Patents Assigned to EST. Inc.
  • Patent number: 9714643
    Abstract: The boiling-water geothermal heat exchanger 1 is provided with a water injection pipe 2 which is installed underground and to which water is supplied from the ground and a steam extraction pipe 3 which is installed underground so as to be in contact with the water injection pipe 2 and has a plurality of ejection ports 5, in which a pressure inside the steam extraction pipe 3 is reduced to the vicinity of a pressure required by a turbine 6, high-pressure hot water which is produced by supplying heat from a geothermal region 4 to water inside the water injection pipe 2 is changed to a single-phase flow of steam inside the steam extraction pipe 3 present underground via the ejection ports 5, and the single-phase flow of steam is extracted on the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: EST. Inc.
    Inventor: Shunichi Tahara
  • Publication number: 20160363350
    Abstract: A geothermal heat exchanger 1 includes a water injection pipe 2 that is installed underground and to which water is supplied from above ground and a steam extraction pipe 3 that is installed underground so as to be contiguous to the water injection pipe 2. The steam extraction pipe 3 has a plurality of gushing ports 5 at its lower part, and pressure in the steam extraction pipe 3 is decreased approximately to pressure required by a turbine 6. The steam extraction pipe 3 is formed such that the diameter of the steam extraction pipe 3 becomes smaller from the lower side of the geothermal region toward the upper side of a ground surface G. Water supplied to the water injection pipe 2 becomes high-temperature pressurized water by heat supplied from the geothermal region 4, and gushes from the gushing ports 5 into the steam extraction pipe 3 in an atomized state, and is then converted into a steam single-phase flow, and allows a power generator 7 to conduct power generation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: EST. Inc.
    Inventor: Shunichi TAHARA
  • Publication number: 20160169211
    Abstract: The boiling-water geothermal heat exchanger 1 is provided with a water injection pipe 2 which is installed underground and to which water is supplied from the ground and a steam extraction pipe 3 which is installed underground so as to be in contact with the water injection pipe 2 and has a plurality of ejection ports 5, in which a pressure inside the steam extraction pipe 3 is reduced to the vicinity of a pressure required by a turbine 6, high-pressure hot water which is produced by supplying heat from a geothermal region 4 to water inside the water injection pipe 2 is changed to a single-phase flow of steam inside the steam extraction pipe 3 present underground via the ejection ports 5, and the single-phase flow of steam is extracted on the ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: EST. Inc.
    Inventor: Shunichi TAHARA