Patents by Inventor Dirk Walter

Dirk Walter 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: 7665884
    Abstract: A mixing system should, while effecting a homogeneous mixing with a low loss of pressure, have a short intermixing distance. The mixing system contains mixing elements disposed in a flow channel and have mixing blades disposed around a respective central axis. Adjacent mixing blades each have an overlap in their plane of projection to the normal plane of the central axis. An injection location for supplying a reaction medium is connected upstream from some or all of the mixing elements. The injection location is dimensioned such that the reaction medium, at its discharge from the injection location, has a discharge velocity that is increased by an excess factor with regard to the flow medium inside the flow channel. The mixing elements are dimensioned such that the quotient of the degree of overlap of adjacent mixing blades (in percent) and of the excess factor ranges from 0.1 to 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignees: Areva ANP GmbH, Strabag AG
    Inventors: Dirk Walter, Richard Budin, Klaus Weigl, Ingo Ganzmann
  • Publication number: 20060176764
    Abstract: A mixing system should, while effecting a homogeneous mixing with a low loss of pressure, have a short intermixing distance. The mixing system contains mixing elements disposed in a flow channel and have mixing blades disposed around a respective central axis. Adjacent mixing blades each have an overlap in their plane of projection to the normal plane of the central axis. An injection location for supplying a reaction medium is connected upstream from some or all of the mixing elements. The injection location is dimensioned such that the reaction medium, at its discharge from the injection location, has a discharge velocity that is increased by an excess factor with regard to the flow medium inside the flow channel. The mixing elements are dimensioned such that the quotient of the degree of overlap of adjacent mixing blades (in percent) and of the excess factor ranges from 0.1 to 5.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Publication date: August 10, 2006
    Inventors: Dirk Walter, Richard Budin, Klaus Weigl, Ingo Ganzmann