ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,133, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to South China University of Technology (Guangzhou, China).
"Multistage energy utilization system based on electricity-heat-hydrogen-methane coupling" was invented by Jiehui Zheng (Guangzhou, China), Jiongcheng Guo (Guangzhou, China), Zhigang Li (Guangzhou, China) and Qinghua Wu (Guangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multistage energy utilization system based on electricity-heat-hydrogen-methane coupling is connected with a power grid, a heat-supply network and a gas-supply network. The system includes a renewable energy resource module, a hydrogen energy storage module, a heat storage...