Abstract: The present invention offers infectious virus mitigation apparatus that utilize one or more 3-dimensional porous metal substrate that impart virus mitigation effect. Fluid that contains or may contain infectious virus traverses through said substrate to achieve virus mitigation effect. Additional virus mitigation effect can be achieved by subjecting said virus mitigation apparatus to suitable wavelength(s) of light that enhance total virus mitigation effect and/or utilizing contoured cover glazing to induce fluid dynamics that can enhance total virus mitigation effect per pass of said fluid through said apparatus. The utility includes a wide variety of practical uses such as filtration of air, water, blood, and other fluids that contain or may contain infectious virus such as coronavirus.

Abstract: The invention is for improved solar energy collection apparatus that utilize one or more 3-dimensional porous metal absorber plates that contain one or more materials that can harness either or both solar thermal and solar electric energy. Working fluid can traverse throughout the depth, width, and length of the 3-dimensional porous metal absorber plate in order to extract solar thermal energy absorbed therein. Working fluid can be guided throughout the porous metal absorber plate in an alternating flow pattern with contoured cover glazing, to extract solar energy at high efficiency while reducing flow resistance. Working fluid that contains materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect can traverse within the solar energy collection apparatus. The utility includes a wide variety of practical uses such as energy for hot water heating, space heating, aquaculture, industrial production processes, and other thermal or electric energy applications.

Abstract: The present invention offers improved absorber plates for solar energy collectors, improved cover glazings for solar energy collectors, improved concentrating solar energy collectors, and solar energy collection methods that use one or more of the improved solar energy collectors for useful residential, commercial, and industrial applications. The improved absorber plate solar energy collectors utilize a porous metal to improve solar radiant absorption collection and utilization, the improved concentrating solar energy collectors are Fresnel lens faced ducts of various geometries that enable efficient axial length solar energy collection, and the improved cover glazings utilize transparent front and back faces with other improvements to enable increased solar radiant energy collection per unit front face cover area of solar collector.

Abstract: The invention is for improved solar energy collection apparatus that utilize one or more 3-dimensional porous metal absorber plates that contain one or more materials that can harness either or both solar thermal and solar electric energy. Working fluid can traverse throughout the depth, width, and length of the 3-dimensional porous metal absorber plate in order to extract solar thermal energy absorbed therein. Working fluid can be guided throughout the porous metal absorber plate in an alternating flow pattern with contoured cover glazing, to extract solar energy at high efficiency while reducing flow resistance. Working fluid that contains materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect can traverse within the solar energy collection apparatus. The utility includes a wide variety of practical uses such as energy for hot water heating, space heating, aquaculture, industrial production processes, and other thermal or electric energy applications.

Abstract: The present invention offers improved absorber plates for solar energy collectors, improved cover glazings for solar energy collectors, improved concentrating solar energy collectors, and solar energy collection methods that use one or more of the improved solar energy collectors for useful residential, commercial, and industrial applications. The improved absorber plate solar energy collectors utilize a porous metal to improve solar radiant absorption collection and utilization, the improved concentrating solar energy collectors are Fresnel lens faced ducts of various geometries that enable efficient axial length solar energy collection, and the improved cover glazings utilize transparent front and back faces with other improvements to enable increased solar radiant energy collection per unit front face cover area of solar collector.

Abstract: The present invention is an improved apparatus and method for using a catalyst to remove contaminants from a fluid stream. Catalytic particles are enmeshed within a highly porous expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) substrate. The use of an expanded PTFE substrate provides added strength to the substrate and provides open and uniform porosity, thus, assuring proper exchange of molecules between the exterior surface of the substrate and the catalytic particles held within it. As such, the present invention is particularly suitable for use as a cross-flow filter for use in ozone generating office equipment (e.g., an electro-static photocopy machine) or similar application requiring minimal pressure drop across the filter unit.

Abstract: The present invention is an improved apparatus and method for using a catalyst to remove contaminants from a fluid stream. Catalytic particles are enmeshed within a highly porous expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) substrate. The use of an expanded PTFE substrate provides added strength to the substrate and provides open and uniform porosity, thus, assuring proper exchange of molecules between the exterior surface of the substrate and the catalytic particles held within it. As such, the present invention is particularly suitable for use as a cross-flow filter for use in ozone generating office equipment (e.g., an electrostatic photocopy machine) or similar application requiring minimal pressure drop across the filter unit.