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US 12,467,404 B2Granted
Plant for high-efficiency fuel to mechanical energy conversion
AssigneeNuovo Pignone Technologie SRL
InventorsFrancesco Gamberi, Simone Amidei, Lorenzo Cosi, Antonio Seminara
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Abstract
An energy conversion plant is disclosed, having a plurality of driving units, for driving respective loads, such as an electric motor or a centrifugal compressor. The energy conversion plant comprises at least one heat exchange recuperator, for heating pre-compressed carbon dioxide to be fed into the driving units by the heat produced by the driving units themselves.
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An energy conversion plant, comprising:
- a fluid feedback line to supply a fluid;
- a compression and pumping unit to compress and increase the pressure of the fluid feedback line to produce a compressed fluid in the fluid feedback line;
- driving units, each driving unit connected to a respective load, each driving unit being capable of driving the respective load by expanding heated fluid;
- heat exchange recuperators, each heat exchange recuperator associated with a respective driving unit of the driving units, each heat exchange recuperator connected between the fluid feedback line and the respective driving unit and connected between the respective driving unit and the compression and pumping unit,
- wherein the heat exchange recuperators are arranged to receive and heat the compressed fluid supplied by the fluid feedback line and feed the heated fluid into the respective driving units, the heat exchange recuperators configured to heat the compressed fluid by exchanging the heat of the expanded fluid discharged from the respective driving units with the compressed fluid.
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