Patents by Inventor Rafael Osuna Gonzales-Aguilar

Rafael Osuna Gonzales-Aguilar has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20130092156
    Abstract: Method for distributing heliostats in a tower solar plant surrounded by a field of heliostats which reflect solar radiation on said tower. The distribution method for said heliostats consists of imitating the systems that are found in nature to maximize the collection of light (plant seeds, leaves and petals) and which is mathematically described by Fermat spirals in a number belonging to the Fibonacci series, through the placement, in polar coordinates, of each heliostat according to a radius and an angle defined by r n = c n · n ; ? n = n · 2 · ? ? 2 ; being: rn distance from the tower (2) to the position of the heliostat n (3), ?n the angle formed by the radius rn with the radius rn-1, n number of the heliostat (3) we wish to place, cn parameter that corresponds to the compactness index of the heliostats (3) in the plant, ? the irrational limit of the golden section, i.e.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: ABENGOA SOLAR NEW TECHNOLOGIES, S.A.
    Inventors: Manuel Quero Garcia, Markus Pfänder, Christian Gertig, Rafael Osuna Gonzales-Aguilar
  • Publication number: 20120090323
    Abstract: A solar concentration plant which uses water/steam as a fluid, in any thermodynamic cycle for the exploitation of process heat, comprising an evaporation subsystem, where saturated steam is produced, a superheater subsystem through which the steam reaches the required conditions of pressure and temperature at the turbine inlet, and an attemperation system interconnected by a drum. A field of heliostats is pointed towards either of the subsystems (evaporator or superheater), in such a way to control both the pressure within the drum and the outlet temperature of the superheated steam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: Abengoa Solar New Technologies, S.A.
    Inventors: Marcelino Sánchez Gonzáles, Rafael Osuna Gonzáles-Aguilar, Valerio Fernández Quero, Raúl Navio Gilaberte