the piston to a connecting rod, and a first cooling space between the piston upper and lower parts for cooling oil. The first cooling space is connected to a second cooling space formed between the piston upper part and a piston lower part via at least one transfer bore, a cooling oil conduction sleeve for conducting cooling oil through a bore in the connecting rod towards the first cooling space. A guiding surface of the cooling oil conduction sleeve adjoins a support face of the piston lower part. At least one groove circulating in the circumferential direction is introduced into the guiding surface of the cooling oil conduction sleeve and/or into the support face of the piston lower part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
    Inventor: Talat Shaer
  • Patent number: 11473573
    Abstract: A method for evacuating a process space by initially evacuating the process space to a pressure limit value using two compressors operated in parallel, and on reaching or undershooting the pressure limit value, the process space is subsequently evacuated using the two compressors operated in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
    Inventor: Gunther Bermich
  • Patent number: 11434930
    Abstract: A sealing system of a turbomachine for sealing a rotor of the turbomachine relative to a stator of the turbomachine, having a rotor-side component rotating together with the rotor, a stator-side component that is stationary together with the stator, and a dry gas seal, which includes a rotor-side sealing component and a stator-side sealing component compressed via a spring element forming a sealing gap, and a cleaning device, via which detergent is conducted in the direction of the spring element for cleaning the same and/or in the direction of the sealing gap for cleaning the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignees: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE, EAGLEBURGMANN GERMANY GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Michael Betschart, Simon Fischer, Marcel Rosenberger, Roger Suter
  • Patent number: 11435083
    Abstract: An assembly for a gas turbine having a combustion chamber, a swirler, a combustion zone in the combustion chamber, and an air feed. In a transition region from the air feed to the swirler that is flowed through by the air, a plenum is formed and the assembly adjoining the plenum has the swirler, the combustion chamber, and a cover closing the combustion chamber. The assembly has an air conduction channel designed to conduct part of the air flow flowing into the assembly into the combustion chamber, so that the air flow leading through the air feed is divided into a main flow leading through the swirler into the combustion zone and a bypass flow leading past the combustion zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE
    Inventors: Bernhard Cosic, Franklin Genin