Patents by Inventor Rudolf Kral

Rudolf Kral 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).

  • Publication number: 20020026905
    Abstract: A steam generator has an especially simple structural concept of a combustion chamber for a predetermined output range and for various qualities of different fossil fuels. The steam generator includes a first combustion chamber and a second combustion chamber which have a respective number of burners for fossil fuel and are constructed for an approximately horizontal main flow direction of heating gas. The first combustion chamber and the second combustion chamber open into a common horizontal gas flue connected upstream of a vertical gas flue on the heating-gas side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Inventors: Joachim Franke, Rudolf Kral
  • Publication number: 20020000208
    Abstract: The fossil fuel fired continuous-flow steam generator has a gas turbine combustion chamber for fossil combustibles. On the heating gas side a vertical gas extractor is mounted downstream of a horizontal gas extractor. The walls surrounding the combustion chamber are composed of vertical evaporator tubes that are welded together. During operation the temperature differences between adjacent evaporator tubes of the combustion chamber are kept as low as possible. The burners are arranged at the level of the horizontal gas extractor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2001
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Inventors: Joachim Franke, Rudolf Kral, Eberhard Wittchow
  • Patent number: 6301895
    Abstract: The object of the invention is to ensure a fast, economical and reliable power regulation of a steam generating power plant (1) having a turbo set that comprises a steam turbine (2) and a generator (6) and during the operation of which water (W) is injected into or upstream of an overheater heating surface According to the disclosed fast power regulating process of the steam generating power plant (1), the injection rate of water (W) is increased to adjust an additional generator output. In a steam generating power plant (1) which is particularly suitable for carrying out the process, an overheater heating surface, of a steam generator (28) is provided with a water injector (70, 71) connected to a regulating component (82) for regulating the injection rate of water (W) into the overheater heating surface. The regulating component (82) supplies a regulating signal to the water injector, (70, 72), depending on the required additional generator output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Günter Kallina, Rudolf Kral, Eberhard Wittchow
  • Patent number: 6189491
    Abstract: A steam generator which is both suitable for a horizontal mode of construction and offers the advantages of a continuous steam generator. According to the invention, a steam generator has at least one continuous heating surface disposed in a duct where hot gas circulates in a substantially horizontal direction. The heating surface consists of a plurality of parallel and almost vertical pipes which are used to circulate a fluid, and is configured in such a way that the fluid circulating in a tube heated to a greater temperature than the following tube of the same continuous heating surface has a higher flow rate than the fluid circulating in the following tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Eberhard Wittchow, Joachim Franke, Rudolf Kral
  • Patent number: 5983639
    Abstract: A continuous-flow steam generator includes a combustion chamber having a number of burners for a fossil fuel and a gas-tight containment wall formed from at least approximately vertically disposed evaporator tubes through which a flow passes upwards from below on the feed-water side. A method and a system for starting up the continuous-flow steam generator avoid start-up losses by setting a water level in the evaporator tubes and a ratio of the fuel stream to the feedwater stream in such a way that the water evaporates completely during passage through the evaporator tubes, so that water is no longer present at the evaporator outlet. A start-up system having a setting device for setting the water level in the evaporator and for setting the ratio of the fuel stream to the feed-water stream, is used for this purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rudolf Kral, Joachim Franke
  • Patent number: 5979369
    Abstract: A once-through steam generator includes a gas flue formed of steam generator tubes welded to one another in a gas-tight manner through fins. The steam generator tubes are connected in parallel for the throughflow of a flow medium, they have a surface structure on their inside for generating a high flow turbulence in the medium flowing through them and they are disposed approximately in a spiral coil in a firing region of the gas flue. The steam generator tubes are constructed in such a way that, when they are in operation, the geodetic pressure loss of the medium flowing through them is at least 0.5 times their pressure loss due to friction. This ensures that such a once-through steam generator can also be operated in low load states of, for example, about 20% of the design load, without excessive thermal stresses occurring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Seimens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Eberhard Wittchow, Rudolf Kral
  • Patent number: 5701850
    Abstract: A fossil-fired steam generator includes a gas flue having a surrounding wall being formed by tubes which are mutually joined gas-tightly and which are disposed substantially vertically and can conduct an upward flow through them on the medium side. The tubes in a first or lower part of the gas flue have a greater internal diameter than the tubes in a second part of the gas flue located above. On one hand, this ensures reliable cooling of the tubes. On the other hand, even additional or above-average heating of individual tubes does not lead to inadmissible temperature differences between outlets of the tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Kohler, Rudolf Kral, Eberhard Wittchow
  • Patent number: 5308585
    Abstract: Hot solids coming from a fluidized bed reactor are passed through the cooling apparatus and at least in part are recycled to the fluidized bed reactor. In the cooling apparatus the hot solids flow first through a first fluidized bed and then flow downwardly through a gas-collecting space to a second fluidized bed, which is provided with cooling coils and in which the solids flow downwardly to a solids transfer passage and are then raised through a third fluidized bed to a discharge line. The system is controlled to cause solids coming from the first fluidized bed to flow through the gas-collecting space directly to the discharge line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1994
    Assignee: Metallgesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Stroder, Johannes Albrecht, Martin Hirsch, Rainer Reimert, Wladyslaw Lewandowski, Rudolf Kral
  • Patent number: 4579089
    Abstract: Steam generator including a combustion chamber having a combustion chamber wall being formed of welded-together tubes and having an outer surface, cross beams disposed on the outer surface of the wall, a partition beam being longitudinally movably supported at one of the cross beam and being extended across the combustion chamber, a partition suspended from the partition beam in the combustion chamber, and support bands being attached to the cross beams and having upper ends being fastened to the outer surface of the combustion chamber wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1986
    Assignee: Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rudolf Kral
  • Patent number: 4403575
    Abstract: Device for preventing flashing to steam in an economizer of a flow-through steam generator wherein the economizer has heating surfaces disposed downstream of an evaporator and superheater surfaces in direction of a flue-gas path, including at least one partition separating the cross section of the flue-gas path in vicinity of the economizer into at least two joint areas separated from one another, the economizer having tubes disposed only in one of the thus formed joint areas, and further including shut-off devices for the flue-gas disposed upstream of the tubes of the economizer as viewed in the direction of the flue-gas path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1983
    Assignee: Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rudolf Kral, Reiner Engelhardt
  • Patent number: 4063522
    Abstract: Burner installation in a steam generator having means for firing pulverized coal as well as gas, includes a combustion chamber of substantially rectangular cross section, at least three pulverized coal-burners disposed mutually adjacent one another in cross-sectional direction of the combustion chamber on a first wall of the combustion chamber at least one of the pulverized coal-burners being located between others thereof, gas burners located on at least another wall of the combustion chamber located adjacent the first wall thereof, the pulverized coal burners being located at an elevation of the combustion chamber above the gas burners, the at least one of the pulverized coal-burners being operable only if gas is not being burned simultaneously therewith by the gas burners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1977
    Assignee: Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Eberhard Wittchow, Rudolf Kral
  • Patent number: 4063534
    Abstract: A coal-fired steam generator has tubes forming heating surfaces that are suspended above a combustion chamber from support tubes that extend in a given direction and are mutually spaced apart, transversely to the axes of the tubes forming the heating surfaces, a distance that is less than the mutual spacing of the support tubes in the direction of the axes of the tubes forming the heating surfaces. The support tubes located below the lowermost of the tubes forming the heating surfaces suspended therefrom are formed with an initial bend in a plane wherein the support tubes are mutually spaced apart by the lesser distance, and are provided with further bends forming auxiliary heating surfaces extending substantially perpendicularly to the given direction in which the support tubes extend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1977
    Assignee: Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Rudolf Kral