Abstract: A system includes a vehicle, and a cryogenic container on the vehicle and having an inner tank and an outer container which is vacuum-insulated relative to the inner tank, the system including a fluid conveying device and a pipeline that is routed out of the inner tank for the removal of cryogenic fluid and is connected to the fluid conveying device. The fluid conveying device is outside of the inner tank, the pipeline is a thermal siphon with one section rising towards the fluid conveying device, which is partially arranged in an area that is insulated relative to cryogenic fluid located in the inner tank. A vent line closable by a valve in the area, on a removal level of the fluid conveying device, is connected to the pipeline or directly to the fluid conveying device and routed back into the inner tank above the connection point to the pipeline.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a system that includes a vehicle, a cryogenic container mounted on the vehicle, and an ancillary system for filling the cryogenic container with cryogenic fluid. The ancillary system includes a filling line routed into the cryogenic container and a filling coupling. The cryogenic container is fillable via the filling line. The system may also include a ullage tank for setting a hold time more precisely.

Abstract: A cryogenic container, in particular a hydrogen container, including an inner container and an outer container enclosing the inner container, with a cooling layer being arranged between the inner container and the outer container, the cooling layer enveloping the inner container at least partially and being insulated with respect to both the inner container and the outer container, with a removal line being routed through the inner container as well as through the cooling layer and the outer container, thereby passing through them, where the device comprises a thermal bridge switch configured to establish a contact between the cooling layer and the removal line in a closed position so as to form a thermal bridge and further configured to separate the cooling layer from the removal line in an opened position so as to eliminate the thermal bridge.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system including a cryogenic container, such as an LNG container or a hydrogen container, with a first removal line for removing cryogenic fluid in a gas phase and a second removal line for removing cryogenic fluid in a liquid phase being routed into the cryogenic container. The system includes a single-piece economizer valve block having at least a first and a second inlet port and an outlet port, the two inlet ports and the outlet port being connected inside the single-piece economizer valve block by a connection passage having a connecting portion on the gas phase side, a connecting portion on the liquid phase side and a connecting portion on the end side, the single-piece economizer valve block having at least one valve recess open towards the outside, the valve recess starting at the node, and a valve being inserted into the valve recess.

Abstract: A cryogenic container and a heat exchanger for heating cryogenic fluid removed from the cryogenic container, the heat exchanger including a first heat exchanger tube for heating the cryogenic fluid, with a removal line connecting the heat exchanger tube to the cryogenic container, the heat exchanger tube being surrounded by a jacket and the heat exchanger having a medium inlet and a medium outlet for heat exchange medium to flush a heat exchange medium introduced into the medium inlet and removed from the medium outlet around the space between the jacket and the heat exchanger tube, the heat exchanger including a single-piece connection block with a first and a second outer opening and an inner opening, the heat exchanger tube being connected directly to the inner opening of the connection block and a first end of the jacket being attached to the connection block in a fluid-tight manner.

Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a vehicle frame and a system that includes a first cryogenic container and an ancillary system including a first connecting line routed into the first cryogenic container. A shut-off valve is provided in the first connecting line and a check valve opening in the filling direction is connected in parallel to the shut-off valve by means of a branch line so that the first cryogenic container can be filled via a filling coupling when the shut-off valve is closed and can be vented via the filling coupling or via a vent coupling separate therefrom and connected to the first connecting line when the shut-off valve is open. The system includes a second cryogenic container with a second connection line and the ancillary system includes a single linkage line that connects the first and the second connecting lines.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system comprising a cryogenic container (1), in particular an LNG container or a hydrogen container, and a heat exchanger (4, 60) with a first heat exchanger tube (49) for cryogenic fluid, with a removal line (9, 10) of the cryogenic container (1) being connected to the first heat exchanger tube (49) of the heat exchanger (4), the system comprising a single-piece pressure management valve block (12) having at least a first inlet port (35), a second inlet port (36), a first outlet port (37) and a second outlet port (38), wherein at least the first inlet port (35), the first outlet port (37) and the second outlet port (38) are connected inside the single-piece pressure management valve block (12) by a connection passage, the connection passage comprising a first connecting portion on the inlet side (40), a first connecting portion on the outlet side (41) and a second connecting portion on the outlet side (42), which converge at a first node (43), the single-piece pressure management v

Abstract: The invention relates to a system including a cryogenic container, in particular an LNG container or a hydrogen container, an external heat exchanger and an internal heat exchanger with a pressure management system. The system also includes at least one of the following selectively connectable bypass lines for the temporary reduction of pressure losses: a first bypass line for the first heat exchanger tube of the external heat exchanger; a second bypass line for the second heat exchanger tube; a third bypass line for the internal heat exchanger.

Abstract: A vehicle including a vehicle frame with an upper frame edge, a front axle with one front wheel, a rear axle with a rear wheel and a cryogenic container arranged laterally of the vehicle frame, and the cryogenic container is arranged in an installation space available, and a connection line runs to the cryogenic container or to an operating component of the cryogenic container located in the installation space through one of the following spandrels outside of the installation space available: through a rear wheel spandrel between the installation space and the rear wheel; through a front wheel spandrel between the installation space and the front wheel; through a lower construction spandrel between the installation space and an extruded triangle above the road; or, through a semi-trailer spandrel between the installation space and a pivoting region of a semi-trailer mounted on the vehicle.

Abstract: A system including a cryogenic container for storing cryogenic fluid and a connection system having a connection line connected to the cryogenic container and ending in a pressure relief valve, and there is provided a check valve within the connection line, which is configured to prevent a flow of fluid in the direction of the cryogenic container, and the system further comprises a test line, which connects to the connection line between the check valve and the pressure relief valve and ends in a test connection for a test device for providing a pressurized test fluid, and there is provided a valve within the test line, which is configured to prevent a flow of fluid in the direction of the test connection and to enable a flow of fluid in the direction of the pressure relief valve in order check the functionality thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system comprising a cryogenic container with a lateral surface and a first and a second end cap, at least two support brackets each with a mounting side for mounting on a vehicle frame, at least two tensioning straps for fastening the cryogenic container on the support brackets, wherein the cryogenic container rests with the lateral surface on the support brackets and is embraced by the tensioning straps over the lateral surface, wherein first and second operating components are located only on that side of an outermost tensioning strap, which faces the nearest end cap, wherein the first operating component is arranged on a side of the cryogenic container facing the mounting side and the second operating component is arranged on a side of the cryogenic container facing away from the mounting side.

Abstract: One example of a safety withdrawal system includes a cryogenic container, a withdrawal line and an economizer situated between the withdrawal line and the cryogenic container for withdrawing cryogenic fluid in liquid phase and gas phase, and the economizer is configured as an electric economizer having two controllable valves that are respectively currentless closed, which each may block the withdrawal of the liquid phase or the gas phase from the cryogenic container. The safety withdrawal system further includes an emergency stop off-switch that may be manually actuated, which is connected to the two currentless closed valves of the electric economizer and is configured to simultaneously block the withdrawal of cryogenic fluid by both valves upon actuation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for checking the function and releasing the excess pressure of a cryogenic container on a vehicle roof, the system comprising a vehicle and the cryogenic container which is mounted on the vehicle roof and has an interior volume for receiving cryogenic fluid, wherein the system furthermore comprises a pressure line which is connected to the interior volume of the cryogenic container and is led from the cryogenic container on the vehicle roof to an accessible point on the vehicle side or in the vehicle interior and opens into a pressure gauge there, wherein a valve and a predetermined breaking point are arranged in the pressure line and the valve is arranged between the predetermined breaking point and the interior volume of the cryogenic container and opens at a predetermined first pressure which is greater than a second pressure at which the predetermined breaking point breaks.

Abstract: Suspension system for an inner container mounted for thermal insulation in an outer container. Rod-shaped fixed bearing securing elements of a fixed bearing system engage the outer container and the inner container and can be stressed in tension and compression. Fixed bearing securing elements engage the inner container while being arranged so as to be distributed in an annular installation space between the inner container and outer container, and they engage the outer container while being distributed in the annular installation space. A floating bearing system with a floating bearing ring and annularly distributed floating bearing securing elements can be arranged in the outer container to support the inner container. The floating bearing securing elements can be stressed in tension by tension springs and/or in compression by compression springs and engage the floating bearing ring and the inner container or the outer container.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for providing a fluid, comprising at least a first and a second cryogenic container for storing the fluid, wherein the system comprises a first retrieval line connecting to the first cryogenic container for retrieving a first mass flow (M1) of fluid and a second retrieval line connecting to the second cryogenic container for retrieving a second mass flow (M2) of fluid, wherein the system comprises means, which are configured to establish two mass flows (M1, M2) of different dimensions such that in a first operational mode a hold time of the two cryogenic containers converges upon retrieval and/or in a second operational mode the hold time of the two cryogenic containers essentially decreases at the same rate if the hold times of the two cryogenic containers are essentially equal.

Abstract: A dual-wall, vacuum-insulated container (30, 40) has an external wall (1), an internal wall (3) and there in-between a vacuum chamber (5), in which there is arranged a heat insulation device (2, 20). At least three temperature sensors (13, 13a, 13b, 14, 15) that are spaced apart from another recurringly register instantaneous temperatures (T1, T2, T2A, T2B, T3) of the container (30, 40). At least in some points there is calculated a temperature course using a heat insulation model on the basis of the construction and material characteristics of the container and the heat radiation resulting therefrom, which temperature course contains at least two of the temperatures (T1, T2, T2A, T2B, T3) registered. From the temperature course there is calculated a desired temperature value for the position of at least one further of the temperature sensors and compared with the actual temperature value actually registered by this temperature sensor.

Abstract: The invention relates to an ancillary system for filling and venting a first cryogenic container and a second cryogenic container, comprising a first connecting line routed into the first cryogenic container and a second connecting line routed into the second cryogenic container, wherein the first connecting line is connected to the second connecting line via a connection line and a filling coupling is connected to the connection line so that the two cryogenic containers can be filled via the filling coupling, the ancillary system comprising at least one vent coupling connected to the connection line so that the two cryogenic containers can be vented via the vent coupling.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pipe penetration module (7) for a cryogenic container (1), which comprises an inner tank (2) and an outer container (3) vacuum-insulated relative to said inner tank, the pipe penetration module (7) comprising a cladding pipe (6) and a pipeline (5) at least partially accommodated in the cladding pipe (6), wherein the pipeline (5) passes with a first pipeline end (10) through a first cladding pipe end (8) of the cladding pipe (6) so that the first pipeline end (10) can be rigidly connected to the outer container (3) and the first cladding pipe end (8) can be rigidly connected to the inner tank (2), the pipeline (5) and the cladding pipe (6) being rigidly connected to one another at a second cladding pipe end (13), and with the pipeline (5) and the cladding pipe (6) each having a kink (17, 18) in an area between the first cladding pipe end (8) and the second cladding pipe end (13).

Abstract: A suspension system (3) for an inner container (2, 2?) mounted for thermal insulation in an outer container (1, 1?) comprises a single fixed bearing (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39) comprising fixed bearing securing elements (5, 5?, 5?, 5??) which engage, on the one hand, the outer container and, on the other hand, the inner container and which can be stressed in tension and in compression, the fixed bearing securing elements (5, 5?, 5?, 5??) engaging while being arranged so as to be distributed in an annular installation space (7) defined between the inner container (2, 2?) and the outer container (1, 1?) and the fixed bearing securing elements (5, 5?, 5?, 5??) engaging the outer container (1, 1?) while being distributed in the annular installation space (7).

Abstract: A dual-wall, vacuum-insulated container (30, 40) has an external wall (1), an internal wall (3) and there in-between a vacuum chamber (5), in which there is arranged a heat insulation device (2, 20). At least three temperature sensors (13, 13a, 13b, 14, 15) that are spaced apart from another recurringly register instantaneous temperatures (T1, T2, T2A, T2B, T3) of the container (30, 40). At least in some points there is calculated a temperature course using a heat insulation model on the basis of the construction and material characteristics of the container and the heat radiation resulting therefrom, which temperature course contains at least two of the temperatures (T1, T2, T2A, T2B, T3) registered. From the temperature course there is calculated a desired temperature value for the position of at least one further of the temperature sensors and compared with the actual temperature value actually registered by this temperature sensor.