US Patent Issued to Zhejiang University on July 21 for "Particle solar receiver" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,323, issued on July 21, was assigned to Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China).

"Particle solar receiver" was invented by Gang Xiao (Hangzhou, China), Xiangyu Xie (Hangzhou, China), Di Gan (Hangzhou, China) and Mingjiang Ni (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Receiving and storage of energy, and particularly a particle solar receiver for solar thermal power generation. The particle solar receiver includes: a feeding bin temporarily storing endothermic particles to be heated, and a multi-stage plate heat absorbing channel allowing the particles to flow along a predetermined path by gravity, where the multi-stage plate heat ...