Patents Assigned to DWPNA, LLC
  • Patent number: 8650875
    Abstract: A single closed loop direct exchange geothermal power production system that utilizes a refrigerant working fluid in at least one of three primary designs to generate electrical power from deep wells: with a first version of a direct exchange geothermal power generating system operating primarily on refrigerant vapor pressure; with a second version of a direct exchange geothermal power generating system operating primarily on liquid refrigerant gravitational pressure; and with a third version of a direct exchange geothermal power generating system operating primarily on both liquid refrigerant gravitational pressure and refrigerant phase change/expansion from a liquid to a vapor state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: DWPNA, LLC
    Inventors: B. Ryland Wiggs, Richard Thoms