Chemically heated hot emitter generator system

• US 9,811,814 B2
• Filed: 08/27/2013
• Issued: 11/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GreenLight IoT, Inc.
• Original Assignee: GreenLight IoT, Inc.
• Inventors: Phillips, Thomas J., Zlotnicki, Joseph M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Masud, Rokib
• Application Number:
  US14/777,147
• Publication Number:
  US 20160042332A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,533 Days
• Field of Search: 395240, 361139
• CPC Class Codes: F23C 2202/30 Premixing fluegas with combustion air
• CPC Class Codes: F23C 7/06 for heating the incoming air arrangements of regenerators and recuperators F23L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: F23D 14/16 using permeable blocks
• CPC Class Codes: F23J 2219/10 Catalytic reduction devices
• CPC Class Codes: F23N 1/022 using electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: F23N 5/003 using detectors sensitive to combustion gas properties F23N5/02, F23N5/18 - F23N5/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F23N 5/242 using electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/14 specially adapted for billing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/04 Billing or invoicing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0645 Rental transactions; Leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2300/24 of photovoltaic origin
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/381 Dispersed generators
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/56 Power conversion systems, e.g. maximum power point trackers
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/50 Systems or methods supporting the power network operation or management, involving a certain degree of interaction with the load-side end user applications
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 50/10 Energy trading, including energy flowing from end-user application to grid
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 50/12 Billing, invoicing, buying or selling transactions or other related activities, e.g. cost or usage evaluation

Abstract

The technical field includes machine, manufacture, process, and product produced thereby, as well as necessary intermediates, which pertain to power sources, units thereof, computer systems used to facilitate operation of one or more power sources.

Claims

1. A machine configured to process chemically heated hot emitter generator data so as to produce output, the machine comprising:

an analog detector arranged to produce intensity measurements of electromagnetic emissions of a chemically heated hot emitter which are less than or equal to full intensity of said emissions;

an analog-to-digital converter arranged to receive and then convert the detected intensity measurements from an analog form to a digital form;

a digital computer arranged to the receive the digital, detected intensity measurements and configured to transform the digital, detected intensity measurements to produce therefrom an output intermediate indicator of the chemically heated hot emitter electromagnetic emissions; and

another digital computer which receives the output intermediate indicator of the chemically heated hot emitter electromagnetic emissions and processes the intermediate indicator and data into a billing record corresponding to an amount of the chemically heated hot emitter electromagnetic emissions; and

an output device which outputs the billing record.

13. The machine of claim 1, wherein one or more computers are configured to carry out the operations of:

receiving an indication of an electric power load demand;

computing, from said load demand, at least one operating parameter for a chemically heated hot emitter to change intensity of said emissions, such that electric power generated from said emissions meets at least some of the said demand; and

producing output comprising at least one control instruction to configure operation of the chemically heated hot emitter with said at least one operating parameter.

14. The machine of claim 13, wherein each said sending computer is configured to carry out the operations of:

sending a communication to at least one said sending computer, responsive to a detected indication of electrical power load demand exceeding electrical power being generated from the electromagnetic emissions of the chemically heated hot emitter associated with the sending computer that is sending the communication, said communication comprising an indication of unmet electrical power load demand; and

computing, by each said sending computer that receives the communication, from said unmet electrical load demand, at least one operating parameter for the chemically heated hot emitter associated therewith to change a corresponding intensity of emissions, such that electric power generated from said emissions of the chemically heated hot emitter associated therewith meets some or all of the unmet electrical load demand; and

producing, by each said sending computer that receives the communication, output comprising at least one control instruction to configure the associated respective chemically heated hot emitter with said at least one operating parameter;

wherein the electrical outputs of the generators generating electrical power from the respective emissions of the respective chemically heated hot emitters associated with said sending computers being connected to a common electrical grid.

2. A machine configured to process chemically heated hot emitter generator data so as to produce output, the machine comprising:

a computing system including a digital computer comprising memory storing executable instructions which when executed, enable the machine to perform the operations of;

receiving digital data representing a chemically heated hot emitter generator of electromagnetic emissions and financial data which corresponds to the data representing the hot emitter generator, and then

processing, using said data, in producing a financial term associated with at least one of a plurality of chemically heated hot emitter generators having conformity with said chemically heated hot emitter generator, and then

producing, at an output device, output including the financial term associated with said at least one of a plurality of chemically heated hot emitter generators of electromagnetic emissions.

3. The machine of claim 2, wherein the computing system comprises:

an analog detector arranged to produce intensity measurements of chemically heated hot emitter electromagnetic emissions which are less than or equal to full intensity of said emissions;

an analog-to-digital converter arranged to receive and then convert the detected intensity measurements from an analog form to a digital form;

a digital computer arranged to the receive the digital, detected intensity measurements and configured to transform the digital, detected intensity measurements to produce therefrom an intermediate indicator of the chemically heated hot emitter electromagnetic emissions.

4. The machine of claim 2, wherein the digital data representing the chemically heated hot emitter generator of electromagnetic emissions comprises a hot emitter generator efficiency indicator, a hot emitter generator generating capacity indicator, or both.

5. The machine of claim 2, wherein the financial data comprises a rate of return for leasing a chemically heated hot emitter generator, a rate of return for selling a chemically heated hot emitter generator, or both.

6. The machine of claim 2, wherein the financial term comprises a chemically heated hot emitter generator lease rate.

7. The machine of claim 2, wherein the financial term comprises a chemically heated hot emitter generator sale price.

8. The machine of claim 2, wherein the financial term comprises a billing record based upon a chemically heated hot emitter generator lease rate and/or sale price.

9. The machine of claim 2, wherein the digital data representing the chemically heated hot emitter generator of electromagnetic emissions comprises both a chemically heated hot emitter generator usage record and a chemically heated hot emitter generator lease rate, and the output includes a billing record based upon the chemically heated hot emitter generator lease rate and the usage record.

10. A machine configured to process chemically heated hot emitter generator data so as to produce output, the machine comprising:

a computing system comprising a first digital computer, arranged to

receive an intermediate indicator of chemically heated hot emitter electromagnetic emissions output by a second digital computer, the intermediate indicator being a transformation of digitalized, by an analog-to-digital converter, intensity measurements detected from electromagnetic emissions of a chemically heated hot emitter and which are less than or equal to full intensity of said emissions, and then

process the intermediate indicator so as to produce, at an output device, a billing record corresponding to an amount of the chemically heated hot emitter electromagnetic emissions.

15. The machine of claim 10, wherein one or more computers are configured to carry out the operations of:

receiving an indication of an electric power load demand;

computing, from said load demand, at least one operating parameter for a chemically heated hot emitter to change intensity of said emissions, such that electric power generated from said emissions meets at least some of the said demand; and

producing output comprising at least one control instruction to configure operation of the chemically heated hot emitter with said at least one operating parameter.

11. A machine configured to process chemically heated hot emitter generator data so as to produce output, the machine comprising:

a receiving computer, operably associated with an input device and an output device, which receives an intermediate indicator of chemically heated hot emitter electromagnetic emissions from a sending computer, the sending computer operably associated with a second input device and a second output device, wherein;

the sending computer is configured to carry out operations including;

receiving, at the second input device, digital, detected intensity measurements from an analog-to-digital converter which converts intensity measurements from an analog detector of chemically heated hot emitter electromagnetic emissions which are less than or equal to full intensity of said emissions; and

then

transforming the detected intensity measurements in producing therefrom an intermediate indicator of the chemically heated hot emitter electromagnetic emissions; and

then

outputting, at the second output device, the intermediate indicator of the chemically heated hot emitter electromagnetic emissions; and

wherein

the receiving digital computer is configured to carry out other operations including;

receiving data comprising the intermediate indicator of the chemically heated hot emitter electromagnetic emissions that is output by the sending computer; and

processing, using the intermediate indicator of the chemically heated hot emitter electromagnetic emissions, so as to output a billing record corresponding to an amount of the chemically heated hot emitter electromagnetic emissions.

12. The machine of claim 11, wherein the receiving computer is further configured to:

communicate with at least one other sending computer, each said at least one other sending computer operably associated with a respective input device and a respective output device, and configured to carry out operations including;

receiving, at said respective input device, respective digital, detected intensity measurements from a respective analog-to-digital converter which converts respective detected intensity measurements from respective chemically heated hot emitter electromagnetic emissions which are less than or equal to full intensity of said emissions; and

then

transforming the respective detected intensity measurements to produce therefrom a respective intermediate indicator of the respective chemically heated hot emitter electromagnetic emissions; and

then

outputting the respective intermediate indicator of the chemically heated hot emitter electromagnetic emissions to the receiving computer, which then processes the respective intermediate indicator of the respective chemically heated hot emitter electromagnetic emissions so as to produce, at the output device of the first digital computer, a respective billing record corresponding to a respective amount of the respective chemically heated hot emitter electromagnetic emissions.

16. The machine of claim 11, wherein one or more computers are configured to carry out the operations of:

receiving an indication of an electric power load demand;

computing, from said load demand, at least one operating parameter for a chemically heated hot emitter to change intensity of said emissions, such that electric power generated from said emissions meets at least some of the said demand; and

producing output comprising at least one control instruction to configure operation of the chemically heated hot emitter with said at least one operating parameter.

17. The machine of claim 12, wherein one or more computers are configured to carry out the operations of:

receiving an indication of an electric power load demand;

computing, from said load demand, at least one operating parameter for a chemically heated hot emitter to change intensity of said emissions, such that electric power generated from said emissions meets at least some of the said demand; and

producing output comprising at least one control instruction to configure operation of the chemically heated hot emitter with said at least one operating parameter.