Patents by Inventor Klaus Leikert

Klaus Leikert 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: 4790743
    Abstract: A method of reducing the NO.sub.x --emissions during combustion of nitrogen-containing fuels via burner units each including a primary burner and being arranged in a wall of a closed combustion chamber; fuel and air for combustion are supplied to the burner flame in stages as partial flows via delivery means which are separate from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1988
    Assignee: L. & C. Steinmuller GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Leikert, Klaus-Dieter Rennert, Gerhard Buttner
  • Patent number: 4642225
    Abstract: A method of binding sulfur compounds which are produced as reaction products during the combustion of sulfur-containing fuels in a charging bed or fluidized bed furnace at temperatures above 1000.degree. C. The method is effected by the addition of additives. The hot flue gases exiting directly from the charging bed or fluidized bed furnace pass through a cooling zone to lower the flue gas temperature to below 1000.degree. C. After this cooling zone, the additives are introduced into the cooled-off flue gas flow via a carrier medium. The charging bed or fluidized bed furnace for carrying out this method includes cooling surfaces for cooling the hot flue gases in the cooling zone. These cooling surfaces are disposed directly above the furnace surface and below the additive introduction surface. Cooling of the flue gases in the cooling zone can be effected by blowing in low-temperature flue gas between the upper edge of the furnace surface and the lower edge of the additive introduction surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1987
    Assignee: L. & C. Steinmuller GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Leikert
  • Patent number: 4551090
    Abstract: A burner for combustion of nitrogen-containing fuels. The burner includes a core-air tube with centrally arranged oil atomizing lance, a dust tube surrounding the core-air tube, a mantle-air tube which surrounds the dust tube and is provided with an axially shiftable twist-blade ring arranged at the air inlet, as well as a burner opening which expands conically toward the combustion chamber. The core-air tube and the mantle-air tube are supplied from a main air conduit. Air jets or nozzles are provided in a concentric arrangement around the burner opening. These air nozzles are connected with the main air passage by conduits, and the air stream discharging from the air nozzles is regulated by a flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1985
    Assignee: L. & C. Steinmuller GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Leikert, Gerhard Buttner, Sigfrid Michelfelder
  • Patent number: 4501206
    Abstract: A method of igniting a pulverized-coal pilot-burner flame for a pulverized-coal annular burner flame having an internal back flow region, with the ignition energy being introduced centrally into the interior of the back flow region of the pulverized-coal annular burner flame. To ignite the pilot-burner flame during the process of the initial ignition, at constant primary and secondary air flow and an air coefficient .lambda.--1.1 to 0.4, once or more a powder-laden air/powder mixture is supplied to the pilot-burner at a powder-laden air/powder weight ratio of 1.0 to 0.2. After ignition has been effected, a specified coal flow is continuously added to the pilot-burner flame at the fixed air coefficient .lambda.--1.1 to 0.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1985
    Assignee: L. & C. Steinmuller GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Leikert
  • Patent number: 4466363
    Abstract: A method of ignition of a coal dust annular burner flame having an internal back flow region. The ignition energy is introduced centrally into the internal back flow region of the coal dust annular burner flame, and is delivered entirely or at least partially by a dust-ignition flame. The dust air-dust weight ratio for the dust-ignition flame is smaller than that of the main burner flame, being either 0.5 to 1.0, or 0.2 to 0.5, compared with a ratio of 1.5 to 2.0 for the main burner flame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1984
    Assignee: L. & C. Steinmuller GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Leikert, Sigfrid Michelfelder
  • Patent number: 4436038
    Abstract: A method of igniting a pulverized-coal annular burner flame having an internal back flow region, with the ignition energy being introduced centrally into the interior of the back flow region of the pulverized-coal annular burner flame. The ignition energy for the annular burner flame is furnished by an ignited pulverous fuel igniting flame or pilot light, which is operated with pulverous fuel having a different coarseness and/or consistency than does the primary fuel. The pulverous fuel, which is to be prepared for supplying a pulverous fuel pilot light, is withdrawn from the conduit of the primary fuel after an existing pulverizing plant. The pulverized fuel is withdrawn by means of a withdrawal device which is capable of being shut off, with the removal opening thereof being directed counter to the direction of the primary fuel flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 13, 1984
    Assignee: L. & C. Steinmuller GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Leikert, Klaus-Dieter Rennert
  • Patent number: 4426938
    Abstract: A method of igniting a pulverized-coal annular burner flame having an internal back flow region, with the ignition energy being introduced centrally into the interior of the back flow region of the pulverized-coal annular burner flame. The ignition energy for the annular burner flame is furnished by an ignited pulverized-fuel igniting flame or pilot light, which is operated with pulverized fuel having a different coarseness and/or consistency than does the primary fuel. Pulverous ignition fuel is withdrawn from the conduit of the primary fuel stream after an existing pulverizing plant at a location which is advantageous with regard to flow dynamics. The ignition fuel is withdrawn by means of a withdrawal device which is capable of being shut off, with the withdrawal opening thereof being directed in the direction of the primary fuel flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1984
    Assignee: L. & C. Steinmuller GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Leikert, Klaus-Dieter Rennert
  • Patent number: 4333405
    Abstract: A burner for combustion of powdery fuels. The burner has a core-air tube with a centrically arranged ignition device, a dust tube surrounding the core-air tube, and a mantle-air tube which surrounds the dust tube and is provided with an axially displaceable twist blade ring or impeller, arranged at its air inlet, as well as a burner opening which widens conically toward the combustion chamber. A dust-ignition burner is arranged concentrically in a core-air tube, and comprises an ignition-dust tube arranged concentrically around an igniter, and a mantle-air tube which surrounds the ignition-dust tube for the ignition-dust flame and is provided with an axially displaceable twist blade ring or impeller, arranged at its air inlet, as well as a conically widening outlet. The conical angle of the dust-ignition burner outlet is equal to or greater than the conical angle of the outlet of the main burner. The dust-ignition burner outlet terminates before the beginning of the conical widening of the main burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1982
    Assignee: L. & C. Steinmuller GmbH
    Inventors: Sigfrid Michelfelder, Klaus Leikert