Patents by Inventor Klaus Frohner

Klaus Frohner 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).

  • Addition of finely divided BaSO.sub.4 particles to sea water for removal of scale components
    Patent number: 3974039
    Abstract: A process of reclaiming drinking and industrial water from sea water, accing to which the sea water to be processed is subjected to a pretreatment, comprising filtering, acidifying and degassing said sea water. To the thus treated sea water there is then added in suspension finely divided barium sulphate to provide nuclei for the crystal growth of calcium sulphate on the barium sulphate. The thus obtained suspension is then in a continuous process heated and partly evaporated, during which process, temperatures of supersaturation, with respect to calcium sulphate are reached, the water which is evaporated being collected as condensate and distillate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1974
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1976
    Assignee: Gesellschaft fur Kernenergieverwertung in Schiffbau und Schiffahrt mbH
    Inventors: Klaus Frohner, Hossein Panahandeh