Patents Assigned to SIEMENS ENERGY AS
  • FEEDTHROUGH CONNECTOR
    Publication number: 20230160275
    Abstract: A subsea plug connector part for a subsea wet-mateable connector includes a receptacle connector part and a plug connector part, the plug connector part has a plug back end, a plug front end and an interface. The interface includes a first cold separable joint element at one end. The plug front end includes a second cold separable joint element. The first cold separable joint element and second cold separable joint element are adapted to join the interface to the plug front end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Cox, Martin Chamberlain
  • Predictive pump station and pipeline advanced control system
    Patent number: 11655823
    Abstract: A method and controller for operating a pumping station. The method includes receiving (1102), by at least one controller (910, 952), sensor data (712) of a first pumping station (900) corresponding to a liquid being transported from the first pumping station (900). The method includes predicting (1104) arrival of the liquid, by the at least one controller (910, 952), at a second pumping station (900). The method includes executing (1106) one or more pump models (720), by the at least one controller (910, 952), according to the sensor data (712) to determine an optimal pumping configuration. The method includes operating (1108) one more pumps of the second pumping station (900), by the at least one controller (910, 952), according to the optimal pumping configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Edward A. Fowler
  • Method, device and powder for the additive manufacturing of a component with oxide dispersion strengthening and corresponding component
    Patent number: 11654485
    Abstract: A method for the additive manufacturing of a component includes providing a powdered base material for a component, in particular a component for the hot gas path of a gas turbine, building up the component layer by layer on a building platform by fusing individual layers of the base material, and introducing an oxide dispersion strengthening into a region of the component to be additively manufactured by an oxidic additive, wherein the region is usually exposed to high thermomechanical loading during operation of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Lena Farahbod-Sternahl, Christian Felsmann, Dennis Glass, Jacek Grodzki, Robert Herfurth, Lars Hoefener, Bernd Hornung, David Rule, Tobias Thomas Rühmer, Eric Thomas
  • Subsea housing assembly
    Patent number: 11656106
    Abstract: A subsea housing assembly, in particular for a subsea sensor, includes a first housing portion and a second housing portion. The first housing portion includes a first electrical connection for data communication and the second housing portion includes a second electrical connection for data communication. A wall provides separation between the first housing portion and the second housing portion of the subsea housing. An inductive coupler, that includes a first coupling section disposed in the first housing portion and a second coupling section disposed in the second housing portion, is provided. The inductive coupler is configured to provide inductive coupling across the wall for providing at least a data communication between the first and second electrical connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY AS
    Inventor: Kjetil Haldorsen
  • Controller and method for controlling a gas turbine
    Patent number: 11655769
    Abstract: A controller for a gas turbine wherein the gas turbine includes the compressor arranged to operate at a rotational speed n, the combustor and the fuel supply includes the first fuel supply and the second fuel supply, wherein the compressor is arranged to provide air to the combustor at a steady state air mass flow rate mss and wherein the fuel supply is arranged to supply fuel at a fuel mass flow rate mtotal to the combustor. The controller is arranged to, responsive to the load change ?L to the load L, control the fuel supply to supply a proportion Z of the fuel mass flow rate mtotal as a fuel mass flow rate mfuel pilot via the first fuel supply based, at least in part, on a combustor mass flow rate mt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Vili Panov
  • BURNER COMPONENT OF A BURNER, AND BURNER OF A GAS TURBINE HAVING A BURNER COMPONENT OF THIS TYPE
    Publication number: 20230151966
    Abstract: A burner component of a burner. The burner has a flow channel, in which combustion air flows in a flow direction from upstream to downstream. The burner component includes a wall portion, which adjoins the flow channel; a plurality of injection nozzles, which are arranged in the wall portion; and a plurality of vortex generators, which are arranged on the wall portion. The vortex generators have a concavely curved sloped surface rising in the flow direction to improve the distribution of the fuel in the combustion air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Dederichs, Michael Huth, Ramsatish Kaluri, Udo Schmitz, Anatol Schulz, Daniel Vogtmann
  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CARBON DIOXIDE ELECTROLYSIS OR CARBON MONOXIDE ELECTROLYSIS
    Publication number: 20230145019
    Abstract: An anode-side half cell for an electrochemical cell of an electrolytic apparatus for carbon dioxide electrolysis and/or carbon monoxide electrolysis, having a separator in the form of a diaphragm, which has an anode-side separator surface and a cathode-side separator surface opposite the anode-side separator surface; a catalyst layer, which has a first catalyst surface and a second catalyst surface opposite the first catalyst surface, the first catalyst surface facing the anode-side separator surface; and a fluid-permeable anode plate, which has a first anode surface, the first anode surface facing the second catalyst surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Erhard Magori, Remigiusz Pastusiak, Angelika Tawil, Kerstin Wiesner-Fleischer
  • Connector and method of manufacture
    Patent number: 11646526
    Abstract: An electrical connector having a first connector part and a second connector part, the first connector part with at least one electrically conductive pin and the second connector part with at least one shuttle pin, the conductive pin having two or more electrically conductive cores, each conductive core being provided with an external electrical contact and an insulating material forming a watertight seal with the conductive core and the electrical contact. The conductive cores include two or more cores spaced from one another to form the conductive pin. Facing surfaces of the two or more cores are spaced by an air gap with insulating material in the air gap and overmoulded insulating material is in contact with other surfaces of the conductive cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Christopher Burrow
  • Power converter assembly with a line-commutated power converter and method for starting up the assembly
    Patent number: 11641154
    Abstract: A converter arrangement has a line-commutated converter with an AC voltage terminal to be connected to an AC voltage grid via at least one phase line. The converter arrangement has at least one switching module branch that is arranged in series in the at least one phase line and that includes a series connection of switching modules at whose terminals bipolar voltages that sum to give a branch voltage are in each case able to be generated. A bypass branch is arranged in a parallel connection to the switching module branch. At least one switching device is arranged in the bypass branch. The switching device includes activatable semiconductor switches that are connected in antiparallel. There is also described a method for starting up the converter arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ulrich Halfmann, Stefan Hammer, Volker Hussennether, Sascha Siegert
  • COMBUSTION CHAMBER HAVING A CERAMIC HEAT SHIELD AND SEAL
    Publication number: 20230130521
    Abstract: A combustion chamber of a gas turbine having a peripheral support structure and a heat shield arranged therein. The support structure has a reduced cross-section on the downstream side and a stop element on the upstream side. There is a gap between the heat shield and the stop element to compensate for different strains and tolerances. For reduction of the cooling air consumption, a peripheral sealing groove which is open towards the heat shield and has a sealing element arranged therein is provided in the stop element, which sealing element rests against the heat shield and covers the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Matthias Gralki, Claus Krusch
  • TURBINE BLADE TIP, TURBINE BLADE AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20230127843
    Abstract: A turbine blade tip, turbine blade and method where improved cooling is made possible by an improved cooling structure with cooling air holes inside a depression in a blade tip and a special arrangement of multiple cooling air holes which are supplied by a single cooling air channel inside a wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Björn Anders, Reiner Anton, Kay Krabiell, Christian Lerner
  • Surge arrester and production method for a surge arrester
    Patent number: 11636960
    Abstract: An item of electrical equipment includes a core clad with a glass fiber material. The glass fiber material is preimpregnated with a resin. A layer of a substance is applied to the glass fiber material. The substance is formed at least partly of high-temperature vulcanizing silicone rubber. A corresponding production method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Kruska, Henrik Roggow
  • Power plant having a cooling system, method for operating such a power plant, method for modifying a power plant
    Patent number: 11637480
    Abstract: A power plant and a method for operating such a power plant having at least one generator, which is cooled by a cooling gas cooled by a generator heat exchanger, and a closed cooling water system, to which the generator heat exchanger and additional heat exchangers of the power plant are connected, wherein the generator heat exchanger is a component of an additional cooling water circuit, which serves solely to cool the generator, which is connected to the cooling water system and can be selectively disconnected therefrom by at least one shut-off valve, and which has a pump and at least one refrigerating machine for cooling the cooling water flowing through the additional cooling water circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Hardy Kliemke, Thomas Johnke, Robert von Blumenthal, Ralf Liebig
  • FUEL CELL COOLING
    Publication number: 20230124648
    Abstract: A bipolar plate for an electrochemical cell, includes a flow space arranged between a first and a second plate element and has a flow inlet and a flow outlet for a coolant flowing through the flow space. Each plate element has a contact plane for contacting the other plate element and, between the flow inlet and the flow outlet, a plurality of elevations protrude from the contact plane and face away from the other plate element. The elevations have openings facing the contact plane. First flow channels are formed through the openings in the elevations by the elevations of the two plate elements being offset from one another. Each elevation at least partially overlaps at least one elevation of the other plate element. A direction-dependent flow resistance is set in the first flow channels of the bipolar plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Torsten Brandt, Michael Braunecker, Frank Bärnreuther, Arno Mattejat
  • Assembly for connecting to a high-voltage grid
    Patent number: 11626244
    Abstract: An assembly for connecting to a high-voltage grid includes a plurality of single-phase transformers, each of which has a transformer tank that is filled with a fluid and is equipped with a core with at least one coil. The coils of the single-phase transformers are at least partly connected together, thereby forming a neutral or star point. In order to permit the assembly to be quickly assembled in situ while at the same time providing a reliable current path for compensation and grounding currents, the coils are connected together by a neutral or star point conductor or rail in order to form the neutral or star point. The neutral or star point conductor or rail is retained in an insulated manner on the transformer tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Christian Ettl
  • Coil device and winding carrier for low-pole rotor
    Patent number: 11626224
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a superconducting coil device comprising: a coil winding with at least one turn of a superconducting strip conductor; wherein the strip conductor has a first main face and a second main face. The coil winding includes a turning region wherein the strip conductor is bent such that, in the turning region, the strip conductor has a distinct change of direction in a longitudinal direction and simultaneously changes the orientation of both the first main face and the second main face with respect to a central axis of the coil device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Tabea Arndt, Marijn Pieter Oomen
  • Energy supply network
    Patent number: 11626727
    Abstract: An energy supply network has a bus line with a line impedance for energy distribution. The energy supply network also includes a number of power-electronic converters having a respective commutation capacitor wherein the storage capacity thereof is selected in such a way that a controlling of the associated power-electronic converter is guaranteed during operation of the energy supply network and an excess of voltage is managed during a commutation. At least one energy accumulator is provided, which can be connected selectively to the bus line by controlling a switch device via a computer unit, wherein the storage capacity of the energy accumulator is substantially greater than the storage capacity of a respective commutation capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Karsten Handt, Sebastian Nielebock, Markus Pfeifer, Jens Weidauer
  • PV device having improved overall efficiency
    Patent number: 11626523
    Abstract: A photovoltaic device having a perovskite PV cell wherein the PV device operates, for example during start-up, initially in a bias-voltage operating mode, in which a bias voltage is applied to the perovskite PV cell of the PV device. The bias voltage or the energy needed for same can advantageously be drawn from the power electronics associated with the perovskite PV cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Maximilian Fleischer, Roland Pohle, Elfriede Simon, Oliver von Sicard
  • Winding assembly
    Patent number: 11626242
    Abstract: A winding assembly for a transformer, in particular with a medium operating voltage of Um?79.5 kV, wherein the winding assembly includes at least one winding, which ends in a winding conductor, where the winding conductor is connected to a switching line, which is configured to interconnect the winding to other windings, and where the connection of the switching line to the winding conductor is arranged inside the winding so as to reduce the danger of partial discharges and flashovers in the high-voltage end-line region for high-temperature applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jürgen Gangel, Hans Jürgen Wagner
  • METHOD FOR OPERATION OF AN INDUSTRIAL PLANT AND AN INDUSTRIAL PLANT
    Publication number: 20230100914
    Abstract: A method for operation of an industrial plant having an energy accumulator unit for production of synthetic natural gas, a power plant unit for production of electricity, an oxygen tank, a carbon dioxide tank and a water tank. In a first operation mode the energy accumulator unit is supplied with excessed electricity from the public grid to produce synthetic natural gas, wherein the produced synthetic natural gas is discharged in a gas network, while oxygen and water which are produced together with the synthetic natural gas are stored in the oxygen tank and the water tank correspondingly. In a second operation mode gas from the gas network together with oxygen from the oxygen tank and water from the water tank are used in the power plant unit to produce electricity, which is supplied to the public grid. This way electricity production excess is efficiently accumulated for industrial or municipal use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Stanislav Kubis