Patents by Inventor Rudolf Pieper

Rudolf Pieper 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: 4841727
    Abstract: A device for generating flue gas for driving a gas turbine includes a stack in a closed hollow cylindrical housing having a stack wall spaced from the housing. One of the ends of the stack has a combustion chamber, a closure element, as well as an inlet opening for combustion air discharging into the combustion chamber and a supply opening for fine grained coal together forming a pulverized coal burner. The inlet opening generates a spin of the combustion air in a given rotational direction. A first auxiliary inlet for combustion air discharges in the combustion chamber. A second auxiliary inlet for fine grained coal is disposed in the stack wall and discharges into the combustion chamber at a distance from the closure element. A flue gas outlet connector is disposed in and spaced from an air inlet connector of the housing at the other end of the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Eberhard Wittchow, Rudolf Pieper
  • Patent number: 4766851
    Abstract: A combustion chamber with a fluidized bed furnace having a nozzle plate, a fuel feed above the nozzle plate, a primary air feed below the nozzle plate, an exhaust gas channel at an upper end of the combustion chamber, and heat-exchanging heating surfaces includes a cylindrical combustion chamber wall disposed vertically upright and having, in an upper region thereof, a plurality of secondary air nozzles disposed tangentially as well as downwardly inclined to the cylindrical wall for separating and returning unspent solid particles into a lower region of the fluidized bed, a device for directing a flow of gas and particles vertically upwardly in a central region of the combustion chamber and spirally downwardly along the cylindrical wall, and a device for impressing an upwardly increasing rotary flow about an axis of symmetry of the combustion chamber upon the gas flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1988
    Assignee: Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Werner Emsperger, Hermann Bruckner, Georg Losel, Rudolf Pieper
  • Patent number: 4454661
    Abstract: Tornado flow separator for the thermal treatment of fine-grain or granular material with at least one gaseous medium, including a cylindrical reaction chamber having a surface, two ends and at least first, second and third treatment zones of substantially equal length through which the material passes after given dwelling time, tangential feeding means for the gaseous media being disposed in the surface of the reaction chamber in the treatment zones for setting the dwelling time of the material in the third treatment zone to be at least twice as long as the dwelling time in each of the first and second treatment zones, at least one inclined tangential material feed disposed in vicinity of one of the ends of the reaction chamber, at least one outlet for treatment material disposed in vicinity of the others of the ends of the reaction chamber, and an exhaust pipe for at least one of excess and spent gaseous media being axially extended into the reaction chamber from along side the material outlet and having a f
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1984
    Assignee: Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinrich Klein, Rudolf Pieper, Eduard Weber
  • Patent number: 4272260
    Abstract: In a tornado-flow vortex generator for separating particulates from gases, having a cylindrical vortex chamber, an inlet tube for raw gas coaxially disposed in the vortex chamber and terminating in a nozzle for providing an advance rotation in a flow of the raw gas therethrough, a hopper diaphragm surrounding the inlet tube and formed, in vicinity of the vortex-chamber casing, with an annular particulate-discharge slot communicating with a space within a hopper, a clean-gas outlet disposed in the vortex chamber spaced from and opposite the raw-gas inlet tube, an auxiliary-gas outlet surrounding the clean-gas outlet, and an auxiliary-gas inlet disposed at the vortex-chamber casing for blowing auxiliary gas into the vortex chamber at an inclination and tangentially to the casing thereof and connected by a blower to the auxiliary-gas outlet, the improvement includes a line having valve means and connecting the hopper space with a location of the vortex generator at which a pressure exists which is lower than the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 9, 1981
    Assignee: Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinrich Klein, Rudolf Pieper, Eduard Weber
  • Patent number: 3972698
    Abstract: An arrangement for improved energy recovery in the pure gas outlet of a centrifugal separator which includes a cylindrical centrifugal chamber with a coaxial raw gas inlet at one end and a coaxial pure gas outlet at the other end and which is equipped with tangential auxiliary gas inlets in the region of the periphery of the centrifugal chamber inclined at an angle with respect to the raw gas outlet with a particle outlet concentrically surrounding the raw gas inlet, in which the pure gas outlet is conically flared and opens with its larger end into a cylindrical, closed ring chamber which includes a cover plate opposite the open outlet tube. A radially extending plate of a diameter smaller than that of the cylindrical ring chamber is attached to the larger, open end of the conical outlet tube and an aerodynamic body in the shape of a circular cone protrudes from the cover plate into the opened conical outlet tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1974
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1976
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinrich Klein, Rudolf Pieper