Abstract: Arrangement comprising a sealing element and a heat exchanger, in an air channel, wherein the heat exchanger has a plurality of pipes which carry a first fluid and are defined in their end regions by collection vessels and can have a second fluid flowing around them. The arrangement is characterized in that the air channel has a first guide groove on an inner surface, which guide groove is formed by a first web and a second web, and a second guide groove which is formed by a third web and a fourth web, the third web and the fourth web being disposed between the first web and the second web and the sealing element enveloping the heat exchanger along the collecting vessels and its short sides.

Abstract: A system for utilizing waste heat of an internal combustion engine via the Clausius-Rankine cycle process is provided that includes a circuit with lines containing a working medium, an evaporator heat exchanger which serves for evaporating the liquid working medium using waste heat of the internal combustion engine and which has an inlet opening for conducting the working medium into a flow duct and an outlet opening for conducting the working medium out of the flow duct, and the flow duct is divided into a plurality of flow duct parts connected hydraulically in parallel, an expansion machine, a condenser for liquefying the vaporous working medium, a collecting and compensating vessel for the liquid working medium, it is sought to be able to change the working medium substantially completely from a liquid state of aggregation to a gaseous state of aggregation at an evaporator heat exchanger.

Abstract: The instant invention provides a method to reduce adverse events caused by a pharmaceutical preparation derived from a plasma fraction said plasma fraction comprising antithrombin III wherein the method comprises contacting the plasma fraction with heparin or a heparin-like substance thereby reducing the activity of at least one activated serine protease per ml of the plasma fraction.

Abstract: The invention relates to an electrically operable heating device through which liquid flows, comprising a housing. The heating device comprises an electrically operable heating apparatus and a liquid chamber for accommodating a heat-transferring liquid. The liquid chamber has a plurality of plate pairs comprising plates connected to each other at specified distances from each other, whereby liquid flow channels can be created between the plate pairs. The electrically operable heating apparatus is designed as a heating combination having a plurality of heating elements, wherein the heating combination can be arranged between the liquid chambers by inserting the heating units into the accommodating spaces produced between the plate pairs.

Abstract: The invention relates to a radial blower for delivering an air flow, having a drive motor, having a motor holder and having a fan impeller which has a hub bell at least partially overlapping the drive motor, wherein the fan impeller can be driven by the drive motor via an axially running shaft, wherein a surface, which faces toward the fan impeller, of the motor holder has flow-manipulating elements.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for an exchange of heat between a first fluid and a second fluid includes a block including: a plurality of flow ducts configured to be traversed by the first fluid, and a housing that holds the flow ducts and is configured to be traversed by the second fluid; a base connected to the block, the base including one or more passage openings for the flow ducts, the base comprising a first base part and a second base part; and at least one casing cover that is in fluid-communication with the flow ducts and that is attached to the base.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat exchanger for controlling the temperature of a first fluid using a second fluid, wherein the heat exchanger has a base for separating the first fluid from the second fluid, said base having a sealing region. Furthermore, the heat exchanger has a partition for separating the first fluid from the second fluid, wherein the at least one partition is connected in a fluid-tight manner to the base, wherein the at least one partition forms a fluid duct for the first fluid. Furthermore, the heat exchanger has a housing. In the sealing region between the base and the housing, there is arranged a sealing element which is pressed in a fluid-tight manner against the base and against the housing.

Abstract: The invention relates to a stacked plate heat exchanger, comprising a plurality of elongate plates which are stacked on one another and connected to one another and which have a corrugated profile, which plates have a cavity for leading through a medium to be cooled in the longitudinal direction of the plates and define a further cavity for leading through a coolant, wherein leadthrough openings for supplying or discharging the medium to be cooled or the coolant are formed approximately in the end regions of each elongate plate and each elongate plate is surrounded by a bent-off edge, wherein an nth corrugation of the corrugated profile of each plate is drawn close to the edge, preferably into the edge, whereas the other corrugations of the corrugated profile of the plate terminate before the edge, where n=2, 3, 4 etc.

Abstract: The invention relates to an air conditioning system for heating and air conditioning a motor vehicle, comprising a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger, the air conditioning system having a first flow channel and a second flow channel and flow being able to pass around both heat exchangers along the second flow channel and around only the first heat exchanger along the first flow channel, a flow guidance element in the form of a wall section, by which a fluid flow can be influenced in a region between the heat exchangers, being arranged on the second heat exchanger.

Abstract: A heat exchanger, in particular a heat exchanger of a motor vehicle, having cooling pipes and having collecting tanks, in which heat exchanger the cooling pipes extend between the collecting tanks, in which heat exchanger the cooling pipes and the collecting tanks are spatially connected to one another, in which heat exchanger the cooling pipes are produced from a strip material with at least one cooling pipe seam, in which heat exchanger the at least one cooling pipe seam forms an inner partition of the cooling pipe, and in which heat exchanger the cooling pipes have an external solder plating on the pipe outer side and the cooling pipes have more than one coating on the pipe inner side, wherein one of the coatings on the pipe inner side is arranged only partially in the region of the at least one cooling pipe seam, as a result of which particularly high demands with regard to a multi-coating layered construction of cooling pipes of the heat exchanger can be met in a cost-effective manner.

Abstract: The invention relates to compositions comprising an isolated sugar for use in the treatment of von Willebrand disease and/or hemophilia A, wherein the sugar is an accessible sugar residue derived from ABO(H) blood group antigen.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement of a charge air cooler in an intake pipe, wherein the charge air cooler has a cooler block through which charge air can flow and the charge air cooler can be inserted into the intake pipe through a first opening in said intake pipe, wherein the cooler block has at least one first outer wall and at least one second outer wall, which outer walls run along the main direction of extent of the cooler block and bound the region of the cooler block through which charge air can flow, wherein the intake pipe surrounds, on three sides, that part of the charge air cooler which can be inserted, so that charge air can flow through the cooler block of the charge air cooler within the intake pipe.

Abstract: A cooling device for a battery system may include at least two battery units. The cooling device may include at least a first and a second cooling plate able to be flowed through respectively by a coolant. The first and second cooling plate may be arranged respectively for thermal coupling with a respective battery unit. The first and second cooling plate each may include a first fluid inlet, which is connected fluidically with a first fluid outlet via a first fluid duct extending along an extent direction, and a second fluid inlet, which is connected fluidically with a second fluid outlet via a second fluid duct extending along the extent direction.

Abstract: A heat exchanger having at least one collecting tank which extends in a longitudinal direction and which comprises a plate and a cover, wherein the plate has, at least one of its edge regions running in the longitudinal direction, a rim by means of which the plate engages at the outside over an edge region, which runs in the longitudinal direction, of the cover, or wherein the cover has, at least one of its edge regions running in the longitudinal direction, a rim by means of which the cover engages at the outside over an edge region, which runs in the longitudinal direction, of the plate. The respective rim have, in the longitudinal direction, a multiplicity of calked portions by means of which said rim, in the region of each individual calked portion, is deformed in the plate and the cover to one another.

Abstract: A cooling circuit, in particular of a motor is provided that includes a drive unit with a cooling circuit, through which coolant heated in the drive unit flows, a first heat exchanger which emits heat from the coolant to the environment and a device for energy recovery with a second heat exchanger, which is switched into the cooling circuit. A line section of the cooling circuit is connectable in parallel to the second heat exchanger that includes a hydraulic element, which guides a defined coolant flow to the second heat exchanger.

Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger, such as in particular an exhaust-gas evaporator, having a housing with a fluid inlet, and with a fluid outlet for a first medium, such as in particular exhaust gas, and having tubes which are arranged in the housing transversely with respect to the flow direction of the first fluid and through which a second medium can flow and which, by way of their ends at the inlet side and at the outlet side are arranged and connected in a fluid tight manner in a tube plate, wherein, to the respective tube plate, there is connected in each case one structure by means of which groups of tubes are connected to one another in such a way that an outlet of at east one tube is fluidically connected to an inlet of at least one other tube.

Abstract: Arrangement of an intercooler in an intake pipe, wherein the intercooler has a cooler block through which charge air can flow and a first opening through the intake pipe, through which the intercooler can be inserted into the intake pipe, wherein the intake pipe has a second opening, which is arranged substantially opposite the first opening and can be closed by means of a housing part.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat exchanger, especially an exhaust gas heat exchanger, comprising a housing (101, 201, 301, 401, 501, 601, 702, 801, 901, 1101, 1401, 1501, 1901, 2001, 2101, 2201) which can be penetrated by at least one first medium (M1) and at least one second medium (M2), and at least one sealing element (213, 607, 707, 906, 1006, 1011, 1411, 1506, 2205). At least one flow means (217, 1507, 1507a, 1508, 1904, 2005, 2105, 2206, 2206a, 2206b), around which the second medium flows, is provided inside the housing, said flow means improving heat transfer from the first medium to the second medium.

Abstract: This invention relates to protein separation and purification methods for both alpha-1-antitrypsin (AAT, also known as alpha-1 proteinase inhibitor, API, and A.sub.1-PI) and Apolipoprotein A-I (ApoA-1) from, for example, a fraction of human blood plasma. In certain embodiments, the invention provides methods for separating AAT from ApoA-1 at the initial stage of purification, so that the same starting material can be used as a source for both proteins. The methods further pertain to providing compositions of AAT and of ApoA-1 suitable for pharmaceutical use and are suitable for large-scale purification.

Abstract: The invention concerns a thermoelectric module with multiple thermoelectric elements, which are arranged spaced apart from one another, two thermoelectric elements being respectively electrically connected by means of a conductor bridge, an electrical insulation being arranged at least in certain portions on a side of the conductor bridge that is facing away from the thermoelectric element and/or on a side of the conductor bridge that is facing the thermoelectric element, the electrical insulation being arranged on the surface of the conductor bridge, the electrical insulation and the conductor bridge being thermomechanically decoupled.