Basf Aktiengesellschaft

Degussa - Huls Ag

Universitãt Stuttgart

Universitaet Stuttgart Institut Fuer Chemische

Univeritaet Stuttgart

Gerhart Eigenberger

Gerhard Friedrich

Grigorios Kolios

Gerd Kaibel

Dietrich Arntz

Franz-Josef Mueller

Lukas M Von Hippel

Wolfgang Steiner

Frank Opferkuch

Ulrich Nieken

Andreas Freund

Clemens Merten

Bernd Hoppner

Axel Anderlohr

Schuster, Ludwig

Peter Blei

Jorg Frauhammer

Ute Tuttlies

Volker Schmeisser

Jens Bernnat

Stefan Matschke

Matthias Rink

An engine exhaust gas purification device comprising control unit having successively arranged switching device (), counter-current heat exchanger () and at least one exhaust gas purification component (). The switching device () has a first position where a flow path () of the exhaust gas to the exhaust gas purification component () is opened and a second position where a flow path () of the exhaust gas to the exhaust gas purification component () is blocked and the exhaust gas flows along a further flow path () where the exhaust gas is heated and conveyed, via a flow path () of the exhaust gas purification component (), and exits the exhaust gas purification unit () through outlet channels () of the counter-current heat exchanger (). The switching device, the exhaust gas purification component, the counter-current heat exchanger and the flow paths are integrated in a compact exhaust gas treatment unit.

Apparatus and method for purifying exhaust gases for combustion engines

A total evaporator for fluids, including a cold chamber to prevent pre-evaporation, an evaporation region connected thereto having narrow flow cross-section for fast evaporation of the fluid, and a subsequent vapor chamber for pulsation damping and the controlled superheating of the vapor, the evaporation region being formed by a gap between concentrically nested cylindrical and/or conical tube sections and heat required for the evaporation and superheating processes is supplied by electric heating and/or by hot fluid and/or by catalytic or homogeneous combustion via the wall of the concentric tubes.

Compact total evaporator and device for carrying out the controlled drying, evaporation and/or reaction of a number of fluids

In a method for purifying exhaust gases in particular from lean-burn internal combustion engines having an exhaust-gas converter with a heat exchanger and catalysts arranged in inflow and/or outflow passages, the heat exchanger exhaust gas which flows in is heated by heat exchange with exhaust gas which flows. The incoming exhaust gas enters the inflow passages without encountering any obstacle susceptible to blockages, and flows through the inflow passages to a diversion region. Heat is fed to the exhaust gas by means of a burner. The burner is operated with fuel, air and engine exhaust gas in such a way that it supplies either an oxidizing or a reducing exhaust gas. Burner exhaust gas is admixed to the gas which emerges from the inflow passages and, together with this gas, enters the outflow passages, where nitrogen oxides are removed from it by a deNOxing catalyst present in the outflow passages.

Method and apparatus for purifying exhaust gases

Reactor heads for the feed and withdrawal of a fuel gas/air mixture and of an educt gas mixture into the heating ducts and reaction ducts respectively of a monolithic countercurrent reactor. The reactor heads are provided with guide pipes, which feed the gas mixtures into the ducts assigned to them and withdraw them from these ducts.

Reactor head for a monolithic co-current or countercurrent reactor

Ethanol is prepared by hydrogenating acetic acid under superatmospheric pressure and at elevated temperatures by a process wherein a predominantly cobalt-containing catalyst is used and acetic acid and hydrogen are passed through the reactor, at from 210.degree. to 330.degree. C. and under from 10 to 350 bar, under conditions such that a liquid phase in not formed during this procedure.

Continuous preparation of ethanol

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