US Patent Issued to IFP Energies nouvelles on Feb. 3 for "Method for storing and recovering energy with indirect heat storage upon compression" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,574, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to IFP Energies nouvelles (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

"Method for storing and recovering energy with indirect heat storage upon compression" was invented by David Teixeira (Rueil-Malmaison, France), Elsa Muller-Shernetsky (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Victor Dupin (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a compressed-gas energy storage and recovery system and method, comprising: a gas compression line (1) with at least two compression stages (3), each comprising a heat storage device downstream from a compression means (100, 101, 102), in a compression ...