ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,579, issued on April 22, was assigned to Nuovo Pignone Technologie-S.R.L. (Florence, Italy).
"Turbomachinery plant to maximize the power generated by an electrical reversible machine" was invented by Marco Santini (Florence, Italy), Marco Baldini (Florence, Italy) and Andrea Gabbrielli (Florence, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A turbomachinery plant is conceived to maximize the power generated by an electrical reversible machine when works as a generator, by reducing the power absorbed by a compressor connected to the electrical reversible machine. The compressor is connected to an antisurge circuit included in the turbomachiner...