Patents Assigned to MAN Energy Solutions SE
  • Patent number: 10400655
    Abstract: Catalytic converter unit for an exhaust gas catalytic converter, in particular an SCR catalytic converter unit for an SCR catalytic converter of a marine diesel internal combustion engine, with multiple catalytic converter modules. Each catalytic converter module has a ceramic catalytic converter body through which exhaust gas flows and a metallic casing for the ceramic catalytic converter body. The respective ceramic catalytic converter body is received in the respective metallic casing and is surrounded in certain sections by the latter. The catalytic converter modules are positioned with first flowed-through ends on a support grating. A counter-brace is positioned at the opposite second flowed-through ends of the catalytic converter modules, and the catalytic converter modules are clamped between the support grating and the counter-brace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventors: Andreas Döring, Martin Faber, Richard Losher, Francis Nana
  • Patent number: 10393562
    Abstract: A method for determining a gas consumption of a gas-powered gas engine or a gas-powered dual-fuel engine. The engine is operated under actual operating conditions, and the actual gas consumption of the engine is acquired under the actual operating conditions. A target gas consumption of the engine to be anticipated under target operating conditions is calculated depending on the actual gas consumption and depending on discrepancies between the actual operating conditions and the target operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventors: Stefan Peters, Günter Heider, Thomas Kremser
  • Patent number: 10393118
    Abstract: A screw machine having a rotor housing portion and an outflow housing portion, screw rotors mounted in the rotor housing portion that form a rotor pair, and a control slide that is likewise mounted in the rotor housing portion, which delimits a working space of the rotor housing portion and which can be shifted parallel to the rotor axes of the screw rotors to change a size of the effective working space. The control slide, when shifted out of the rotor housing portion into the outflow housing portion, is guided by a positively joined guide of the outflow housing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventors: Tim Lehmann, Norbert Tewes, Jürgen Wennemar
  • Patent number: 10359015
    Abstract: Intake arrangement for an internal combustion engine for the intake of a liquid medium from a container, having a strainer, via which liquid medium can be taken in from the container, and at least one suction pipe which opens with a first end into the strainer and via which the liquid medium can be delivered towards a suction pump, which interacts with the respective suction pipe. The suction pipe is mounted at a second end that faces away from the strainer such that it can be pivoted about an axis such that the suction pipe follows a movement of the liquid within the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventor: Philippe Pinault
  • Patent number: 10344686
    Abstract: A large two-stroke turbocharged compression-ignited internal combustion crosshead engine with a plurality of cylinders has at least one pressure booster for each cylinder for boosting fuel pressure, two or more electronically controlled fuel valves for each cylinder with an inlet of the two or more electronically controlled fuel valves being connected to an outlet of the at least one pressure booster. An electronic control unit is connected to the at least one pressure booster and the two or more electronically controlled fuel valves. The electronic control unit is configured to determine a start time for a fuel injection event, activate the at least one pressure booster ahead of the determined start time and pen the two or more electronically controlled fuel valves at the determined start time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS, FILIAL AF MAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS SE, TYSKLAND
    Inventors: Niels Kjemtrup, Stefan Mayer, Peter Hagen
  • Patent number: 10344656
    Abstract: A mixing apparatus for mixing a precursor substance of a reducing agent with exhaust gas, having a housing that provides a mixing chamber and a silencer. The housing inlet side has an inlet connection for exhaust gas and an outlet side having an outlet connection for reducing agent intermixed with the exhaust gas to be discharged. Longitudinal axes of the inlet and outlet connections are offset and parallel relative to one another. An introduction device introduces a precursor substance of the reducing agent and is positioned at the inlet side in a region of the outlet connection longitudinal axis. A length of the housing between the inlet and outlet side at least 1.9 to 7 times a diameter of the inlet connection. A width of the housing is maximally 3 times the diameter of the inlet connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventors: Andreas Döring, Ingo Bader
  • Patent number: 10294903
    Abstract: A fuel supply system having a low pressure region, a pumping device to deliver fuel from the low pressure region to a high pressure region. In the high pressure region between the pumping device and injectors there is a pressure storage system that is permanently under high pressure. The pressure storage system has a plurality of distributor units each with at least three connections connected in series. A respective injector connection of each distributor unit is connected to at least one injector each via a high pressure line that is under high pressure at times dependent on the injection cycle. Each distributor unit of the pressure storage system is assigned an individual leakage detection device. Each distributor unit is assigned a non-return valve, which allows a leakage flow starting out from the respective distributor unit in the direction of the pumping device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventors: Manuel Zaharias, Markus Stopfer, Andreas Stichnoth
  • Patent number: 10260982
    Abstract: A system for project planning for an engine for determining an operating behavior of the engine to be expected under defined operating conditions of the engine includes: a plurality of sensors configured to measure respective ones of the defined operating conditions of the engine; and a knocking intensity prediction tool configured to determine the knocking intensity of the engine to be expected under the defined operating conditions of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventors: Stefan Peters, Matthias Bachmann, Sebastian Blasberg
  • Patent number: 10221740
    Abstract: An exhaust gas post treatment system for an internal combustion engine, in particular a heavy fuel oil-powered engine, including an SCR catalyst, using ammonia as a reducing agent for the denitration of the exhaust gas, and a device positioned upstream of the SCR catalyst by which ammonia or an ammonia precursor substance, which is converted to ammonia, is introduced upstream of the SCR catalyst. Downstream of the SCR catalyst an exhaust gas scrubber is positioned, by which excess ammonia, contained in the exhaust gas leaving the SCR catalyst, together with sulfur oxides, can be scrubbed out of the exhaust gas forming ammonium salts while maintaining a pH value of approximately 6. For the control thereof, a bypass around the SCR catalyst can be provided as a westgate, or comprising an additional SCR catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventor: Andreas Döring
  • Patent number: 10190471
    Abstract: Disclosed is an exhaust-gas after-treatment device for an internal combustion engine, in particular for a ship's diesel internal combustion engine that is operated with heavy oil, including: a housing through which exhaust gas flows; exhaust-gas purification chambers formed in the housing, which chambers hold catalysts and/or particulate filters in order to purify the exhaust gas; and muffler chambers formed in the housing, which chambers have a defined depth for muffling sound in the flow direction. The exhaust-gas purification chambers and the muffler chambers are arranged spatially in series and parallel to one another on the flow side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventor: Andreas Döring
  • Patent number: 10174729
    Abstract: An injector for a fuel supply system of an internal combustion engine, namely for a common rail fuel supply system of an internal combustion engine which is formed in particular as a large diesel internal combustion engine or ship's diesel internal combustion engine, having an injection nozzle, a control valve and a retaining body. The injection nozzle and the control valve form a clamped composite, and the composite formed of the injection nozzle and control valve can be mounted on the retaining body as a unit and disassembled from the retaining body as a unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventors: Thomas Atzkern, Maximilian Indrich, Stefan Kern, Claudius Weber, Ludwig Maier, Holger Schaar, Wolfgang Wagner, Thomas Klaua, Harald Wellenkötter, Werner Wörle
  • Patent number: 10174692
    Abstract: Method for the operation of an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders (11 to detect misfires. An exhaust gas sensor at the exhaust gas of every cylinder of the internal combustion engine measures at least one actual exhaust gas value individually for the respective cylinder, and the respective measured actual exhaust gas value is compared with a reference exhaust gas value to determine at least one cylinder-specific deviation between the reference exhaust gas value and the actual exhaust gas value for each of the cylinders. It is determined for every cylinder based on the cylinder-specific deviation or based on every cylinder-specific deviation whether or not misfires are occurring at the respective cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventors: Andreas Döring, Matthias Auer
  • Patent number: 10173190
    Abstract: A tube reactor for heterogeneous catalyzed gas phase reactions having a thermal tube with a catalyst material around which a fluid heat transfer medium, a temperature-sensitive optical waveguide surrounded by a capillary tube that extends into the catalyst material and has measuring points having a predetermined spacing between adjacent measurement points, and can be connected to a source for optical signals and to an evaluation unit (31) for optical signals reflected by the optical waveguide. The optical waveguide has measuring points having a spacing between adjacent measuring points in the axial direction of the thermal tube which is 0.8 to 5 times the shortest edge length of all imaginary cuboids which, having a minimum volume in the cases in which nominal external dimensions are associated with particles of the catalyst material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventors: Franz Egner, Rolf Bank, Andreas Bauer, Dieter Verbeek, Martin Lainer
  • Patent number: 10167807
    Abstract: Control device of an internal combustion engine, namely, for controlling injectors or gas valves of a fuel supply system of the internal combustion engine, wherein the control device controls each injector for opening the same such that the voltage present at the respective injector changes between different voltage levels in a boost phase of the control as well as in a hold phase of the control, and wherein the control device controls the respective injector in the boost phase such that after reaching a defined boost current level the voltage present at the respective injector changes between a relatively low boost voltage level which is greater than zero volts and a relatively high boost voltage level which is greater than a supply voltage of the control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventor: Ulrich Probst
  • Patent number: 10145514
    Abstract: A cold-box system includes: a bulk gas tank, and a plurality of cold-box compartments operationally associated with the bulk gas tank. A cold-box apparatus includes a plurality of cold-box compartments operationally associated with a bulk gas tank. In one embodiment the cold-box compartments may be spaced apart from the tank aboard a waterborne platform. The system and apparatus provide redundancy regarding power aboard ship for the bulk gas tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventor: Christer Carlander-Reuterfelt
  • Patent number: 10132315
    Abstract: A fluid energy machine, with a machine housing (10), and with at least one shaft (11) that is mounted in the machine housing (10), which is assigned at least one sensor (12), with the help of which vibrations of the respective shaft are detectable, with at least one mounting sleeve (13), which extends through a bore (14) in the machine housing (10), wherein on a first portion (15) of the respective mounting sleeve (13), which faces the shaft, a sensor (12) is mounted, wherein in the region of the first portion (15) of the respective mounting sleeve (13) an adjusting device (16) is formed in order to align the respective sensor (12) relative to the respective shaft (11), and wherein on a portion (17) of the respective mounting sleeve (13) facing away from the shaft (11) a fixing device (18) engages in order to fix and seal the respective mounting sleeve (13) on the machine housing (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventor: Tim Lehmann
  • Patent number: 10132331
    Abstract: In a radial compressor stage for a radial compressor having a rotor side, the radial compressor stage includes a stator; and an impeller configured to rotate relative to the stator. The impeller has multiple impeller blades on the rotor side. Each of the multiple impeller blades has: a flow inlet edge, a flow outlet edge, a suction side extending between the flow inlet edge and the flow outlet edge, a pressure side, and an outer surface facing the stator. At least one groove is arranged in the outer surface of at least one of the multiple impeller blades, the at least one groove being bounded by a longitudinal web both on the suction side and on the pressure side. Each of the longitudinal webs forms a sealing tip of the respective impeller blade towards the stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventors: Thomas Mokulys, Sebastiano Mauri, Marcel Bühler, Damian Schärz, Christian Rufer
  • Patent number: 10100755
    Abstract: A method for operating a system having a plurality of internal combustion engines coupled together such that then outputs are drawn off by a common load, a downstream individual exhaust gas aftertreatment device, in which the exhaust gas of a particular engine undergoes an individual exhaust gas aftertreatment, positioned downstream of each engine, or a common exhaust gas aftertreatment device, in which the exhaust gas undergoes a common exhaust gas aftertreatment, positioned downstream of to the engine. To regenerate an exhaust gas aftertreatment device, the drive output of one engine is reduced, the temperature of the exhaust gas is increased, and the drive output of a second engine is increased such that the drive output reduction is at least partially compensated for.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventors: Andreas Döring, Alexander Knafl, Mirko Bugsch
  • Patent number: 10094270
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes: plural cylinders, a first exhaust gas turbocharger having a high-pressure turbine and a high-pressure compressor, a second exhaust gas turbocharger having a low-pressure turbine and a low-pressure compressor, and an SCR catalytic converter positioned between the high-pressure turbine and the low-pressure turbine, via which exhaust gas leaving the high-pressure turbine is conducted upstream of the low-pressure turbine. The low-pressure compressor is assigned a power take-in, via which the low-pressure compressor can be driven when as a consequence of a relatively large exhaust gas temperature drop at the SCR catalytic converter via the low-pressure turbine an adequate amount of energy required to supply the cylinders of the internal combustion engine with a desired quantity of charge air can no longer be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventors: Andreas Döring, Julia Maier
  • Patent number: D842342
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: MAN Energy Solutions SE
    Inventor: Hanno Wegner