Patents by Inventor Hermann Br{umlaut over (u)}ckner

Hermann Br{umlaut over (u)}ckner 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).

  • Waste-heat steam generator
    Patent number: 6173679
    Abstract: For achieving a high plant efficiency, a waste-heat steam generator, in particular for a combined-cycle power plant, has a number of heating surfaces heatable by a flue gas and carrying a medium to be heated. The steam generator can be operated at critical or supercritical pressures and has a once-through evaporator connected in countercurrent to the flue gas provided on a medium side. The evaporator is followed by a preheater and preceded by a superheater on a flue-gas side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hermann Br{umlaut over (u)}ckner, Werner Schwarzott, Helmut Stierstorfer