Patents by Inventor Joachim Franke
Joachim Franke 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: 8122856Abstract: Disclosed is a steam generator pipe which can be produced in a simple and economical manner and which has a particularly good heat transitional behavior having a large band width with various operational conditions. According to the invention, at least one insert is arranged in the inner chamber of the pipe in order to form a swirl-generating inner profile. The insert comprises a plurality of wires which wind, in a screw-like manner, along the inner wall of the pipe in the form of a multi-path thread.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2006Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Joachim Franke, Oliver Herbst, Holger Schmidt
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Publication number: 20120024241Abstract: A continuous evaporator for a horizontally constructed waste heat steam generator is provided. The continuous evaporator includes a first evaporator heating surface having a plurality of essentially vertically arranged first steam generator tubes through which a flow medium may flow from bottom to top, and another second evaporator heating surface which is mounted downstream of the first evaporator heating surface on the flow medium side. The second evaporator heating surface includes a plurality of additional essentially vertically arranged second steam generator tubes through which a flow medium may flow from bottom to top. An aperature system is arranged downstream of the second steam generator tubes on the flow medium side.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2010Publication date: February 2, 2012Inventors: Jan Brückner, Joachim Franke, Gerhard Schlund
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Publication number: 20110315094Abstract: A continuous evaporator for a horizontally constructed waste heat steam generator is provided. The continuous evaporator includes a first evaporator heating surface having a plurality of essentially vertically arranged first steam generator tubes through which a flow medium can flow from bottom to top, and a second evaporator heating surface which is mounted downstream of the first evaporator heating surface on the flow medium side. The second evaporator heating surface includes a plurality of additional essentially vertically arranged second steam generator tubes through which a flow medium can flow from bottom to top. The second steam generator tubes are designed in such a manner that the average mass flow density which can be controlled in the full load operation does not fall below a predetermined minimum mass flow density in the second steam generator tubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2010Publication date: December 29, 2011Inventors: Jan Brückner, Joachim Franke, Gerhard Schlund
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Publication number: 20110315095Abstract: A continuous evaporator for a horizontally constructed waste heat steam generator is provided. The continuous evaporator includes a first evaporator heating surface having a plurality of essentially vertically arranged first steam generator tubes through which a flow medium can flow from bottom to top, and a second evaporator heating surface which is mounted downstream of the first evaporator heating surface on the flow medium side. The second evaporator heating surface includes a plurality of additional essentially vertically arranged second steam generator tubes through which a flow medium can flow from bottom to top. The first steam generator tubes are designed in such a manner that the average mass flow density which may be controlled in the full load operation does not fall below the predetermined minimum mass flow density in the first steam generator tubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2010Publication date: December 29, 2011Inventors: Jan Brückner, Joachim Franke, Gerhard Schlund
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Publication number: 20110203536Abstract: A continuous steam generator is provided. The continuous steam generator includes a combustion chamber having a number of burners for fossil fuels, downstream of which a vertical gas duct is mounted, on the hot gas side, in an upper region above a horizontal gas duct. The outside wall of the combustion chamber is formed, in a lower region, from evaporation tubes welded together in a gas-tight manner and mounted upstream of a water separator system, on the flow medium side, and in an upper region, from superheater tubes welded together in a gastight manner and mounted downstream of the water separator system on the flow medium side. The boundary between the regions of the evaporation tubes and the superheater tubes is essentially horizontal around the combustion chamber, in a region of the bottom of the horizontal gas duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2009Publication date: August 25, 2011Inventors: Martin Effert, Joachim Franke
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Publication number: 20110197830Abstract: A continuous steam generator including a combustion chamber with a plurality of burners for fossil fuel is provided. A vertical gas duct is connected downstream of the combustion chamber on the hot gas side, in an upper region via a horizontal gas duct. The outside wall of the combustion chamber is formed from evaporation pipes which are welded together in a gas-tight manner and mounted upstream of a water separator system on the flow medium side and from superheater pipes which are welded together in a gas-tight manner and mounted downstream of the water separator system. The water separator system includes a plurality of water separation elements, each element includes an inlet tube which is connected to the respective upstream evaporation for tubes, which extend into a water evacuation tube. A distributer element is arranged on the evaporator side between the respective water separator element and the inlet collector.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2009Publication date: August 18, 2011Inventors: Jan Brückner, Martin Effert, Joachim Franke
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Publication number: 20110162592Abstract: A continuous steam generator is provided. The continuous steam generator includes a number of burners for fossil fuels, the outside wall thereof being fully or partially formed from steam generator tubes welded together in a gas-tight manner. The burners are arranged in a combustion chamber, and a vertical gas duct is mounted downstream of the combustion chamber above a horizontal gas duct on the hot gas side. A first part of the steam generating tubes forms a system of evaporation tubes mounted upstream of a water separator system, on the flow medium side, and a second side, and a second part of the steam generating tubes forms a system of superheater tubes mounted downstream of the water separator system on the flow medium side. Superheater tubes adjacent and parallel to evaporation tubes are mounted directly downstream of the water separator system on the flow medium side.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2009Publication date: July 7, 2011Inventors: Martin Effert, Joachim Franke, Frank Thomas
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Publication number: 20110162594Abstract: A waste heat steam generator including evaporator tubes is provided. The evaporator tubes are connected in parallel on the flow medium side, a plurality of overheating tubes are mounted downstream of the evaporator tubes using a water separation system. The water separation system includes water separation elements, each water separation element being respectively mounted downstream of the plurality of evaporator tubes and/or upstream of a plurality of overheating tubes. Each water separating element includes an inlet pipe which is respectively connected upstream to the evaporator tubes, the inlet pipe extending into a water evacuation pipe when seen in the longitudinal direction. A plurality of outflow pipes branch off in the transitional area, the pipes being connected to an inlet collector of the overheating tubes which are respectively connected downstream. A distribution element is arranged on the steam side between the respective water separating element and the inlet collector.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2009Publication date: July 7, 2011Inventors: Jan Brückner, Joachim Franke, Holger Schmidt, Frank Thomas
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Publication number: 20110139094Abstract: A method for operating a continuous flow steam generator with an evaporator heating surface is provided. A target value for a supply water mass flow is fed to a device for adjusting the supply water mass flow. In order to improve the quality of a predictive supply water or mass flow control and to maintain the enthalpy of the flow medium at the evaporator outlet particularly stable especially when load changes occur, a correction factor is taken into consideration during production of the target value for the supply water mass flow. The correction factor is a characteristic of the temporal derivative of enthalpy or the density of the flow medium at the input of one or more heating surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2009Publication date: June 16, 2011Inventors: Jan Brückner, Joachim Franke, Frank Thomas
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Patent number: 7878157Abstract: The invention relates to a fossil-energy heated continuous steam generator, whereby the at least one combustion chamber, viewed in the flow direction of the hot gases, is divided into at least two throughflow segments, formed by evaporator heating surfaces, whereby the evaporator heating surfaces each comprise steam generation tubes welded to each other in a gastight manner and pressurized in parallel with a flow medium. According to the invention, said generator is suitable for operation with high fresh steam parameters, such as for example, steam temperatures of approximately 700° C., with a simple construction and particularly simple assembly, whereby a throughflow segment, arranged after the first through flow segment, viewed in the direction of flow of the hot gases, forms the first evaporator stage for the flow medium, such that the injection of particularly cold flow medium can occur in the region of maximum heating.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2005Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Martin Effert, Joachim Franke, Rudolf Kral
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Publication number: 20100288210Abstract: A method for operating a once-through steam generator including an evaporator heating surface is provided. A target value for the supply water mass flow is fed to a device for setting the supply water mass flow, which is predefined using the ratio of the heat flow currently being transferred in the evaporator heating surface from the hot gas to the flow medium to a target enthalpy increase predefined with respect to the desired live steam condition of the flow medium in the evaporator heating surface. A forced-flow steam generator used for carrying out the method is also provided. The heat flow transferred from the hot gas to the flow medium is ascertained for this purpose allowing for a specific temperature value characteristic of the current temperature of the hot gas at the evaporator inlet and a specific mass flow value characteristic for the current mass flow of the hot gas.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2008Publication date: November 18, 2010Inventors: Jan Brückner, Joachim Franke, Frank Thomas
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Patent number: 7628124Abstract: The invention relates to a steam generator whose continuously heating evaporator surface is arranged in a hot gas channel for a hot gas passage in a substantially horizontal direction and which comprises a plurality of steam generating pipes passed through by flowing medium, wherein a plurality of output collectors which are mounted downstream of certain steam generating pipes, on the side of flowing medium, are oriented in the longitudinal direction thereof substantially parallel to the hot gas direction. The invention improves the steam generator such that it is possible to attain a high operational flexibility, a particularly reduced start- and load-alternation time, including starting operation or light load phases and to maintain a low-cost production. Each output collector comprises an integrated water separating element by means of which said collector is connected, on the side of flowing medium, to a plurality of downstream arranged overheating pipes of an overheating surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2006Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jan Brückner, Joachim Franke, Rudolf Kral
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Patent number: 7587133Abstract: The invention relates to a continuous steam generator provided with an evaporator through flow heating surface which is disposed in a heating gas channel which can be cross flown in an approximately vertical manner in a heating gas device, said evaporator through flow heating surface comprising a plurality of parallel connected steam generating pipes enabling a flow medium to flow through, and an overheating heating surface which is arranged downstream from the evaporator through flow heating surface comprising a plurality of parallel connected overheating pipes enabling the evaporated flow medium to flow through, also enabling production and operational costs to be reduced and enabling the temperature of the steam on the outlet of the overheating heating surface to be controlled in a comparatively simple and flexible manner. The steam end-point of the flow medium is displaced to the overheating pipe, if required.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2004Date of Patent: September 8, 2009Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Joachim Franke, Rudolf Kral, Dieter Schiesser
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Publication number: 20090095236Abstract: Disclosed is a steam generator pipe which can be produced in a simple and economical manner and which has a particularly good heat transitional behavior having a large band width with various operational conditions. According to the invention, at least one insert is arranged in the inner chamber of the pipe in order to form a swirl-generating inner profile. The insert comprises a plurality of wires which wind, in a screw-like manner, along the inner wall of the pipe in the form of a multi-path thread.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2006Publication date: April 16, 2009Inventors: Joachim Franke, Oliver Herbst, Holger Schmidt
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Publication number: 20090071419Abstract: The invention relates to a steam generator wherein a continuous heating panel of a generator, which is formed from a number of evaporator tubes, and an overheating panel, which is formed from a number of over-heating tubes which are arranged downstream from the evaporator tubes and on the flow side, are arranged in a heating gas channel. According to the invention, a water separating element is integrated into a number of over-flow tubes which are connected on the flow side of one of several evaporator tubes to one or several overheating tubes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2006Publication date: March 19, 2009Inventors: Joachim Franke, Rudolf Kral
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Publication number: 20090050307Abstract: The invention relates to a steam generator pipe which can be produced in a simple and economical manner and which has particularly good heat transitional behaviour having a large band width with various operational conditions. According to the invention, at least one insert is arranged in the inner chamber of the pipe in order to form a swirl-generating inner profile. The insert comprises at least one lamination frame having a number of large recesses. The insert is drilled in the longitudinal direction and rests at least partially on the pipe inner wall with the longitudinal edges thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2006Publication date: February 26, 2009Inventors: Joachim Franke, Oliver Herbst, Holger Schmidt
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Publication number: 20080257282Abstract: The invention relates to a fossil-energy heated continuous steam generator, whereby the at least one combustion chamber, viewed in the flow direction of the hot gases, is divided into at least two throughflow segments, formed by evaporator heating surfaces, whereby the evaporator heating surfaces each comprise steam generation tubes welded to each other in a gastight manner and pressurized in parallel with a flow medium. According to the invention, said generator is suitable for operation with high fresh steam parameters, such as for example, steam temperatures of approximately 700° C., with a simple construction and particularly simple assembly, whereby a throughflow segment, arranged after the first through flow segment, viewed in the direction of flow of the hot gases, forms the first evaporator stage for the flow medium, such that the injection of particularly cold flow medium can occur in the region of maximum heating.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2005Publication date: October 23, 2008Inventors: Martin Effert, Joachim Franke, Rudolf Kral
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Patent number: 7428374Abstract: Disclosed is a steam generator in which a continuous evaporating heating area is disposed within a heating gas duct that is penetrated in a nearly horizontal direction by a heating gas. Said continuous evaporating heating area comprises a number of steam-generating pipes that are connected in parallel and are penetrated by a flowing medium and is configured such that a steam-generating pipe which is heated more than another steam-generating pipe of the same continuous evaporating heating area has a higher throughput of the flowing medium than said other steam-generating pipe. The aim of the invention is to create a steam generator which provides a particularly high degree of stability of flow during operation of the continuous evaporating heating area while keeping the structural complexity and design comparatively simple.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2003Date of Patent: September 23, 2008Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Joachim Franke, Rudolf Kral, Eberhard Wittchow
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Publication number: 20080190382Abstract: The invention relates to a steam generator whose continuously heating evaporator surface is arranged in a hot gas channel for a hot gas passage in a substantially horizontal direction and which comprises a plurality of steam generating pipes passed through by flowing medium, wherein a plurality of output collectors which are mounted downstream of certain steam generating pipes, on the side of flowing medium, are oriented in the longitudinal direction thereof substantially parallel to the hot gas direction. The invention improves the steam generator such that it is possible to attain a high operational flexibility, a particularly reduced start- and load-alternation time, including starting operation or light load phases and to maintain a low-cost production. Each output collector comprises an integrated water separating element by means of which said collector is connected, on the side of flowing medium, to a plurality of downstream arranged overheating pipes of an overheating surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2006Publication date: August 14, 2008Inventors: Jan Bruckner, Joachim Franke, Rudolf Kral
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Patent number: 7406928Abstract: The invention relates to a continuous steam generator provided, in a duct for hot gas circulating in a substantially horizontal direction, with a continuous heating surface of an evaporator comprising a plurality of steam generator tubes which are mounted in parallel for circulating a fluid flow. The inventive device requires exceptionally low construction expenditures and ensures a high degree of safety and a high efficiency. For this purpose, the continuous heating surface of the evaporator is characterized in that it comprises a segment of the heating surface through which a moving fluid flows in an opposite direction with respect to the heated gas direction is positioned in such a way that a saturated steam temperature which is adjusted during operation at the exit from the continuous heating surface deviates from the predetermined maximum value of the temperature of the gas prevailing during operation at the outlet of the segment of the heating surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2004Date of Patent: August 5, 2008Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Joachim Franke, Rudolf Kral