Buildings Technologies Available for Licensing

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's scientists and engineers have developed proven technologies to improve new building designs, technologies, and equipment that increase the overall energy efficiency of both residential and commercial buildings. A number of NREL's buildings and thermal system technologies have been patented and are available for licensing.

Intellectual Property Items

U.S. Patent 6,584,784 - Combined Refrigeration System with a Liquid Pre-Cooling Heat Exchanger
U.S. Patent 6,739,136 - Combustion System for Hybrid Solar Fossil Fuel Receiver
U.S. Patent 5,107,649 - Compact Vacuum Insulation Embodiments
U.S. Patent 6,830,778 - Direct printing of thin-film conductors using metal-chelate inks
U.S. Patent 6,487,859 - Dish/Stirling Hybrid-Receiver
U.S. Patent 6,441,942 - Electrochromic Projection and Writing Device
U.S. Patent 5,599,229 - Enhancement of Wall Jet Transport Properties
U.S. Patent 6,378,605 - Heat Exchanger with Transpired, Highly Porous Fins
U.S. Patent 5,417,052 - Hybrid Solar Central Receiver for Combined Cycle Power Plant
U.S. Patent 6,282,497 - Method and Apparatus for Analyzing the Chemical Composition of Liquid Effluent from a Direct Contact Condenser
U.S. Patent 5,925,291 - Method and Apparatus for High-Efficiency Direct Contact Condensation
U.S. Patent 5,153,780 - Method and Apparatus for Uniformly Concentrating Solar Flux for Photovoltaic Applications
U.S. Patent 5,661,670 - Method and System for Simulating Heat and Mass Transfer in CoolingTowers
U.S. Patent 6,225,551 - Multi-Facet Concentrator of Solar Setup for Irradiating the Objects Placed in a Target Plane with Solar Light
U.S. Patent 6,169,246 - Photovoltaic Devices Comprising Zinc Stannate Buffer Layer and Method for Making
U.S. Patent 6,077,401 - Production of Fullerenes Using Concentrated Solar Flux
U.S. Patent 6,185,944 - Refrigeration System with a Compressor-Pump Unit and a Liquid-Injection Desuperheating Line
U.S. Patent 5,716,736 - Solid Lithium-Ion Electrolyte
U.S. Patent 5,384,653 - Stand-Alone Photovoltaic (PV) Powered Electrochromic Window
U.S. Patent 6,073,500 - Ultra-Accelerated Natural Sunlight Exposure Testing
U.S. Patent 6,604,436 - Ultra-Accelerated Natural Sunlight Exposure Testing Facilities
U.S. Patent 5,692,491 - Unglazed Transpired Solar Collector Having a Low Thermal Conductance Absorber
U.S. Patent 6,183,241 - Uniform -Burning Matrix Burner
U.S. Patent 7,306,650 - Using liquid desiccant as a regenerable filter for capturing and deactivating contaminants

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