Patents by Inventor Andreas Opfermann

Andreas Opfermann 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: 20140075964
    Abstract: A cryogenic liquid such as liquid nitrogen or liquid carbon dioxide is pumped via a high pressure pump to a vaporizer where the liquid becomes gas. The higher pressure gas is cooled by a coolant exchanger and can be fed to an onsite unit operation such as an enhanced oil recovery operation. The coolant exchanger is in a thermal exchange relationship with a combustion engine which powers a hydraulic pump which feed hydraulic fluid to drive the high pressure pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventors: Joseph Naumovitz, Andreas Opfermann
  • Publication number: 20130025276
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a carbon dioxide-rich gas mixture (44) wherein a hydrocarbon-containing fuel (21) is burned in a combustion chamber of a gas engine (10) in a gas atmosphere, and the exhaust gas (14) of the gas engine (10) is processed into the carbon dioxide-rich gas mixture (44). The gas atmosphere in the combustion chamber has an oxygen content (33) that corresponds to 0.9 to 1.1 times the amount of oxygen required for complete combustion of the hydrocarbon-containing fuel (21), and the gas atmosphere has a volumetric ratio of nitrogen to oxygen (33) in that is less than 3.5 to 1. The invention also relates to an apparatus for producing the carbon dioxide-rich gas mixture (44), and a method and apparatus for enhanced oil recovery using the method and apparatus for producing the carbon dioxide-rich gas mixture (44).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: LINDE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Robert ADLER, Alexander Alekseev, Andreas Opfermann
  • Publication number: 20100018603
    Abstract: A storage device for storing a compressed medium, for example hydrogen. The storage device encompasses a plurality of storage containers and a container, in which the storage containers are arranged. Furthermore a method for fueling a vehicle with gaseous hydrogen by means of a variable pilgrim step method, where the gaseous hydrogen is removed from a storage device, which is divided into at least two, preferably into four or more than four sections and is fed to the vehicle, which is to be fueled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventors: Robert ADLER, Martin Stehrlein, Andreas Opfermann