Sustainx, Inc.

The Coca-cola Company

Creare, Incorporated

Intel Corporation

US Government As Represented by the Secretary of the Army

Michael Gary Izenson

Patrick Magari

Weibo Chen

Troy O McBride

Benjamin R Bollinger

Benjamin Cameron

Robert Cook

Horst Richter

Jurgen Roekens

Jacobus P M Dessing

Wayde H Affleck

Mark Angus MacDonald

Gregg Carpenter

Jessica Gullbrand

Bruce R Pilvelait

Eric Baugh

Roberto Horn Pereira

Christopher J Crowley

Scott David Phillips

Walter Swift

Christian Henry Passow

A system may include a beverage compartment with a beverage positioned therein, a wetted material disposed about the beverage, at least one sorption cartridge, and a vacuum pump. The sorption cartridge may be in communication with the beverage compartment, and the vacuum pump may be in communication with the sorption cartridge to create a vacuum in the sorption cartridge and the beverage compartment, causing water to evaporate from the wetted material and be captured by the sorption cartridge, thereby lowering the temperature of the wetted material and in turn cooling the beverage. In some instances, the sorption cartridge may be detached from the vacuum pump and the beverage compartment to discharge the captured water therein by way of solar energy. In other instances, the sorption cartridge may be in communication with a heater assembly to blow heated air through the sorption cartridge to discharge the captured water therein.

Systems and methods for vacuum cooling a beverage

Some embodiments of an apparatus and system are described for a crossflow blower. An apparatus may comprise an enclosure having a first side and a second side where a portion of the first side is recessed in a direction of the second side. The enclosure may also comprise a first internal height between the first side and the second side and a second internal height between the recessed portion of the first side and the second side. The enclosure may also comprise a motor and a crossflow blower arranged to generate a flow of air between the first side and the second side in a direction substantially perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the crossflow blower. Other embodiments are described.

Crossflow blower apparatus and system

The present application provides a cooler for cooling a beverage fluid flow. The cooler may include a thermoelectric cooling device in communication with a fluid heat exchanger with the fluid flow therein and a water permeable membrane. The cooler further may include a fan positioned about the water permeable membrane for evaporative cooling therein.

Beverage cooler with enhanced thermoelectric cooling modules

In various embodiments, compressed-gas energy storage and recovery systems include a cylinder assembly for compression and/or expansion of gas, a reservoir for storage and/or supply of compressed gas, and a system for thermally conditioning gas within the reservoir.

Heat exchange with compressed gas in energy-storage systems

The invention relates to systems and methods for rapidly and isothermally expanding and compressing gas in energy storage and recovery systems that use open-air hydraulic-pneumatic cylinder assemblies, such as an accumulator and an intensifier in communication with a high-pressure gas storage reservoir on a gas-side of the circuits and a combination fluid motor/pump, coupled to a combination electric generator/motor on the fluid side of the circuits. The systems use heat transfer subsystems in communication with at least one of the cylinder assemblies or reservoir to thermally condition the gas being expanded or compressed.

Systems and methods for energy storage and recovery using rapid isothermal gas expansion and compression

The invention relates to systems and methods including an energy conversion system for storage and recovery of energy using compressed gas, a source of recovered thermal energy, and a heat-exchange subsystem in fluid communication with the energy conversion system and the source of recovered thermal energy.

Systems and methods for combined thermal and compressed gas energy conversion systems

An electro mechanically-assisted control system for use in a second-stage regulator. Regulator control assembly (), also referred to as all-electronic (AE) assembly (), includes an electromechanical actuator (EMA) sub-assembly () for controlling airflow through single air supply line (). EMA sub-assembly () includes electronically controllable actuator (ECA) (), which removably seals EMA orifice () in wall () of pilot chamber (). ECA () is electrically connected with and controlled by control electronics (). The control electronics include programmable microprocessor (), which is electrically connected with charge and discharge electronics (), both of which are electrically connected with power supply (). All-electronic (AE) assembly () has only an EMA sub-assembly and no mechanical actuator sub-assembly.

Self-contained breathing apparatus facepiece pressure control method

A radial piezoelectric motor comprises a housing, a motor shaft rotatably mounted in the housing and a plurality of piezoelectric actuators inside the housing radially disposed about the axis of the motor shaft. The motor also includes circuitry for applying a voltage to the piezoelectric actuators to expand the actuators repeatedly and in succession and apparatus responsive to the repeated and successive expanding of the actuators for rotating the motor shaft.

High-efficiency radial piezoelectric motor

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Hanover, NH, United States of America

Michael Gary Izenson