Patents by Inventor Stephan Zehrer

Stephan Zehrer 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: 10449482
    Abstract: A method for operating a gas scrubber is disclosed in which components are removed from a crude gas by scrubbing with a chemical or physical scrubbing medium to obtain a pure gas present at elevated pressure which, after heating, is introduced into an expansion machine which after work-performing decompression the pure gas leaves at an exit temperature. The amount of heat supplied to the pure gas during heating thereof is deliberately altered to approximate the exit temperature thereof to a predetermined target value at all times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: LINDE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Ulvi Kerestecioglu, Alexander Prelipceanu, Anna-Maria Fischer, Stephan Zehrer, Jan-Peter Bohn, Katrin Giese, Thomas Hummel
  • Patent number: 10221369
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process and a device for generating a fuel gas for a gas turbine by separating off sulphur components from a gas mixture containing hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and also carbonyl sulphide and/or hydrogen sulphide, which gas mixture is in this case scrubbed in a physical gas scrubber with a methanol scrubbing medium at a pressure between 30 and 80 bar(a) in order to obtain a first sulphur-free gas mixture and also a methanol scrubbing medium loaded with sulphur components and carbon dioxide, which methanol scrubbing is then regenerated, wherein a carbon dioxide-rich gas phase that contains sulphur components and is formed by pressure reduction is treated in a further gas scrubber with a methanol scrubbing medium in order to back-wash sulphur components and to generate a second sulphur-free gas mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Linde Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stephan Zehrer, Jan-Peter Bohn
  • Publication number: 20180169570
    Abstract: A method for operating a gas scrubber is disclosed in which components are removed from a crude gas by scrubbing with a chemical or physical scrubbing medium to obtain a pure gas present at elevated pressure which, after heating, is introduced into an expansion machine which after work-performing decompression the pure gas leaves at an exit temperature. The amount of heat supplied to the pure gas during heating thereof is deliberately altered to approximate the exit temperature thereof to a predetermined target value at all times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Ulvi Kerestecioglu, Alexander Prelipceanu, Anna-Maria Fischer, Stephan Zehrer, Jan-Peter Bohn, Katrin Giese, Thomas Hummel
  • Publication number: 20170051218
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process and a device for generating a fuel gas for a gas turbine by separating off sulphur components from a gas mixture containing hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and also carbonyl sulphide and/or hydrogen sulphide, which gas mixture is in this case scrubbed in a physical gas scrubber with a methanol scrubbing medium at a pressure between 30 and 80 bar(a) in order to obtain a first sulphur-free gas mixture and also a methanol scrubbing medium loaded with sulphur components and carbon dioxide, which methanol scrubbing is then regenerated, wherein a carbon dioxide-rich gas phase that contains sulphur components and is formed by pressure reduction is treated in a further gas scrubber with a methanol scrubbing medium in order to back-wash sulphur components and to generate a second sulphur-free gas mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Stephan Zehrer, Jan-Peter Bohn