Patents by Inventor Reiner Lohmuller

Reiner Lohmuller 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: 4339413
    Abstract: A methanol-synthesis reactor has a housing receiving a catalyst packing and coils of cooling tubes surrounding a core tube and disposed in helical radially spaced layers coaxial with the core tube. According to the invention, the internal diameters of the cooling tubes are from 4 to 50 mm, the distance between neighboring tubes in a direction transverse to the axis and the direction of fluid flow through the catalyst packing is between 2 and 20 times the smallest longitudinal dimension of the catalyst particles and the distance between neighboring tubes measured in the direction of the synthesis gas flow is less than 10 times the transverse distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1982
    Assignee: Linde Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Lahne, Peter Hesse, Erhard Kliem, Bernhard Kruis, Reiner Lohmuller
  • Patent number: 4294932
    Abstract: Strongly exothermic, catalytically induced or promoted chemical reactions, e.g. the production of methane by the reaction of hydrogen with carbon oxides, are carried out by passing the reactants through an isothermically operated reactor in addition to an adiabatic reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1981
    Assignee: Linde AG
    Inventors: Reiner Lohmuller, Helmut Schneider, Allan Watson