Patents by Inventor Franz J. Lehner

Franz J. Lehner 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: 5039314
    Abstract: In this method for producing O2 and/or ozone for use in an oxygen consumer and/or an ozone consumer (2, 4), whereby residual oxygen is adsorbed from the consumers and, subsequently, scrubbed in a pressure-swing adsorption system (5); whereby the gas is, at least partially, recirculated to the oxygen consumer or, by preceding it with an ozonizer (3), to the ozone consumer (4); and whereby the amount of oxygen required for the operation of the consumers (2, 4) in addition to the recirculated oxygen is derived from an oxygen source (6, 7) separate from the pressure-swing adsorption system (5) designed for the scrubbing of the recirculated gas.In this connection, the preferred procedure is to feed the gas desorbed from the pressure-swing adsorption system (5) in the process of regeneration, at least partially, into the gas flow adsorbed from the consumers (2, 4) and to recirculate it via the pressure-swing adsorption system (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1991
    Assignee: Voest-Alpine Industrienlagenbau Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Franz J. Lehner, Rainer Wawrina