Patents by Inventor Arne Hoffmann

Arne Hoffmann 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).

  • Method and device for producing acetylene and synthesis gas by rapidly mixing the reactants
    Patent number: 7956228
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of acetylene and synthesis gas by partial thermal oxidation in a reactor which has a burner having passages, wherein the starting materials to be reacted are rapidly and completely mixed only immediately before the flame reaction zone in the passages of the burner, a mean flow rate which exceeds the flame propagation velocities under the given reaction conditions being established in the mixing zone within the passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernd Bartenbach, Kai Rainer Ehrhardt, Arne Hoffmann, Frank Kleine Jaeger
  • Method and Device for Producing Acetylene and Synthesis Gas by Rapidly Mixing the Reactants
    Publication number: 20080188698
    Abstract: A process for the preparation of acetylene and synthesis gas by partial thermal oxidation in a reactor which has a burner having passages, wherein the starting materials to be reacted are rapidly and completely mixed only immediately before the flame reaction zone in the passages of the burner, a mean flow rate which exceeds the flame propagation velocities under the given reaction conditions being established in the mixing zone within the passages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernd Bartenbach, Kai Rainer Ehrhardt, Arne Hoffmann, Frank Kleine Jager