Patents by Inventor Werner Heimberger

Werner Heimberger 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: 4434148
    Abstract: The residual gases obtained in the production of cyanuric chloride having a pressure of 1-5 bar (absolute) preferably 1-4 bar, are worked up by leading them into the lower portion of a column, reacted in the column with at least the equivalent amount of hydrogen cyanide to form cyanogen chloride and led in countercurrent flow to the water charged to the upper portion of the column whereupon the aqueous solution of cyanogen chloride formed is withdrawn from the lower portion of the column and preferably is returned into the production portion of the plant for recovery of the cyanogen chloride while the purified waste gas of the column leaves in the upper portion of the column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1984
    Assignee: Degussa Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerhard Bach, Friedhelm Geiger, Werner Heimberger, Gerd Schreyer, Horst Hillenbrand
  • Patent number: 4328010
    Abstract: To obtain a cyanogen chloride which is practically free from water and preferably also free from hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen chloride and organic compounds, the crude cyanogen chloride is fractionally distilled. The return is led in countercurrent flow to the crude gas, thereby takes up the impurities and is further evaporated in the lower portion of the column, respectively in a special apparatus, by a liquid whose temperature is higher than the boiling temperature of cyanogen chloride. Thereby this liquid also takes up the impurities. The purification action is aided by a wash for the crude cyanogen chloride connected in series before it enters the fractionating column. It is very advantageous to combine the process with a plant for the production of cyanogen chloride.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1982
    Assignee: Degussa Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Friedrich Bittner, Werner Heimberger, Kurt Henkel, Norbert Kriebitzsch, Martin Petzold, Kurt Puschner
  • Patent number: 4137166
    Abstract: There is provided a process for the purification of ammonia or ammonium salt containing waste waters using alkali metal or alkaline earth metal hypochlorites comprising adjusting the waste water to an initial pH of 8-10.5 with an alkaline material and then treating the waste water with an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal hypochlorite in an amount practically equivalent to the ammonia or ammonium salt, in a given case while lowering the pH during the evolution of nitrogen by additional neutralization of this pH to about 6-8 whereupon only after the end of the evolution of nitrogen the pH of the waste water, if it deviates from 7, is adjusted to the neutral region in known manner. The initial pH is preferably adjusted with the help of an alkali or alkaline earth hydroxide, most preferably it is adjusted to a pH of 8-9 with the help of a buffer salt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1979
    Assignee: Deutsche Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt vormals Roessler
    Inventors: Werner Heimberger, Hermann Schmitt
  • Patent number: 4046862
    Abstract: Cyanogen chloride or cyanogen bromide is prepared by reaction of hydrogen cyanide with hydrogen chloride or hydrochloric acid (or hydrogen bromide or hydrobromic acid) and hydrogen peroxide in aqueous medium in the presence of cupric and ferric ions under superatmospheric pressure, preferably between 1.5 and 16 bar, and the cyanogen chloride (or cyanogen bromide) recovered separated from oxygen and nitrogen. In a preferred form of the invention, the hydrogen chloride or hydrochloric acid is either partially or entirely formed directly in the recycling catalyst solution of cupric and ferric ions by reaction of chlorine and hydrogen cyanide, either with or without pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1977
    Assignee: Deutsche Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt vormals Roessler
    Inventors: Werner Heimberger, Gerd Schreyer
  • Patent number: 4038276
    Abstract: Finely divided solid cyanuric chloride is produced by feeding a jet of liquid cyanuric chloride into a separatory container, cooling the liquid cyanuric chloride with recycling inert gases to such an extent that the cyanuric chloride is separated in crystalline form, washing the thereby warmed cyanuric chloride vapor or dust containing gases free of cyanuric chloride in countercurrent flow with an inert liquid that is a good solvent for cyanuric chloride in a washing column connected to the outlet side of the separatory column, thus simultaneously cooling the gases, and subsequently again returning the gases to the separatory container, while the temperature of the cyanuric chloride containing washing liquid which has increased in the washing process is again brought to the original temperature by leading it in the cycle over a heat exchanger and spraying the inside of the pipe connected to the separatory container and leading to the washing column constantly with the washing liquid while dividing a partial s
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1977
    Assignee: Deutsche Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt vormals Roessler
    Inventors: Friedhelm Geiger, Werner Heimberger, Theodor Lussling
  • Patent number: 4003983
    Abstract: Cyanogen is prepared by passing hydrogen cyanide together with hydrogen peroxide into a solution of copper(II) bromide, chloride, cyanide, nitrate, or sulfate containing ferric ions that is maintained at a temperature between 0.degree. and 100.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1975
    Date of Patent: January 18, 1977
    Assignee: Deutsche Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt vormals Roessler
    Inventors: Johannes Heilos, Werner Heimberger, Theodor Lussling, Wolfgang Weigert
  • Patent number: 3961023
    Abstract: Cyanogen chloride and hydrogen chloride are produced by reacting hydrogen cyanide and chlorine, separating from the gaseous mixture on the one hand hydrogen chloride and on the other hand cyanogen chloride which in a given case can also contain chlorine, by absorption in a halohydrocarbon which has a boiling point between that of cyanogen chloride and cyanuric chloride and after distillative separation of the dissolved cyanogen chloride-chlorine mixture returning the solvent to the absorption column, the process includesA. adding as the solvent for the absorption a trifluoromethyl substituted aromatic hydrocarbon or halohydrocarbon or a mixture of such trifluoromethyl substituted aromatic hydrocarbons or halohydrocarbons,B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1975
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1976
    Assignee: Deutsche Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt vormals Roessler
    Inventors: Friedhelm Geiger, Werner Heimberger, Gerd Schreyer, Wolfgang Weigert
  • Patent number: 3957950
    Abstract: Side reactions in the use of gaseous chlorine are avoided by leading the chlorine containing at least 0.0001% of non-volatile compounds such as ferric chloride over silica gel, glass wool, pumice or montmorillonite. Preferably the thus treated chlorine is passed through hexachlorobutadiene or perfluorokerosene in a second absorption step. Ferric chloride can also be removed from the chlorine gas by treating with sulfuric acid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1973
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1976
    Inventors: Friedhelm Geiger, Werner Heimberger, Gerd Schreyer
  • Patent number: 3949060
    Abstract: Cyanogen chloride is purified and the service life of activated carbon is increased in the subsequent trimerization of the cyanogen chloride to cyanuric chloride by process comprising reacting hydrogen cyanide with chlorine, in a given case in the presence of cyanogen chloride produced in the presence of water, which in a given case contains chlorine. The improvement comprises passing the cyanogen chloride over granular gamma aluminum oxide with an alkali metal or in a given case an alkaline earth metal content of 0 to 3 weight % at 20.degree.-100.degree.C., preferably 30.degree.-60.degree.C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1974
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1976
    Assignee: Deutsche Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt vormals Roessler
    Inventors: Friedhelm Geiger, Werner Heimberger, Hermann Schmitt, Gerd Schreyer
  • Patent number: 3947552
    Abstract: Cyanogen chloride is purified and the service life of activated carbon is increased in the subsequent trimerization of the cyanogen chloride to cyanuric chloride by process comprising reacting hydrogen cyanide with chlorine, in a given case in the presence of cyanogen chloride produced in the presence of water, which in a given case contains chlorine. The improvement comprises passing the cyanogen chloride over granular commercial sodium aluminum silicate or a molecular sieve of the mordenite type, at 20.degree.-100.degree.C., preferably 30.degree.-60.degree.C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1976
    Assignee: Deutsche Gold- und Silber-Scheideanstalt vormals Roessler
    Inventors: Friedhelm Geiger, Werner Heimberger, Gerd Schreyer