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).
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Patent number: 9470456Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 9, 2012Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA GmbHInventors: Georg Aichinger, Franz Berner, Thomas Eder, Robert Millner, Jan-Friedemann Plaul, Norbert Rein, Andreas Scherney, Kurt Wieder, Johann Wurm
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Patent number: 9400138Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: PRIMETALS TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA GMBHInventors: Franz Berner, Jan-Friedemann Plaul, Kurt Wieder, Johann Wurm
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Publication number: 20140138883Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2012Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: SIEMENS VAI METALS TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Franz Berner, Jan-Friedemann Plaul, Kurt Wieder, Johann Wurm
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Publication number: 20140110891Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: SIEMENS VAI METALS TECHNOLOGIES GmbHInventors: Georg Aichinger, Franz Berner, Thomas Eder, Robert Millner, Jan-Friedemann Plaul, Norbert Rein, Andreas Scherney, Kurt Wieder, Johann Wurm
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Patent number: 8540931Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 5, 2009Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignees: Siemens Vai Metals Technologies GmbH, Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: 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
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Publication number: 20110290075Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2009Publication date: December 1, 2011Inventors: 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
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Patent number: 7513729Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 30, 2006Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignee: Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau GmbH & Co.Inventors: Leopold Werner Kepplinger, Johann Wurm, Franz Berner
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Publication number: 20060182555Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2006Publication date: August 17, 2006Inventors: Leopold Kepplinger, Johann Wurm, Franz Berner
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Patent number: 7059818Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 27, 2001Date of Patent: June 13, 2006Assignee: Voest-Alpine Industrieanlagenbau GmbH & Co.Inventors: Leopold Werner Kepplinger, Johann Wurm, Franz Berner
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Publication number: 20040256772Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2004Publication date: December 23, 2004Inventors: Herbert Scharinger, Franz Berner, Dave Osborne, Harald Sprenger
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Publication number: 20040022621Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2003Publication date: February 5, 2004Inventors: Leopold Werner Kepplinger, Johann Wurm, Franz Berner