Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie Srl

Nuovo Pignone Srl

Francesco Chiesi

Riccardo Bagagli

Marco Santini

Francesco Bellantone

Leonardo Tognarelli

Massimo Bargiacchi

Ernesto Nasini

Tommaso Breschi

Michele Sanesi

Michelangelo Bellacci

Nicola Campo

Massimo Giannozzi

The disclosure concerns a waste heat recovery cycle system and related method in which a Brayton cycle system operates in combination with a Rankine cycle system. The Brayton cycle system has a heater configured to circulate a fluid, namely an inert gas, in heat exchange relationship with a heating source, such as an exhaust gas of a different system, in order to recover waste heat from such different system by heating the inert gas. The Rankine cycle system has a heat exchanger configured to circulate a second fluid, in heat exchange relationship with the inert gas of the Brayton cycle system to heat the second fluid while at the same time cooling the inert gas. The second fluid can be selected among fluids having a boiling point at a temperature lower than the temperature of the inert gas from the expansion unit/group in the Brayton cycle system.

Plant based upon combined Joule-Brayton and Rankine cycles working with directly coupled reciprocating machines

A waste heat recovery system, based on a Brayton cycle, comprises a heater configured to circulate carbon dioxide vapor in heat exchange relationship with a hot fluid to heat the carbon dioxide vapor. An expander is coupled to the heater and configured to expand the carbon dioxide vapor. A compressor is configured to compress the carbon dioxide vapor fed through a cooler and a heat exchanger is adapted to circulate the carbon dioxide vapor from the expander to the cooler in heat exchange relationship with the carbon dioxide vapor from the compressor to the heater, wherein the expander and the compressor are mechanically coupled volumetric machines.

System for recovering waste heat and method thereof

A crosshead-piston rod assembly for a reciprocating compressor comprises a piston rod; a crosshead having a bore; a connection element attached to the piston rod and at least partially inserted into the bore for connecting the crosshead to a piston.

Crosshead-piston rod assembly for a reciprocating compressor

Growing community of inventors

Florence, Italy

Francesco Chiesi