ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,611, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CALIX LTD (Pymble, Australia).
"Powder-gas heat exchanger and applications thereof" was invented by Mark Geoffrey Sceats (Pymble, Australia), Adam Vincent (Pymble, Australia), Matthew Gill (Pymble, Australia), Simon Thomsen (Pymble, Australia) and Phil Hodgson (Pymble, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a powder-gas heat exchanger for exchanging heat between a powder stream and a gas stream in counter-current flow comprising a powder stream mass flow rate substantially equal to a gas stream mass flow rate in a vertical shaft heat exchanger. A hot gas stream may be a...