Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ladder-structural gravity-assisted-heat-pipe geothermal energy recovery system without liquid-accumulation effect
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Application No.: US16960328Application Date: 2019-06-25
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Publication No.: US11408646B2Publication Date: 2022-08-09
- Inventor: Fangming Jiang , Wenbo Huang , Wenjiong Cao , Yiwei Wang
- Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
- Applicant Address: CN Guangzhou
- Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
- Current Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
- Current Assignee Address: CN Guangzhou
- Agency: Bayramoglu Law Offices LLC
- Priority: CN201910328413.5 20190423
- International Application: PCT/CN2019/092660 WO 20190625
- International Announcement: WO2020/140406 WO 20200709
- Main IPC: F24T10/40
- IPC: F24T10/40 ; F28D15/02 ; F28D15/04 ; F24T10/00

Abstract:
A ladder-structural gravity-assisted-heat-pipe geothermal energy recovery system without liquid-accumulation effect, comprises a ladder-structural gravity-assisted heat pipe, a condenser, and a liquid tank. The ladder-structural gravity-assisted heat pipe comprises a return pipe, an outer pipe and an inner pipe. The return pipe is provided in a space between the outer pipe and the inner pipe and communicated with the liquid tank, and the space between the outer pipe and the inner pipe is divided to form a ladder structure. A liquid working medium flows from the liquid tank through the return pipe into each section sequentially, absorbs heat from a high-temperature rock through a wall of the outer pipe, vaporizes into a gaseous working medium, gets into the inner pipe, and rises to the condenser to condense and flows to the liquid tank to circulate. Such design greatly improves the heat transfer efficiency in geothermal energy recovery using ultra-long heat pipes.
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