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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2024
Blue Origin Manufacturing, Llc, Huntsville, AL (US);
Emmanuel John Grillos, Ii, Kent, WA (US);
Steven Stanley, Sammamish, WA (US);
Blue Origin Manufacturing, LLC, Huntsville, AL (US);
Abstract
A closed Brayton cycle (CBC) system for an external heat source is presented. The CBC system includes a turbine that receives a hot gas from a heat source and a compressor that receives cooler gas that is returned to the heat source. The turbine and the compressor may be on a common shaft. A recuperator, which may be integrated with the turbine and the compressor, exchanges waste heat from the turbine exhaust to the compressor exit flow to increase the efficiency of the system. Instead of manifolding the inlets and outlets of the turbine and compressor and sending the gasses to the recuperator via the manifolds or other channeling, the recuperator may be integrated into the system between a turbine system and the compressor, both of which are contiguous (e.g., directly connected) with the recuperator. Such a configuration may allow for increasing efficiency and reducing the mass of the system.