Patents by Inventor Gennaro SOMMA

Gennaro SOMMA 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).

  • Energy-efficient high level device, plant and method for the use of thermal energy of solar origin
    Patent number: 10634124
    Abstract: A device for storage and exchange of thermal energy of solar origin, which device is configured to receive a concentrated solar radiation using an optical system of “beam down” type, which device comprises: —a containment casing which defines an internal compartment and has an upper opening configured to allow entry of the concentrated solar radiation, which opening puts in direct communication the internal compartment with the external environment having no closure or screen means; —a bed of fluidizable solid particles, received within the internal compartment, which bed has an irradiated operative region directly exposed, in use, to the concentrated solar radiation that enters through said opening and a heat accumulation region adjacent to said operative region; —fluidization elements of the bed of particles, configured to feed fluidization air within the compartment, which fluidization means is configured to determine different fluid-dynamic regimens in the operative region and in the accumulation region,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: MAGALDI INDUSTRIE S.R.L.
    Inventors: Mario Magaldi, Alberto Carrea, Gennaro Somma
  • ENERGY-EFFICIENT HIGH LEVEL DEVICE, PLANT AND METHOD FOR THE USE OF THERMAL ENERGY OF SOLAR ORIGIN
    Publication number: 20180230973
    Abstract: A device for storage and exchange of thermal energy of solar origin, which device is configured to receive a concentrated solar radiation using an optical system of “beam down” type, which device comprises:—a containment casing which defines an internal compartment and has an upper opening configured to allow entry of the concentrated solar radiation, which opening puts in direct communication the internal compartment with the external environment having no closure or screen means;—a bed of fluidizable solid particles, received within the internal compartment, which bed has an irradiated operative region directly exposed, in use, to the concentrated solar radiation that enters through said opening and a heat accumulation region adjacent to said operative region;—fluidization elements of the bed of particles, configured to feed fluidization air within the compartment, which fluidization means is configured to determine different fluid-dynamic regimens in the operative region and in the accumulation region, bas
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Mario MAGALDI, Alberto CARREA, Gennaro SOMMA