Patents by Inventor Pierre Neveu

Pierre Neveu 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: 10989484
    Abstract: Disclosed is an installation for generating electricity from a heat source, for disconnecting the production of electricity from the source of heat. The main characteristic of such installation is that it includes a thermochemical storage device coupled to a power cycle, the storage device consisting of a reactor in which produces a reversible sorption process and an evaporator and a condenser, at least one of the components of the thermochemical device being coupled mass and/or thermal to at least one element of the power cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE DE NANTES
    Inventors: Nathalie Mazet, Sylvain Mauran, Pierre Neveu, Driss Stitou, Lingai Luo, Yilin Fan
  • Publication number: 20190390920
    Abstract: Disclosed is an installation for generating electricity from a heat source, for disconnecting the production of electricity from the source of heat. The main characteristic of such installation is that it includes a thermochemical storage device coupled to a power cycle, the storage device consisting of a reactor in which produces a reversible sorption process and an evaporator and a condenser, at least one of the components of the thermochemical device being coupled mass and/or thermal to at least one element of the power cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Nathalie MAZET, Sylvain MAURAN, Pierre NEVEU, Driss STITOU, Lingai LUO, Yilin FAN
  • Patent number: 9599371
    Abstract: An installation for the production of cold and/or heat has a driving and a receiving machine. The driving machine has means for circulating a working fluid GM, an evaporator EM, at least one transfer cylinder CTM that contains a transfer liquid LT in a lower part and the working fluid GM liquid and/or vapor form above the transfer liquid, a condenser CM, at least one device BSM for separating the liquid and vapor phases of the working fluid GM, and a device for compressing the working fluid GM to the liquid state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE
    Inventors: Sylvain Mauran, Nathalie Mazet, Pierre Neveu, Driss Stitou
  • Patent number: 8794003
    Abstract: A plant for the producing of cold, heat and/or work. The plant includes at least one modified Carnot machine having a first assembly that includes an evaporator Evap combined with a heat source, a condenser Cond combined with a heat sink, a device DPD for pressurizing or expanding a working fluid GT, a means for transferring said working fluid GT between the condenser Cond and DPD, and between the evaporator Evap and DPD; a second assembly that includes two transfer vessels CT and CT? that contain a transfer liquid LT and the working fluid GT in the form of liquid and/or vapor; a means for selectively transferring the working fluid GT between the condenser Cond and each of the transfer vessels CT and CT?, as well as between the evaporator Evap and each of the transfer enclosures CT and CT?; and a means for selectively transferring the liquid LT between the transfer vessels CT and CT? and the compression or expansion device DPD, said means including at eat hydraulic converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Sylvain Mauran, Nathalie Mazet, Pierre Neveu, Driss Stitou
  • Publication number: 20120067067
    Abstract: An installation for the production of cold and/or heat has a driving and a receiving machine. The driving machine has means for circulating a working fluid GM, an evaporator EM, at least one transfer cylinder CTM that contains a transfer liquid LT in a lower part and the working fluid GM liquid and/or vapor form above the transfer liquid, a condenser CM, at least one device BSM for separating the liquid and vapor phases of the working fluid GM, and a device for compressing the working fluid GM to the liquid state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Inventors: Sylvain Mauran, Nathalie Mazet, Pierre Neveu, Driss Stitou
  • Publication number: 20110167825
    Abstract: A plant for the producing of cold, heat and/or work. The plant includes at least one modified Carnot machine having a first assembly that includes an evaporator Evap combined with a heat source, a condenser Cond combined with a heat sink, a device DPD for pressurizing or expanding a working fluid GT, a means for transferring said working fluid GT between the condenser Cond and DPD, and between the evaporator Evap and DPD; a second assembly that includes two transfer vessels CT and CT? that contain a transfer liquid LT and the working fluid GT in the form of liquid and/or vapor; a means for selectively transferring the working fluid GT between the condenser Cond and each of the transfer vessels CT and CT?, as well as between the evaporator Evap and each of the transfer enclosures CT and CT?; and a means for selectively transferring the liquid LT between the transfer vessels CT and CT? and the compression or expansion device DPD, said means including at eat hydraulic converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Sylvain Mauran, Nathalie Mazet, Pierre Neveu, Driss Stitou
  • Patent number: 7621149
    Abstract: The invention relates to refrigeration at TU by a reversible sorption system. The method is implemented in an installation comprising an endothermic component (EC) and an exothermic component consisting of the reactors (1) and (2). The reactors (1) and (2) are in thermal contact, each of them constituting an active thermal mass for the other, and they are provided with heating means (6) and heat extraction means (5). (1), (2) and (EC) are provided with means for bringing them into selective communication, and reversible phenomena involving a gas G take place therein, the equilibrium curve for the phenomenon in (1) lying within a higher temperature range than that of the equilibrium curve for the phenomenon in (2), which is itself higher than that of the curve for the phenomenon in (EC) in the Clausius-Clapeyron plot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche, Universite de Perpignan
    Inventors: Driss Stitou, Pierre Neveu, Bernard Spinner, Bruno Spinner, legal representative, Caroline Spinner Brossard, legal representative, Anne Christel Spinner Kohler, legal representative, Camille Spinner, legal representative, Martin Spinner, legal representative
  • Publication number: 20060090476
    Abstract: The method is implemented in an installation comprising an endothermic component (EC) and an exothermic component consisting of the reactors (1) and (2). The reactors (1) and (2) are in thermal contact, each of them constituting an active thermal mass for the other, and they are provided with heating means (6) and heat extraction means (5). (1), (2) and (EC) are provided with means for bringing them into selective communication, and reversible phenomena involving a gas G take place therein, the equilibrium curve for the phenomenon in (1) lying within a higher temperature range than that of the equilibrium curve for the phenomenon in (2), which is itself higher than that of the curve for the phenomenon in (EC) in the Clausius-Clapeyron plot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Inventors: Driss Stitou, Pierre Neveu, Bernard Spinner
  • Patent number: 5445217
    Abstract: A cooling and heating device using a chemical reaction comprising at least four reactors, each containing a salt capable of chemically reacting with a gas, an enclosure for receiving gas from the reactors and an enclosure for conveying gas to the reactors. The device is arranged so that, during the chemical reaction, two reactors are at the same higher pressure level, while two reactors are at the same lower pressure level. According to the invention, the device also comprises a heat-transporting fluid circuit for transferring heat between the reactors, operating at the same presure level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1995
    Assignee: Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine
    Inventors: Jean Castaing, Pierre Neveu