Patents by Inventor Eberhard Wittchow

Eberhard Wittchow 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: 7428374
    Abstract: Disclosed is a steam generator in which a continuous evaporating heating area is disposed within a heating gas duct that is penetrated in a nearly horizontal direction by a heating gas. Said continuous evaporating heating area comprises a number of steam-generating pipes that are connected in parallel and are penetrated by a flowing medium and is configured such that a steam-generating pipe which is heated more than another steam-generating pipe of the same continuous evaporating heating area has a higher throughput of the flowing medium than said other steam-generating pipe. The aim of the invention is to create a steam generator which provides a particularly high degree of stability of flow during operation of the continuous evaporating heating area while keeping the structural complexity and design comparatively simple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joachim Franke, Rudolf Kral, Eberhard Wittchow
  • Patent number: 7116899
    Abstract: The invention relates to a steam generator in which the continuous heating panel of an evaporator is arranged in a heating gas channel which can be cross-flown in a more or less horizontal direction of a heating gas. Said continuous heating panel of the evaporator comprises a plurality of pipes of a steam generator which are connected in parallel to each other. Said pipes are constructed in such a way that they cross a flow medium and are provided with the part of a more or less vertical down pipe which can be cross-flown by the flow medium in a downward direction and with the part of a rising pipe connected downstream with respect to the down pipe on the side of the flow medium and which is more or less vertical and can be cross-flown by the flow medium in an upward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joachim Franke, Rudolf Kral, Eberhard Wittchow
  • Publication number: 20060081359
    Abstract: The invention relates to a steam generator in which the continuous heating panel of an evaporator is arranged in a heating gas channel which can be cross-flown in a more or less horizontal direction of a heating gas. Said continuous heating panel of the evaporator comprises a plurality of pipes of a steam generator which are connected in parallel to each other. Said pipes are constructed in such a way that they cross a flow medium and are provided with the part of a more or less vertical down pipe which can be cross-flown by the flow medium in a downward direction and with the part of a rising pipe connected downstream with respect to the down pipe on the side of the flow medium and which is more or less vertical and can be cross-flown by the flow medium in an upward direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Publication date: April 20, 2006
    Inventors: Joachim Franke, Rudolf Kral, Eberhard Wittchow
  • Publication number: 20050257753
    Abstract: Disclosed is a steam generator in which a continuous evaporating heating area is disposed within a heating gas duct that is penetrated in a nearly horizontal direction by a heating gas. Said continuous evaporating heating area comprises a number of steam-generating pipes that are connected in parallel and are penetrated by a flowing medium and is configured such that a steam-generating pipe which is heated more than another steam-generating pipe of the same continuous evaporating heating area has a higher throughput of the flowing medium than said other steam-generating pipe. The aim of the invention is to create a steam generator which provides a particularly high degree of stability of flow during operation of the continuous evaporating heating area while keeping the structural complexity and design comparatively simple.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Publication date: November 24, 2005
    Inventors: Joachim Franke, Rudolf Kral, Eberhard Wittchow
  • Patent number: 6715450
    Abstract: A continuous-flow steam generator includes a combustion chamber with evaporator tubes for fossil fuel. The combustion chamber is followed on the fuel-gas side, via a horizontal gas flue, by a vertical gas flue. When the continuous-flow steam generator is in operation, temperature differences between the exit region of the combustion chamber and the entry region of the horizontal gas flue are to be particularly low. For this purpose, of a plurality of evaporator tubes capable of being acted upon in parallel by a flow medium, a number of the evaporator tubes are led through the combustion chamber before their entry into the containment wall of said combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Eberhard Wittchow
  • Patent number: 6651596
    Abstract: A continuous flow steam generator with a double-flue construction has a vertical gas flue with an ascending conduction of fuel gas. The combustion chamber rear wall is inclined inwards and towards the combustion chamber in an upper part region and thereby forms, with the bottom of an adjoining horizontal gas flue, a nose which projects into the combustion chamber. Some steam generator tubes of the lower part region of the combustion chamber rear wall are led upwards, uninclined, as supports for the combustion chamber rear wall, as far as a supporting structure located outside the conduction of the fuel gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Eberhard Wittchow
  • Patent number: 6481386
    Abstract: A continuous-flow steam generator includes a combustion chamber with evaporator tubes for fossil fuel. The combustion chamber is followed on the fuel-gas side by a vertical gas flue through a horizontal gas flue. When the continuous-flow steam generator is in operation, temperature differences in a connecting portion, which includes an outlet region of the combustion chamber and an inlet region of the horizontal gas flue, are to be kept particularly low. For such a purpose, of a plurality of evaporator tubes capable of being acted upon in parallel by flow medium, a number of evaporator tubes are guided in the form of a loop in the connecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengellschaft
    Inventor: Eberhard Wittchow
  • Patent number: 6446580
    Abstract: The fossil fuel fired continuous-flow steam generator has a gas turbine combustion chamber for fossil combustibles. On the heating gas side a vertical gas extractor is mounted downstream of a horizontal gas extractor. The walls surrounding the combustion chamber are composed of vertical evaporator tubes that are welded together. During operation the temperature differences between adjacent evaporator tubes of the combustion chamber are kept as low as possible. The burners are arranged at the level of the horizontal gas extractor. For a number of evaporator tubes which can be simultaneously impinged by the flow medium the ratio of the steam generating capacity M (in kg/s) at full load and of the sum A (in m2) of the inner cross-sectional surfaces of the same evaporator tubes is less than 1350 (in kg/sm2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joachim Franke, Rudolf Kral, Eberhard Wittchow
  • Patent number: 6408800
    Abstract: A separator separates water and steam. The separator has a steam-side outlet conduit, a water-side outlet conduit, and a separating chamber between a number of inlet conduits. A swirl breaker is upstream of the water-side outlet conduit. To achieve the lowest possible pressure loss with a simultaneously high medium throughput and an effective separating action, the length of the separating chamber is at least 5 times the internal diameter (DI) of the chamber. Furthermore, the ratio of the overall flow cross section of the inlet conduits to the square of the internal diameter of the separating chamber is between 0.2 and 0.3. Within a water/steam separating apparatus, the separator is connected to a water-collecting tank such that the top end of the latter is located beneath halfway along the length of the separator—calculated from the water-side, bottom end of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Holger Schmidt, Eberhard Wittchow
  • Publication number: 20020017251
    Abstract: A continuous-flow steam generator includes a combustion chamber with evaporator tubes for fossil fuel. The combustion chamber is followed on the fuel-gas side by a vertical gas flue through a horizontal gas flue. When the continuous-flow steam generator is in operation, temperature differences in a connecting portion, which includes an outlet region of the combustion chamber and an inlet region of the horizontal gas flue, are to be kept particularly low. For such a purpose, of a plurality of evaporator tubes capable of being acted upon in parallel by flow medium, a number of evaporator tubes are guided in the form of a loop in the connecting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2001
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Inventor: Eberhard Wittchow
  • Publication number: 20020000208
    Abstract: The fossil fuel fired continuous-flow steam generator has a gas turbine combustion chamber for fossil combustibles. On the heating gas side a vertical gas extractor is mounted downstream of a horizontal gas extractor. The walls surrounding the combustion chamber are composed of vertical evaporator tubes that are welded together. During operation the temperature differences between adjacent evaporator tubes of the combustion chamber are kept as low as possible. The burners are arranged at the level of the horizontal gas extractor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2001
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Inventors: Joachim Franke, Rudolf Kral, Eberhard Wittchow
  • Patent number: 6301895
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to ensure a fast, economical and reliable power regulation of a steam generating power plant (1) having a turbo set that comprises a steam turbine (2) and a generator (6) and during the operation of which water (W) is injected into or upstream of an overheater heating surface According to the disclosed fast power regulating process of the steam generating power plant (1), the injection rate of water (W) is increased to adjust an additional generator output. In a steam generating power plant (1) which is particularly suitable for carrying out the process, an overheater heating surface, of a steam generator (28) is provided with a water injector (70, 71) connected to a regulating component (82) for regulating the injection rate of water (W) into the overheater heating surface. The regulating component (82) supplies a regulating signal to the water injector, (70, 72), depending on the required additional generator output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Günter Kallina, Rudolf Kral, Eberhard Wittchow
  • Patent number: 6302194
    Abstract: A pipe includes a pipe wall having an inner wall surface. Ribs are disposed on the inner wall surface forming a multiple thread. The ribs define a mean inside pipe diameter and the ribs have a lead which is equal to between 0.6 and 0.9 times the square root of the mean inside pipe diameter. Such pipes may be used in a fossil-fuel steam generator, a solar-heated steam generator, or a heated steam generator serving as a waste-heat steam generator, a heat exchanger or a steam generator for absorbing after-heat in a nuclear power plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kastner, Wolfgang Köhler, Eberhard Wittchow
  • Publication number: 20010018897
    Abstract: A separator separates water and steam. The separator has a steam-side outlet conduit, a water-side outlet conduit, and a separating chamber between a number of inlet conduits. A swirl breaker is upstream of the water-side outlet conduit. To achieve the lowest possible pressure loss with a simultaneously high medium throughput and an effective separating action, the length of the separating chamber is at least 5 times the internal diameter (DI) of the chamber. Furthermore, the ratio of the overall flow cross section of the inlet conduits to the square of the internal diameter of the separating chamber is between 0.2 and 0.3. Within a water/steam separating apparatus, the separator is connected to a water-collecting tank such that the top end of the latter is located beneath halfway along the length of the separator—calculated from the water-side, bottom end of the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2001
    Publication date: September 6, 2001
    Inventors: Holger Schmidt, Eberhard Wittchow
  • Patent number: 6250257
    Abstract: A once-through steam generator having a combustion chamber. A containing wall of the combustion chamber is formed from vertically disposed evaporator tubes welded to one another in a gas-tight manner. The combustion chamber is to be capable of being used safely and reliably in a pressure range of between about 200 bar and 221 bar, while, moreover, a particularly high efficiency is to be achieved. For this purpose, according to the invention, a mass flow density m of a flow medium has the following relationship m=200+8.42 ·1012·q3[d/(d−2s)]s2·Tmax−5 in the evaporator tubes. In this case, q is the heat flow density acting on the evaporator tubes, Tmax is an admissible maximum temperature characteristic of the tube material, d is the outside diameter of the evaporator tubes and s is the wall thickness of the evaporator tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kastner, Wolfgang Köhler, Eberhard Wittchow
  • Patent number: 6192837
    Abstract: In a once-though steam generator having a double-flue configuration, a first gas flue is followed on the fuel-gas side, by way of a horizontal gas flue, by a second gas flue. In a once-through steam generator of this type, which is to have a particularly long lifetime even in the case of frequent start-up operations, according to the invention a number of steam generator tubes, connected in parallel for a flow medium to flow through them, are connected to one another to form an evaporator heating surface which is part of a containing wall of the first gas flue. The steam generator tubes which form the evaporator heating surface opening on an exit into an outlet header which is common to them and is disposed at a lower height in comparison with the bottom edge of the horizontal gas flue and which is followed, on the flow-medium side, by a bulkhead heating surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Eberhard Wittchow
  • Patent number: 6189491
    Abstract: A steam generator which is both suitable for a horizontal mode of construction and offers the advantages of a continuous steam generator. According to the invention, a steam generator has at least one continuous heating surface disposed in a duct where hot gas circulates in a substantially horizontal direction. The heating surface consists of a plurality of parallel and almost vertical pipes which are used to circulate a fluid, and is configured in such a way that the fluid circulating in a tube heated to a greater temperature than the following tube of the same continuous heating surface has a higher flow rate than the fluid circulating in the following tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Eberhard Wittchow, Joachim Franke, Rudolf Kral
  • Patent number: 6125634
    Abstract: A method for operating a power plant includes generating flue gas in a furnace of a fossil-fueled steam generator and generating steam for a steam turbine from heat contained in the flue gas. The steam is superheated prior to entry into the steam turbine and after partial expansion in the steam turbine. Feedwater is preheated exclusively outside the steam generator. The preheated feedwater is evaporated at high pressure. Nitrogen is removed from the hot flue gas directly following heat exchange of the flue gas with the partially expanded steam. A power plant includes a fossil-fueled steam generator having a combustion chamber wall being constructed as an evaporator heating surface, a number of tubes of the evaporator heating surface being gas-tightly joined together and having inlet ends, an inlet collector communicating with the inlet ends of the tubes, and an intermediate superheater. A deNO.sub.x device is disposed directly downstream of the intermediate superheater in flow direction of flue gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Eberhard Wittchow
  • Patent number: 6044804
    Abstract: A method for monitoring a feed-water supply to a continuous-flow or once-through steam generator, wherein steam temperature of evaporated feedwater is employed for determining a feedwater supply rate in the method, includes indicating an actual value of the steam temperature jointly with a setpoint value thereof obtained from operationally induced parameters, and a device for performing the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joachim Franke, Eberhard Wittchow
  • Patent number: 5979369
    Abstract: A once-through steam generator includes a gas flue formed of steam generator tubes welded to one another in a gas-tight manner through fins. The steam generator tubes are connected in parallel for the throughflow of a flow medium, they have a surface structure on their inside for generating a high flow turbulence in the medium flowing through them and they are disposed approximately in a spiral coil in a firing region of the gas flue. The steam generator tubes are constructed in such a way that, when they are in operation, the geodetic pressure loss of the medium flowing through them is at least 0.5 times their pressure loss due to friction. This ensures that such a once-through steam generator can also be operated in low load states of, for example, about 20% of the design load, without excessive thermal stresses occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Seimens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Eberhard Wittchow, Rudolf Kral