公开(公告)号：US11739931B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-29

申请号：US17280396

申请日：2019-09-23

申请人： Aalborg Csp A/S

发明人： Peter Thomsen ,  Ivan Bo Christensen ,  Jens Taggart Pelle ,  Keld Sørensen ,  Peter Badstue Jensen ,  Per Jørn Nielsen ,  Svante Bundgaard

IPC分类号： F22B1/00 ,  F22B1/16 ,  F22B29/06 ,  F22B37/12 ,  F28D1/047 ,  F28D20/00 ,  F22B1/02 ,  F28D7/08

CPC分类号： F22B1/006 ,  F22B1/16 ,  F22B29/06 ,  F22B37/12 ,  F22B1/021 ,  F28D1/0472 ,  F28D1/0477 ,  F28D7/082 ,  F28D7/087 ,  F28D20/0034 ,  F28D2020/0047 ,  Y02E60/14 ,  Y02E70/30

摘要： A heat exchanger (10) to provide heat exchange between fluids (24, 25), such as in a solar power plant (1), may include a first and second pipe connectors (13, 14), and a pipe bundle (17) extending between the first and second pipe connectors, with pipes (17a-17n) of the pipe bundle configured to guide a second fluid (25). The pipe bundle may be connected to the first and second pipe connectors at pipe connection points (16) so the inside of the pipes (17a-17n) is in fluid communication with cavities (15) of those connectors. The pipes may be arranged adjacent each other and extending together between the pipe connectors in a meandering manner providing a plurality of crests (20a, 20b) on the pipes between the pipe connectors, so that crests of the pipes are arranged to extend into recesses provided by one or more crests on other pipes of the pipe bundle.

公开(公告)号：US11702963B2

公开(公告)日：2023-07-18

申请号：US17668333

申请日：2022-02-09

申请人： Rondo Energy, Inc.

发明人： John Setel O'Donnell ,  Peter Emery von Behrens ,  Chiaki Treynor ,  Jeremy Quentin Keller ,  Matthieu Jonemann ,  Robert Ratz ,  Yusef Desjardins Ferhani

IPC分类号： F01K3/02 ,  H02M1/00 ,  F01K3/08 ,  F01K3/18 ,  F01K15/00 ,  F28D20/00 ,  H01M8/04014 ,  H01M8/04029 ,  H01M8/04007 ,  B63H11/00 ,  F03G6/00 ,  F01K13/02 ,  F22B29/06 ,  F22B35/10 ,  H02J1/10 ,  H02J3/00 ,  H02J3/04 ,  F03D9/18 ,  B63H11/12 ,  B63H11/14 ,  B63H11/16 ,  F01K11/02 ,  F01K19/04

CPC分类号： F01K3/02 ,  B63H11/00 ,  F01K3/08 ,  F01K3/186 ,  F01K13/02 ,  F01K15/00 ,  F03G6/071 ,  F22B29/06 ,  F22B35/10 ,  F28D20/00 ,  H01M8/04014 ,  H01M8/04029 ,  H01M8/04037 ,  H01M8/04052 ,  H01M8/04074 ,  H02J1/102 ,  H02J3/00 ,  H02J3/04 ,  H02M1/0003 ,  H02M1/007 ,  B63H11/12 ,  B63H11/14 ,  B63H11/16 ,  F01K11/02 ,  F01K19/04 ,  F03D9/18 ,  F28D2020/0004 ,  Y02E60/14

摘要： An energy storage system converts variable renewable electricity (VRE) to continuous heat at over 1000° C. Intermittent electrical energy heats a solid medium. Heat from the solid medium is delivered continuously on demand. An array of bricks incorporating internal radiation cavities is directly heated by thermal radiation. The cavities facilitate rapid, uniform heating via reradiation. Heat delivery via flowing gas establishes a thermocline which maintains high outlet temperature throughout discharge. Gas flows through structured pathways within the array, delivering heat which may be used for processes including calcination, hydrogen electrolysis, steam generation, and thermal power generation and cogeneration. Groups of thermal storage arrays may be controlled and operated at high temperatures without thermal runaway via deep-discharge sequencing. Forecast-based control enables continuous, year-round heat supply using current and advance information of weather and VRE availability. High-voltage DC power conversion and distribution circuitry improves the efficiency of VRE power transfer into the system.

公开(公告)号：US20230203966A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-29

申请号：US18108101

申请日：2023-02-10

申请人： MALTA INC.

发明人： Raj APTE ,  Philippe LAROCHELLE

IPC分类号： F01K3/02 ,  F02C9/24 ,  B01D53/26 ,  F02C1/05 ,  F02C1/08 ,  F02C1/10 ,  F01K13/00 ,  F02C1/04 ,  F02C6/16 ,  F02C6/14 ,  F28D20/00 ,  F01K3/10 ,  F01K3/06 ,  F01K3/12 ,  F01K3/18 ,  F01K7/38 ,  F01K13/02 ,  F01K25/10 ,  F22B1/00

CPC分类号： F01K3/02 ,  F02C9/24 ,  B01D53/265 ,  F02C1/05 ,  F02C1/08 ,  F02C1/105 ,  F01K13/00 ,  F02C1/04 ,  F02C6/16 ,  F02C1/10 ,  F02C6/14 ,  F28D20/00 ,  F01K3/10 ,  F01K3/06 ,  F01K3/12 ,  F01K3/18 ,  F01K7/38 ,  F01K13/02 ,  F01K25/103 ,  F22B1/006 ,  Y02E60/14 ,  F01K25/06

摘要： Systems and methods relating to use of external air for inventory control of a closed thermodynamic cycle system or energy storage system, such as a reversible Brayton cycle system, are disclosed. A method may involve, in a closed cycle system operating in a power generation mode, circulating a working fluid may through a closed cycle fluid path. The closed cycle fluid path may include a high pressure leg and a low pressure leg. The method may further involve in response to a demand for increased power generation, compressing and dehumidifying environmental air. And the method may involve injecting the compressed and dehumidified environmental air into the low pressure leg.

公开(公告)号：US11680754B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-20

申请号：US17226285

申请日：2021-04-09

申请人： TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.

发明人： Brian Silvetti ,  Mark Mitchell MacCracken

IPC分类号： F28D20/00 ,  F28D20/02 ,  F24F5/00

CPC分类号： F28D20/0034 ,  F24F5/0017 ,  F28D20/021 ,  F28D2020/0078 ,  F28F2250/06 ,  Y02E60/14

摘要： Heat exchangers for thermal storage systems include a valve that can direct process fluid passing through the heat exchanger through supplemental heat exchanger tubing based on a temperature of the process fluid. The supplemental heat exchanger tubing can be located in areas where ice formation can occur during freezing of the storage fluid of the thermal storage system, but apart from the standard flow path for the heat exchanger. The valve can be a thermally-actuated valve. The thermally actuated valve can be set to divert flow of the process fluid to the supplemental tubing when the process fluid is at or above a melting temperature of the storage fluid. Methods can include selectively flowing process fluid through supplemental heat exchange tubing when it is at a temperature greater than the melting point of a storage material.

公开(公告)号：US20230184207A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-15

申请号：US17980766

申请日：2022-11-04

申请人： Norwich Technologies, Inc.

发明人： Jonathan Lynch ,  Troy McBride ,  Joel Stettenheim ,  Per Erik Kristoffer Edstrom ,  Leif Kilkenny Johnson ,  Oliver James Brambles

IPC分类号： F03C1/00 ,  F03G6/06 ,  F28D20/00 ,  F03G6/00 ,  F03C1/007

CPC分类号： F03C1/002 ,  F03G6/065 ,  F28D20/0034 ,  F03G6/071 ,  F03C1/0073 ,  F28D2020/006 ,  F28D2020/0095 ,  Y02E60/14

摘要： A thermal energy storage system comprising a working fluid to store and transfer thermal energy between a heat source and a thermal load and a vessel to store the working fluid. The vessel has an interior region and a floating separator piston in the interior region to separate a hot portion from a cold portion of the working fluid. There is a first manifold thermally coupled to an output of the heat source and to an input of the thermal load and fluidly coupled to the interior region of the vessel and a second manifold thermally coupled to an input of the heat source and an output of the thermal load and fluidly coupled to the interior region of the vessel. There is a controller configured to maintain the working fluid in a liquid state.

公开(公告)号：US11656035B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-23

申请号：US16357143

申请日：2019-03-18

申请人： Piers St John Spencer Cave

发明人： Piers St John Spencer Cave

IPC分类号： F28D19/04 ,  F28D20/00 ,  F28F13/00

CPC分类号： F28D19/047 ,  F28D19/048 ,  F28D20/0034 ,  F28D20/0056 ,  F28D2020/0073 ,  F28D2020/0078 ,  F28D2020/0082 ,  F28D2020/0095 ,  F28F2013/008 ,  F28F2280/10 ,  Y02E60/14

摘要： A heat storage and transfer system that incorporates a primary heat storage chamber or body that is thermally insulated and which in use contains a heat storing liquid or solid; and a secondary chamber external to and adjacent the primary heat storage chamber or body through which a liquid, heat transfer fluid or steam to be heated is passed in use, the system having a heat transfer mechanism to selectively transfer thermal energy from the heat storing liquid or solid of the primary heating chamber or body to the liquid or steam to be heated in the secondary chamber. The heat transfer mechanism has a drive that moves the secondary chamber from a first position that is thermally separated from the primary chamber into a second position that is substantially inserted in a void or recess within the primary chamber or body.

公开(公告)号：US20140075939A1

公开(公告)日：2014-03-20

申请号：US14085032

申请日：2013-11-20

申请人： ALSTOM Technology Ltd

发明人： Vipluv AGA ,  Marco SIMIANO ,  Erik BOSCHEK

IPC分类号： F03G6/06 ,  F24J2/34

CPC分类号： F03G6/065 ,  F01K3/12 ,  F03G6/067 ,  F22B1/006 ,  F24S60/00 ,  Y02E10/46 ,  Y02E60/14

摘要： A solar thermal power plant includes a solar radiation receiver mounted on a tower surrounded by a heliostat field to receive solar radiation reflected by heliostats forming the heliostat field. The power plant includes a power generation circuit including a steam turbine for driving an electrical generator to produce electrical power, and water in the power generation circuit is capable of being heated directly by solar radiation reflected onto the solar radiation receiver by the heliostat field to generate steam to drive the steam turbine. The power plant also includes an energy storage circuit including a thermal energy storage fluid, such as molten salt, which is capable of being heated directly by solar radiation reflected by the heliostat field. A heat exchanger is also provided for recovering thermal energy from the thermal energy storage fluid in the energy storage circuit; the recovered thermal energy may then be used to generate steam to drive the steam turbine.

摘要翻译： 太阳能发电厂包括安装在由定日镜场围绕的塔的太阳辐射接收器，以接收由形成定日镜场的定日镜反射的太阳辐射。 发电厂包括发电电路，其包括用于驱动发电机以产生电力的蒸汽轮机，并且发电电路中的水能够通过定日镜场反射到太阳辐射接收器上的太阳辐射直接加热，以产生 蒸汽驱动汽轮机。 发电厂还包括能量存储电路，其包括诸如熔融盐的热能储存流体，其能够由定日镜场反射的太阳辐射直接加热。 还提供了用于从能量存储电路中的热能储存流体回收热能的热交换器; 然后可以使用回收的热能产生蒸汽来驱动蒸汽轮机。