Patents by Inventor Wilfried Ruehle

Wilfried Ruehle 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: 9879351
    Abstract: A method for protecting the components of the primary system of a boiling water reactor, especially against stress cracking corrosion, includes feeding a reducing agent into the primary coolant in order to reduce the number of substances having a oxidizing effect or in order to modify the electrochemical potential of the component surfaces covered with an oxide layer to negative values. An alcohol that can be oxidized in the conditions of a reactor is fed in as a reducing agent, preferably in a liquid form, into the primary coolant. The component surfaces are provided with a blank coating or a single intrinsic oxide coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: AREVA Inc.
    Inventors: Bernhard Stellwag, Wilfried Ruehle
  • Publication number: 20130272476
    Abstract: A method for protecting the components of the primary system of a boiling water reactor, especially against stress cracking corrosion, includes feeding a reducing agent into the primary coolant in order to reduce the number of substances having a oxidizing effect or in order to modify the electrochemical potential of the component surfaces covered with an oxide layer to negative values. An alcohol that can be oxidized in the conditions of a reactor is fed in as a reducing agent, preferably in a liquid form, into the primary coolant. The component surfaces are provided with a blank coating or a single intrinsic oxide coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Bernhard Stellwag, Wilfried Ruehle
  • Publication number: 20070263761
    Abstract: A method for protecting the components of the primary system of a boiling water reactor, especially against stress cracking corrosion, includes feeding a reducing agent into the primary coolant in order to reduce the number of substances having a oxidizing effect or in order to modify the electrochemical potential of the component surfaces covered with an oxide layer to negative values. An alcohol that can be oxidized in the conditions of a reactor is fed in as a reducing agent, preferably in a liquid form, into the primary coolant. The component surfaces are provided with a blank coating or a single intrinsic oxide coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2007
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Applicant: AREVA NP
    Inventors: Bernhard Stellwag, Wilfried Ruehle
  • Publication number: 20070223645
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for counteracting the escape of radioactive iodine from a cooling system of a water-cooled nuclear reactor, a reducing agent being introduced into the cooling system of the reactor during a shutdown of the reactor and/or during a subsequent after-cooling operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2005
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Inventors: Wilfried Ruehle, Heribert Schmitt, Werner Seider
  • Patent number: 6656338
    Abstract: For dosing lithium in cooling water containing cationic impurities or for reducing cationic impurities, the invention guides cooling water cycle through a first side of an electrodialysis unit and guides a concentration cycle through a second side of the electrodialysis unit. Cationic impurities are filtered out of the medium of the concentration cycle with a selective ion exchanger that is disposed in the concentration cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignees: Framatome ANP GmbH, ENBW Kraftwerke AG
    Inventors: Manfred Meintker, Michael Bolz, Günther Enkler, Wilfried Rühle