Abstract: A gas turbine including a plurality of hook elements disposed one inside the other and designed substantially in the form of hollow cones or hollow cylinders, and including a stator blade support, is intended to enable an especially high efficiency while maintaining the greatest possible operating safety and operating life. To this end, at least one of the hook elements or the stator blade support has a substantially elliptical cross-sectional contour.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fuel lance for a burner, in particular a gas turbine burner, including a tip that has a nozzle surface including at least two fuel nozzles. The nozzle surface is provided with slots between the fuel nozzles. As a rule, the lance is provided for operation with a liquid fuel.

Abstract: A turbine guide vane support for an axial-flow gas turbine is provided. The support includes a tubular wall having an inflow-side end and an outflow-side end for a hot gas flowing in the interior of the turbine guide vane support in a flow path of the gas turbine. Cooling channels for a coolant are provided in the wall. The cooling channels extend from a coolant inlet to a coolant outlet, respectively. At least one of the cooling inlets and one of the cooling outlets, respectively, is disposed at the outflow-side end of the turbine guide vane support, wherein the cooling channel associated with the respective inlet and outlet extends up to the inflow-side end of the turbine guide vane support and transitions to a redirecting area from which the respective cooling channel further extends to the outflow-side end.

Abstract: A burner arrangement is provided. The burner arrangement includes a support as well as at least two fuel nozzles, with fuel nozzle tips, attached to the support in the direction of flow and a gas feed system to the fuel nozzle tips extending through the support. Each fuel nozzle includes a support-side section which on the support side includes a contact surface with which the fuel nozzle rests on a supporting surface of the support, at least two fuel nozzle tips formed in one piece running from the support-side section in the direction of flow, the gas feed system including at least one gas feed line and its lead-through through the support, the lead-through being embodied as a fit.

Abstract: A burner arrangement is provided. The burner arrangement includes a support and at least two fuel nozzles attached to the support in the direction of flow, with each fuel nozzle including a support-side section which includes a contact surface on the support side with which it rests on a supporting surface of the support, with at least two fuel nozzle tips embodied in one piece extending out from the support-side section in the direction of flow and the support-side contact surface including at least two extension parts projecting in the direction of the support, with the extension parts each embodying a channel through which fuel is fed in each case to the fuel nozzle tips through passages which are arranged in the support-side contact surface of the support-side section.

Abstract: Use of compositions comprising a) at least one azole and b) at least one amidoalkylamine of the formula (I), a salt and/or acid addition compound thereof, in which R1 represents optionally substituted C1-C40-alkyl or C2-C40-alkenyl, R2, R3 and R4 independently of one another represent hydrogen or C1-C8-alkyl and n represents an integer from 1 to 6 for protecting industrial materials against attack and/or destruction by microorganisms.

Abstract: A burner insert for a gas turbine combustion chamber is provided. The burner insert includes a burner insert wall including a cold side and a hot side, an edge delimiting the burner insert wall. The edge includes an edge bar extending at least partially circumferentially and projecting beyond the cold side. A burner opening for inserting a burner is formed in the burner insert wall.

Abstract: A gas turbine burner with an igniter and an ignition electrode for installation in a main burner of a gas turbine is disclosed. The ignition electrode is protected from damage by a protective element.

Abstract: A burner carrier flange and a burner with such a burner carrier flange are provided. A surface of the burner carrier flange potentially comes into contact with fuel. The burner carrier element includes a base material and a corrosion-resistant material and the surface that potentially comes into contact with fuel is made of the corrosion-resistant material.

Abstract: Use of compositions comprising a) at least one azole and b) at least one amidoalkylamine of the formula (I), a salt and/or acid addition compound thereof, in which R1 represents optionally substituted C1-C40-alkyl or C2-C40-alkenyl, R2, R3 and R4 independently of one another represent hydrogen or C1-C8-alkyl and n represents an integer from 1 to 6 for protecting industrial materials against attack and/or destruction by microorganisms.

Abstract: A burner arrangement for a combustion system for combusting liquid fuels including a burner hub, at least one air supply channel and at least one fuel supply channel for each fuel type is provided. The at least one fuel supply channel is embodied at least partially in the burner hub, with a flow divider arranged in at least one fuel supply channel, which is distanced from the wall of the fuel supply channel so that an interspace associated with the flow path of the fuel flowing through the fuel supply channel is formed between the wall of the fuel supply channel and the flow divider. A method for operating such a burner arrangement is also provided.

Abstract: A heat shield element arrangement including a heat shield element for a heat shield arranged on a supporting structure is provided. On each of the two opposing sides running parallel to the installation grooves the heat shield element includes a continuous screw head opening which penetrates the cold side and the hot side of the heat shield element substantially vertically and through which the screw head of the respective screw is arranged to be accessible to the supporting structure, and a spring element may be arranged under the respective screw, which spring element may be extended along the hot side of the heat shield element and the parallel installation groove of the supporting structure. An outer end of the spring element is embodied as a clamping retaining hook which is provided for the purpose of engaging in the laterally recessed retaining groove of the heat shield element.

Abstract: A burner incorporating a pilot cone and a mounting insert is provided. The pilot cone is constructed as a pilot cone assembly which is decoupled from the mounting insert. Further, an operating method for increasing the service life of a burner which incorporates a pilot cone assembly and a mounting insert is provided. The pilot cone assembly has a cone side and incorporates at least one further side where the further side is arranged to be essentially parallel to one of the sides of the mounting insert and spaced apart from it, so that between the further side and the side of the mounting insert there is a defined gap. In an operation of the burner, the gap is significantly reduced by the thermal expansion in at least at one point of contact between the further side and the side of the mounting insert. Finally, an assembly method is provided.

Abstract: A burner element is provided. The burner element includes a surface that potentially comes into contact with a fuel. The surface potentially coming into contact with the fuel has a coating including aluminum oxide. A burner including the burner element is also provided. Further, a method for coating a surface of a burner element potentially coming into contact with a fuel is described, wherein the surface potentially coming into contact with the fuel is coated with aluminum oxide.

Abstract: A mobile cleaning device for cleaning parts of a burner is provided. The mobile cleaning device includes a closable pressure vessel, wherein a nozzle end of the burner is located inside the pressure vessel. An end of the burner, which is used for supplying fuel and is arranged opposite from the nozzle end, is located outside the pressure vessel. Further, a method for cleaning parts of the burner is provided.

Abstract: Process for the production of wood-based materials containing wood parts, comprising the steps a) bringing wood parts into contact with a1) alkaline binder and a2) thiacloprid and b) pressing a bed of wood parts, containing wood parts treated according to step a), under pressure at a temperature of the press contact surfaces of 126° C. to 240° C.

Abstract: In a combustion chamber wall for a combustion chamber having a combustion chamber outlet through which a hot combustion exhaust gas can exit the combustion chamber, the combustion chamber wall comprises an outlet end which surrounds the combustion chamber outlet, and the outlet end is provided with a tempering device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of L-ascorbic acid, in which free 2-keto-L-gulonic acid or C3-C10-alkyl 2-keto-L-gulonate is lactonized under acidic conditions in the presence of a water-miscible solvent and where this solvent in situ forms a solvent in which the ascorbic acid formed is poorly soluble.

Abstract: C1-C10-alkyl 2-keto-L-gulonates are prepared by esterifying 2-keto-L-gulonic acid or diacetone-2-keto-L-gulonic acid with a C1-C10-alcohol in the presence of an acidic catalyst by a process in which the esterification is carried out in a liquid film on a hot surface with simultaneous removal of water.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of L-ascorbic acid, in which free 2-keto-L-gulonic acid or C3-C10-alkyl 2-keto-L-gulonate is lactonized under acidic conditions in the presence of a water-miscible solvent and where this solvent in situ forms a solvent in which the ascorbic acid formed is poorly soluble.