Patents by Inventor Anton Wellenhofer
Anton Wellenhofer 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).
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Publication number: 20240110291Abstract: A method is proposed for producing one or more electrolysis products, wherein one or more electrolytic cells having a proton exchange membrane is/are used, wherein a hydrogen-rich cathode extraction gas is extracted on the cathode side of the one or more electrolytic cells, wherein an anode extraction gas is extracted on the anode side of the one or more electrolytic cells, wherein the anode extraction gas is extracted from the one or more electrolytic cells as part of a two-phase flow, wherein the two-phase flow comprises the anode extraction gas and a water phase, and wherein the two-phase flow or part thereof is separated in a separator arrangement into the anode extraction gas and the water phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Andreas WOLF, Anton WELLENHOFER, Christian FRUHMANN, Daniela LAUCHNER, Marius DILLIG, Mariyana CHALAKOVA, Ole MÜLLER-THORWART, Robert BIRK, Robert HERZOG
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Publication number: 20240102180Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating an electrolysis system in which water is converted into oxygen and hydrogen in an electrolysis unit, wherein a fluid flow including water and gas is conducted from an oxygen side of the electrolysis unit to a gas separator, wherein an ignition of an ignition device is actively produced in the fluid flow. The invention also relates to a corresponding electrolysis system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Andreas WOLF, Anton WELLENHOFER, Marius DILLIG, Ole MÜLLER-THORWART, Robert BIRK
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Publication number: 20230417368Abstract: A method for conveying a cryogen from a storage vessel to a load, comprising the following steps: a) introducing the cryogen from the storage vessel into a conditioning tank, the cryogen flowing from the storage vessel into the conditioning tank only because of the hydrostatic pressure of the cryogen, b) bringing the cryogen accommodated in the conditioning tank into its supercritical state, and c) discharging the cryogen from the conditioning tank to the load, wherein the cryogen accommodated in the conditioning tank is kept in the supercritical state during step c).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2021Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Heinz POSSELT, Anton WELLENHOFER, Eva MÜLLER, Stefan FELBINGER, Christian ZACH, Harald ZENZ, Kathrin WELLENHOFER, Hakemi NABEEL, Julia KLEINER, Petya TONEVA, Kay DOST
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Patent number: 11834356Abstract: The invention relates to a process for treating a waste lye of a lye scrub using an oxidation reactor (100), the waste lye and oxygen or an oxygen-containing gas mixture being introduced into the oxidation reactor (100) and steam being introduced into the oxidation reactor (100). It is provided that the steam is at least partially introduced by means of a steam feeding device (10), which has a cylindrical section (11) with a centre axis (12) and a wall (13), the centre axis (12) being aligned perpendicularly, a number of groups of openings (14) being formed in the wall, each of the groups comprising a number of the openings (14), and the number of openings (14) of each of the groups being arranged in one or more planes (15) that is or are in each case aligned perpendicularly to the centre axis (12). A corresponding installation and also a corresponding oxidation reactor (100) are likewise the subject of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: LINDE GmbHInventors: Anton Wellenhofer, Jörg Zander, Ekaterina Ananieva, Florian Hairer, Michael Baus, Martin Schubert
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Publication number: 20230356176Abstract: A method for regulatedly carrying out a chemical reaction in a reactor having reaction tubes which have a number of electrically heatable tube sections, wherein power connections are provided, which are each connected to at least one of the tube sections, wherein at least one connecting element is provided and each of the tube sections is connected to the connecting element. The method comprises conducting a process fluid through the one or more reaction tubes, providing several variable voltages at the several power connections, wherein the several voltages are provided as phases of a multiphase AC voltage so that the at least one connecting element forms a star point, setting the one or more voltages; detecting one or more measured values corresponding to one or more measured variables; changing the several set voltages so that the detected measured values correspond to predetermined values or value ranges of the measured variables.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2021Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Christian Lang, Martin Hofstatter, Mathieu Zellhuber, Anton Wellenhofer, Robert Stegemann, Peter Reiser, Niklas Fleischmann, Christian Ziegler, Heinz Posselt, Clara Delhomme-Neudecker, Andrey Shustov, Eric Jenne, Heinz-Jurgen Kuhn, Kiara Aenne Kochendorfer, Heinrich Laib, Reiner Jacob
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Publication number: 20230226511Abstract: A reactor has a reactor vessel and one or more reaction tubes. One or more power input elements are guided into the reactor vessel for the electrical heating of the reaction tube(s). The one or more power input elements each have a rod-shaped section, and the rod-shaped section(s) each run in a respective wall passage through a wall of the reactor vessel. A connection chamber into which the rod-shaped section(s) project is arranged outside the reactor vessel and adjacent to the wall of the reactor vessel through which the rod-shaped section(s) run in their wall passages. Gas feed means apply an inerting gas to the connection chamber, and the wall passages with the rod-shaped sections received therein in a longitudinally-movable manner are designed to be gas-permeable so that at least a portion of the inerting gas fed into the connection chamber flows out into the reactor vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2021Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Martin Hofstätter, Mathieu Zellhuber, Peter Reiser, Georg Kiese, Christian Ziegler, Robert Stegemann, Jens Aengenheister, Jürgen Feigl, Anton Wellenhofer, Clara Delhomme-Neudecker, Andrey Shustov, Eric Jenne, Kiara Aenne Kochendörfer, Heinrich Laib, Heinz-Jürgen Kühn, Reiner Jacob
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Publication number: 20230211305Abstract: A reactor for carrying out a chemical reaction has a reactor vessel, one or more reaction tubes and means for the electrical heating of the one or more reaction tubes. The reactor vessel has one or more discharge orifices which are permanently open or are set up to open above a preset pressure level, and gas feed means are provided, which are set up to feed an inerting gas into an interior of the reactor vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Martin Hofstätter, Mathieu Zellhuber, Peter Reiser, Georg Kiese, Christian Ziegler, Robert Stegemann, Jens Aengenheister, Jürgen Feigl, Anton Wellenhofer, Clara Delhomme-Neudecker, Andrey Shustov, Eric Jenne, Kiara Aenne Kochendörfer, Heinrich Laib, Heinz-Jürgen Kühn, Reiner Jacob
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Publication number: 20230115461Abstract: A reactor includes a reactor vessel and one or more reaction tubes A number of tube sections of the one or more reaction tubes in each case run between a first region and a second region in the reactor vessel. For the electrical heating of the tube sections, the tube sections in the first region can be electrically connected to (a) current connection(s) of a current source. In the first region, current feed arrangements are provided; in each case one or in each case one group of the tube sections are electrically connected, and each comprise (a) contact passage(s) that in each case adjoin(s) at least one of the tube sections in the first region. A wall of the contact passages in each case is connected to a current feed element that has a rod-shaped section that runs at a wall passage through a wall of the reactor vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2021Publication date: April 13, 2023Inventors: Mathieu Zellhuber, Martin Hofstätter, Heinz Posselt, Christian Lang, Robert Stegemann, Anton Wellenhofer, Volker Jeromin, Peter Reiser, Georg Kiese, Christian Ziegler, Andrey Shustov, Eric Jenne, Kiara Aenne Kochendörfer, Heinrich Laib, Heinz-Jürgen Kühn, Reiner Jacob, Clara Delhomme-Neudecker
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Patent number: 11065592Abstract: In a process as disclosed according to the present invention, gases or gas mixtures used to form a reactant mixture in an at least temporarily ignitable composition are fed into a mixing chamber (11) through the passages (131) in a boundary wall (13) of the mixing chamber (11) and by means of one or more feed conduits (14) which have feed orifices (141) and extend into the mixing chamber (11), respectively. The present invention likewise provides a corresponding reactor (1).Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: LINDE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Anton Wellenhofer, Mathieu Zellhuber, Martin Schubert, Robert Birk, Celine Pichler, Helmut Fritz
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Publication number: 20210188673Abstract: The invention relates to a process for treating a waste lye of a lye scrub in which the waste lye is fed with oxygen or an oxygen-containing gas mixture and steam to an oxidation unit (1) and in the latter is subjected to a wet oxidation for a reaction time period at a first temperature level and a first pressure level, a three-phase component mixture, which comprises a gas phase, a liquid phase and solid particles, being removed from the oxidation unit (1) and subjected to a cooling and phase separation. It is provided that the three-phase component mixture in an unchanged composition is first subjected to an expansion from the first pressure level to a second pressure level and thereby cooled down to a second temperature level, and that the three-phase component mixture expanded to the second pressure level and cooled down to the second temperature level is subsequently subjected at least partly to a further cooling to a third temperature level and after that to a phase separation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2019Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Anton WELLENHOFER, Jörg ZANDER, Ekaterina ANANIEVA, Florian HAIRER, Michael ROTHE, Martin SCHUBERT
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Patent number: 11014860Abstract: A process for producing one or more olefins is proposed in which a reaction input containing one or more paraffins is formed and in which a portion of the paraffin(s) present in the reaction input is converted by oxidative dehydrogenation into the olefin(s) to obtain a process gas, wherein the process gas contains at least the olefin(s), the unconverted paraffin(s), oxygen and carbon monoxide and wherein at least a portion of the process gas is subjected to a low temperature separation in which at an operating pressure level one or more gas fractions enriched in oxygen and carbon monoxide compared to the process gas are formed.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2017Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: LINDE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Helmut Fritz, Mathieu Zellhuber, Anton Wellenhofer, Martin Schubert, Florian Winkler
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Publication number: 20210053854Abstract: The invention relates to a process for treating a sulfide-containing waste lye from a lye scrub in which the waste lye and oxygen or an oxygen-containing gas mixture is fed to an oxidation reactor (10) and in the latter is subjected to a wet oxidation, steam being fed into the oxidation reactor (10). It is provided that an oxidation reactor (10) with a number of chambers (11-19), of which a first chamber (11) has a greater volume than a second chamber (12), is used, the waste lye and the oxygen or the oxygen-containing gas mixture being fed to the first chamber (11), fluid flowing out of the first chamber (11) being transferred into the second chamber (12), the steam quantity and/or steam temperature of the steam fed into the oxidation reactor (10) being controlled by a control device (TIC), and the steam fed into the oxidation reactor (10) being at least partially fed into the first chamber (11) and into the second chamber (12).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2019Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Anton WELLENHOFER, Jörg ZANDER, Ekaterina ANANIEVA, Florian HAIRER, Michael BAUS, Martin SCHUBERT
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Publication number: 20210053853Abstract: The invention relates to a process for treating a waste lye of a lye scrub using an oxidation reactor (100), the waste lye and oxygen or an oxygen-containing gas mixture being introduced into the oxidation reactor (100) and steam being introduced into the oxidation reactor (100). It is provided that the steam is at least partially introduced by means of a steam feeding device (10), which has a cylindrical section (11) with a centre axis (12) and a wall (13), the centre axis (12) being aligned perpendicularly, a number of groups of openings (14) being formed in the wall, each of the groups comprising a number of the openings (14), and the number of openings (14) of each of the groups being arranged in one or more planes (15) that is or are in each case aligned perpendicularly to the centre axis (12). A corresponding installation and also a corresponding oxidation reactor (100) are likewise the subject of the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2019Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Anton WELLENHOFER, Jörg ZANDER, Ekaterina ANANIEVA, Florian HAIRER, Michael BAUS, Martin SCHUBERT
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Publication number: 20200338515Abstract: A process for forming and for catalytically converting an ignitable gas mixture is proposed, in which at least a first gas or gas mixture comprising oxygen and a second gas or gas mixture comprising one or more oxidizable compounds are mixed to give the ignitable gas mixture, where the ignitable gas mixture is supplied to a reaction zone (12) of a reactor (1). The first gas or gas mixture and the second gas or gas mixture are fed into a mixing chamber (11) having a boundary wall (13) provided with a number of passages (131), where the first gas or gas mixture is fed into the mixing chamber (11) through the passages (131) in the boundary wall (13) and where the second gas or gas mixture is fed into the mixing chamber (11) by means of one or more feed conduits (14) which have feed orifices (141) and extend into the mixing chamber (11). The present invention likewise provides a corresponding reactor (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2018Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Anton WELLENHOFER, Mathieu ZELLHUBER, Martin SCHUBERT, Robert BIRK, Celine PICHLER, Helmut FRITZ
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Patent number: 10647639Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing butadiene from n-butenes having the steps: A) providing an n-butene-comprising feed gas stream a; B) feeding the n-butene-comprising feed gas stream a and an oxygen-comprising gas into at least one oxidative dehydrogenation zone and oxidatively dehydrogenating n-butenes to butadiene, wherein a product gas stream b comprising butadiene, unreacted n-butenes, steam, oxygen, low-boiling hydrocarbons, high-boiling minor components, optionally carbon oxides and optionally inert gases is obtained; Ca) cooling the product gas stream b by contacting it with a refrigerant and condensing at least a part of the high-boiling minor components; Cb) compressing the remaining product gas stream b in at least one compression step, wherein at least one aqueous condensate stream c1 and a gas stream c2 comprising butadiene, n-butenes, steam, oxygen, low-boiling hydrocarbons, optionally carbon oxides and optionally inert gases is obtained; Da) separating off non-condensable and loType: GrantFiled: January 30, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignees: BASF SE, Linde AGInventors: Jan Pablo Josch, Ragavendra Prasad Balegedde Ramachandran, Ulrike Wenning, Anton Wellenhofer, Christine Toegel, Hendrik Reyneke, Heinz Boelt
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Publication number: 20200039901Abstract: The invention relates to a process for preparing butadiene from n-butenes in n reactors R1 to Rn operated in parallel, wherein the process in the production phase of a reactor Rm in the n reactors comprises the steps: A) provision of a feed gas stream a1m comprising n-butenes; B) feeding of the feed gas stream a1m comprising n-butenes, an oxygen-comprising gas stream a2m and a substream d2m of an oxygen-comprising total recycle gas stream d2 into the oxidative dehydrogenation zone of the reactor and oxidative dehydrogenation of n-butenes to butadiene, giving a product gas substream bm comprising butadiene; C) combination of the product gas substream bm with further product gas substreams to form a total product gas stream b and cooling and compression of the total product gas stream b and condensation of at least part of the high-boiling secondary components, giving at least one aqueous condensate stream c1 and a gas stream c2 comprising butadiene; D) feeding of the gas stream c2 into an absorption zone anType: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2018Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Jan UNGELENK, Oliver HAMMEN, Christian WALSDORFF, Rainer ECKRICH, Heinz BOELT, Christine TOEGEL, Ulrike WENNING, Hendrik REYNEKE, Anton WELLENHOFER
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Publication number: 20190337870Abstract: Process for preparing butadiene from n-butenes, which has a start-up phase and an operating phase and the operating phase of the process comprises the steps: A) provision of a feed gas stream a1 comprising n-butenes; B) introduction of the feed gas stream a1 comprising n-butenes, an oxygen-comprising gas stream a2 and an oxygen-comprising recycle gas stream d2 into at least one oxidative dehydrogenation zone and oxidative dehydrogenation of n-butenes to butadiene, giving a product gas stream b comprising butadiene; C) cooling and compression of the product gas stream b, giving at least one aqueous condensate stream c1 and a gas stream c2 comprising butadiene; D) introduction of the gas stream c2 into an absorption zone and separation of incondensable and low-boiling gas constituents as gas stream d from the gas stream c2 by absorption of the C4 hydrocarbons in an absorption medium, giving an absorption medium stream loaded with C4 hydrocarbons and the gas stream d, and recirculation of the gas stream d as reType: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2017Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: JAN UNGELENK, Oliver HAMMEN, Ulrich HAMMON, Rainer ECKRICH, Signe UNVERRICHT, Christian WALSDORFF, Heinz BOELT, Hendrik REYNEKE, Christine TOEGEL, Anton WELLENHOFER, Ulrike WENNING
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Patent number: 10421700Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing butadiene from n-butenes which comprises the steps of: A) providing a vaporous n-butenes-comprising input gas stream a1 by evaporating a liquid n-butenes-comprising stream a0; B) introducing the vaporous n-butenes-comprising input gas stream a1 and an at least oxygenous gas into at least one oxidative dehydrogenation zone and oxidatively dehydrogenating n-butenes to butadiene to obtain a product gas stream b comprising butadiene, unconverted n-butenes, steam, oxygen, low-boiling hydrocarbons, high-boiling secondary components, possibly carbon oxides and possibly inert gases, Ca) chilling the product gas stream b by contacting with a cooling medium comprising an organic solvent in at least one chilling zone, the cooling medium being at least partially recycled into the chilling zone, Cb) compressing the chilled product gas stream b which is possibly depleted of high-boiling secondary components in at least one compression stage to obtain at least one aqueous cType: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Jan Pablo Josch, Ragavendra Prasad Balegedde Ramachandran, Christian Walsdorff, Regina Benfer, Anton Wellenhofer, Ulrike Wenning, Heinz Boelt, Hendrik Reyneke, Christine Toegel
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Publication number: 20190284112Abstract: A process for producing one or more olefins is proposed in which a reaction input containing one or more paraffins is formed and in which a portion of the paraffin(s) present in the reaction input is converted by oxidative dehydrogenation into the olefin(s) to obtain a process gas, wherein the process gas contains at least the olefin(s), the unconverted paraffin(s), oxygen and carbon monoxide and wherein at least a portion of the process gas is subjected to a low temperature separation in which at an operating pressure level one or more gas fractions enriched in oxygen and carbon monoxide compared to the process gas are formed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2017Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Helmut FRITZ, Mathieu ZELLHUBER, Anton WELLENHOFER, Martin SCHUBERT, Florian WINKLER
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Patent number: 10370310Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing butadiene from n-butenes having the steps: A) providing a feed gas stream a comprising n-butenes; B) feeding the feed gas stream a comprising the n-butenes and an oxygen-comprising gas into at least one oxidative dehydrogenation zone and oxidatively dehydrogenating n-butenes to butadiene, wherein a product gas stream b comprising butadiene, unreacted n-butenes, steam, oxygen, low-boiling hydrocarbons, high-boiling minor components, possibly carbon oxides and possibly inert gases is obtained; Ca) cooling the product gas stream b by contacting it with a refrigerant and condensing at least a part of the high-boiling minor components; Cb) compressing the remaining product gas stream b in at least one compression stage, wherein at least one aqueous condensate stream c1 and a gas stream c2 comprising butadiene, n-butenes, steam, oxygen, low-boiling hydrocarbons, possibly carbon oxides and possibly inert gases are obtained; Da) separating off non-condensable and low-bType: GrantFiled: January 11, 2017Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignees: BASF SE (ISENBRUCK BÖSL HÖRSCHLER LLP), Linde AGInventors: Jan Pablo Josch, Georgios Karanikoulis, Oliver Hammen, Claudia Mossbacher, Ulrike Wenning, Anton Wellenhofer, Christine Toegel, Hendrik Reyneke