Patents by Inventor Dietmar Degenkolb

Dietmar Degenkolb has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10746395
    Abstract: A gasification burner for a multiple-burner arrangement in an entrained-flow gasifier, in which the gasification burner extends along a main axis and in which the media for the gasification reaction in the gasification burner are guided in separate media channels and exit at the burner mouth in a direction having an angle to the main axis that is not zero. A vertical installation with an optimally adaptable flame shape is provided. Depending on the orientation of the burners, the flame shape is adaptable, whether it be a minimized total flame diameter for an initial slag formation of the cooling screen or an increase in the total twist of the total flame for an increased particle deposition on the reactor wall. The gasification burner with angled burner tips can be used as part of a retrofit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Meissner, Dietmar Degenkolb, Thomas Fleischer, Matthias Köhler
  • Publication number: 20180363895
    Abstract: A gasification burner for a multiple-burner arrangement in an entrained-flow gasifier, in which the gasification burner extends along a main axis and in which the media for the gasification reaction in the gasification burner are guided in separate media channels and exit at the burner mouth in a direction having an angle to the main axis that is not zero. A vertical installation with an optimally adaptable flame shape is provided. Depending on the orientation of the burners, the flame shape is adaptable, whether it be a minimized total flame diameter for an initial slag formation of the cooling screen or an increase in the total twist of the total flame for an increased particle deposition on the reactor wall. The gasification burner with angled burner tips can be used as part of a retrofit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Meissner, Dietmar Degenkolb, Thomas Fleischer, Matthias Köhler
  • Publication number: 20170254534
    Abstract: A compact burner for the pressurized gasification of pulverized fuel dust for producing synthesis gas, wherein a plurality of concentric media channels transition into a conical burner tip. The burner tip provides a reduced contact surface on the reaction chamber side. The nozzle components of the burner tip are produced by selective laser melting, which permits a design for cooling by supplied media, such as fuel gas, flushing gas, or oxidation. A sliding guide having an intermediate seal is arranged between the nozzle components of two media channels to equalize temperature-driven linear extensions. The compact burner makes the expense for liquid cooling unnecessary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dietmar Degenkolb, Wei Fu, Tino Just, Christoph Kiener
  • Publication number: 20170057758
    Abstract: A feed-in container for fluidizing and conveying products in dust form, such as, for example, coal dust, using conveying gases under pressures up to 7 MPa, in which the fluidizing floor is fastened by a central tubular supporting construction. A stable and low-outlay construction takes up the weight and pressure loading of the fluidizing floor. An emptying line is arranged in the supporting construction, making a separate opening through the fluidizing floor obsolete and thus providing a low-outlay passage through the fluidizing floor. The supporting construction is also designed such that it serves as a shaft guide for an agitator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dietmar Degenkolb, Ronny Ehrich, Frank Hannemann, Marcus Weder
  • Patent number: 9200220
    Abstract: For an in-line gasifier having a liquid cooled cooling jacket it is proposed to lead the inlet connectors and the outlet connectors for the cooling liquid through the side of the cylindrical pressure vessel, below the mounting flange for the vessel cover. This achieves a simplification in the mounting of the pressure vessel cover. Particular embodiments concern the bringing together of the upper ends and of the lower ends of several pipe runs coiled in parallel, in each case into a collector pipe which has a connector bush for cooling water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Dietmar Degenkolb, Frank Hannemann, Horst Hoppe, Tino Just
  • Publication number: 20130039818
    Abstract: For an in-line gasifier having a liquid cooled cooling jacket it is proposed to lead the inlet connectors and the outlet connectors for the cooling liquid through the side of the cylindrical pressure vessel, below the mounting flange for the vessel cover. This achieves a simplification in the mounting of the pressure vessel cover. Particular embodiments concern the bringing together of the upper ends and of the lower ends of several pipe runs coiled in parallel, in each case into a collector pipe which has a connector bush for cooling water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Dietmar Degenkolb, Frank Hannemann, Horst Hoppe, Tino Just
  • Patent number: 8240259
    Abstract: A method and device for cooling hot crude gas and slag from entrained flow gasification of liquid and solid combustibles at crude gas temperatures ranging from 1,200 to 1,800° C. and at pressures of up to 80 bar in a cooling chamber disposed downstream of the gasification reactor by injecting water. The cooling water is distributed, with a first portion being finely dispersed into to cooling chamber and a second portion being fed at the bottom into an annular gap provided between the pressure-carrying tank wall and an incorporated metal apron for protecting said pressure-carrying tank wall. The second portion of the cooling water flows upward in the annular gap and trickles down the inner side of the metal apron in the form of a water film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Norbert Fischer, Dietmar Degenkolb, Friedemann Mehlhose, Manfred Schingnitz
  • Patent number: 8196531
    Abstract: Disclosed is a burner for oxidant gasification of pulverized fuels under high pressures, e.g. 80 bar, and temperatures, e.g. 1200 to 1900° C., in reactors with liquid slag removal for oxygen gasification. The individual pulverized coal supply tubes in the burner are inclined toward the burner axis in the direction of the burner mouth, are implemented equiareally from the burner inlet up to the burner outlet, and end at the burner mouth adjacent to the oxidant outlet. Owing to the pulverized fuel feeding elements being implemented right up to the burner mouth and the instantaneous entry of the pulverized coal into the rotating oxygen stream there is no longer any areal discontinuity at the dust outlet, since here the pulverized coal stream is immediately sucked into the oxidant stream. At the outlet of the media the individual pulverized coal streams merge into a single rotating pulverized coal/oxygen stream, thereby achieving an even flame spread and stabilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dietmar Degenkolb, Christian Reuther, Manfred Schingnitz
  • Patent number: 8152514
    Abstract: An oil/slurry burner with injection atomization for the gasification of solids-containing liquid fuels under high pressures of e.g. 80 bar (8 MPa) and high temperatures of e.g. 1200 to 1900 degrees centigrade in reactors with liquid slag removal is proposed, wherein a plurality of feeding elements disposed outside the annular duct concentrically with respect to the burner axis are provided for introducing liquid fuel and atomizing agent, the individual feeding elements being implemented intrinsically straight in the burner, inclined to the burner axis in the direction of the burner mouth, and ending at the burner mouth adjacent to the oxidant outlet. By introducing the liquid fuel and atomizing agent in individual completely implemented tubes with a corresponding nozzle, different fuels can be supplied simultaneously via the individual feeds and converted in a flame reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dietmar Degenkolb, Norbert Fischer, Christian Reuther, Manfred Schingnitz
  • Publication number: 20080276845
    Abstract: Disclosed is a burner for oxidant gasification of pulverized fuels under high pressures, e.g. 80 bar, and temperatures, e.g. 1200 to 1900° C., in reactors with liquid slag removal for oxygen gasification. The individual pulverized coal supply tubes in the burner are inclined toward the burner axis in the direction of the burner mouth, are implemented equiareally from the burner inlet up to the burner outlet, and end at the burner mouth adjacent to the oxidant outlet. Owing to the pulverized fuel feeding elements being implemented right up to the burner mouth and the instantaneous entry of the pulverized coal into the rotating oxygen stream there is no longer any areal discontinuity at the dust outlet, since here the pulverized coal stream is immediately sucked into the oxidant stream. At the outlet of the media the individual pulverized coal streams merge into a single rotating pulverized coal/oxygen stream, thereby achieving an even flame spread and stabilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Dietmar Degenkolb, Christian Reuther, Manfred Schingnitz
  • Publication number: 20080280241
    Abstract: An oil/slurry burner with injection atomization for the gasification of solids-containing liquid fuels under high pressures of e.g. 80 bar (8 MPa) and high temperatures of e.g. 1200 to 1900 degrees centigrade in reactors with liquid slag removal is proposed, wherein a plurality of feeding elements disposed outside the annular duct concentrically with respect to the burner axis are provided for introducing liquid fuel and atomizing agent, the individual feeding elements being implemented intrinsically straight in the burner, inclined to the burner axis in the direction of the burner mouth, and ending at the burner mouth adjacent to the oxidant outlet. By introducing the liquid fuel and atomizing agent in individual completely implemented tubes with a corresponding nozzle, different fuels can be supplied simultaneously via the individual feeds and converted in a flame reaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Inventors: Dietmar Degenkolb, Norbert Fischer, Christian Reuther, Manfred Schingnitz
  • Publication number: 20080005966
    Abstract: A method and device for cooling hot crude gas and slag from entrained flow gasification of liquid and solid combustibles at crude gas temperatures ranging from 1,200 to 1,800° C. and at pressures of up to 80 bar in a cooling chamber disposed downstream of the gasification reactor by injecting water. The cooling water is distributed, with a first portion being finely dispersed into to cooling chamber and a second portion being fed at the bottom into an annular gap provided between the pressure-carrying tank wall and an incorporated metal apron for protecting said pressure-carrying tank wall. The second portion of the cooling water flows upward in the annular gap and trickles down the inner side of the metal apron in the form of a water film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Inventors: Norbert Fischer, Dietmar Degenkolb, Friedemann Mehlhose, Manfred Schingnitz
  • Patent number: 7037473
    Abstract: An appliance for the gasification of carbon- and ash-containing fuel, residual and waste materials using an oxygen-containing oxidizing agent at temperatures above the melting point of the inorganic fractions, in a reaction chamber which is designed as an entrained-bed reactor, at pressures between atmospheric pressure and 80 bar, preferably between atmospheric pressure and 30 bar, the contour of the reaction chamber being delimited by a cooled reactor wall. The cooled reactor wall having the following structure, from the outside inward: a pressure shell, a cooling wall, a water-cooled gap between the pressure shell and the cooling wall, a ceramic protection for the cooling wall, and a layer of slag. The pressure and temperature of the cooling gap between the pressure shell and the cooling wall is controlled in such a way that it can be operated above and below the boiling point of the cooling water. The pressure in the cooling gap is higher than the pressure in the gasification chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignee: Future Energy GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Donner, Dietmar Degenkolb, Manfred Schingnitz
  • Patent number: 6827912
    Abstract: The invention relates to a reactor vessel and method for the gasification of carbon-containing fuel, residual and waste materials using an oxygen-containing oxidizing agent and in a reaction chamber which is designed as an entrained-bed reactor, at pressures between ambient pressure and 80 bar, preferably between ambient pressure and 30 bar, the contour of the reaction chamber being delimited by a cooling system, and the pressure in the cooling system always being held at a higher level than the pressure in the reaction chamber, and the cooling system withstanding the maximum possible pressure difference with respect to the reaction chamber, which has been depressurized to atmospheric pressure, which reactor vessel is distinguished by the fact that cooling channels are formed by webs which are in contact both with a refractory protective layer and with the pressure shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Noell-KRC Energie-und Umwelttechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Schingnitz, Christian Reuther, Dietmar Degenkolb
  • Publication number: 20020157312
    Abstract: A reactor for the gasification of carbon-containing fuels, residues and waste by an oxygen-containing oxidizing agent in a reaction space designed as a fly stream reactor, at pressures of between ambient pressure and 80 bar, preferably between ambient pressure and 30 bar, the reaction space contour being delimited by a refractory lining within a pressure casing, wherein the temperature of the pressure casing can be regulated, the pressure casing having cooling ducts affixed to an outer surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2001
    Publication date: October 31, 2002
    Applicant: Noell-KRC Energie- und Umwelttechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Dietmar Adler, Jurgen Gorz, Dietmar Degenkolb, Manfred Schingnitz
  • Publication number: 20010020346
    Abstract: The invention relates to a reactor vessel and method for the gasification of carbon-containing fuel, residual and waste materials using an oxygen-containing oxidizing agent and in a reaction chamber which is designed as an entrained-bed reactor, at pressures between ambient pressure and 80 bar, preferably between ambient pressure and 30 bar, the contour of the reaction chamber being delimited by a cooling system, and the pressure in the cooling system always being held at a higher level than the pressure in the reaction chamber, and the cooling system withstanding the maximum possible pressure difference with respect to the reaction chamber, which has been depressurized to atmospheric pressure, which reactor vessel is distinguished by the fact that cooling channels are formed by webs which are in contact both with a refractory protective layer and with the pressure shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Publication date: September 13, 2001
    Applicant: Noell-KRC Energie-und Umwelttechink GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Schingnitz, Christian Reuther, Dietmar Degenkolb
  • Patent number: 5968212
    Abstract: A device for utilizing combustion, residual and waste materials containing carbon and ash by gasification with an oxygen-containing oxidizing agent at temperatures above the melting point of the inorganic parts in a reaction chamber and at a pressure between ambient pressure and 60 bar. The reaction chamber contour is formed in part by a refractory-grade lining and in part by a cooling system comprising cooling coils connected in a gas-tight manner. The coils are coated with a thin layer of a ceramic mass that conducts heat well on a side facing the reaction chamber. The cooling coils are operated, while being cooled by pressurized water, below or above the boiling point of the cooling water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Noell-KRC Energie-und Umwelttechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Peise, Manfred Schingnitz, Dietmar Degenkolb
  • Patent number: 4971550
    Abstract: A burner with an integrated electrical high-voltage igniter and a flame monitor for partly oxidizing gaseous fuels in reactors that are either pressurized or not. A fuel-gas channel communicates with a confusor which opens into an annual fuel-gas nozzle. The fuel-gas channel, furthermore, is surrounded by an annular oxygen channel. Water channels border the confusor and the annular fuel-gas nozzle. The annular fuel-gas nozzle, moreover, has the confusor, and annular nozzle with a reaction zone end, and a diffusor. This diffusor merges into the oxygen channel at an axially parallel radius of curvature. A high-voltage ignition cable extends through the fuel-gas channel and terminates in a metal electrode which is positioned so as to form a spark gap in a space between the tip of the electrode and a metal wall of the burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignees: Brennstoffinstitut Freiberg, Deutsche Babcock Weeke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Manfred Schingnitz, Wolfgang Seidel, Christian Reuther, Christian Riedel, Dietmar Degenkolb, Kurt Sterba