ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,667, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie S.R.L. (Florence, Italy).
"Combined heat recovery and chilling system and method" was invented by Marco Santini (Florence, Italy) and Simone Amidei (Florence, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A new combined thermodynamic system (101) uses waste heat from an exhaust combustion gas of a prime mover (162) to produce mechanical power that operates a refrigeration circuit (105). The refrigeration circuit can cool air ingested by the prime mover to improve its power rate and/or efficiency. The system comprises a power generation circuit (103) adapted to circulate a first ...