Patents by Inventor Reinhard Johannes Severin Cloppenburg

Reinhard Johannes Severin Cloppenburg 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: 8955321
    Abstract: A method is provided for primary control of a steam turbine installation in network operation, which provides at least two pressure stages, these being a high-pressure and a low-pressure steam turbine stage, in which for storing reserve power a live steam valve along an operating-steam feed line to at least one pressure stage of the steam turbine is operated in a throttled manner, the live steam valve, in the case of a reducing network frequency and network frequency boosting which is necessary as a result of this, is transferred to an at least less throttled state. At least some of the partially expanded operating steam which issues from the high-pressure steam turbine stage is introduced directly without reheating, into the low-pressure steam turbine stage for further expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Olaf Berke, Franz-Josef Höly, Karsten Müller, Reinhard Johannes Severin Cloppenburg
  • Publication number: 20100293948
    Abstract: A method is provided for primary control of a steam turbine installation in network operation, which provides at least two pressure stages, these being a high-pressure and a low-pressure steam turbine stage, in which for storing reserve power a live steam valve along an operating-steam feed line to at least one pressure stage of the steam turbine is operated in a throttled manner, the live steam valve, in the case of a reducing network frequency and network frequency boosting which is necessary as a result of this, is transferred to an at least less throttled state. At least some of the partially expanded operating steam which issues from the high-pressure steam turbine stage is introduced directly without reheating, into the low-pressure steam turbine stage for further expansion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2010
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD
    Inventors: Olaf BERKE, Franz-Josef HÖLY, Karsten MÜLLER, Reinhard Johannes Severin CLOPPENBURG
  • Patent number: 7568342
    Abstract: A supply pump actuating turbine, in particular for a power plant, that includes at least two jet sectors for introducing a working gas into the turbine, a line system for connecting the at least two jet sectors to at least two different sources of working gas, and a valve arrangement for setting the supply of the jet sectors with the working gas from at least one of the sources. The valve arrangement and the line system are designed in such a way that at least three operating states can be set: a first operating state, in which all the jet sectors are supplied with the working gas of the first source, a second operating state, in which all the jet sectors are supplied with the working gas of the second source, and a third operating state, in which at least one of the jet sectors is supplied with the working gas of the first source and at least one other of the jet sectors is supplied with the working gas of the second source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Reinhard Johannes Severin Cloppenburg, Dirk Hartmann, Stefan Klatt, Karsten Mueller