Patents Assigned to Clean Energy
  • Publication number: 20240388854
    Abstract: Electroacoustic drivers that can be utilized in loudspeaker systems that utilize drivers having a magnetic negative spring (MNS). The magnets of the MNS can be arranged for radial stability and/or to provide for linear magnetic forces. A variable reluctance device can be used to vary the resonant frequency of electroacoustic driver in response to a feedback signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: CLEAN ENERGY LABS, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph F. Pinkerton, James A. Andrews, David A. Badger
  • Publication number: 20240368005
    Abstract: The present application provides a thermal power plant seawater desalination and lithium extraction system, including a seawater desalination apparatus and a seawater lithium extraction apparatus. The seawater desalination apparatus is connected to a power supply of a thermal power plant or a peak load and frequency regulation power supply line, so that the seawater desalination apparatus is supplied with power through surplus power of the thermal power plant; the seawater desalination apparatus is connected to a turbine extraction steam system of the thermal power plant, so that heat is supplied to the seawater desalination apparatus through the turbine extraction steam system; the seawater lithium extraction apparatus is connected to the seawater desalination apparatus, so that concentrated seawater generated in a process of desalinating seawater by the seawater desalination apparatus is introduced into the seawater lithium extraction apparatus as a raw material for a seawater lithium extraction process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: China Huaneng Group Clean Energy Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Yusen YANG, Weidong LI, Libing REN, Shuai ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20240332692
    Abstract: A battery module includes a row of battery cells arranged parallel to each other, aligned along a longitudinal axis, and arranged at a distance from each other so that adjacent battery cells define a gap allowing a temperature control fluid to pass therethrough. A holding device includes a main body, a plurality of spacers and retaining means. Each spacer includes a mounting foot and a separator plate integrally formed with the mounting foot. The separator plate is arranged in the gap and configured to separate a first pass and a second pass of the temperature control fluid. The mounting feet are slidably mounted parallel to the longitudinal axis, defining a sliding connection. The retaining means includes axial clamping means which axially compresses an axial stop of the retaining means against a battery cell located at an axial end of the row of battery cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: Plastic Omnium Clean Energy Systems Research
    Inventors: Nicolas DERANGERE, Franck DHAUSSY, Pierre OSZWALD, Jonathan BRUNEL
  • Patent number: 12107542
    Abstract: A method for installing a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controller is provided. The method includes acquiring an occlusion area proportion of a photovoltaic string in a photovoltaic system, optimizing the occlusion area proportion to generate a target occlusion area proportion, determining a target position from the photovoltaic string according to the target occlusion area proportion, and installing the MPPT controller at the target position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignees: HUANENG CLEAN ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, HUANENG GROUP R&DCENTER CO., LTD
    Inventors: Lizhen Luo, Wenbo Peng, Ping Xiao, Dongming Zhao, Xiaolei Li, Xiangrui Yu, Wenzhe Zhu, Hu Gao
  • Patent number: 12087459
    Abstract: A closed-vessel molten salt reactor (cvMSR) is described herein. A cvMSR may comprise a suspended container, such as a metallic container, within a trench surrounded by a concrete enclosure and a concrete cover having a number of channels. The container is rotatable between different orientations. The container may be hollow and a solution of fissile materials and salt materials may be provided within the container. The solution may be capable of undergoing a chain reaction nuclear fission process once a threshold temperature is reached. Heat generated by the solution may heat a fluid surrounding the container. The heated fluid may be transported, through the number of channels of the concrete cover, to an external location where the heated fluid may be used in distributing heat and/or electricity generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: BK CLEAN ENERGY LLC
    Inventors: Harry L. Bregman, Gregory F. Kushnir
  • Patent number: 12057705
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to the technical field of power control, a power control method for wind power and photovoltaic combined power generation is provided, and includes: obtaining wind parameters and light intensity parameters of a wind power photovoltaic combined power generation system, and simultaneously obtaining a current operation characteristic of the power generation system; determining a first power adjustment amount for the power generation system based on the wind parameters, and determining a second power adjustment amount for the power generation system based on the light intensity parameters; obtaining an optimal power ratio condition under the current operation characteristic; determining a power control instruction for a current power output value of the power generation system based on the first power adjustment amount and the second power adjustment amount according to the optimal power ratio condition, and performing power control on power units in the power generation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignees: HUANENG SHANXI COMPREHENSIVE ENERGY CO., LTD., HUANENG YUSHE POVERTY ALLEVIATION ENERGY CO., LTD., HUANENG SHANXI COMPREHENSIVE ENERGY CO., LTD. YUSHE PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER STATION, LICHENG YINGHENG CLEAN ENERGY CO., LTD., HUANENG RUICHENG COMPREHENSIVE ENERGY CO., LTD., HUANENG ZUOQUAN YANGJIAO WIND POWER CO., LTD., RUICHENG NINGSHENG NEW ENERGY CO., LTD., WUZHAI TAIZHONG NEW ENERGY WIND POWER GENERATION CO., LTD., SHUOZHOU TAIZHONG WIND POWER GENERATIONCO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yanjun Chen, Yamin Chang, Yong Chen, Zhuanghua Zhu, Jianhua Liu
  • Patent number: 12042762
    Abstract: A chemical processing system for removing carbon dioxide from a gas mixture using a multicomponent amine-based scrubbing solution includes a spectroscopic evaluation system with a liquid contact probe for spectroscopic investigation, an energy source connected with the liquid contact probe to provide the spectroscopic stimulation energy to the probe, a spectrometer connected with the liquid contact probe to detect the spectroscopic response energy to the probe and to output spectral data corresponding to the spectroscopic response energy, and a machine learning spectral data analyzer connected to the spectrometer for evaluation of the spectral data to determine a concentration value for each of water, amine component and captured carbon dioxide in the scrubbing solution, the machine learning spectral data analyzer being trained for each such component over a corresponding trained concentration range, and optionally over a trained temperature range to provide a temperature-compensated concentration value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: ION CLEAN ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Charles Panaccione, Nathan R. Brown, Erik Everhardus Bernardus Meuleman
  • Publication number: 20240218625
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a rotating construction platform based on a monopile, including a rotary connecting mechanism set on the top of the monopile and a working platform set on the rotary connecting mechanism. The rotary connecting mechanism includes an upper connecting tube, a lower connecting tube and a rotary support structure located between the upper connecting tube and the lower connecting tube. The working platform is fixedly connected to the upper connecting tube, and the lower connecting tube is detachably fixed to the top of the monopile. At least one side of the working platform sticks out of the side of the monopile. The rotating construction platform of the present disclosure can improve the continuity of construction operations, save construction time and costs, avoid vessel machinery from hitting monopile, improve construction positioning accuracy and ensure construction quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Applicants: Shanghai Investigation, Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd., HuaNeng Jiangsu Clean Energy Branch
    Inventors: Zeyang LYU, Dongzhen WANG, Juan JIANG, Zhenghua YANG, Xiaolu CHEN, Zhaofeng HANG, Chunyu GUAN, Lihua YANG, Zhongyuan YAO, Yang HUA, Xiaoying CAI, Mingjiang LIU, Yu ZHANG, Qihui YAN
  • Patent number: 12005393
    Abstract: Disclosed is a flue gas low-temperature adsorption denitration system and process. The system includes a booster fan, a cold energy recoverer, a flue gas cooling system, a flue gas switching valve, and two denitration adsorption towers. An inlet of the booster fan is in communication with an inlet flue gas pipeline. The booster fan, the cold energy recoverer, the flue gas cooling system, the flue gas switching valve, and the denitration adsorption towers are sequentially communicated. An outlet of the flue gas switching valve is in communication with each of the two second denitration adsorption towers. Flue gas outlets of the two denitration adsorption towers are in communication with a flue gas manifold. The flue gas manifold is communicated with the cold quantity recoverer. Two denitration adsorption towers take turns to carry out denitration and regeneration processes, so that continuous denitration operations of the system can be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: HUANENG CLEAN ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Shiqing Wang, Qixiang Fan, Shisen Xu, Shiwang Gao, Shaomin Wang, He Zhao, Minhua Jiang, Ping Xiao, Bin Huang, Hongwei Niu, Jinyi Wang, Lianbo Liu
  • Patent number: 11965257
    Abstract: A method for preparing a COF-protected electrode and an electrode are provided. The method includes mixing an organic framework, a small molecular organic acid and a solvent, adding a polar aqueous solution containing a substrate thereto, mixing the above uniformly and heating the system at a low temperature under an inert atmosphere, filtering the solution to obtain precipitates, washing and drying the precipitates to obtain a COF film grown on a surface of the substrate; coating a protective layer on the COF film to obtain a substrate/COF/protective layer film; etching off the substrate to obtain a COF/protective layer film; and transferring the COF/protective layer film to a surface of the electrode, and removing the protective layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Huaneng Clean Energy Research Institute
    Inventors: Chang Zhang, Jinyi Wang, Zhibo Ren, Pengjie Wang, Xianming Xu, Huan Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240117257
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a system for extracting hydrogen from an organic feedstock, comprising: a thermolyzer supplied with the organic feedstock and adapted to heat it up the feedstock to a temperature of at least 800° C. while conveying it inside a gasification chamber by an auger and to collect a thermogas, a duct line to convey the thermogas to a high temperature reformer exposing it to a temperature comprised between 1200° C. and 1,400° C. and releasing a high temperature reformed gas, a duct line conveying the high temperature reformed gas to a heat chamber of the thermolyzer, the heat chamber comprising a chamber outlet to release the reformed gas after circulation in the heat chamber, a duct line conveying the reformed gas from the chamber outlet to an installation adapted to separate hydrogen from the reformed gas, and a hydrogen storage for the hydrogen produced by the installation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: CLEAN ENERGY ENTERPRISES Inc.
    Inventors: Jean Louis KINDLER, William CHARNESKI, Hardk Y. DESAI
  • Publication number: 20240106243
    Abstract: A method and system for a mobile power generation system is disclosed. The mobile power generation system may comprise one or more shipping containers, which may be pre-wired and pre-configured so that configuration and deployment at the deployment site is simplified. The one or more shipping containers may include a PV subsystem, a battery subsystem, PCS, control electronics, and the like. The one or more shipping containers may be pre-configured for power transfer and for communication between the various devices so that less configuration is necessary at the deployment site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: AES Clean Energy Services, LLC
    Inventors: Shauna McCartney, Ryan Conlan, Christopher Boyer, Joseph Uddo
  • Patent number: 11942669
    Abstract: Methods and systems for removing impurities from electrolyte solutions having three or more valence states. In some embodiments, a method includes electrochemically reducing an electrolyte solution to lower its valence state to a level that causes impurities to precipitate out of the electrolyte solution and then filtering the precipitate(s) out of the electrolyte solution. In embodiments in which the electrolyte solution is desired to be at a valence state higher than the precipitation valence state, a method of the disclosure includes oxidizing the purified electrolyte solution to the target valence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Largo Clean Energy Corp.
    Inventor: Joseph T. Sullivan
  • Patent number: 11925898
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a flue gas low-temperature adsorption denitrification method, including: pressurizing a flue gas that has been subjected to dust removal and desulfurization, precooling the pressurized flue gas, cooling the precooled flue gas to a temperature lower than room temperature by a flue gas cooling system, flowing the flue gas at the temperature lower than room temperature into a low-temperature denitrification system, performing physical adsorption denitrification in the low-temperature denitrification system, precooling the flue gas that has been subjected to dust removal and desulfurization with the denitrificated flue gas, and flowing the heat-absorbed clean flue gas into a chimney to be discharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: HUANENG CLEAN ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Shiqing Wang, Qixiang Fan, Shisen Xu, Shiwang Gao, Shaomin Wang, He Zhao, Minhua Jiang, Ping Xiao, Bin Huang, Hongwei Niu, Jinyi Wang, Lianbo Liu
  • Publication number: 20240029973
    Abstract: An electrically conductive membrane pressure switch, such as a graphene membrane pressure switch. The electrically conductive membrane pressure switch includes an electrically conductive membrane, source, drain plane, actuator, and movable element (such as a piston element). The actuator drives the movable element to create a pressure differential that moves the suspended section of the electrically conductive membrane between its on, off, and neutral states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: CLEAN ENERGY LABS, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph F. Pinkerton
  • Patent number: 11834617
    Abstract: A fly ash recycling gasification furnace includes a fly ash burner, an ash remover, a fly ash storage tank, a variable pressure lock hopper, a fly ash blending system, an exhaust filter, and a backflushing nitrogen buffer tank. The fly ash burner is located on an inner wall of a hearth of the gasification furnace. The ash remover has an inlet connected to an outlet of a waste boiler of the gasification furnace. The fly ash storage tank is connected to a pressurized nitrogen inlet pipe, and a bottom outlet of the ash remover. The variable pressure lock hopper is connected to the fly ash storage tank. The fly ash blending system is connected to the variable pressure lock hopper and the fly ash burner. The exhaust filter is connected to the storage tank, the lock hopper and the blending system. The buffer tank is connected to the exhaust filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: HUANENG CLEAN ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Yue Xu, Lizhen Luo, Yongqiang Ren, Jiye Tao, Pengjie Wang, Xiaoyu Li, Gang Liu, Zhi Chen, Qiang Fan, Yuan Liu, Jianming Qin, Ping Wu, Ruichao Wang
  • Publication number: 20230345180
    Abstract: Electroacoustic drivers that can be utilized in loudspeaker systems that utilize drivers having a magnetic negative spring (MNS) (such as reluctance assist drivers (RAD) and permanent magnet crown (PMC) drivers). The electroacoustic drivers can be used at all audio frequencies, including subwoofer frequencies. The magnetic negative springs of the electroacoustic drivers can cancel, or partially cancel, the large pressure forces on a sound panel (of an audio speaker) so that substantial subwoofer notes can be efficiently and cost effectively produced in small/portable speakers. The electroacoustic drivers can include a stabilizing/centering mechanism to overcome the destabilizing forces of a MNS that are too large for a voice coil alone to produce.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: CLEAN ENERGY LABS, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph F. Pinkerton, David A. Badger, James A. Andrews, William Martin Lackowski, William Neil Everett
  • Publication number: 20230328448
    Abstract: Electroacoustic drivers that can be utilized in loudspeaker systems that utilize drivers having a magnetic negative spring (MNS) (such as reluctance assist drivers (RAD) and permanent magnet crown (PMC) drivers). The electroacoustic drivers can be used at all audio frequencies, including subwoofer frequencies. The magnetic negative springs of the electroacoustic drivers can cancel, or partially cancel, the large pressure forces on a sound panel (of an audio speaker) so that substantial subwoofer notes can be efficiently and cost effectively produced in small/portable speakers. The electroacoustic drivers can include a stabilizing/centering mechanism to overcome the destabilizing forces of a MNS that are too large for a voice coil alone to produce.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: CLEAN ENERGY LABS, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph F. Pinkerton, David A. Badger, James A. Andrews, William Martin Lackowski, William Neil Everett
  • Patent number: 11775704
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an optimization design method for structural parameters of biomass boiler economizers and belongs to the field of big data learning models. In the present invention, a sample database is established by utilizing historical operating big data of biomass boiler economizers, a heat exchanger residual self-attention convolution model is established based on a CNN and a self-attention mechanism, a plurality of target parameters to be optimized are quickly predicted through machine learning, and multi-target optimization of structural parameters to be optimized in the economizers can be performed in combination with an iterative optimization algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, XIZI CLEAN ENERGY EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shuiguang Tong, Zheming Tong, Jianyun Zhao, Weixiao He, Haidan Wang, Wei Chen
  • Patent number: 11728502
    Abstract: A method for replenishing an electrolyte of a molten carbonate fuel cell stack includes: preparing an electrolyte colloidal solution containing 10% to 20% of the electrolyte and having a viscosity of 200 to 800 Pa·s; replenishing the electrolyte of the cell stack using the electrolyte colloidal solution prepared in step 1 to allow the electrolyte to adhere to an electrode and an internal channel of the cell stack; discharging excess electrolyte colloidal solution in the cell stack; and drying and discharging water or an organic solvent in the cell stack under an inert gas condition to complete replenishment of the electrolyte of the cell stack, and performing a discharge performance test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: HUANENG CLEAN ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Jian Cheng, Ruiyun Zhang, Chengzhuang Lu, Hao Li, Shisen Xu, Baomin Wang, Guanjun Yang