Abstract: An apparatus for fabricating an internally finned pressure vessel includes a plurality of positioning discs, each of the positioning discs defining a plurality of circumferentially spaced slots extending radially into the positioning disc from a perimeter thereof, and one or more rods extending through the plurality of positioning discs, the plurality of positioning discs being held in axial alignment by the one or more rods. A method of fabricating the internally finned pressure vessel includes providing the apparatus, loading a plurality of fins into the slots of the positioning discs, inserting the apparatus containing the plurality of fins into a pressure vessel, attaching the plurality of fins to the pressure vessel by a brazing process, and removing the apparatus from the pressure vessel.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 25, 2019
Date of Patent:
January 10, 2023
Assignee:
Seatrec, Inc.
Inventors:
Michael Zedelmair, David Fratantoni, Yi Chao, Robin Willis
Abstract: A method of electricity production using water thermal energy includes compressing an enclosed working fluid at a first vertical position relative to a surface of a body of water to cause the fluid to move to a second vertical position relative to the surface and subsequently move to the first position in a closed loop, an external environment at the second position having a greater temperature than an external environment at the first position such that the fluid transitions between a liquid phase at the first position and a vapor phase at the second position, the compressing using power from a battery, and expanding the fluid at the second position to generate electricity to charge the battery. The first and second positions may be two depths of the body of water or a height of an atmosphere above the body of water and a depth of the body of water.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 6, 2019
Date of Patent:
April 27, 2021
Assignee:
Seatrec, Inc.
Inventors:
Jack A. Jones, Yi Chao, David M. Fratantoni, Michael Martin Zedelmair, Robin Edward Willis, Robert Scott Leland
Abstract: A method of electricity production using water thermal energy includes compressing an enclosed working fluid at a first vertical position relative to a surface of a body of water to cause the fluid to move to a second vertical position relative to the surface and subsequently move to the first position in a closed loop, an external environment at the second position having a greater temperature than an external environment at the first position such that the fluid transitions between a liquid phase at the first position and a vapor phase at the second position, the compressing using power from a battery, and expanding the fluid at the second position to generate electricity to charge the battery. The first and second positions may be two depths of the body of water or a height of an atmosphere above the body of water and a depth of the body of water.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 31, 2017
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2019
Assignee:
Seatrec, Inc.
Inventors:
Jack A. Jones, Yi Chao, David M. Fratantoni, Michael Martin Zedelmair, Robin Edward Willis, Robert Scott Leland