US Patent Issued to CAUSEWAY ENERGIES on Aug. 12 for "High temperature industrial heat pump with novel method to make use of shallow low-GradeGeothermal energy" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,673, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CAUSEWAY ENERGIES LLC (Washington, Texas).

"High temperature industrial heat pump with novel method to make use of shallow low-GradeGeothermal energy" was invented by Jordan Nielson (San Antonio) and Simon Todd (Washington, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative heat pump system includes: a positive displacement compressor, an expander, and a recuperator. The compressor provides an sCO2 flow with a pressure less than=15 MPa at a temperature less than=120deg C. and a mass flow rate less than=4.5 kg/s to deliver between 1 and 10 MWth of power to a thermal load. The recuperator recei...