Patents by Inventor Michael Deuerling
Michael Deuerling 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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Publication number: 20230234152Abstract: Device (1) for displacing at least one assembly (2, 2?) between a provisioning zone (3) and a working zone (4) of at least one process chamber (5) of a process chamber apparatus (6) for soldering, in particular for reflow soldering, comprising at least one displacement device (7), wherein the at least one assembly (2, 2?) carries out, at least in sections, a displacement movement (9), or such a displacement movement (9) can be carried out, such that the at least one assembly (2, 2?) is displaced by means of a force (8), in particular pushing force, which is transmitted or generated by the displacement device (7), in particular directly, and acts on the assembly (2, 2?).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2021Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Daniel Feseker, Michael Deuerling, Michael Förste, Kai Furhmann, Johannes Günther, Benedikt Bechmann, Heinz Nolden
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Publication number: 20230014128Abstract: A process for preparing ethylene polymers including the step of polymerizing ethylene or copolymerizing ethylene and one or more comonomers at a temperature from 100° C. to 350° C. and a pressure of from 110 MPa to 350 MPa in a continuously operated tubular polymerization reactor, thereby yielding a reaction mixture, wherein the tubular polymerization reactor has a reactor cooling jacket for removing the heat of the reaction and a pressure control valve, the reaction mixture leaves the reactor through the pressure control valve, the reaction mixture then passes a post-reactor cooler equipped with a post-reactor cooling jacket, the reactor cooling jacket is provided with a reactor coolant having an inlet temperature and the post-reactor cooling jacket is provided with a post-reactor coolant having an inlet temperature, and the inlet temperature of the post-reactor coolant is independently controlled from the inlet temperature of the reactant coolant.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2020Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Andre-Armand Finette, Juergen Mohrbutter, Christoph Wolf, Michael Deuerling, Danir Khayrullin, Dieter Littmann
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Patent number: 11549749Abstract: Method for the preparation of dried polymer pellets in a facility having a dryer with a first chamber and a mechanical agitator, and the facility further having a degassing silo with a second chamber, the method includes the steps of guiding a drying gas flow made from or containing a first gas mixture for drying wet polymer pellets into the first chamber, transferring the dried polymer pellets into the second chamber, guiding a second gas mixture for degassing the dried polymer pellets into the second chamber thereby transforming the second gas mixture into a third gas mixture and guiding a portion of the third gas mixture into the first chamber; and process for manufacturing LDPE pellets.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2018Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Giulia Mei, Juergen Mohrbutter, Dieter Littmann, Christoph Wolf, Andre-Armand Finette, Michael Deuerling, Giuseppe Penzo
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Publication number: 20220410102Abstract: A high-pressure polymerization system having a) a polymerization reactor and b) a reactor blow down system having b1) a reactor blow down vessel, having a circular design over a major portion P having a L/D-ratio in the range from 1.75 to 10.0 and containing an aqueous quenching medium, b2) a release line connecting the polymerization reactor with the reactor blow down vessel and having an outlet located above a maximum level for the aqueous quenching medium, b3) a first emergency valve in the release line to open and close fluid communication between the polymerization reactor and the reactor blow down system, and wherein the release line outlet has a joining piece having an angle (a) between the central axis and a tangent at the reactor blow down vessel in the range from 5° to 70° and the reactor blow down vessel has a vent stack containing a constricted section.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Applicant: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Christoph Wolf, Juergen Mohrbutter, Andre-Armand Finette, Michael Deuerling, Danir Khayrullin, Dieter Littmann
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Publication number: 20220371236Abstract: A device for processing a particle foam material for producing a particle foam moulded part, comprising: at least one die apparatus, comprising a first die element and at least one additional die element, wherein the first die element is mounted so as to be movable along a movement axis relative to the at least one additional die element and/or the at least one additional die element is mounted so as to be movable along the or at least one movement axis relative to the first die element; at least one drive apparatus which is or can be assigned to the at least one die apparatus and is configured for generating and/or transmitting a drive force that sets the first die element and/or the at least one additional die element into a movement along the movement axis, wherein the least one drive apparatus is designed as or comprises a linear-drive apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: Johannes Schütz, Michael Deuerling, Stefan Mahr, Patrick Fischer, Peter Körber, Kai Faulhaber, Edin Pachadjioski
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Publication number: 20220258265Abstract: A device for soldering, in particular for reflow soldering, of at least one assembly, having a process chamber arrangement, comprises at least two process chambers for preparing a soldering method and/or for carrying out a soldering method and/or for post-processing a soldering method, wherein the at least two process chambers are arranged above one another, in particular in a stack-like manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Daniel FESEKER, Michael DEUERLING, Michael FÖRSTE, Kai FUHRMANN, Johannes GÜNTHER, Benedikt BECHMANN, Heinz NOLDEN
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Publication number: 20220106418Abstract: A process for polymerizing ethylene in a high-pressure polymerization system having a continuously operated polymerization reactor and a reactor blow down system having an emergency valve, a reactor blow down vessel containing an aqueous medium and a reactor blow down dump vessel, wherein the process includes the steps of monitoring the polymerization system for a disturbance, opening the emergency valve when a disturbance occurs to allow the content of the polymerization system to expand into the reactor blow down vessel, contacting the content of the polymerization system in the reactor blow down vessel with the aqueous medium to obtain an aqueous polymer slurry, separating the polymer slurry and gaseous components, and transferring the polymer slurry to the reactor blow down dump vessel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2019Publication date: April 7, 2022Applicant: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Dieter Littmann, Andre-Armand Finette, Christoph Wolf, Michael Deuerling, Juergen Mohrbutter, Danir Khayrullin, Giulia Mei, Erich Neumann
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Patent number: 11155649Abstract: A process for the preparation of ethylene homopolymers or copolymers in a facility having a high-pressure tubular reactor and a preheater, wherein a reaction fluid introduced into the reactor at a reactor inlet is heated in the preheater and the average velocity of the reaction fluid in the preheater is lower than the average velocity of the reaction fluid in the tubular reactor and the ratio of the average velocity in the tubular reactor to the average velocity of the reaction fluid in the preheater is in the range from 1.5 to 5.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2018Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Christoph Wolf, Dieter Littmann, Michael Deuerling, Andre-Armand Finette, Danir Khayrullin, Juergen Mohrbutter
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Publication number: 20210148633Abstract: Method for the preparation of dried polymer pellets in a facility having a dryer with a first chamber and a mechanical agitator, and the facility further having a degassing silo with a second chamber, the method includes the steps of guiding a drying gas flow made from or containing a first gas mixture for drying wet polymer pellets into the first chamber, transferring the dried polymer pellets into the second chamber, guiding a second gas mixture for degassing the dried polymer pellets into the second chamber thereby transforming the second gas mixture into a third gas mixture and guiding a portion of the third gas mixture into the first chamber; and process for manufacturing LDPE pellets.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2018Publication date: May 20, 2021Applicant: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Giulia Mei, Juergen Mohrbutter, Dieter Littmann, Christoph Wolf, Andre-Armand Finette, Michael Deuerling, Giuseppe Penzo
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Publication number: 20200369792Abstract: A process for the preparation of ethylene homopolymers or copolymers in a facility having a high-pressure tubular reactor and a preheater, wherein a reaction fluid introduced into the reactor at a reactor inlet is heated in the preheater and the average velocity of the reaction fluid in the preheater is lower than the average velocity of the reaction fluid in the tubular reactor and the ratio of the average velocity in the tubular reactor to the average velocity of the reaction fluid in the preheater is in the range from 1.5 to 5.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2018Publication date: November 26, 2020Applicant: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Christoph Wolf, Dieter Littmann, Michael Deuerling, Andre-Armand Finette, Danir Khayrullin, Juergen Mohrbutter
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Patent number: 10343135Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a manufacturing plant for high-pressure polymerization having a layered tubular reactor and a method for an emergency shutdown in said manufacturing plant. The present disclosure also relates to a process for manufacturing LDPE using said layered tubular reactor.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Dieter Littmann, Andre-Armand Finette, Christoph Wolf, Michael Deuerling, Juergen Peter Mohrbutter, Danir Khayrullin
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Publication number: 20190201865Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a manufacturing plant for high-pressure polymerization having a layered tubular reactor and a method for an emergency shutdown in said manufacturing plant. The present disclosure also relates to a process for manufacturing LDPE using said layered tubular reactor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2018Publication date: July 4, 2019Applicant: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Dieter Littmann, Andre-Armand Finette, Christoph Wolf, Michael Deuerling, Juergen Peter Mohrbutter, Danir Khayrullin
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Patent number: 10099224Abstract: A material reducing machine includes a rotor assembly having a plurality of short cutting tools and a plurality of long cutting tools. The short cutting tools are arranged in rows which extend across the length of the rotor assembly, which rows are spaced around the periphery of the rotor assembly. Each of the short cutting tools has a cutting bit with a leading edge that is spaced outwardly from the periphery of the rotor assembly by a short cutter distance. The long cutting tools are also arranged in rows which extend across the length of the rotor assembly, which rows are spaced around the periphery of the rotor assembly. Each of the long cutting tools has a cutting bit with a leading edge that is spaced outwardly from the periphery of the rotor assembly by a long cutter distance that is greater than the short cutter distance of each of the short cutting tools. A breaker assembly includes a plurality of shear blocks, each of which is spaced so as to be aligned with a short cutting tool.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2014Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Astec Industries, Inc.Inventors: Arnold Neil Peterson, Glenn Ford Bittrolf, Bradly Michael Deuerling
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Patent number: 9931608Abstract: A process for separating polymeric and gaseous components of a polymer-monomer mixture at a pressure of from 0.12 MPa to 0.6 MPa and a temperature of from 120° C. to 300° C. in a separation vessel is provided. The separation vessel has a vertically arranged cylindrical shape with a ratio of length to diameter L/D of from 0.6 to 10 and an inlet pipe capable of introducing the polymer-monomer mixture into the separation vessel which the inlet pipe extends vertically from the top of the separation vessel into the separation vessel. Further a process for preparing ethylene homopolymers or copolymers from ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of free-radical polymerization initiators at temperatures from 100° C. to 350° C. and pressures in the range of from 110 MPa to 500 MPa comprising such a process for separating a polymer-monomer mixture is provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2015Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Dieter Littmann, Georg Groos, Andre-Armand Finette, Michael Deuerling, Sven Wolfram, Juergen Mohrbutter, Danir Khayrullin, Claudio Fibla, Christoph Wolf
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Patent number: 9908954Abstract: The present technology relates to a process for polymerizing or copolymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of free-radical polymerization initiators, wherein the polymerization is carried out in a continuously operated tubular reactor at temperatures from 100° C. to 350° C. and pressures from 180 MPa to 340 MPa, with a specific reactor surface area Asp of 2 m2/(t/h) to 5.5 m2/(t/h), and the tubular reactor has a specific ratio RDsp of 0.0050 MPa?1 to 0.0069 MPa?1 and an inner surface which has a surface roughness Ra of 2 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2017Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Dieter Littmann, Jürgen Peter Mohrbutter, Giulia Mei, Andre-Armand Finette, Sven Georg Wolfram, Michael Deuerling, Danir Khayrullin, Georg Groos, Christoph Wolf
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Publication number: 20170348658Abstract: A process for separating polymeric and gaseous components of a polymer-monomer mixture at a pressure of from 0.12 MPa to 0.6 MPa and a temperature of from 120° C. to 300° C. in a separation vessel is provided. The separation vessel has a vertically arranged cylindrical shape with a ratio of length to diameter L/D of from 0.6 to 10 and an inlet pipe capable of introducing the polymer-monomer mixture into the separation vessel which the inlet pipe extends vertically from the top of the separation vessel into the separation vessel. Further a process for preparing ethylene homopolymers or copolymers from ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of free-radical polymerization initiators at temperatures from 100° C. to 350° C. and pressures in the range of from 110 MPa to 500 MPa comprising such a process for separating a polymer-monomer mixture is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2015Publication date: December 7, 2017Applicant: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Dieter Littmann, Georg Groos, Andre-Armand Finette, Michael Deuerling, Sven Wolfram, Juergen Mohrbutter, Danir Khayrullin, Claudio Fibla, Christoph Wolf
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Publication number: 20170335028Abstract: The present technology relates to a process for polymerizing or copolymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of free-radical polymerization initiators, wherein the polymerization is carried out in a continuously operated tubular reactor at temperatures from 100° C. to 350° C. and pressures from 180 MPa to 340 MPa, with a specific reactor surface area Asp of 2 m2/(t/h) to 5.5 m2/(t/h), and the tubular reactor has a specific ratio RDsp of 0.0050 MPa?1 to 0.0069 MPa?1 and an inner surface which has a surface roughness Ra of 2 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2017Publication date: November 23, 2017Applicant: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Dieter Littmann, Jürgen Peter Mohrbutter, Giulia Mei, Andre-Armand Finette, Sven Georg Wolfram, Michael Deuerling, Danir Khayrullin, Georg Groos, Christoph Wolf
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Patent number: 9758603Abstract: The present technology relates to a process for polymerizing or copolymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of free-radical polymerization initiators, wherein the polymerization is carried out in a continuously operated tubular reactor at temperatures from 100° C. to 350° C. and pressures from 180 MPa to 340 MPa, with a specific reactor surface area Asp of 2 m2/(t/h) to 5.5 m2/(t/h), and the tubular reactor has a specific ratio RDsp of 0.0050 MPa?1 to 0.0069 MPa?1 and an inner surface which has a surface roughness Ra of 2 ?m or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2017Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Dieter Littmann, Jürgen Peter Mohrbutter, Giulia Mei, Andre-Armand Finette, Sven Georg Wolfram, Michael Deuerling, Danir Khayrullin, Georg Groos, Christoph Wolf
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Publication number: 20170183429Abstract: The present technology relates to a process for polymerizing or copolymerizing ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of free-radical polymerization initiators, wherein the polymerization is carried out in a continuously operated tubular reactor at temperatures from 100° C. to 350° C. and pressures from 180 MPa to 340 MPa, with a specific reactor surface area Asp of 2 m2/(t/h) to 5.5 m2/(t/h), and the tubular reactor has a specific ratio RDsp of 0.0050 MPa?1 to 0.0069 MPa?1 and an inner surface which has a surface roughness Ra of 2 ?m or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2017Publication date: June 29, 2017Applicant: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Dieter Littmann, Jürgen Peter Mohrbutter, Giulia Mei, Andre-Armand Finette, Sven Georg Wolfram, Michael Deuerling, Danir Khayrullin, Georg Groos, Christoph Wolf
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Patent number: 9637568Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a process for separating polymeric and gaseous components of a reaction mixture obtained by high-pressure polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of free-radical polymerization initiators into a gaseous fraction and a liquid fraction in a separation vessel, wherein the filling level of the liquid fraction in the separation vessel is measured by a radiometric level measurement system comprising at least two radioactive sources and at least three radiation detectors, and the filling level is controlled by a product discharge valve which operates based on data coming from the level measurement system.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbHInventors: Danir Khayrullin, Michael Deuerling, Christoph Wolf, Erich Neumann, Claudio Fibla