| FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH GMBH Patent applications |
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| 20120029254 | ORDERED COBALT-ALUMINUM AND IRON-ALUMINUM INTERMETALLIC COMPOUNDS AS HYDROGENATION CATALYSTS - The present invention relates to a process for the hydrogenation, in particular the selective hydrogenation of unsaturated hydrocarbon compounds, such as the selective hydrogenation of acetylene to ethylene, using a hydrogenation catalyst comprising an ordered intermetallic compound, namely an ordered cobalt-aluminum or iron-aluminum intermetallic compound. According to another aspect, the present invention relates to a catalyst comprising a support and at least one specific ordered cobalt-aluminum and/or iron-aluminum intermetallic compound supported thereon, as well as to the use of specific ordered intermetallic cobalt-aluminum and iron-aluminum intermetallic compounds as catalysts. The ordered cobalt-aluminum and iron-aluminum intermetallic compounds proved to be highly selective and long-term stable catalysts, e.g. in the selective hydrogenation of acetylene to ethylene in a large excess of ethylene. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20110020192 | OXYGEN-PERMEABLE MEMBRANE AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF - The invention relates to a composite membrane for selective gas separation, comprising a layer system having a through-and-through porous, mechanically stable carrier layer, which has an average pore size in the μm range, further having at least one through-and-through porous intermediate layer, which is disposed on the carrier layer and has an average pore size in the range between 2 and 200 nm, and further having a gas-tight functional layer, which is disposed on the intermediate layer and is made of mixed-conductive material having a maximum layer thickness of 1 μm. The carrier layer comprises structural ceramics, a metal or a cermet and has a layer thickness of no more than 1 mm. The intermediate layer is present in a total layer thickness of no more than 100 μm and has an average pore size in the range of 10 and 100 nm. The functional layer comprises a perovskite, a fluorite, or a material having a K | 01-27-2011 |
| 20100075182 | METHOD FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL ACTIVATION OF FUEL CELLS - There is provided a method for the activation of a fuel cell. An exemplary method comprises operating the fuel cell entirely or partially at least briefly in an electrolysis regimen during galvanic operation. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100028757 | CERAMIC MATERIAL COMBINATION FOR AN ANODE OF A HIGH-TEMPERATURE FUEL CELL - The invention relates to an anode for a high-temperature fuel cell having an anode substrate and/or a functional anode layer, comprising a porous ceramic structure having a first predominantly electron-conducting phase with the general empirical formula Sr | 02-04-2010 |
| 20090299005 | Method for Inreasing the Efficiency of Surfactants, Extending the Temperature Window, and Suppressing Lamellar Mesophases in Microemulsion by Means of Additives, and Microemulsion - A method for increasing the efficiency of surfactants, broadening the temperature window, and suppressing lamellar mesophases in microemulsions by use of additives that possess at least one water-soluble unit and one hydrophobic unit are added to the microemulsions. The ratio of the number-average molecular weight of water-soluble units to the number-average molecular weight of hydrophobic units is 2 to 1000, the additives being polymers that comprise at least one water-soluble unit that possesses at least one hydrophobic unit on one chain end and/or one hydrophobic unit as a non-terminal substituent and/or at least one hydrophobic unit that is incorporated between the water-soluble units of the polymer. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090213866 | Data Communication System And Method - A data communication system having a plurality of input/output ports, a first group and a second group of switching units. Each switching unit has a plurality of input/output interfaces, whereby at least one of the plurality of input/output interfaces of each switching unit of the first group forms an input/output port of the communications system, and at least one other input/output interface of each of the switching units of the first group is connected via a communication link with an input/output interface of one of the switching units of the second group, so that a network is formed having at least one loop. The network is logically divided in at least two virtual subnetworks, each forming a spanning tree. Each switching unit of the first group is configured to assign an incoming data packet arriving at a particular input/output port to a predetermined one of the at least two virtual sub-networks. An advantage of the present invention is the ability to transparently employ the taught data communication device in different computing environments, without the requirement to alter any external equipment. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20090155666 | Bipolar plate and process for producing a bipolar plate - In order to provide a bipolar plate for a fuel cell unit, wherein the bipolar plate comprises a support layer of a metallic material and a protective layer, wherein the protective layer comprises an at least binary oxide system with at least two different types of metal cations, the protective layer of which prevents the formation of an oxide layer or changes the properties of the formed oxide layer such that lower mechanical stresses occur in the oxide layer, it is proposed that one type of metal cation of the oxide system of the protective layer is Mn and a further type of metal cation of the oxide system of the protective layer is Cu. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20090117624 | Process for the fermentative preparation of organic chemical compounds using coryneform bacteria in which the SugR gene is present in attenuated form - The invention relates to a recombinant coryneform bacterium which secretes an organic chemical compound and in which the sugR gene which codes for a polypeptide having the activity of an SugR regulator has been attenuated. The invention further relates to a processes for using this bacterium for the fermentative preparation of organic chemical compounds. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20080298653 | Method for Topographical Presentation of Alterations in an Examined Brain - The invention relates to a method for the topographical presentation of structural alterations in an examined brain using volume data records. In line with the invention, this method is distinguished in that functional areas are mapped by extracting profiles, where the profiles record boundaries for two functional areas in the examined brain, in that the boundaries of the two functional areas are recorded by calculating a multivariant distance measurement, and in that a microstructure in the region of the boundaries of the two cortical areas is recorded and is compared with at least one microstructure in a boundary region of a reference brain. To increase the comparability of various areas in various brains taking into account the interindividual variability, it is expedient for the volume data records to be transformed to a target volume data record using an elastic registration method. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20080245446 | Protective Layer for an Aluminum-Containing Alloy for High-Temperature Use - Alloys containing aluminium are characterised by an outstanding oxidation resistance at high temperatures, that is based on, inter alia, the formation of a thick and slow-growing aluminium oxide layer on material surfaces. If the formation of the aluminium oxide layer reduces the aluminium content of the alloy so far that a critical aluminium concentration is not reached, no other protective aluminium oxide layer can be formed. This leads disadvantageously to a very rapid breakaway oxidation, and the destruction of the component. This effect is stronger at temperatures above 800° C. due to the fact that, often at this point, metastable Al | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080231268 | Imaging Method Based on Fractal Surface-Filling or Space-Filling Curves - The present invention relates to an imaging method and device for nuclear magnetic resonance. On the one hand, the method provides an image coding by means of an additional field which has, for each point of a two-dimensional grating surface within the sample, a different field strength value that occurs only once, as is the case, e.g., in fields based on fractal, surface-filling and space-filling curves. On the other hand, the read-out of the resonance behavior of a sample along a space-filling and/or surface-filling curve can be provided. In the first variant, a magnetic resonance (MR) image with a single high-frequency excitation without a time-varying gradient can be recorded, which in turn advantageously prevents the sound generation associated therewith. In the second variant, the sounds generated during read-out are advantageously shifted to another frequency range in which the human hearing is less sensitive. Furthermore, the device is relieved and the technical requirements with regard to it are reduced. In addition, it can be executed with known and existing devices. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080220229 | Method for Structured Application of Molecules to a Strip Conductor and Molecular Memory Matrix - The invention relates to a method for a structured application of molecules on a strip conductor and to a molecular memory matrix. The inventive method makes it possible, for the first time, to economically and simply apply any number of molecular memory elements on the strip conductor in a structured and targeted way, thereby making available, also for the first time, a memory matrix at a molecular level. | 09-11-2008 |
