Patents by Inventor Luca Zanardi

Luca Zanardi 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).

  • Patent number: 11656031
    Abstract: In a heat exchanger with double-walled tubes, an end junction between inner tube and outer tube comprises an end plate in which there is a seat in which an end portion of the inner tube is housed. The corresponding outer tube is peripherally fixed sealingly around the opening of the seat and a deflector extends the inner wall of the outer tube inside the seat so as to define a toroidal cavity between the deflector and a side wall of the seat. The seat is closed by a bottom which is opposite to the opening of the seat and which has a passage connected sealingly to the end of the inner tube in the seat for the transit of the fluid to be cooled. A radial space is present near the said bottom between the toroidal cavity and internal cavity of the double-walled tube, and the end plate has at least one conduit which emerges inside the toroidal cavity for the inflow or outflow of the cooling fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: HEXSOL ITALY SRL
    Inventors: Luca Zanardi, Fabiano Foglieni
  • Publication number: 20210381774
    Abstract: In a heat exchanger with double-walled tubes, an end junction between inner tube and outer tube comprises an end plate in which there is a seat in which an end portion of the inner tube is housed. The corresponding outer tube is peripherally fixed sealingly around the opening of the seat and a deflector extends the inner wall of the outer tube inside the seat so as to define a toroidal cavity between the deflector and a side wall of the seat. The seat is closed by a bottom which is opposite to the opening of the seat and which has a passage connected sealingly to the end of the inner tube in the seat for the transit of the fluid to be cooled. A radial space is present near the said bottom between the toroidal cavity and internal cavity of the double-walled tube, and the end plate has at least one conduit which emerges inside the toroidal cavity for the inflow or outflow of the cooling fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Luca ZANARDI, Fabiano FOGLIENI
  • Patent number: 10684077
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes a pressurized shell and a tube bundle with exchanging tubes between flexible tubesheets. The flexible tubesheets are reciprocally interconnected by tie rods in a central zone of the flexible tubesheets which is devoid of exchanging tubes. The exchanging tubes in the tube bundle are arranged around the tie rods. The heat exchanger may further include conveying diaphragms arranged along the tube bundle. The conveying diaphragms may be shaped, alternately, as discs and rings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: HEXSOL ITALY SRL
    Inventors: Luca Zanardi, Fabiano Foglieni
  • Publication number: 20180112925
    Abstract: A heat exchanger with a pressurised shell and a tube bundle with exchanging tubes between flexible tubesheets has the flexible tubesheets reciprocally interconnected by tie rods in a central zone of the tubesheets which is devoid of exchanging tubes and the exchanging tubes in the tube bundle are arranged around such tie rods. The exchanger may further comprise conveying diaphragms arranged along the bundle shaped, alternately, as discs and rings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Luca ZANARDI, Fabiano FOGLIENI
  • Patent number: 9719497
    Abstract: Supply assembly for a turbine of a solar thermodynamic system provided with plural multiple parabolic mirrors for heating a first thermal carrier fluid contained in a tank to a first temperature, comprising a column structure provided at the upper part with an exit. The column structure comprises: a lower portion provided with two inlets connected to the tank to be supplied with the first thermal carrier fluid, the lower portion comprising first and second heat exchangers supplied with a second thermal carrier fluid respectively to an overheated temperature and re-overheating temperature; an upper portion fluidically connected with the lower portion, the upper portion comprising a boiler to bring the second fluid from a pre-heating temperature to a boiling temperature, and a cylindrical body arranged on the boiler; a pre-heating and supplying structure for heating the second thermal carrier fluid to the pre-heating temperature and supply it to the column structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB
    Inventor: Luca Zanardi
  • Publication number: 20160097375
    Abstract: Supply assembly for a turbine of a solar thermodynamic system provided with plural multiple parabolic mirrors for heating a first thermal carrier fluid contained in a tank to a first temperature, comprising a column structure provided at the upper part with an exit. The column structure comprises: a lower portion provided with two inlets connected to the tank to be supplied with the first thermal carrier fluid, the lower portion comprising first and second heat exchangers supplied with a second thermal carrier fluid respectively to an overheated temperature and re-overheating temperature; an upper portion fluidically connected with the lower portion, the upper portion comprising a boiler to bring the second fluid from a pre-heating temperature to a boiling temperature, and a cylindrical body arranged on the boiler; a pre-heating and supplying structure for heating the second thermal carrier fluid to the pre-heating temperature and supply it to the column structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Applicant: ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB
    Inventor: Luca ZANARDI
  • Patent number: 7681922
    Abstract: A union connection between uncooled pipe and cooled double-wall pipe in a heat exchanger comprising a double-wall pipe comprising in turn an internal pipe traveled by a fluid to be cooled and an external pipe defining with the internal pipe an air space traveled by a cooling fluid with one end of the double-wall pipe being connected to an inlet duct of the fluid to be cooled through a connection part also forming a bottom wall of the air space virtually transversal to the double-wall pipe extension and characterized in that the connection part has an annular form with U cross section to define two annular shanks extending longitudinally to the pipe with each shank being welded to one end of one of the two pipes of the double-wall pipe and in that the end of the inlet duct is welded to the connection part at said bottom wall of the air space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: OLMI S.p.A.
    Inventors: Gaetano Galatello Adamo, Luca Zanardi, Pietro Ricci
  • Patent number: 7287578
    Abstract: A connection between an uncooled pipe and a cooled double-wall pipe with between the walls a hollow space run through by cooling fluid let into the hollow space and taken from the hollow space through side passages connected to cooling fluid inlet and outlet ducts and including a connection zone with longitudinal cross section generally in fork form to have single tubular end connected to the uncooled pipe and an opposite double-wall tubular end to which are connected the corresponding walls of the cooled double-wall pipe so that the fork bottom constitutes a terminal closing of the hollow space and a side passage is made opposite the connection and a portion thereof nearest the uncooled pipe is almost at the height of the fork bottom. A double-pipe heat exchanger includes such a connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: OLMI S.p.A.
    Inventors: Pierluigi Ricci, Luca Zanardi, Gaetano Galatello Adamo
  • Publication number: 20060267340
    Abstract: A union connection between uncooled pipe and cooled double-wall pipe in a heat exchanger comprising a double-wall pipe comprising in turn an internal pipe traveled by a fluid to be cooled and an external pipe defining with the internal pipe an air space traveled by a cooling fluid with one end of the double-wall pipe being connected to an inlet duct of the fluid to be cooled through a connection part also forming a bottom wall of the air space virtually transversal to the double-wall pipe extension and characterized in that the connection part has an annular form with U cross section to define two annular shanks extending longitudinally to the pipe with each shank being welded to one end of one of the two pipes of the double-wall pipe and in that the end of the inlet duct is welded to the connection part at said bottom wall of the air space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Inventors: Gaetano Galatello Adamo, Luca Zanardi, Pietro Ricci
  • Publication number: 20050178535
    Abstract: A connection (10) between an uncooled pipe (11, 111) and a cooled double-wall pipe (12) with between the walls a hollow space (13) run through by cooling fluid let into the hollow space and taken from the hollow space through side passages (14, 114) connected to cooling fluid inlet and outlet ducts and comprising a connection zone with longitudinal cross section generally in fork form to have a single tubular end (16, 116) connected to the uncooled pipe and an opposite double-wall tubular end (117, 118) to which are connected the corresponding walls (19, 20) of the cooled double-wall pipe so that the fork bottom (21, 121) constitutes a terminal closing of the hollow space (13) and characterized in that a side passage (14, 114) is made opposite the connection and a portion thereof nearest the uncooled pipe (11, 111) is almost at the height of the fork bottom (21, 121). A double-pipe heat exchanger includes such a connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Pierluigi Ricci, Luca Zanardi, Gaetano Galatello Adamo