US Patent Issued to BYD on May 20 for "Coupling system of supercritical carbon dioxide cycle power generation and lithium extraction from brine" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,259, issued on May 20, was assigned to BYD Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Coupling system of supercritical carbon dioxide cycle power generation and lithium extraction from brine" was invented by Yuegeng Ma (Shenzhen, China), Junlan Lian (Shenzhen, China) and Hongye Lin (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a system for coupling supercritical carbon dioxide cycle power generation and lithium extraction from brine. The system comprises an absorption heat pump unit, a supercritical carbon dioxide cycle power generation unit, and a unit for extracting lithium from brine. This system organically couples t...