Patents by Inventor Krishna Moorthy Palanisamy

Krishna Moorthy Palanisamy 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).

  • Method and apparatus of producing and utilizing thermal energy in a combined heat and power plant
    Patent number: 9476325
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for operating a combined heat and power system with greater flexibility, reliability, control and stability, for providing operational flexibility and energy efficiency in operating a combined heat and power plant which includes a backpressure steam engine that expands a high temperature heat source of a thermodynamic fluid to generate mechanical power and discharge its spent heat for a beneficial use comprises a vessel subsystem for the spent heat, said vessel subsystem including: at least one main indirect heat exchange device or vessel (7) in heat exchange communication between its primary space (10) and its secondary space (11). The present invention also discloses the use of a method and apparatus to operate a combined heat and power system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Inventor: Krishna Moorthy Palanisamy
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PRODUCING AND UTILIZING THERMAL ENERGY IN A COMBINED HEAT AND POWER PLANT
    Publication number: 20140208752
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for operating a combined heat and power system with greater flexibility, reliability, control and stability, for providing operational flexibility and energy efficiency in operating a combined heat and power plant which includes a backpressure steam engine that expands a high temperature heat source of a thermodynamic fluid to generate mechanical power and discharge its spent heat for a beneficial use comprises a vessel subsystem for the spent heat, said vessel subsystem including: at least one main indirect heat exchange device or vessel (7) in heat exchange communication between its primary space (10) and its secondary space (11). The present invention also discloses the use of a method and apparatus to operate a combined heat and power system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Inventor: Krishna Moorthy Palanisamy