Patents by Inventor Friedhelm Weirich

Friedhelm Weirich 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: 8821692
    Abstract: Method for fast pyrolysis of lignocellulose including: mechanically comminuting the lignocellulose to lignocellulose particles; at least one of completely drying and preheating the lignocellulose particles; mixing the lignocellulose particles with heat transfer particles so as to provide a mixture; heating the heat transfer particles, prior to the mixing, to a temperature between 500° C. and 650° C.; and heating, in a pyrolysis reactor with oxygen excluded, the lignocellulose particles using the heat transfer particles so as to establish a temperature between 400° C. and 600° C. for 1 to 50 seconds and so as to react the lignocellulose particles so as to provide pyrolysis coke, pyrolysis condensate, and pyrolysis gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie
    Inventors: Edmund Henrich, Friedhelm Weirich, Eckhard Dinjus
  • Patent number: 8043391
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing and preparing fast pyrolysis products from a biomass for entrained-flow pressure gasification that includes: heating of the biomass under exclusion of oxygen in a pyrolysis reactor, a temperature of between 400 to 600° C. being established for one to 50 seconds, such that the biomass reacts to form porous pyrolysis coke, pyrolysis condensate and pyrolysis gas; and drawing off the pyrolysis gas; condensing vaporous constituents of the pyrolysis condensate in a plurality of condensation stages so as to: condense, in a first condensation stage, at temperatures above the dew point of water, a low-temperature carbonization tar from the vaporous constituents; and condense and separate at temperatures between 0° C. and the dew point of water, in at least one subsequent condensation stage, an aqueous solution of oxygen containing organic compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
    Inventors: Eckhard Dinjus, Edmund Henrich, Klaus Raffelt, Friedhelm Weirich
  • Publication number: 20100163395
    Abstract: Method for fast pyrolysis of lignocellulose including: mechanically comminuting the lignocellulose to lignocellulose particles; at least one of completely drying and preheating the lignocellulose particles; mixing the lignocellulose particles with heat transfer particles so as to provide a mixture; heating the heat transfer particles, prior to the mixing, to a temperature between 500° C. and 650° C.; and heating, in a pyrolysis reactor with oxygen excluded, the lignocellulose particles using the heat transfer particles so as to establish a temperature between 400° C. and 600° C. for 1 to 50 seconds and so as to react the lignocellulose particles so as to provide pyrolysis coke, pyrolysis condensate, and pyrolysis gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Applicant: FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM KARLSRUHE GMBH
    Inventors: Edmund Henrich, Friedhelm Weirich, Eckhard Dinjus
  • Publication number: 20080236043
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing and preparing fast pyrolysis products from a biomass for entrained-flow pressure gasification that includes: heating of the biomass under exclusion of oxygen in a pyrolysis reactor, a temperature of between 400 to 600° C. being established for one to 50 seconds, such that the biomass reacts to form porous pyrolysis coke, pyrolysis condensate and pyrolysis gas; and drawing off the pyrolysis gas; condensing vaporous constituents of the pyrolysis condensate in a plurality of condensation stages so as to: condense, in a first condensation stage, at temperatures above the dew point of water, a low-temperature carbonization tar from the vaporous constituents; and condense and separate at temperatures between 0° C. and the dew point of water, in at least one subsequent condensation stage, an aqueous solution of oxygen-containing organic compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2006
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
    Inventors: Eckhard Dinjus, Edmund Henrich, Klaus Raffelt, Friedhelm Weirich
  • Patent number: 4400183
    Abstract: Process for separating the noble fission gases xenon and krypton from a prepurified waste gas from a nuclear plant. The prepurified waste gas is brought into contact with liquid Cl.sub.2 CF.sub.2 as an absorption agent in a first column at an operating pressure which is less than or equal to normal pressure, whereby Xe, Kr, N.sub.2 O, CO.sub.2, O.sub.2 and N.sub.2 are absorbed by the agent. Subsequently, the liquid absorption agent containing the absorbed gases is heated to substantially the boiling temperature of Cl.sub.2 CF.sub.2 at the operating pressure for vaporizing part of the liquid absorption agent and desorbing the absorbed Kr, N.sub.2 and O.sub.2 to thereby separate the Kr and Xe from one another. The desorbed Kr, N.sub.2 and O.sub.2 gases are separated from the vaporized absorption agent. The liquid absorption agent which has not been vaporized is treated to recover Xe, N.sub.2 O and CO.sub.2. Waste gas containing Kr, N.sub.2 and O.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1983
    Assignee: Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
    Inventors: Edmund Henrich, Reinhold Hufner, Friedhelm Weirich