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20130030963 | MANAGING CONSISTENT INTERFACES FOR FINANCIAL BUSINESS OBJECTS ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS - A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a financial plan, a financials notification, a bank directory entry file and/or a direct debit mandate business object. | 01-31-2013 |
20130179229 | ANALYZING BUSINESS DATA FOR PLANNING APPLICATIONS - The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for providing efficient planning through analyzing data. One process includes operations for generating a business object containing parameters and plan data of a business plan, the plan data represented by a plurality of aggregation levels. A change to a particular item in the plan data is identified, the change associated with a particular aggregation level. The change to the particular item is automatically propagated to a lowest level of granularity of the plan data, and the change to the particular item is available to each of the plurality of aggregation levels. | 07-11-2013 |
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20100205968 | Method for operating a combustion system and combustion system - A combustion system with a burner and a membrane unit including a retentate side and permeate side for separating oxygen from air is provided. The permeate side of the membrane unit is connected to the burner via a line. A heat exchanger is connected in a combustion gas flow such that a hot combustion gas arising from fossil combustion is applied to the primary side of the heat exchanger and air applied to the secondary side of the heat exchanger is heated to a temperature required for operating the membrane unit and fed to the membrane unit. Further, a method for operating the combustion system is provided. | 08-19-2010 |
20100300111 | METHOD FOR THE OPERATION OF A POWER PLANT FEATURING INTEGRATED GASIFICATION, AND POWER PLANT - A method for operating a power plant with in integrated gasification device is provided. A fossil fuel is gasified and is fed as syngas to a burner associated with a gas turbine for combustion purposes. Oxygen is separated from air by a membrane at a process temperature such that oxygen-depleted air is formed. The separated oxygen is fed to the gasification device in order to react with the fossil fuel, and heating energy is fed to the membrane to maintain the required process temperature. The heating energy is recovered in part from the syngas and in part from the oxygen and/or the oxygen-depleted air in heat exchange with the air, and the heated air is fed to the membrane. | 12-02-2010 |
20110146279 | Steam turbine system for a power plant - A steam turbine system for a power generating plant is provided. The steam turbine in the system has a live steam control valve at its live steam inlet, an extraction steam outlet, a live steam bypass line with a throttle valve which is connected to the inlet of the live steam control valve and also to the extraction steam outlet for directing live steam, which is throttled with the throttle valve, from upstream of the live steam control valve to the extraction steam outlet. The steam turbine with the live steam control valve and the live steam bypass line with the throttle valve are designed such that the steam turbine can be operated both in the nominal operating state with 100% live steam mass flow and in a special operating state with live steam mass flow above 100%, with a fully open live steam control valve in each case. | 06-23-2011 |
20120111007 | STEAM POWER PLANT WITH STEAM TURBINE UNIT AND PROCESS STEAM CONSUMER, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A STEAM POWER PLANT WITH STEAM TURBINE UNIT AND PROCESS STEAM CONSUMER - A steam power plant having at least one steam turbine unit and a process steam consumer is provided. The process steam consumer includes a heat exchanger. The steam turbine unit is connected to a heat exchanger by means of a extraction steam line, and a desuperheater is connected in the primary side of the extraction steam line, so that process steam extracted through the extraction steam line of the turbine system may be conditioned by the desuperheater to the process conditions of the process steam consumer, and the heat energy removed in the desuperheater can be fed back into the steam power plant system. | 05-10-2012 |
20120119151 | Method and facility for converting carbon monoxide and water into carbon dioxide and hydrogen, with the removal of at least one product gas - A process for carrying out a carbon monoxide shift reaction is provided. In the implementation of the carbon monoxide shift reaction, including the conversion of carbon monoxide and water into carbon dioxide and hydrogen, this conversion takes place in the liquid phase and involves separation of the product gases carbon dioxide and/or hydrogen, where as a first solvent dry methanol is used, for the absorption of carbon monoxide with simultaneous formation of a methyl formate, as a second solvent, in the area of release of the product gases, water is used, for avoiding hydrogen losses in a carbon dioxide area. | 05-17-2012 |
20120126178 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING CARBON MONOXIDE AND WATER INTO CARBON DIOXIDE AND HYDROGEN, WITH REMOVAL OF ONE OR MORE PRODUCTS - A method for converting carbon monoxide and water into carbon dioxide and hydrogen, with simultaneous removal of one or more products, is described. The method includes the following steps: in a first reactor, carbon monoxide from the gas phase is bound in a first solvent and converted into formate, in a third reactor, formate is decomposed and resultant hydrogen H | 05-24-2012 |
20120144860 | PROCESS FOR REMOVING HARMFUL SUBSTANCES FROM LIQUID CARBON DIOXIDE AND APPARATUS FOR THE PERFORMANCE THEREOF - A process for removing harmful substances from a gas steam which includes carbon dioxide and substances of value, such as at least one of the gases hydrogen H | 06-14-2012 |
20120167568 | STEAM POWER PLANT - A steam power plant including a number of partial turbines is provided. Each partial turbine is permeated by steam, an overflow line disposed between a first partial turbine and a second partial turbine and an intermediate superheater in the overflow line. A bleeder line for extracting steam is thereby fluidically connected to the first partial turbine after the expansion stage, prior to the intermediate superheater. An expansion device is further provided, into which the bleeder line opens, and a consumer is connected via a process steam line of the expansion device. | 07-05-2012 |
20120304689 | Method for Separating a Cleaned Useful Gas From a Gas Mixture, and Device for Carrying Out Said Method - A method is provided for separating a cleaned useful gas from a gas mixture substantially containing carbon dioxide, at least one useful gas, and at least one hazardous substance. The carbon dioxide is condensed, and the liquid carbon dioxide that is enriched with the hazardous substance is separated from the useful gas. The hazardous material is then separated from the liquid carbon dioxide by adsorption, and one part of the cleaned liquid carbon dioxide is fed into the useful gas to absorb hazardous substances still contained in the useful gas. | 12-06-2012 |
20130309141 | APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING CARBON MONOXIDE AND WATER INTO CARBON DIOXIDE AND HYDROGEN WITH THE REMOVAL OF AT LEAST ONE PRODUCT GAS - An apparatus for carrying out a carbon monoxide shift reaction, which includes converting carbon monoxide and water into carbon dioxide and hydrogen, the converting proceeding in a liquid phase with removal of a product gas including carbon dioxide and hydrogen, is provided. The apparatus includes dry methanol, as a first solvent in a first region for an absorption of carbon monoxide with simultaneous formation of methyl formate, and water, as a second solvent in a second region for a liberation of the product gas in order to avoid losses of hydrogen in a carbon dioxide region. | 11-21-2013 |
20140130499 | STEAM TURBINE INSTALLATION AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE STEAM TURBINE INSTALLATION - A steam turbine installation that has a steam turbine, a steam generator and a feed water pre-heating unit operated by process steam is provided. The steam turbine has an overload bypass line with which main steam can be fed to the feed water pre-heating unit between the steam turbine input and the extraction point during overload operation of the steam turbine, wherein the feed water pre-heating unit has an auxiliary extraction line that is connected to the overload bypass line in such a way that process steam can be extracted from the steam turbine during partial load operation of the steam turbine and added to the feed water pre-heating unit for the additional pre-heating of feed water. | 05-15-2014 |
20140298813 | HIGH-TEMPERATURE ENERGY STORE WITH RECUPERATOR - A charging circuit for converting electrical energy into thermal energy is provided, having a compression stage, connected via a shaft to an electric motor, a heat exchanger and an expansion stage, which is connected via a shaft to a generator, wherein the compression stage is connected to the expansion stage via a hot-gas line, and the heat exchanger is connected on the primary side into the hot-gas line, wherein the expansion stage is connected via a return line to the compression stage, so that a closed circuit for a working gas is formed. A recuperator is also provided which, on the primary side, is connected into the hot-gas line between the heat exchanger and the expansion stage and, on the secondary side, is connected into the return line, so that heat from the working gas in the hot-gas line can be transferred to the working gas in the return line. | 10-09-2014 |
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20140360191 | ENERGY STORAGE APPARATUS FOR THE PREHEATING OF FEED WATER - An energy storage apparatus for the storage of thermal energy is provided, with a charging circuit, having a compressor, a heat store and an expansion turbine, the compressor connected on the outlet side to the inlet of the expansion turbine via a first line for a first working gas, and the heat store inserted into a second line, and the first line connected to a first heat exchanger, in which the first line and the second line are coupled thermally, and, furthermore, having a discharge circuit which has a water/steam circuit equipped with a steam generator and which has at least one feed water preheater preceding the steam generator with respect to the direction of flow of the water in this water/steam circuit, and thermal coupling between the charging circuit and discharge circuit achieved by the feed water preheater, in particular achieved solely by the feed water preheater. | 12-11-2014 |
20150027122 | ENERGY STORAGE POWER PLANT AMD METHOD FOR OPERATING SUCH A POWER PLANT - An energy storage power plant for harvesting electric energy, and suitable for converting electric energy into thermal energy is provided. The thermal energy can be temporarily stored in at least two thermal stores until demanded and retrieved to increase the energy content of water in a water circuit upon demand. The power plant has the at least two thermal stores, each has at least one converting device that allows electric energy to be directly or indirectly converted into thermal energy, the thermal stores being thermally chargeable by temporarily storing thermal energy, wherein one thermal store is for storing sensible heat and one thermal store is for storing latent heat; and at least one energy generating unit operated using the water in the water circuit, the energy content of the water having been increased by the temporary storage of thermal energy, in order to generate electric energy when operated. | 01-29-2015 |