US Patent Issued to SHELL USA on Dec. 16 for "Energy storage device and method of heating a heat transfer fluid" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,182, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SHELL USA INC. (Houston).

"Energy storage device and method of heating a heat transfer fluid" was invented by Alfred Arnold Kruijer (The Hague, Netherlands) and Guy Lode Magda Maria Verbist (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a thermal energy storage device (100) comprising a powder bed (110), at least two electrodes (301, 302, 303), and at least one heat transfer tube (200). The powder bed (110) has an electrical resistivity in a range of 500-50,000 Qm. The at least two electrodes (301, 302, 303) are embedded in the powder bed (110) and arranged to heat the powder...