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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 1977
Filed:
May. 30, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
William F Franz, Gardiner, NY (US);
Howard V Hess, Glenham, NY (US);
Assignee:
Texaco Inc., New York, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
165 45 ; 60641 ;
Abstract
A method for recovering energy from a geothermal reservoir in which brine from the reservoir is first employed to heat an immiscible fluid, such as a hydrocarbon in direct heat exchange and the heated hydrocarbon is then utilized in direct heat exchange to heat a second fluid, such as boiler feed water, to raise steam as the actual working fluid in the power cycle.