US Patent Issued to NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY on March 17 for "Flat heat absorber for solar tower power generation and system using same" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,122, issued on March 17, was assigned to NANJING TECH UNIVERSITY (Nanjing, China).

"Flat heat absorber for solar tower power generation and system using same" was invented by Xiang Ling (Nanjing, China), Mingsheng Du (Nanjing, China), Changtian Liu (Nanjing, China) and Juan Zhao (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel flat heat absorber for solar tower power generation and a system using same. The system includes a windshield, a flat heat absorber, and a circulation pipeline. The flat heat absorber is for photothermal conversion and heat energy transfer, the windshield prevents heat loss of the heat absorber, and the ...