Patents by Inventor Lionel Aimi

Lionel Aimi 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).

  • Bypass system for a solar thermal power plant
    Patent number: 9695805
    Abstract: A solar thermal power system includes a solar receiver for heating thermal energy storage fluid to be stored and utilized from a thermal energy storage arrangement having hot and cold storage tanks. The system includes a steam generator arrangement, which utilizes the heat of the thermal energy storage fluid to produce steam to run a turbine. The arrangement includes a bypass line configured to bypass the hot storage tank from the steam generator arrangement, and to supply the hot thermal energy storage fluid from the solar receiver directly to the steam generator arrangement, during day times, when the solar receiver the steam generator arrangement are both in operating mode, thereby recovering stored potential energy available in the down corner hot thermal energy storage fluid from the solar receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.
    Inventors: Alain Adrien Kukonya, Abhinaya Joshi, Apurba Das, Rahul J. Terdalkar, Lionel Aimi
  • SOLAR THERMAL POWER SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20160222948
    Abstract: A solar thermal power system includes a solar receiver for heating thermal energy storage fluid and be stored and utilised from a thermal energy storage arrangement having hot and cold storage tanks. The system includes a steam generator arrangement, which utilises the heat of the thermal energy storage fluid to produces steam to run a turbine. The arrangement includes a bypass line configured to bypass the hot storage tank from the steam generator arrangement, and to supply the hot thermal energy storage fluid from the solar receiver directly to the steam generator arrangement, during day times, when the solar receiver the steam generator arrangement are both in operating mode, thereby recovering stored potential energy available in the down corner hot thermal energy storage fluid from the solar receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Alain Adrien KUKONYA, Abhinaya Joshi, Apurba Das, Rahul J. Terdalkar, Lionel Aimi