Apparatus for heating a pipeline

US9347596B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Jürgen Wortmann · Weichs, DE
• Michael Lutz · Speyer, DE
• Martin Gärtner · Worms, DE
• Kerstin Schierle-Arndt · Zwingenberg, DE
• Stephan Maurer · Neustadt, DE
• Michael Ladenberger · Annweiler am Trifels, DE
• Karolin Geyer · Mannheim, DE
• Florian Garlichs · Neustadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 25, 2014
• Grant date: May 24, 2016
• Expiry date: May 19, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E10/40
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to an apparatus for heating a pipeline system, comprising at least two pipelines (1), along which in each case one electrical resistance heating element extends, wherein a potential close to the ground potential is set at each electrical resistance heating element at at least one end (3, 5), and the electrical resistance heating element is connected to a terminal of a DC source or to in each case one phase (7) of an n-phase AC source (9) at a position remote from this end (3, 5), where, when using an n-phase AC source (9), n is an integer equal to or greater than 2.