Patents by Inventor Thomas Rühl

Thomas Rühl 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: 11286617
    Abstract: A machine for dewatering and drying a paper, cardboard or other fibrous web, to which machine a fibrous stock suspension is fed which is formed at least partially from waste paper. The machine includes at least two press nips which are formed in each case by two press rolls, wherein a fibrous web runs through first press nip with a water absorbing dewatering belt on both sides. The fibrous web then runs through a second press nip with at least one other dewatering belt and a smooth impermeable transfer belt on both sides. A transfer belt transfers the fibrous web after second press nip to a belt in a downstream machine unit, e.g. dryer group. The dryer group allows the fibrous web to be guided in a serpentine manner alternatively over heated dryer cylinders and vacuum equipped guide rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Gronych, Thomas Rühl
  • Patent number: 10612192
    Abstract: The invention relates to a press for a machine for producing a fibrous material web, including at least one press nip formed between a press roller and a counter press roller of the press for guiding through the fibrous material web in a dehydrating manner, and two band shaped covers, which are each guided by multiple guide rollers in continuous circulation, so as to run together through the press nip, so that the fibrous material web is guided through sandwiched between said covers, and then separated again at a separation point, in order to continue guiding the fibrous material web on the one cover and separate it from the other cover. One guide roller of the guide rollers arranged at the separation point is a suctioned guide roller of the one cover, to hold the fibrous material web on the one cover at the separation position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Gronych, Thomas Rühl
  • Publication number: 20190100876
    Abstract: A machine for dewatering and drying a paper, cardboard or other fibrous web, to which machine a fibrous stock suspension is fed which is formed at least partially from waste paper. The machine includes at least two press nips which are formed in each case by two press rolls, wherein a fibrous web runs through first press nip with a water absorbing dewatering belt on both sides. The fibrous web then runs through a second press nip with at least one other dewatering belt and a smooth impermeable transfer belt on both sides. A transfer belt transfers the fibrous web after second press nip to a belt in a downstream machine unit, e.g. dryer group. The dryer group allows the fibrous web to be guided in a serpentine manner alternatively over heated dryer cylinders and vacuum equipped guide rolls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Applicant: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Gronych, Thomas Rühl
  • Publication number: 20180371693
    Abstract: The invention relates to a press for a machine for producing a fibrous material web, including at least one press nip formed between a press roller and a counter press roller of the press for guiding through the fibrous material web in a dehydrating manner, and two band shaped covers, which are each guided by multiple guide rollers in continuous circulation, so as to run together through the press nip, so that the fibrous material web is guided through sandwiched between said covers, and then separated again at a separation point, in order to continue guiding the fibrous material web on the one cover and separate it from the other cover. One guide roller of the guide rollers arranged at the separation point is a suctioned guide roller of the one cover, to hold the fibrous material web on the one cover at the separation position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Gronych, Thomas Rühl
  • Publication number: 20150239796
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the synthesis of 18F labeled compounds. In particular, the present invention relates to a copper (I) mediated one pot method for 18F-trifluoromethylation of aromatic- or heteroaromatic halides with difluoro(iodo)methane (e.g., for use at PET imaging agents).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Rühl, Patrick Riss, Waqas Rafique
  • Patent number: 8382955
    Abstract: A method for operating a sheet-forming unit of a papermaking machine. At least one fibrous material suspension is fed to a headbox and is conducted in a plurality of turbulence-generating channels to form sub-flows, and fed to a nozzle. From the nozzle, the at least one fibrous material suspension is in the form of a free jet into the forming unit to define an impingement line. In a final fluidization region of an individual turbulence-generating channel a pressure loss (?p) of ?50 mbar is generated within the fibrous material suspension before inlet thereof into the nozzle, and the fibrous material suspension is guided from the final fluidization region as far as the impingement line in such a way that the dwell time of the suspension in the region defined by the final fluidization region as far as the impingement line ranges from >30 ms to ?300 ms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Häussler, Hans Loser, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Wolfgang Ruf, Thomas Ruehl
  • Patent number: 8349136
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for optimizing the energy balance of a forming section in a machine for producing fibrous webs, in which a fiber suspension, which is fed to the forming section by way of a material ramp after the immobility point is reached, is passed through at least two dewatering units within a compression zone and to a subsequent functional unit. The invention is characterized in that a setpoint value for a target dryness to be set is predefined based on the existing dewatering elements as a function of a theoretical maximum achievable dryness under plant conditions in the area of the transition zone, said setpoint being selected such that it is less than the theoretical maximum achievable dryness but is equal to or greater than a required minimum dryness in the area of the transition zone, and that the target dryness is controlled by lowering the inlet dryness at one of the last dewatering units disposed in the direction of passage of the fiber suspension within the compression zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Ruehl, Moritz Schmalenbach, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Marco Esper, Oliver Kaufmann
  • Patent number: 8323452
    Abstract: A forming section in a machine for producing a web of fibrous material includes a control and/or regulating system including a control and/or regulating device which is connected with at least one device for at least indirect acquisition of one value at least indirectly characterizing the dry content of the fibrous web in a transfer area from the forming section to a following function unit, with a device for input of a desired value for the target dry content, and with at least the control elements of an individual dewatering unit located prior to one of the last dewatering units, or the last dewatering unit inside the compression zone. The control and/or regulating device also includes a device for creating the control variables for controlling the individual dewatering units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Ruehl, Moritz Schmalenbach, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Marco Esper, Oliver Kaufmann
  • Publication number: 20120193059
    Abstract: A method for operating a sheet-forming unit of a papermaking machine. At least one fibrous material suspension is fed to a headbox and is conducted in a plurality of turbulence-generating channels to form sub-flows, and fed to a nozzle. From the nozzle, the at least one fibrous material suspension is in the form of a free jet into the forming unit to define an impingement line. In a final fluidization region of an individual turbulence-generating channel a pressure loss (?p) of ?50 mbar is generated within the fibrous material suspension before inlet thereof into the nozzle, and the fibrous material suspension is guided from the final fluidization region as far as the impingement line in such a way that the dwell time of the suspension in the region defined by the final fluidization region as far as the impingement line ranges from >30 ms to ?300 ms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventors: Markus Häussler, Hans Loser, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Wolfgang Ruf, Thomas Ruehl
  • Publication number: 20120145346
    Abstract: A forming section in a machine for producing a web of fibrous material includes a control and/or regulating system including a control and/or regulating device which is connected with at least one device for at least indirect acquisition of one value at least indirectly characterizing the dry content of the fibrous web in a transfer area from the forming section to a following function unit, with a device for input of a desired value for the target dry content, and with at least the control elements of an individual dewatering unit located prior to one of the last dewatering units, or the last dewatering unit inside the compression zone. The control and/or regulating device also includes a device for creating the control variables for controlling the individual dewatering units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventors: Thomas Ruehl, Moritz Schmalenbach, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Marco Esper, Oliver Kaufmann
  • Publication number: 20110024069
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for optimizing the energy balance of a forming section in a machine for producing fibrous webs, in which a fiber suspension, which is fed to the forming section by way of a material ramp after the immobility point is reached, is passed through at least two dewatering units within a compression zone and to a subsequent functional unit. The invention is characterized in that a setpoint value for a target dryness to be set is predefined based on the existing dewatering elements as a function of a theoretical maximum achievable dryness under plant conditions in the area of the transition zone, said setpoint being selected such that it is less than the theoretical maximum achievable dryness but is equal to or greater than a required minimum dryness in the area of the transition zone, and that the target dryness is controlled by lowering the inlet dryness at one of the last dewatering units disposed in the direction of passage of the fiber suspension within the compression zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Inventors: Thomas Ruehl, Moritz Schmalenbach, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Marco Esper, Oliver Kaufmann
  • Patent number: 7402288
    Abstract: A reactor for testing catalyst systems which has a plurality of catalyst tubes (2) which are arranged parallel to one another in the interior space of the reactor and whose ends are welded into tube plates and also has caps (3) at each end of the reactor which each bound a cap space (4), with a fluid reaction medium (5) being fed via one cap space (4) into the catalyst tubes (2), flowing through the catalyst tubes (2) and being discharged via the other cap space (4), and is also provided with a heat exchange medium circuit in which the heat exchange medium (6) is fed in at one end of the reactor, flows through the intermediate space between the catalyst tubes (2) and flows out at the other end of the reactor, wherein the catalyst tubes (2) are arranged in two or more catalyst tube regions (7) which are thermally separate from one another, is proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerhard Olbert, Torsten Mattke, Matthias Kummer, Thomas Ruehl, Frank Rosowski
  • Patent number: 7134848
    Abstract: The invention relates to a pump (1) having a pump guide tube (13) for the transport of a heat-exchange medium (6) for a reactor having a bundle of catalyst tubes (2), where the pump (1) has a casing (14) which surrounds the pump guide tube (13), having an aperture (15) in the lower part of the casing (14) via which the heat-exchange medium (6) discharged from the lower region of the reactor by means of the pump (1) flows into the casing (14), flows upward in the region between the inner wall of the casing (14) and the outer wall of the pump guide tube (13), if desired via a heat exchanger (18), flows into the interior of the pump guide tube (13) via an aperture (16) in the upper region of the pump guide tube (13), flows through the pump guide tube (13) from top to bottom and flows via an aperture (17) in the lower region of the pump guide tube (13) into the reactor, into the upper region of the interspace between the catalyst tubes (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerhard Olbert, Torsten Mattke, Matthias Kummer, Thomas Rühl, Frank Rosowski
  • Patent number: 6716316
    Abstract: Process for conditioning a circulating felt belt of a machine, pipe suction apparatus and traversing pipe suction apparatus therefor, the process including performing a zonal conditioning of a plurality of zones across a width of the felt belt by measuring at least one of, fibrous material web cross direction profile; felt belt cross direction profile; and permeability of the felt belt across the width of at least one of the web and the belt. The felt belt is conditioned depending on measuring results obtained for a respective zone. The pipe suction apparatus includes a ceramic body extending at least essentially across the entire width of the felt belt, the ceramic body being provided with a slotted surface by way of which the felt belt is subjectable to vacuum, with a respective effective amount of slotted surface being zonally variably adjustable by way of movable tongues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Grabscheid, Ulrich Begemann, Oswald Satzger, Wolfgang Mayer, Ralf Rziha, Wolfgang Bamberger, Georg Kleiser, Thomas Rühl
  • Patent number: 6655195
    Abstract: Process for determining disturbances of a moisture cross profile of a fibrous material web in a paper making machine, a paper making machine, and a measuring arrangement for measuring the disturbances, the process including guiding the fibrous material web by way of at least one water-permeable belt and collecting and draining off water released from the belt. The water is collected by several sections separated from one another. The process further includes measuring per time unit, the amount of water in each section, wherein the sections extend at right angles to a web running direction over only a partial section of the fibrous material web. The paper making machine includes at least one water-permeable belt, the belt being wrapped around a roll. The measuring arrangement includes a water collection device having the form of one of a trough or channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Grabscheid, Ulrich Begemann, Oswald Satzger, Wolfgang Mayer, Ralf Rziha, Wolfgang Bamberger, Georg Kleiser, Thomas Rühl
  • Patent number: 6570026
    Abstract: On-spec phthalic anhydride is prepared by distillative purification of crude phthalic anhydride by a process in which crude phthalic anhydride is fed to a distillation column which is operated at reduced pressure, the low boilers are removed at the top or in the vicinity of the top of the distillation column and the on-spec phthalic anhydride is removed from the column via a side take-off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Werner Peschel, Bernd Bessling, Peter Reuter, Peter Michael Lorz, Bernhard Ulrich, Jean Werner Knab, Matthias Kummer, Thomas Rühl
  • Patent number: 6388149
    Abstract: A process for the reaction of an organic compound in the presence of a catalyst comprising, as active metal, ruthenium alone or together with at least one Group Ib, VIIb, or VIIIb metal in an amount of from 0.01 to 30 wt %, based on the total weight of the catalyst, applied to a support, wherein from 10 to 50% of the pore volume of the support comprises macropores having a pore diameter in the range of from 50 nm to 10,000 nm and from 50 to 90% of the pore volume of the support comprises mesopores having a pore diameter in the range of from 2 to 50 nm, the sum of said pore volumes being 100%, and said catalyst as such.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Rühl, Boris Breitscheidel, Jochem Henkelmann, Andreas Henne, Rolf Lebkücher, Konrad Knoll, Paul Naegele, Hermann Gausepohl, Sabine Weiguny, Norbert Niessner
  • Patent number: 6316680
    Abstract: In a process for isolating &agr;-ethynyl carbinols from the liquid reaction mixture from the addition of acetylene onto &agr;,&bgr;-unsaturated carbonyl compounds by distillation, the distillation is carried out continuously, the feed stream is introduced into the middle section of a distillation column (K), the major part of the water is distilled off azeotropically together with the solvent at the top of the column, and the &agr;-ethynyl carbinol target product is taken off below the feed point to the column.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2001
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf-Thomas Rahn, Harald Rust, Thomas Rühl, Jochem Henkelmann, Susanne Stutz
  • Patent number: 6248924
    Abstract: A process for the reaction of an organic compound in the presence of a catalyst comprising, as active metal, ruthenium alone or together with at least one Group Ib, VIIb, or VIIIb metal in an amount of from 0.01 to 30 wt %, based on the total weight of the catalyst, applied to a support, wherein from 10 to 50% of the pore volume of the support comprises macropores having a pore diameter in the range of from 50 nm to 10,000 nm and from 50 to 90% of the pore volume of the support comprises mesopores having a pore diameter in the range of from 2 to 50 nm, the sum of said pore volumes being 100%, and said catalyst as such.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Rühl, Boris Breitscheidel, Jochem Henkelmann, Andreas Henne, Rolf Lebkücher, Konrad Knoll, Paul Naegele, Hermann Gausepohl, Sabine Weiguny, Norbert Niessner
  • Patent number: 6235069
    Abstract: Copolymer comprising ethylene units and vinyl formate units, the content of free vinyl formate in the polymer preferably being not more than 5000 ppm, based on the weight of the copolymer, a process for its preparation, and its use as flow improver, especially in petroleum distillates, preferably fuel and propellant compositions, especially petroleum middle distillates, and also a fuel and propellant composition comprising a principal quantity of a fuel and propellant and that quantity of a copolymer as above which is effective in improving the flow properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Deckers, Bernd Wenderoth, Thomas Rühl, Hans-Joachim Müller, Roger Klimesch