Patents by Inventor Berthold Kostlin

Berthold Kostlin 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).

  • Patent number: 10125993
    Abstract: A burner having a plurality of pre-mixing chambers each having a fuel nozzle for two fuels, the fuel nozzle has a fuel lance extending in a flow direction, in which fuel lance first outlet openings for a first fuel are introduced. The fuel lance is surrounded by an outer pipe having at least one second outlet opening for a second fuel, the first outlet openings oriented radially and the second outlet opening oriented axially, a flow cross-section is formed between the fuel lance and the inside of the pre-mixing chamber and vortex generators are arranged on the fuel lance. At least one vortex generator is arranged upstream of the first outlet openings and downstream of the second outlet opening. The distance of the first outlet openings from an end of the pre-mixing chamber is at least three times as large as a cross-section of the pre-mixing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Beck, Stefan Dederichs, Olga Deiss, Berthold Köstlin
  • Patent number: 10088163
    Abstract: A jet burner has a hot-gas side, which faces toward a combustion chamber during operation, and a cold-gas side, which faces away from a combustion chamber, including a base plate on which there are arranged multiple jet nozzles, wherein the base plate has at least one cooling duct, wherein the at least one cooling duct issues into a burner stage which comprises a pilot burner arranged on the base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Beck, Simon Bez, Bjorn Buchholz, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Werner Krebs, Berthold Kostlin, Stefan Reich, Marc Tertilt, Jan Wilkes
  • Publication number: 20170108224
    Abstract: A burner having a plurality of pre-mixing chambers each having a fuel nozzle for two fuels, the fuel nozzle has a fuel lance extending in a flow direction, in which fuel lance first outlet openings for a first fuel are introduced. The fuel lance is surrounded by an outer pipe having at least one second outlet opening for a second fuel, the first outlet openings oriented radially and the second outlet opening oriented axially, a flow cross-section is formed between the fuel lance and the inside of the pre-mixing chamber and vortex generators are arranged on the fuel lance. At least one vortex generator is arranged upstream of the first outlet openings and downstream of the second outlet opening. The distance of the first outlet openings from an end of the pre-mixing chamber is at least three times as large as a cross-section of the pre-mixing chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Beck, Stefan Dederichs, Olga Deiss, Berthold Köstlin
  • Patent number: 9464574
    Abstract: A method for running up a stationary gas turbine is provided. The turbine has a combustion chamber, the burners of which have a pilot burner and a main burner and by which various types of fuel are introduced into the combustion chamber for burning. The method, carried out while a rotor of the gas turbine is accelerating from a standstill to a nominal speed, includes feeding fuel of a first type of fuel to the pilot burners and feeding fuel of the first type of fuel to the main burners. In order to provide a method in which a comparatively low supply pressure is required in the fuel supply system and in which combustion vibrations that put the machine at risk are avoided during the running-up process, it is proposed that fuel of a second type of fuel is fed to the burner before the nominal speed is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Eberhard Deuker, Berthold Kostlin, Jurgen Meisl, Dennis Nehlsen, Kai-Uwe Schildmacher
  • Patent number: 9435262
    Abstract: A fuel nozzle (2) for two fuels, with an inner pipe (5) with radially oriented outlet openings (7) for a first fuel and with an outer pipe (6), surrounding the inner pipe (5), with axially oriented outlet openings (10) for a second fuel; an axially extending groove (18) on an outer surface of the inner pipe (5) and a projection (19) inward from the outer pipe which engages in the groove (18) as an anti-torsion device (17) and which is arranged between two axial outlet openings (10). Alternative groove and projection configurations are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Olga Deiss, Berthold Köstlin, Jaap Van Kampen
  • Publication number: 20160195271
    Abstract: A burner for a gas turbine, has an air passage supplied with compressed air and a fuel passage supplied with fuel gas, each passage has a main outlet opening leading into the combustion chamber of the gas turbine, the air and fuel passages connected fluidically together via a connection duct arranged upstream of the main outlet openings. The burner is configured such that, when air passage is supplied with compressed air and fuel passage is supplied with fuel gas, a portion of the fuel gas flowing in the fuel passage flows via at least one connection duct into the air passage and, for combustion thereof, is introduced through the main outlet opening of the air passage into the interior of the combustion chamber and a remaining portion of the fuel gas is introduced through the main outlet opening of the fuel passage into the interior of the combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Berthold Köstlin, Bernd Prade
  • Publication number: 20160018109
    Abstract: A jet burner has a hot-gas side, which faces toward a combustion chamber during operation, and a cold-gas side, which faces away from a combustion chamber, including a base plate on which there are arranged multiple jet nozzles, wherein the base plate has at least one cooling duct, wherein the at least one cooling duct issues into a burner stage which comprises a pilot burner arranged on the base plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Beck, Simon Bez, Bjorn Buchholz, Thomas Grieb, Matthias Hase, Werner Krebs, Berthold Kostlin, Stefan Reich, Marc Tertilt, Jan Wilkes
  • Patent number: 9033697
    Abstract: A method for starting a burner for combusting synthesis gases is provided. The burner includes first and second fuel passages, the first fuel passage encompasses the second fuel passage in a substantially concentric manner and the gas transferred to the burner is mixed with combusting air and is combusted. In order to start the burner, the second fuel passage is first loaded with a synthesis gas to a predefined burner power at a first starting phase and the first fuel passage is loaded with the synthesis gas at a second starting phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Berthold Köstlin, Frank Hannemann, Andreas Heilos, Gerhard Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20150000285
    Abstract: A fuel nozzle (2) for two fuels, with an inner pipe (5) with radially oriented outlet openings (7) for a first fuel and with an outer pipe (6), surrounding the inner pipe (5), with axially oriented outlet openings (10) for a second fuel; an axially extending groove (18) on an outer surface of the inner pipe (5) and a projection (19) inward from the outer pipe which engages in the groove (18) as an anti-torsion device (17) and which is arranged between two axial outlet openings (10). Alternative groove and projection configurations are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Olga Deiss, Berthold Kostlin, Jaap Van Kampen
  • Patent number: 8869535
    Abstract: A turbine burner is provided. The turbine burner has a secondary feed unit and a primary feed unit. The primary feed unit has a primary mixing tube and a fuel nozzle that are arranged concentrically around the secondary feed unit. The primary mixing tube and the fuel nozzle have a fluid flow connection. The fuel nozzle has an annular wall that is radially spaced in the axial direction from the secondary feed unit such that a gap height is fainted by the annular wall and the secondary feed unit. The annular wall has an inside wall directed toward the secondary feed unit and having blades with a leading edge on the upstream side. The fuel nozzle has an inlet and the blades have an axial distance from the inlet. The ratio of the distance to the gap height is greater than 1 and less than the gap height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Boris Ferdinand Koch, Berthold Köstlin, Bernd Prade
  • Publication number: 20140190177
    Abstract: A method for running up a stationary gas turbine is provided. The turbine has a combustion chamber, the burners of which have a pilot burner and a main burner and by which various types of fuel are introduced into the combustion chamber for burning. The method, carried out while a rotor of the gas turbine is accelerating from a standstill to a nominal speed, includes feeding fuel of a first type of fuel to the pilot burners and feeding fuel of the first type of fuel to the main burners. In order to provide a method in which a comparatively low supply pressure is required in the fuel supply system and in which combustion vibrations that put the machine at risk are avoided during the running-up process, it is proposed that fuel of a second type of fuel is fed to the burner before the nominal speed is reached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Eberhard Deuker, Berthold Kostlin, Jurgen Meisl, Dennis Nehlsen, Kai-Uwe Schildmacher
  • Publication number: 20130247578
    Abstract: A method of operating a gas turbine, a device for regulating the starting and/or the operation of a gas turbine and a power plant are provided. The method includes continuously extracting fuel from a fuel network, and combusting, in at least one combustion chamber of a gas turbine, the fuel by adding combustion air. For an increase of a fuel stream supplied to the at least one combustion chamber, a fuel volume is extracted from a fuel store and supplied to the fuel still to be supplied to the at least one combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Inventors: Eberhard Deuker, Jan Eickelkamp, Boris Ferdinand Kock, Berthold Köstlin, Jürgen Meisl, Dennis Nehlsen
  • Publication number: 20130074506
    Abstract: A turbine burner is provided. The turbine burner has a secondary feed unit and a primary feed unit. The primary feed unit has a primary mixing tube and a fuel nozzle that are arranged concentrically around the secondary feed unit. The primary mixing tube and the fuel nozzle have a fluid flow connection. The fuel nozzle has an annular wall that is radially spaced in the axial direction from the secondary feed unit such that a gap height is fainted by the annular wall and the secondary feed unit. The annular wall has an inside wall directed toward the secondary feed unit and having blades with a leading edge on the upstream side. The fuel nozzle has an inlet and the blades have an axial distance from the inlet. The ratio of the distance to the gap height is greater than 1 and less than the gap height.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Inventors: Boris Ferdinand Kock, Berthold Köstlin, Bernd Prade
  • Patent number: 8356621
    Abstract: A device for increasing service life of a combustion installation is disclosed. The combustion installation has a gas-conducting component and a conducted gas has dirt particles. The gas-conducting component has a layer which is partially detached together with the dirt particles of the gas when the layer is impinged with the gas and when a dirt particle is deposited on the layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Hannemann, Berthold Köstlin, Rainer Nies
  • Publication number: 20120167583
    Abstract: A method for starting a burner for combusting synthesis gases is provided. The burner includes first and second fuel passages, the first fuel passage encompasses the second fuel passage in a substantially concentric manner and the gas transferred to the burner is mixed with combusting air and is combusted. In order to start the burner, the second fuel passage is first loaded with a synthesis gas to a predefined burner power at a first starting phase and the first fuel passage is loaded with the synthesis gas at a second starting phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Berthold Köstlin, Frank Hannemann, Andreas Heilos, Gerhard Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 8177547
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for starting a burner for combusting synthesis gases, wherein said burner comprises first and second fuel passages, the first fuel passage encompasses the second fuel passage in a substantially concentric manner and the gas transferred to the burner is mixed with combusting air and is combusted. According to said invention, in order to start the burner, the second fuel passage is first loaded with a synthesis gas to a predefined burner power at a first starting phase and the first fuel passage is loaded with the synthesis gas at a second starting phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Berthold Köstlin, Frank Hannemann, Andreas Heilos, Gerhard Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20100323309
    Abstract: A method for reducing self-induced flame oscillations is provided. In a first fluid mass flow flowing through a jet nozzle from a fluid inlet opening to a fluid outlet opening, a second fluid mass flow is injected on an axial position of the jet nozzle positioned downstream from the fluid inlet opening. One fluid mass flow includes air, and the other fluid mass flow includes a fuel. A second method for reducing self-induced flame oscillations is also provided. In a first fluid mass flow flowing through a jet nozzle from a fluid inlet opening to a fluid outlet opening, a second fluid mass flow is injected on a radial position of the jet nozzle in relation to the circumference of the jet nozzle. One mass flow includes air and the other fluid mass flow includes a fuel. Burners which ensure the execution of the method are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventors: David Barkowski, Matthias Hase, Werner Krebs, Berthold Köstlin, Martin Lenze, Martin Stapper, Jaap Van Kampen
  • Publication number: 20100186417
    Abstract: A method for protecting a burner from being heated excessively during the combustion of a fuel in a combustion chamber is provided. The fuel is injected through a fuel nozzle at the same time as an inert gas in the surroundings of the injected fuel is injected into the combustion chamber in such a manner that the fuel is separated spatially from an oxidizer by the inert gas until an ignitable mixture of the fuel is produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Malte Blomeyer, Olga Deiss, Andre Kluge, Thomas Kunadt, Berthold Köstlin, Martin Lenze, Paul Pixner, Uwe Sieber
  • Publication number: 20100186643
    Abstract: A device for increasing service life of a combustion installation is disclosed. The combustion installation has a gas-conducting component and a conducted gas has dirt particles. The gas-conducting component has a layer which is partially detached together with the dirt particles of the gas when the layer is impinged with the gas and when a dirt particle is deposited on the layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2007
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Frank Hannemann, Berthold Köstlin, Rainer Nies
  • Publication number: 20100183991
    Abstract: A method for operating a premixing burner is provided. The premixing burner includes a premixing zone. An air mass flow and fuel may be injected into the premixing zone, and a potential hot gas backflow area may form. A fluid containing no fuel is injected downstream from the fuel injection into the premixing zone in order that a hot gas backflow area does not form. A premixing burner including a premixing zone is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Inventors: Berthold Köstlin, Martin Lenze, Bernd Prade