US Patent Issued to MALTA on Sept. 30 for "Pumped heat energy storage system integrated with coal-fired energy generation unit" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,979, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MALTA INC. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Pumped heat energy storage system integrated with coal-fired energy generation unit" was invented by Bao H. Truong (Cambridge, Mass.) and Benjamin R. Bollinger (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides pumped heat energy storage systems that can be integrated with a Coal Fired Energy Generation Unit (CF-EGU) to repurpose CF-EGUs as thermal energy storage systems. A pumped heat energy storage system of the present disclosure can store thermal energy by operating as a heat pump with heat discharge occurring as a result of he...