Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for generation of electrical power in an organic Rankine cycle operation
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Application No.: US18125189Application Date: 2023-03-23
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Publication No.: US11761433B2Publication Date: 2023-09-19
- Inventor: Adrian Benjamin Bodishbaugh , Carrie Jeanne Murtland
- Applicant: ICE Thermal Harvesting, LLC
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: ICE Thermal Harvesting, LLC
- Current Assignee: ICE Thermal Harvesting, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Agency: Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
- Main IPC: F03G4/00
- IPC: F03G4/00 ; E21B41/00 ; E21B47/07 ; F01K25/08 ; F24T50/00 ; F24T10/00

Abstract:
Systems and methods for generating and a controller for controlling generation of geothermal power in an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) operation to thereby supply electrical power to one or more of in-field operational equipment, a grid power structure, and an energy storage device. In an embodiment, during hydrocarbon production, a temperature of a flow of heated fluid from a source or working fluid may be determined. If the temperature is above a vaporous phase change threshold of the working fluid, heat exchanger valves may be opened to divert flow of heated fluid to heat exchangers to facilitate heat transfer from the flow of wellhead fluid to working fluid through the heat exchangers, thereby to cause the working fluid to change from a liquid to vapor, the vapor to cause a generator to generate electrical power via rotation of an expander.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230228258A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATION OF ELECTRICAL POWER IN AN ORGANIC RANKINE CYCLE OPERATION Public/Granted day:2023-07-20
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