ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,513, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Power generation system" was invented by El Hassan Ridouane (County Cork, Ireland), Changmin Cao (Cork City, Ireland), Herol Dsouza (Cork City, Ireland) and Grzegorz Kruczek (Gliwice, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power generation system for an includes: a hydrogen fuel cell; an air supply system configured to supply air to the aircraft, the air supply system comprising an ORC-air heat exchanger; and an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system comprising an organic fluid circuit. The organic fluid circuit is configured to receive excess fuel c...