Patents by Inventor Joachim Brodesser

Joachim Brodesser 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: 9879853
    Abstract: A steam generator is provided. The steam generator has a combustion chamber having a peripheral wall formed at least partially from gas-proof, welded steam generator pipes, at least two additional inner walls formed at least partially from additional steam generator pipes which are arranged inside the combustion chamber. The inner walls are connected one behind the other on the flow medium side by an intermediate collector. The steam generator has a high service life and is reliable. The flow medium on the inlet of the inner wall upstream of the intermediate collector has a lower temperature than that of the flow medium on an inlet of the peripheral wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Joachim Brodesser, Martin Effert
  • Patent number: 9671105
    Abstract: A continuous flow steam generator includes a combustion chamber, having substantially rectangular cross-section and a lower and upper combustion chamber region, and has a horizontal gas pass connected downstream of the combustion chamber on the flue-gas side. Gas-tight and gas-permeable peripheral walls of the generator are completely or partly made of steam generator pipes welded together and through which a flow medium can flow, and collectors are arranged and connected to the steam generator pipes such that groups of steam generator pipes connected in parallel form heating surface segments of the peripheral walls. First passage collectors are arranged and connected such that the flow medium from first heating surface segments of two parallel first peripheral walls of the lower combustion chamber region are mixed with the fluid medium from second heating surface segments of second peripheral walls, standing perpendicular to the first peripheral walls, of the upper combustion chamber region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joachim Brodesser, Martin Effert, Tobias Schulze
  • Patent number: 9574766
    Abstract: A once-through steam generator includes a combustion chamber, the walls of which comprise vertically arranged evaporator pipes connected to one another in gas-tight fashion by pipe webs, through which evaporator pipes flows a flow medium from bottom to top. The evaporator pipes are combined by upstream inlet collectors to form more intensely and less intensely heated pipe groups. A feed water supply is assigned to respective inlet collectors. At least one regulating valve regulates throttling of the mass flow of the flow medium into the evaporator pipes. To determine a control variable for the regulating valve, temperature measurement device measures outlet temperatures of the flow medium exiting the evaporator pipes. Each of the more intensely and less intensely heated pipe groups is assigned to one of the inlet collectors and to an outlet collector, and each of the outlet collectors has one of the temperature measurement devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joachim Brodesser, Jan Brückner, Martin Effert, Tobias Schulze, Frank Thomas
  • Patent number: 9568216
    Abstract: A method for operating a directly heated, solar-thermal steam generator is provided. As per the method, a nominal value {dot over (M)}s for the supply water mass flow {dot over (M)} is conducted to an apparatus for adjusting the supply water mass flow {dot over (M)} wherein, at the adjustment of the nominal value {dot over (M)}s for the supply water mass flow {dot over (M)}, account is taken of a correction value KT, by which the thermal effects of storage or withdrawal of thermal energy in an evaporator are corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jürgen Birnbaum, Joachim Brodesser, Jan Brückner, Martin Effert, Joachim Franke, Gerhard Schlund, Tobias Schulze, Frank Thomas, Gerhard Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20160178188
    Abstract: A continuous flow steam generator includes a combustion chamber, having substantially rectangular cross-section and a lower and upper combustion chamber region, and has a horizontal gas pass connected downstream of the combustion chamber on the flue-gas side. Gas-tight and gas-permeable peripheral walls of the generator are completely or partly made of steam generator pipes welded together and through which a flow medium can flow, and collectors are arranged and connected to the steam generator pipes such that groups of steam generator pipes connected in parallel form heating surface segments of the peripheral walls. First passage collectors are arranged and connected such that the flow medium from first heating surface segments of two parallel first peripheral walls of the lower combustion chamber region are mixed with the fluid medium from second heating surface segments of second peripheral walls, standing perpendicular to the first peripheral walls, of the upper combustion chamber region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joachim Brodesser, Martin Effert, Tobias Schulze
  • Publication number: 20160178190
    Abstract: A once-through steam generator includes a combustion chamber, the walls of which comprise vertically arranged evaporator pipes connected to one another in gas-tight fashion by pipe webs, through which evaporator pipes flows a flow medium from bottom to top. The evaporator pipes are combined by upstream inlet collectors to form more intensely and less intensely heated pipe groups. A feed water supply is assigned to respective inlet collectors. At least one regulating valve regulates throttling of the mass flow of the flow medium into the evaporator pipes. To determine a control variable for the regulating valve, temperature measurement device measures outlet temperatures of the flow medium exiting the evaporator pipes. Each of the more intensely and less intensely heated pipe groups is assigned to one of the inlet collectors and to an outlet collector, and each of the outlet collectors has one of the temperature measurement devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joachim Brodesser, Jan Brückner, Martin Effert, Tobias Schulze, Frank Thomas
  • Publication number: 20140041601
    Abstract: A steam generator is provided. The steam generator has a combustion chamber having a peripheral wall formed at least partially from gas-proof, welded steam generator pipes, at least two additional inner walls formed at least partially from additional steam generator pipes which are arranged inside the combustion chamber. The inner walls are connected one behind the other on the flow medium side by an intermediate collector. The steam generator has a high service life and is reliable. The flow medium on the inlet of the inner wall upstream of the intermediate collector has a lower temperature than that of the flow medium on an inlet of the peripheral wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Inventors: Joachim Brodesser, Martin Effert
  • Publication number: 20140034044
    Abstract: A method for operating a directly heated, solar-thermal steam generator is provided. As per the method, a nominal value Ms for the supply water mass flow M is conducted to an apparatus for adjusting the supply water mass flow M wherein, at the adjustment of the nominal value Ms for the supply water mass flow M, account is taken of a correction value KT, by which the thermal effects of storage or withdrawal of thermal energy in an evaporator are corrected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventors: Jürgen Birnbaum, Joachim Brodesser, Jan Brückner, Martin Effert, Joachim Franke, Gerhard Schlund, Tobias Schulze, Frank Thomas, Gerhard Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20140014189
    Abstract: A method for operating a once-through steam generator including an evaporator, in which a feeding mass flow of a flow medium is supplied using a feed pump to the evaporator and at least partially evaporated there, wherein flow medium that has not evaporated is separated in a separator arranged downstream of the evaporator and a circulating mass flow of the separated flow medium is returned using a circulating pump to the evaporator, and the mass flow referred to as the evaporator mass flow of the flow medium flowing through the evaporator is additively composed of the feeding mass flow and the circulating mass flow. In a low-load interval, the feeding mass flow is increased with increasing load while the circulating mass flow is kept substantially constant, in a moderate load interval the feeding mass flow is further increased with increasing load and the circulating mass flow is reduced to zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Inventors: Joachim Brodesser, Martin Effert
  • Publication number: 20130205784
    Abstract: A forced-flow steam generator includes first and second steam generator pipes which form a surrounding wall, wherein the first and second steam generator pipes are welded in a gas-tight fashion and are traversable by flow in a vertical direction. A passage collector is arranged within the surrounding wall, wherein the passage collector connects the first steam generator pipes with the second steam generator pipes. The first steam generator pipes are connected at an outlet side to an inlet side of the second steam generator pipes, wherein the second steam generator pipes are connected in series with the first steam generator pipes. Each of the second generator pipes has a restrictor device. Further, a power plant with a forced-flow steam generator is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventors: Joachim Brodesser, Jan Bruckner, Martin Effert, Joachim Franke, Tobias Schulze
  • Publication number: 20130047938
    Abstract: A method for operating a steam generator comprising a combustion chamber having a plurality of evaporator heating surfaces which are connected in parallel on the flow medium side is provided. An object is to provide a steam generator which has a particularly long service life and which is particularly reliable. For this purpose, a flow medium is introduced into an inlet of a first evaporator heating surface at a temperature which is lower than the temperature of the flow medium introduced into the inlet of a second evaporator heating surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Joachim Brodesser, Jan Brückner, Martin Effert