Patents Assigned to Borsig GmbH
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Patent number: 11226159Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a plurality of heat transfer tubes (3) and a centrally arranged bypass tube (4), which are held each between a tube plate (5) of a gas inlet chamber (7) and a tube plate (6) of a gas outlet chamber (8) that are connected to a cylindrical jacket. A coolant (11) is introduced into the jacket space (9) enclosing the tubes (3, 4). A control device (16), includes a throttle valve (18) and a drive (19), sets a gas outlet temperature range of the heat exchanger (1). A discharge rate and a discharged quantity of an uncooled process gas stream (14) from the bypass tube is controlled by the throttle valve, at an outlet end (17) of the bypass tube and is adjustable via the control device. The throttle valve is formed of a material resistant to high-temperature corrosion in a temperature range sensitive for high-temperature corrosion.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2016Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Borsig GmbHInventor: Jan Müggenburg
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Patent number: 10981134Abstract: A quenching system for a plant, operating a cracking furnace, works with liquid as well as gaseous starting materials. The quenching system includes a primary heat exchanger (PQE 10) and a secondary heat exchanger (SQE 11) and a tertiary heat exchanger. A TLX-D exchanger (TLX-D 26) is arranged and configured as the tertiary heat exchanger for dual operation. The TLX-D (26) is connected in series via a TLX-D gas feed line (24) to the SQE 11. The TLX-D (26) is connected to a steam drum (59), which is connected to a feed water line (49), via a TLX-D feed water drain line (34) and a TLX-D riser (46) and a TLX-D downcomer (38). The SQE 11 is connected to the steam drum (59), which is connected to the feed water line (49), via a TLX downcomer (52) and a TLX-riser (57).Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Borsig GmbHInventors: Sebastian Drus, Carsten Birk
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Patent number: 10744474Abstract: A quenching system for a plant, operating a cracking furnace, works with liquid as well as gaseous starting materials. The quenching system includes a primary heat exchanger (PQE 10) and a secondary heat exchanger (SQE 11) and a tertiary heat exchanger. A TLX-D exchanger (TLX-D 26) is arranged and configured as the tertiary heat exchanger for dual operation. The TLX-D (26) is connected in series via a TLX-D gas feed line (24) to the SQE 11. The TLX-D (26) is connected to a steam drum (59), which is connected to a feed water line (49), via a TLX-D feed water drain line (34) and a TLX-D riser (46) and a TLX-D downcomer (38). The SQE 11 is connected to the steam drum (59), which is connected to the feed water line (49), via a TLX downcomer (52) and a TLX-riser (57).Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: BORSIG GMBHInventors: Sebastian Drus, Carsten Birk
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Patent number: 10190829Abstract: A quench-cooling system has a primary quench cooler as a double-tube heat exchanger, a tube bundle heat exchanger as a secondary quench cooler. A tube bundle is enclosed by a casing, forming a casing room, which is formed between tube sheets arranged at spaced locations. Bundle tubes are held with the tube sheets. Parallel cooling channels, connected with one another, have a rectangular tunnel geometry formed (i) from the thin tube sheet, separating a gas side from a water/steam side and connected to a ring flange, which is connected to the casing of the enclosed tube bundle; (ii) from parallel webs, arranged on the tube sheet, separating individual water/steam flows from one another; and (iii) from a covering sheet, provided with openings for bundle tubes and defining the flow in the tunnel arrangement of the cooling channels.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2015Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: BORSIG GMBHInventor: Carsten Birk
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Patent number: 9074821Abstract: A heat exchanger for cooling reaction gas. A cooled tube receives hot reaction gas from a hot, uncooled tube. The cooled tube comprises a cooled inner tube and a tubular jacket that extends about the inner tube. A tubular connection is disposed between the uncooled and the cooled tubes, and includes a fork-shaped inlet head via which the inner tube is in communication with the uncooled tube. The inlet head is provided with an outer tubular section and an inner tubular section between which is disposed an intermediate space filled with heat-insulating material. The outer tubular section is connected to the tubular jacket. The inner tubular section is spaced slightly axially from the inner tube and is provided with an edge region that juts outwardly and is spaced slightly axially from the inner tube, this slight axial spacing being equal to or less than a maximum thermal expansion of the inlet head.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2010Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: BORSIG GMBHInventors: Carsten Birk, Michael Vogt, David Todd Eisenhawer
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Patent number: 7900969Abstract: Connector between a reaction pipe and a cooling pipe and method for connecting a reaction pipe to a cooling pipe. The cooling pipe is a double pipe having an inner pipe, disposed in the extension of the reaction pipe, and an outer pipe that surrounds the inner pipe to form an intermediate cooling space between them. A supply chamber is connected to the cooling space for supplying coolant thereto. A transition piece, connected to the reaction pipe, has a fork-shaped end portion composed of an inner portion and an outer portion with heat-insulating material between them. The outer portion is secured to the base of the supply chamber coaxially relative to the longitudinal axis of the cooling pipe. The supply chamber, transition piece and half shells form a prefabricated unit. An inner tube section is welded to, and extends out of, the supply chamber and is aligned with the inner portion of the transition piece.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2009Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Borsig GmbHInventor: Carsten Birk
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Publication number: 20100319888Abstract: A heat exchanger for cooling reaction gas. A cooled tube receives hot reaction gas from a hot, uncooled tube. The cooled tube comprises a cooled inner tube and a tubular jacket that extends about the inner tube. A tubular connection is disposed between the uncooled and the cooled tubes, and includes a fork-shaped inlet head via which the inner tube is in communication with the uncooled tube. The inlet head is provided with an outer tubular section and an inner tubular section between which is disposed an intermediate space filled with heat-insulating material. The outer tubular section is connected to the tubular jacket. The inner tubular section is spaced slightly axially from the inner tube and is provided with an edge region that juts outwardly and is spaced slightly axially from the inner tube, this slight axial spacing being equal to or less than a maximum thermal expansion of the inlet head.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: Borsig GmbHInventors: Carsten Birk, Michael Vogt, David Todd Eisenhawer
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Patent number: 7784433Abstract: A heat exchanger for cooling reaction gas, wherein the respective ends of heat exchanger tubes, through which the reaction gas flows, are inserted in a respective tube plate and are surrounded by a jacket, at the two ends of which are provided a respective end chamber that is partially delimited by one of the tube plates and serves for the supply and withdrawal of the reaction gas; water, as cooling agent, flows through the inner chamber of the heat exchanger that is surrounded by the jacket and that is divided by a partition, extending perpendicular to the heat exchanger tubes, which extend through it, into two partial chambers disposed one after the other in the direction of flow of the reaction gas, each partial chamber being provided with its own supply connectors and outlet connectors for the cooling agent; boiling water flows through the partial chamber that is disposed on the inlet side for reaction gas and that is connected via a supply line and withdrawal lines with a water/steam drum; feed water floType: GrantFiled: November 20, 2007Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: BORSIG GmbHInventor: Carsten Birk
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Patent number: 7237601Abstract: A heat exchanger for cooling a hot gas that contains solid particles, comprising heat exchanger tubes through which the hot gas flows, with the tubes being surrounded by a casing, and with ends of the tubes being welded, via weld seams, into bores of respective tube plates disposed at the ends of the casing. A protective layer coats the end face of the gas inlet side tube plate, an inner wall of the bores, the weld seams, and an inlet region of the heat exchanger tubes. The protective layer comprises a metallic adhesive layer, a high temperature and erosion resistant ceramic layer, and a high temperature and erosion resistant metal layer disposed between the adhesive layer and the ceramic layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2005Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Borsig GmbHInventors: Carsten Birk, Dieter Bormann
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Publication number: 20060131005Abstract: A heat exchanger for cooling a hot gas that contains solid particles, comprising heat exchanger tubes through which the hot gas flows, with the tubes being surrounded by a casing, and with ends of the tubes being welded, via weld seams, into bores of respective tube plates disposed at the ends of the casing. A protective layer coats the end face of the gas inlet side tube plate, an inner wall of the bores, the weld seams, and an inlet region of the heat exchanger tubes. The protective layer comprises a metallic adhesive layer, a high temperature and erosion resistant ceramic layer, and a high temperature and erosion resistant metal layer disposed between the adhesive layer and the ceramic layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2005Publication date: June 22, 2006Applicant: Borsig GmbHInventors: Carsten Birk, Dieter Bormann
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Patent number: 6976834Abstract: A pelletizing die includes a pelletizing die member with a die exit side exposed to cooling fluid and a die entry side for receiving polymer fed thereto. The die member has a plurality of polymer channels and a plurality of extrusion orifices connected to a respective one of the channels to form a extrusion orifice section. A heating medium system has additional heating medium conduits between channels and a supply and intermediate header for heating the channels (radially from each side) and providing once in and once out heating medium flow. The die member may be formed by high temperature brazing of components using coordinated solder (Ni based or gold-nickel) and component heat treatment temperature. A thin hard face coating may be provided on raised extrusion orifice ring faces around each extrusion orifice section.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2001Date of Patent: December 20, 2005Assignee: Borsig GmbHInventors: Clifton T. Knight, Judeth Brannon Corry, Jürgen Blum, Andreas Grundmann, Dieter Bormann, Andreas Forster
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Patent number: 6848639Abstract: A cutting blade includes a connection portion for connection to a cutting head for rotating the blade, preferably in association with other blades being rotated with the cutting head. The blade body also includes a blade body portion with a leading edge with a cutting blade portion and an upper leading surface and lower leading surface extending from the leading edge to an upper transition zone and lower transition zone respectively. A upper trailing surface extends from the upper transition zone to a trailing edge and a lower trailing surface extends from the lower transition zone to the trailing edge. The upper and lower trailing surfaces converge such that the blade body portion is hydrodynamically shaped. According to a further embodiment, the cutting blade has a sickle shape.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2002Date of Patent: February 1, 2005Assignee: Borsig GmbHInventors: Judeth Brannon Corry, Cliff Knight
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Patent number: 6435139Abstract: A waste heat boiler for cooling hot syngas in heat exchange with water under boiling pressure, consists of an outer pressure shell (1) having a water space (2) filled with boiling water up to a predetermined fluid level (4) and a steam space (3) above it. In the water space (2), heat exchanger tubes (5) are arranged, through which the syngas to be cooled flows. Downstream from the heat exchanger tubes (5) is a superheater for superheating the saturated steam generated by the boiling water. This superheater is positioned at least partially in the steam space (3) above the fluid level (4) and has straight tubes (7), through which the syngas coming from the heat exchanger tubes (5) flows and around which the steam exiting from the water space (2) circulates.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2001Date of Patent: August 20, 2002Assignee: Borsig GmbHInventor: Peter Brucher
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Patent number: 6202740Abstract: A heat exchanger with a connection that connects an uncooled pipe to several cooled pipes. The connection (3) has a cylindrical intake section that communicates with the uncooled pipe (2) and merges into an outward-tapering terminating section (9. The terminating section encloses several gas-conveying channels. Each gas-conveying channel extends out of the intake section coaxial to one of the cooled pipes (4). The gas-conveying channels (10) branch out in the shape of a star from the connection's intake section (8). The cooled pipes are inserted into a base (6) and arrayed along a segment of a circle. The gas-conveying channels are arrayed along the same segment.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 1999Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: Borsig GmbHInventors: Peter Brücher, David J. Brown, John R. Brewer
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Patent number: 6148908Abstract: A heat exchanger (2) for cooling a hot process gas produced in a process gas generator (1) or a reactor is equipped with several cooling tubes (11), each of which is surrounded by an outer tube (12). Each cooling tube (11) and each outer tube (12) is welded at both ends to one water chamber (13, 14) each for feeding and draining of a cooling medium. The water chamber (13, 14) consists of a solid, strip-shaped piece into which, depending on the number of cooling tubes (11), circular wells (15) are introduced at a certain distance from one another. Each well (15) surrounds a cooling tube (11) and has a diameter equal to or larger than the inside diameter of the outer tube (12). The well (15) has a thin circular floor (16) of slight residual thickness in the area of the tube ends of the cooling tubes (11). A horizontal transfer line (4) carrying the hot process gas is connected to the the process gas generator (1).Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 1999Date of Patent: November 21, 2000Assignee: Borsig GmbHInventor: Peter Brucher
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Patent number: 5035283Abstract: A nested-tube heat exchanger with tubes (1) secured at each end in tube plates (3 & 4) for transferring heat between a hot gas that flows through the tubes (1) and a liquid or vaporous contact that flows around the pipes. The tube plates are secured to a jacket (2) that surrounds the nest of tubes. One of the tube plates has parallel cooling channels (7) in the half that faces away from the jacket with coolant flowing through the cooling channels. The tube plate has bores (15) that open into the jacket, communicate with the cooling channels, and concentrically surround the tubes. The tube plate that has the cooling channels is at the gas-intake end of the heat exchanger. The tubes in each row extend through cooling channels. The base (12) of the cooling channels on the side that is impacted by the gas is uniformly thick.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 1989Date of Patent: July 30, 1991Assignee: Borsig GmbHInventors: Peter Brucher, Helmut Lachmann
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Patent number: 5031692Abstract: A heat exchanger for cooling cracked gas has a nest of heat-exchange tubes (1) that the gas flows through and that are secured at the ends in bases (2 and 3) and surrounded by a jacket (4) that demarcates in conjunction with the bases a chamber occupied by evaporating water. Each heat-exchange tube has two sections (10 and 11) that differ in diameter and communicate through a cone (12). The section (11) with the longest diameter is at the emerging-gas end of the heat-exchange tube.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 1990Date of Patent: July 16, 1991Assignee: Borsig GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Kehrer, Thomas Schreck
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Patent number: 5029637Abstract: A heat exchanger, especially for cooling cracked gas, with a nest of tubes secured between two tube plates (2) and with two terminal chambers (4) adjacent to the tube plates and tapering toward a connector (5). The intake-end chamber accommodates inserts. The inserts consist of rods bent into round or polygonal, concentrically positioned rings (7). The rings are positioned away from the tube plate in alignment with the intake-end connector in an area that essentially equals the connector's cross-section.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 1989Date of Patent: July 9, 1991Assignee: Borsig GmbHInventors: Peter Brucher, Wolfgang Kehrer
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Patent number: 4997211Abstract: The end of the uncooled pipe (1) is forked in cross-section, creating an inner and an outer section (5 and 6). The outer section is secure to a cooled pipe (2) and the inner section extends into the cooled pipe with radial and axial play. The annular gap (13) between the inner and outer sections is occupied by a heat-insulating material.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1990Date of Patent: March 5, 1991Assignee: Borsig GmbHInventor: Peter Brucher
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Patent number: 4993367Abstract: A heat exchanger with a sheaf of heat-exchanging pipes, with a chamber beyond each end of the sheaf, and with an ancillary-flow pipe extending approximately axially through the exchanger and parallel to the heat-exchanging pipes with its upstream and communicating with the entry chamber and its downstream and communicating with a mixing chamber by way of cylinder that has a larger cross-section than the ancillary-flow pipe. A structure for maintaining the medium flowing through the exchanger at a prescribed exit temperature is positioned at the downstream and of the ancilliary-flow pipe.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 1989Date of Patent: February 19, 1991Assignee: Borsig GmbHInventor: Wolfgang Kehrer