US Patent Issued to SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Dec. 2 for "Intermediate pressure supercritical CO 2 power cycle" (Texas, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,790, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (San Antonio).

"Intermediate pressure supercritical CO 2 power cycle" was invented by Aaron M. McClung (San Antonio) and Klaus Brun (Export, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and methods described herein reduce relatively high pressure supercritical CO2 to a relatively low-pressure supercritical CO2 using a first CO2 expansion system positioned upstream of the thermal input system. The relatively low-pressure supercritical CO2 passes through the thermal input system and into a second CO2 expansion system. The first supercritical CO2 expansion system provi...