Patents by Inventor Andreas Birle

Andreas Birle 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).

  • Publication number: 20230184427
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of hydrogen gas combustion in an industrial furnace, wherein the hydrogen fuel gas composition is introduced into the cavity from the multi nozzle burner by a central flow of gas from at least one central gas nozzle with a simultaneous input of at least one independent further flow of the additional gas composition from at least one concentric gas nozzle, the central flow of gas of the hydrogen fuel gas composition is surrounded by a concentric flow of gas of a primary additional gas composition, the central flow of gas momentum per second of the hydrogen fuel gas composition at the exit of the central gas nozzle is in the range 0.001 - 1.2 [kgH2 m/s2] the concentric flow of gas momentum per second of the primary additional gas composition at the exit of the concentric gas nozzle is in the range 0.01 -10.4 [kgO2 m/s2] a ratio of a heating burner power (WCHEM [W]) to a hydrogen fuel gas composition kinetic power (WKIN [W]) is in the range WRATIO= 100.000 - 4.000.000 [1].
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Josef CHMELAR, Petr JANDÁCEK, Petr VOJTECH, Andreas BIRLE, Jan BENSCH
  • Patent number: 10577270
    Abstract: A method for controlled operation of a heated industrial furnace having a furnace chamber is provided. Fuel is conducted into the furnace chamber virtually without combustion air and a gaseous oxygen carrier is also conducted. The supply of fuel and the gaseous oxygen carrier is controlled by a control loop. A first adjustable manipulated variable in the form of a flow of fuel and/or a second adjustable manipulated variable in the form of a flow of the gaseous oxygen carrier is set by a final controlling element. In the control loop, an energy requirement is determined and fed to a quantitative control and to a quantitative fuel control for the fuel. The flow of the gaseous oxygen carrier is determined as a process value of a flow of the gaseous oxygen carrier and the flow of fuel is determined as a process value of a volumetric flow of fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: STG COMBUSTION CONTROL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Peter Hemmann, Andreas Birle, Norwid Hemmann, Jürgen Kortt
  • Publication number: 20180057386
    Abstract: A method for controlled operation of a heated industrial furnace having a furnace chamber is provided. Fuel is conducted into the furnace chamber virtually without combustion air and a gaseous oxygen carrier is also conducted. The supply of fuel and the gaseous oxygen carrier is controlled by a control loop. A first adjustable manipulated variable in the form of a flow of fuel and/or a second adjustable manipulated variable in the form of a flow of the gaseous oxygen carrier is set by a final controlling element. In the control loop, an energy requirement is determined and fed to a quantitative control and to a quantitative fuel control for the fuel. The flow of the gaseous oxygen carrier is determined as a process value of a flow of the gaseous oxygen carrier and the flow of fuel is determined as a process value of a volumetric flow of fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Peter HEMMANN, Andreas BIRLE, Norwid HEMMANN, Jürgen KORTT
  • Patent number: 9242884
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the controlled operation of an industrial oven which is heated in a regenerative manner and which comprises an oven chamber, in particular a melting tank, in particular for glass, having the following steps: injecting fuel into the oven chamber via at least one fuel injector, which is designed to inject fuel, practically without combustion air in particular, conducting combustion air to the oven chamber in a first period duration and conducting exhaust gas (AG) out of the oven chamber in a second period duration separately from the fuel in a periodically alternating manner by means of a left regenerator and right regenerator which are associated with the at least one fuel injector and which are designed to regeneratively store heat from the exhaust gas and transmit heat to the combustion air. A supply of the combustion air is automatically controlled by means of a control loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: SOFTWARE & TECHNOLOGIE GLAS GMBH (STG)
    Inventors: Peter Hemmann, Andreas Birle, Thomas Schulz, Helmut Heelemann
  • Publication number: 20140011148
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the controlled operation of an industrial oven which is heated in a regenerative manner and which comprises an oven chamber, in particular a melting tank, in particular for glass, having the following steps: injecting fuel into the oven chamber via at least one fuel injector, which is designed to inject fuel, practically without combustion air in particular, conducting combustion air to the oven chamber in a first period duration and conducting exhaust gas (AG) out of the oven chamber in a second period duration separately from the fuel in a periodically alternating manner by means of a left regenerator and right regenerator which are associated with the at least one fuel injector and which are designed to regeneratively store heat from the exhaust gas and transmit heat to the combustion air. A supply of the combustion air is automatically controlled by means of a control loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: SOFTWARE & TECHNOLOGIE GLAS GMBH (STG)
    Inventors: Peter Hemmann, Andreas Birle, Thomas Schulz, Helmut Heelemann
  • Publication number: 20080131827
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gas burner or gas injector having a diffuser, which by control actuations can be modified within wide limits as a free jet burner and is suitable in particular for industrial furnaces with regenerative air preheating, in particular those which have an air supply arranged separately from the fuel gas. The gas injector according to the invention has a gas supply pipe 1 and a mouth 2, wherein the connection thereof forms a long diffuser 3 with a free jet opening angle, and is characterised in that the ratio of the diameter of the mouth 2 and the diameter of the gas supply pipe 1 is smaller than three. Preferably a central nozzle pipe 4 with a mouth 8 forming a free jet opening angle is arranged within the gas supply pipe 1, forming an annular gap 9 for guiding a partial gas flow between the gas supply pipe 1 and the central nozzle pipe 4, in such a way that the notional prolongation of the generatrix 7 of the central nozzle pipe mouth 8 goes into the generatrix of the long diffuser 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Andreas Birle, Peter Hemmann, Helmut Heelemann