US Patent Issued to BLOOM ENERGY on June 9 for "SOEC integration with ultra hot steam" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,976, issued on June 9, was assigned to BLOOM ENERGY Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"SOEC integration with ultra hot steam" was invented by KR Sridhar (Los Gatos, Calif.), David Weingaertner (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Carlton Cottuli (Franklin, Mass.) and Matthias Gottmann (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for electrolysis at very large scale (e.g., exceeding 100 megawatts (MW), and at gigawatt (GW) scale having a solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC) system including one or more SOEC columns, and one or more heat exchangers, each of the heat exchangers configured to receive input stream that is used t...