ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,404, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Nuovo Pignone Technologie-SRL (Florence, Italy).
"Plant for high-efficiency fuel to mechanical energy conversion" was invented by Francesco Gamberi (Florence, Italy), Simone Amidei (Florence, Italy), Lorenzo Cosi (Florence, Italy) and Antonio Seminara (Florence, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy conversion plant is disclosed, having a plurality of driving units, for driving respective loads, such as an electric motor or a centrifugal compressor. The energy conversion plant comprises at least one heat exchange recuperator, for heating pre-compressed carbon dioxide to be fed into the...