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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7100280 | Method for producing a heat exchanger The invention relates to a method for producing a plate heat exchanger from a plurality of heat exchanger blocks (1a, 1b). Each heat exchanger block (1a, 1b) has mounted on it a header (6a, 7 | 09/05/2006 |
| 7051798 | Heat exchanger The invention relates to a plate heat exchanger with a heat exchanger block which has a multiplicity of heat exchange passages. The heat exchanger block has mounted on it a header which extends over at least part of one side of the heat exchanger block and makes a f... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6725100 | Automatic load adjustment The subject of the invention is a process for adjusting a processing unit, whereby at least one set value is varied from a starting value to a final value. In this case, the target value of a correcting value is set based on the starting value and the final value of... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6624387 | Process for MSG-soldering and use of a shielding gas The invention relates to MSG-soldering (metal shielding gas-soldering) of metallic materials with use of soldering and an electric arc with consumable electrode or non-consumable electrode, whereby a shielding gas that essentially consists of inert gas is... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6319999 | Method for the production of polyadducts of alkylene oxides with a liquid in gas dispersion reactor For the semi-continuous production polyadducts of alkylene oxide by an addition reaction of alkylene oxide on a chain initiator having at least one active hydrogen, there is provided a reactor (1) constituted by a cylindrical body with two diameters, the ... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6291714 | Continuous process for effecting gas liquid reactions A continuous process for the production of polyadducts of alkylene oxide on a chain initiator with at least one active hydrogen comprises the step of: (a) providing n reaction units constituted by a tubular reactor (11), and a heat exchanger (14) downstre... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6172244 | Method and reactor for producing ethylene oxide The invention relates to a process for the production of ethylene oxide from a gaseous feedstock--in a cooled exothermic catalytic reaction of ethylene and oxygen from this feed gas in parallel flow-through reaction zones. According to the invention, the ... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6152992 | Reactor and process of using same A reactor is constructed essentially cylindrically symmetrically about an essentially vertically running axis and has a shell and within the shell at least one annular bulk packing which is filled with free-flowing material and is bounded by an inner and ... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6063353 | Process for krypton an xenon extraction Krypton and/or xenon are extracted from a krypton-xenon concentrate by means of distillation, for example, a krypton-xenon concentrate obtained from a low-temperature air separation unit. To remove fluorine- and/or chlorine-containing contaminants, especi... | 05/16/2000 |
| 5813968 | Process for disposing of perlite waste The present invention relates to a process for disposing of perlite, wherein perlite particles are removed by suction from a source, mixed with water and then compressed, whereby the volume of the perlite is reduced by the compression to about a third or ... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5802874 | Process and apparatus for liquefying low boiling gas such as nitrogen A process and apparatus are used for liquefying a low-boiling gas, 1, 507, particularly nitrogen. Gas to be liquified is cooled 12 under an increased pressure, is expanded 14 and is then obtained as a liquid product 16. In a refrigeration cycle, cycle med... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5669237 | Method and apparatus for the low-temperature fractionation of air For the method, air (103, 104) is fractionated in a medium-pressure column (6) and a low-pressure column (5). The sump heating (3) of the low-pressure column (5) is carried out with a second airflow (204), which is liquefied at the same time. An intermedi... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5603214 | Exhaust system for an internal combustion engine and method of operation thereof An exhaust system for an internal combustion engine including an exhaust duct having a lower portion and an upper portion with a discharge outlet. A pivotable flap is located in the upper portion of the exhaust duct to influence the discharge rate of the ... | 02/18/1997 |
| 4912282 | Process for operating a plant for the cracking of hydrocarbons The invention relates to a process for operation of a plant for the cracking of hydrocarbons. In this process, the hydrocarbons in the cracking furnaces are indirectly heated by the heat incurred in the combustion of a heating medium with an oxygen contai... | 03/27/1990 |
| 4555256 | Process and device for the production of gaseous oxygen at elevated pressure In the production of gaseous oxygen, a process and apparatus is used which requires low temperature rectification of air. The air is compressed, purified and cooled in a first heat exchanger while a second gas stream is compressed to elevated pressure, an... | 11/26/1985 |
| 4553990 | Device for separating gaseous and liquid components from a foamy gas liquid mixture The invention relates to a device for separating gaseous and liquid components of a foamy gas liquid mixture, into which device a feed line for the gas liquid mixture and a withdrawal line terminate, and into whose top portion there is arranged a turbine.... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4546847 | Hydrostatic-transmission control system, especially for lift and other industrial vehicles A hydrostatic-transmission control system for fork-lift trucks and like industrial vehicles has at least one of variable-displacement hydrostatic motor driving wheels on opposite sides of the vehicle and supplied by a pump having a control element for var... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4515678 | Process and catalyst for the hydrogenation of coal Blast furnace flue dust is used as a catalyst in a process for the hydrogenation of coal. A flowable mixture of finely divided coal particles and liquid hydrocarbons is brought to high pressure and to reaction temperature. The mixture is hydrogenated with... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4475443 | Axial piston machine with suction line impurity trap An axial piston pump is provided having a cylinder drum, the end face of which lies against a control bottom pickup element, in which an approximately semi-circular suction channel and an approximately semi-circular pressure channel are located, where eac... | 10/09/1984 |
| 4467604 | Hydrostatic drive system for an excavator A hydrostatic drive system for an excavator is provided having a primary energy source on the excavator, at least one pump installed in a housing for supplying several consumers, a connection between each pump and consumer effected through at least one co... | 08/28/1984 |
| 4464979 | Drive flange swash plate machines A drive-flange axial piston machine is provided with a drive-flange shaft that is supported in two radial bearings supported at a distance from each other, and an axial bearing, in which case an element transmitting a torque to the shaft, preferably a gea... | 08/14/1984 |
| 4461148 | Hydrostatic drive systems A hydrostatic drive system consisting of at least two component systems is provided, each component consisting of an adjustable pump, where the loading of the pump adjusting cylinder is regulated by a hydraulically controlled servo control valve, one side... | 07/24/1984 |
| 4458485 | Controls for differential speed controlled vehicle A control is provided for the drive of a motor vehicle with differential-speed steering and with a hydrostatic power transmission unit on each side of the vehicle, where the adjusting element of each of the two power transmission units is provided with a ... | 07/10/1984 |
| 4449444 | Axial piston pumps An axial piston pump is provided for producing two output streams that can be regulated independently of each other with respect to size and pressure. A pump according to the invention includes a housing, a revolving cylindrical drum in said housing, a dr... | 05/22/1984 |
| 4442005 | Method of and apparatus for the biological decontamination of waste water A substantially constant loading waste water treatment process and apparatus subjects the waste water to treatment with recycled sludge and oxygen in an activation basin. The suspension is separated into sludge and effluent and a portion of the recycled s... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4432424 | Lift loader A lift loader is provided having two drive motors, each of which drives a vehicle wheel through a gearing arrangement located in a separate transmission housing, in which case each transmission housing is designed as a supporting structural component and ... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4426195 | Adjustable axial flow piston machines In an adjustable axial flow piston pump having a swivellable component such as a swash plate, pressure chambers for swivelling the swivellable component, a lever connected with the swivellable component and supported in the housing of the pump, a final co... | 01/17/1984 |
| 4425759 | Hydrostatic drive systems A hydrostatic drive system with an adjustable pump is provided with branch lines from a main delivery line to several consumers, an arbitrarily actuatable switch in each branch line, an adjustable parallel connecting restrictor in each branch line with an... | 01/17/1984 |
| 4413650 | Hydraulic spool valves with controlled by-pass A hydraulic spool valve is provided for controlling the flow of fluid between a pump, a consumer of hydraulic energy and a reservoir which spool has pressure controlled by-pass means by-passing fluid from the fluid inlet of the valve to tank while the val... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4405287 | Regulating devices for a plurality of pumps driven by a common source A regulating device is provided for an aggregate of several pumps driven by a primary source at least one of which is adjustable and with a constant volume auxiliary control pressure pump driven by the same primary source in the delivery line of which a r... | 09/20/1983 |
| 4400939 | Drive units A drive unit is provided consisting of an internal combustion engine, a continuously variable transmission unit and a fluid operated regulating assembly interconnecting said internal combustion engine and transmission and operated by a single manual contr... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4388946 | Valves A valve is provided, particularly as a part of a block control device, made up of an elongate housing having a longitudinal bore with spaced work chambers, inlet chambers and exhaust chambers intersecting the bore and an elongate cylindrical spool slidabl... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4370100 | Regulating devices for hydrostatic drive units A regulating device for a hydrostatic drive unit such as a hydropiston pump is provided with an adjusting piston designed as a differential piston, connected with the final control element of the drive unit and/or the pump and under pressure from both sid... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4336694 | Spraying system for cryogenic coolants A spraying system for cryogenic liquid, e.g. a liquefied gas, provides a distribution duct formed with a plurality of slit-shaped spraying orifices. Preferably a phase separator is provided upstream of the orifices and the orifices are close to the liquid... | 06/29/1982 |
| 4323370 | Adsorption process producing varying amounts of product gas of a constant purity A cyclic adsorption process for the fractionation of a gaseous mixture, over an adsorbent exhibiting differential rates of adsorption for the components of the gaseous mixture. The process delivers a product gas of a constant concentration by varying the ... | 04/06/1982 |
| 4315759 | Adsorption process producing chronologically constant amount of a residual gas An adsorption process for purifying or fractionating a gaseous feed mixture comprises an adsorption phase, at least one expansion phase, a purging phase and at least one pressure build-up phase. The expansion phase(s) and the purging phase produce residua... | 02/16/1982 |
| 4297204 | Thermal cracking with post hydrogenation and recycle of heavy fractions In a process for the thermal cracking of hydrocarbons to produce olefins, improvement of recovering hydrocarbons boiling above 200° C. from the thermal cracking stage, preferably removing polymeric components therefrom, catalytically hydrogenating result... | 10/27/1981 |
| 4276057 | Process for treating pressurized gases to remove unwanted components Process for treating a gaseous mixture under pressure to remove unwanted components from a gas, including methane, ethane, hydrogen, nitrogen, such components as C3, C4 and C5 higher hydrocarbons, hydrogen sulphide and car... | 06/30/1981 |
| 4260590 | Recovery of salts of anthraquinone disulfonic acid in the Stretford process In the Stretford process wherein hydrogen sulfide, obtained for example, in the catalytic conversion of sulfur compounds, is absorbed into an alkaline solution of the sodium salt of anthraquinone disulfonic acid (ADA) and sodium vanadate and eventually co... | 04/07/1981 |
| 4229195 | Method for liquifying natural gas A method for liquefying natural gas comprises heat exchanging a pressurized natural gas with two independent coolant circuits. The first coolant circuit pre-cools the compressed natural gas. After the natural gas is pre-cooled in the first circuit, a majo... | 10/21/1980 |
