US Patent Issued to XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY on Oct. 6 for "Hybrid system and method of waste heat utilization-based photovoltaic power generation and seawater desalination" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,240, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY (Xi'an, China).

"Hybrid system and method of waste heat utilization-based photovoltaic power generation and seawater desalination" was invented by Zhiguo Qu (Xi'an, China), Qiang Wang (Xi'an, China) and Jianfei Zhang (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a hybrid system and method of waste heat utilization-based photovoltaic power generation and seawater desalination, wherein a photovoltaic power generation unit includes a linear Fresnel lens, a beam-splitting cooling tube, a solar cell, and a heat collecting tube; a seawater supply unit includes a s...