Patents by Inventor Franz Berner

Franz Berner 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: 9470456
    Abstract: A melter gasifier of a smelting reduction installation is charged by bringing together coal -containing material in lump form and iron carrier material (which may be hot) before and/or while they enter the melter gasifier. The ratio of the combined amounts of iron carrier material and coal-containing material in lump form is variable. The combined amounts of iron carrier material and coal-containing material in lump form are distributed over the cross section of the melter gasifier by a dynamic distributing device, and the ratio of the combined amounts of the iron carrier material and coal-containing material in lump form is set depending on the position of the dynamic distributing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Aichinger, Franz Berner, Thomas Eder, Robert Millner, Jan-Friedemann Plaul, Norbert Rein, Andreas Scherney, Kurt Wieder, Johann Wurm
  • Patent number: 9400138
    Abstract: A melting reduction assembly (1) has a melting gasification zone, including a packed bed (4) formed by solid carbon carriers and ferrous input materials, the zone has a lower section for receiving liquid pig iron (6) or raw steel material and liquid slag (7), a tap (9) for liquid slag and liquid pig iron. A plurality of oxygen nozzles (5) supplies oxygen. The nozzles are in at least two nozzle planes arranged spaced apart from each other and parallel in the vertical direction and horizontally distributed over the circumstances of the shell (10) of the melting reduction assembly (1) and arranged offset to each other in their respective nozzle planes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA GMBH
    Inventors: Franz Berner, Jan-Friedemann Plaul, Kurt Wieder, Johann Wurm
  • Publication number: 20140138883
    Abstract: A melting reduction assembly (1) has a melting gasification zone, including a packed bed (4) formed by solid carbon carriers and ferrous input materials, the zone has a lower section for receiving liquid pig iron (6) or raw steel material and liquid slag (7), a tap (9) for liquid slag and liquid pig iron. A plurality of oxygen nozzles (5) supplies oxygen. The nozzles are in at least two nozzle planes arranged spaced apart from each other and parallel in the vertical direction and horizontally distributed over the circumstances of the shell (10) of the melting reduction assembly (1) and arranged offset to each other in their respective nozzle planes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: SIEMENS VAI METALS TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Franz Berner, Jan-Friedemann Plaul, Kurt Wieder, Johann Wurm
  • Publication number: 20140110891
    Abstract: A melter gasifier of a smelting reduction installation is charged by bringing together coal-containing material in lump form and iron carrier material (which may be hot) before and/or while they enter the melter gasifier. The ratio of the combined amounts of iron carrier material and coal-containing material in lump form is variable. The combined amounts of iron carrier material and coal-containing material in lump form are distributed over the cross section of the melter gasifier by a dynamic distributing device, and the ratio of the combined amounts of the iron carrier material and coal-containing material in lump form is set depending on the position of the dynamic distributing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: SIEMENS VAI METALS TECHNOLOGIES GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Aichinger, Franz Berner, Thomas Eder, Robert Millner, Jan-Friedemann Plaul, Norbert Rein, Andreas Scherney, Kurt Wieder, Johann Wurm
  • Patent number: 8540931
    Abstract: An injector insert pipe is arranged in the gas channel of a nozzle for injecting oxygen-containing gas into a pig iron production unit, wherein an interspace which surrounds the pipe is present over the entire pipe length between the wall of the gas channel and the pipe outer wall. The pipe extends at least as far as the nozzle end face which contains the mouth of the gas channel. The pipe space is connected to an oxygen-containing gas feed line, and the interspace is connected to a protective gas supply line. In a process, oxygen-containing gas is fed into the pipe space, which after it has flowed through the pipe, enters the production unit at an entry velocity, and the interspace is simultaneously flowed through by a gas which exits into the production unit at an exit velocity, wherein the entry velocity is greater than the exit velocity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignees: Siemens Vai Metals Technologies GmbH, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Georg Aichinger, Franz Berner, Stefan Lechner, Marinko Lekic-Ninic, Jan-Friedemann Plaul, Johannes Leopold Schenk, Martin Schmidt, Thomas Söntgen, Bogdan Vuletic, Kurt Wieder, Johann Wurm
  • Publication number: 20110290075
    Abstract: An injector insert pipe is arranged in the gas channel of a nozzle for injecting oxygen-containing gas into a pig iron production unit, wherein an interspace which surrounds the pipe is present over the entire pipe length between the wall of the gas channel and the pipe outer wall . The pipe extends at least as far as the nozzle end face which contains the mouth of the gas channel. The pipe space is connected to an oxygen-containing gas feed line, and the interspace is connected to a protective gas supply line. In a process, oxygen-containing gas is fed into the pipe space, which after it has flowed through the pipe, enters the production unit at an entry velocity, and the interspace is simultaneously flowed through by a gas which exits into the production unit at an exit velocity, wherein the entry velocity is greater than the exit velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Inventors: Georg Aichinger, Franz Berner, Stefan Lechner, Marinko Lekic-Ninic, Jan-Friedemann Plaul, Johannes Leopold Schenk, Martin Schmidt, Thomas Söntgen, Bogdan Vuletic, Kurt Wieder, Johann Wurm
  • Patent number: 7513729
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a process for distributing a lumpy bulk material, in particular iron ore which has been at least partially prereduced, onto an extensive surface, in particular onto a fixed bed, this surface extending within a reactor or vessel used in physical or chemical process technology, in particular in a reactor used in a metallurgical plant to produce pig iron or primary steel products, and the lumpy bulk material being charged via at least one charging apparatus, which has at least two, in particular rotationally symmetrical, chutes, which are preferably arranged at the same distance from the vertical longitudinal axis of the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2009
    Assignee: Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Leopold Werner Kepplinger, Johann Wurm, Franz Berner
  • Publication number: 20060182555
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a process for distributing a lumpy bulk material, in particular iron ore which has been at least partially prereduced, onto an extensive surface, in particular onto a fixed bed, this surface extending within a reactor or vessel used in physical or chemical process technology, in particular in a reactor used in a metallurgical plant to produce pig iron or primary steel products, and the lumpy bulk material being charged via at least one charging apparatus, which has at least two, in particular rotationally symmetrical, chutes, which are preferably arranged at the same distance from the vertical longitudinal axis of the reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Inventors: Leopold Kepplinger, Johann Wurm, Franz Berner
  • Patent number: 7059818
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a process for distributing a lumpy bulk material, in particular iron ore which has been at least partially prereduced, onto an extensive surface, in particular onto a fixed bed, this surface extending within a reactor or vessel used in physical or chemical process technology, in particular in a reactor used in a metallurgical plant to produce pig iron or primary steel products, and the lumpy bulk material being charged via at least one charging apparatus, which has at least two, in particular rotationally symmetrical, chutes, which are preferably arranged at the same distance from the vertical longitudinal axis of the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Leopold Werner Kepplinger, Johann Wurm, Franz Berner
  • Publication number: 20040256772
    Abstract: A cooling plate with reinforcing part for furnaces which are provided with a refractory lining. Coolant passages are arranged in the interior of the plate, which is provided with at least one additional cooling segment provided with a cooling passage into which a displacement body is inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventors: Herbert Scharinger, Franz Berner, Dave Osborne, Harald Sprenger
  • Publication number: 20040022621
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a process for distributing a lumpy bulk material, in particular iron ore which has been at least partially prereduced, onto an extensive surface, in particular onto a fixed bed, this surface extending within a reactor or vessel used in physical or chemical process technology, in particular in a reactor used in a metallurgical plant to produce pig iron or primary steel products, and the lumpy bulk material being charged via at least one charging apparatus, which has at least two, in particular rotationally symmetrical, chutes, which are preferably arranged at the same distance from the vertical longitudinal axis of the reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Leopold Werner Kepplinger, Johann Wurm, Franz Berner