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The Science Behind Magneto Hydrodynamic Power Generation: A Comprehensive Guide”

Learn more about how we are pioneering high efficiency magnetohydrodynamic power generation using ultra-high magnetic fields and novel cooling.

Developed with RPI Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. View related patents.

Metal Hydride Battery

New Thermochemical Improvements in Energy Storage Density Technology

“Storage is critical to the advancement and modernization of the grid. Renewable projects simply cannot support the grid in a meaningful way without storage” - Julie Steury, POWERMAG

Concentrating Solar Power Utility Inc (CSPU) has developed a highly-engineered Metal Hydride Battery which is an improved, new way of storing electricity in the form of heat. This enables renewable energy systems to generate electricity 24 hours a day. Electricity will be turned into heat and stored at Temp 800 degrees Celsius. This heat energy will be stored inside the CSPU Hydride Battery. When power is needed, the CSPU Hydride Battery powers a Stirling Heat Engine - that creates electricity.

Super high-performance, safe, and reliable energy storage solutions. Hydride Battery uses metal hydrides to store energy and an advanced Stirling engine to convert it to electricity. Battery storage is the fastest-growing industry in the United States.

CSPU Is in the business of building, superior, economical, and more efficient energy storage systems. Which are pacifically designed to be used with renewable energy power plants.

Game-Changing Technology

Hydride Battery is a technology ready to be developed. The company is preparing for several technical demos, followed by commercial demonstrations, to cater to different targeted market segments, ranging from long-duration grid energy storage to creating energy storage for industry, independent households and microgrids, storing electrical energy and harvesting it back out on demand.

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What Makes CSPU Stand Out

  • The CSPU Thermal Battery will change the world. Metal hydrides have a distinct advantage due to the significant amount of research which has been conducted on the cycle stability of hydrogen storage materials. The most abundant element in the world is hydrogen. Hydride Battery is working on developing a new type of battery or energy storage technology focusing on the markets for large-scale energy storage, Long-Duration Energy Storage.

  • A Game Changing Improvement in High Energy Density and Efficiency. The CSPU Metal Hydride Battery offers "a very high thermal capacity (approximately 15-20 times that of current systems)" - U.S. Department of Energy. Bond Energy Storage. dependent on reaction temperature and enthalpy.

    Thermal energy is transformed into chemical energy. Thermochemical energy, offers a higher amount of energy stored per mass of storage material. The special feature of metal hydrides as reversible heat storage systems is that upon their thermal dissociation the liberated hydrogen is simultaneously a fuel with the highest known gravimetric energy density. Thermochemical heat storage systems can provide very high energy densities and economic systems.

    TCES is defined as the storage of heat energy through the cycling of matter through two or more thermodynamic states.

    Thermochemical energy storage (TCES) is considered the third fundamental method of heat storage, along with sensible and latent heat storage. TCES concepts use reversible reactions to store energy in chemical bonds. During discharge, heat is recovered through the reversal reaction. This heat is used to power a generator

  • Exploiting Chemical Bonds to Efficiently Store Energy - Metal Hydrides Undergoing Hydriding/Dehydriding Cycles. Phase Change Material can offer an order of magnitude increase in heat capacity. When compared with conventional materials.

  • "Metal Hydride Batteries creates a low-cost thermal energy storage system that can store 10 times more energy than current state-of-the-art thermal energy storage systems." - Energy U.S. Department of Energy

    The Hydride Battery converts electricity into heat energy, stores it and then converts it back into usable electricity at a later time, chemical-mechanical batteries, utility-scale storage.

    High-efficiency Metal hydrides are distinctive owing to the presence of the lightest element of the periodic table (H), being bonded to a metal.

    Metal Hydrides high temperature thermal heat storage technique has great promising future. The Hydride Battery is a heat battery that stores heat energy in a reversible chemical reaction, using a new class of high efficiency materials, discovered in 1985.

    The Metal Hydride materials have a combination of thermodynamic energy storage densities and kinetic power capabilities that previously have not been demonstrated. "Thermochemical energy storage based on Metal Hydrides represents many unique advantages and offers a very appealing prospect for lower costs and higher efficiency" - DOE.

  • Concentrating Solar Power Utility Inc Hydride Battery technology will provide a much-needed advancement in a market estimated to be $40 billion by 2025. Metal Hydride Based Thermochemical Batteries offer an enormous billion-dollar global market, Electric Power Plants, Solar/Wind Power.

    Energy storage will be instrumental in the mass scale implementation of renewables, Grid Storage. The Hydride Battery will enable the next wave of renewables on the Grid.

  • The real future opportunities for investment in the energy sector are renewables. Most utility-scale renewable energy power plants only run at about 25% of their capacity because they can't generate power at night-thermal energy storage makes it possible to increase this capacity to up to 60-75%. Similarly, power plants produce a constant output of power--thermal energy storage could help increase this output during times of critical peak demand. Therefore saving utility companies billions of dollars.

    The demand for renewable energy generation continues to increase as more and more cities commit to carbon reduction goals.

Leading the Green Energy Economy

Enabled by the historic Inflation Reduction Act, the time to act on battery energy modernization is now. Advanced energy storage provides an integrated solution to some of America’s most critical energy needs: electric grid modernization, reliability, and resilience; sustainable mobility; flexibility for a diverse and secure, all-of-the-above electricity generation portfolio; and enhanced economic competitiveness for remote communities and targeted micro-grid solutions.

Storage technologies strengthen and stabilize the U.S. grid by providing backup power, leveling loads, and offering a range of other energy management services. Electric vehicles (EVs) are also poised to become an integral part of this new grid paradigm as their batteries both draw power from and supply it back to the grid (when beneficial) – while eliminating tailpipe emissions.

CSPU’s mission is to revolutionize energy storage to enable a sustainable future. The scalable Hydride Battery helps in the fight against climate change and will have a substantial positive impact on our environment and economy. Fossil fuels - coal, oil, and gas - will not last forever.

Concentrating Solar Power Utility, Inc. (CSPU) is leading the way in the development of Advanced Energy Storage, High-Performance Proprietary Metal Hydride Batteries.

Executive Leadership Team

  • CEO - GERALD HABIB

    Mr. Habib is a seasoned executive who has many years of experience in managing technology based projects and in developing new businesses. He has been COO of a $20+ million specialized hazardous waste company with over 100 employees. Trans-Cycle Industries and TCI, Inc, a privately held environmental services company. Mr. Habib has been a Director of three public companies, including a $100 million independent power producer and solar energy company.

    Most recently, he had been the Chief Operating Officer of TCI Companies until its sale to a strategic acquirer. Earlier, he had been Director of Worldwide Planning and Business Development for a $1 billion specialty chemicals division of NL Chemicals. His operational and technical experience, spanning over 30 years, is highlighted by the ability to take technology and products to market utilizing internal sales and marketing, licensing, business development partnering, joint venture formation, and mergers and acquisitions in the areas of process engineering and sales of chemicals, polymers and related industrial products.

    Employment History: Polacryl: – Vice President, Business Development, NL Industries: – Director of Worldwide Planning and Business Development, Olin Corporation: – Business Manager, Scientific Design/Halcon: – Process Engineer.

    Education: New York University-Leonard N. Stern School of Business: – MBA, Corporate Finance, City University of New York City College: – B.ChE, Chemical Engineering.

  • HEAD OF ENGINEERING - THOMAS P. KAY

    The founder of Concentrating Solar Power Utility, is a solar old timer who once worked for Exxon back in the 1970’s as a solar consultant, at the age of 22. Thomas P. Kay got his first Solar Patent when he was 24 years old, "Solar Collector Panel and Refrigeration System" Mr. Kay started his first solar company, TK Solar Distributors in 1970. He marketed hundreds of his solar files to Fortune 500 companies on microfiche/microfilm. He was responsible for installing some of the first solar hot water heaters in New York State. Thereafter, he became a solar energy consultant to Exxon Enterprises the venture capital arm of Exxon. After working for Exxon, he opened “The Solar Store” in Mastic, Long Island, NY, one of the first retail outlets that sold every type of solar product available at the time. Products sold were solar photovoltaic panels, solar hot water heaters, solar cookers, solar watches and calculators, solar pool heating panels and books. CSPU is the culmination of Thomas P. Kay’s lifetime commitment to the advancement of solar energy’s power to help humanity by developing the world’s most efficient solar MHD electric technology.

    Mr. Kay is a solar inventor with 3 U.S. solar patents and other solar patents pending. One Solar MHD patent was jointly developed with two professors from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Since 1994, Mr. Kay has published several articles, testified before the U.S. Congress and made numerous appearances in the media regarding solar energy topics. Mr. Kay attended Hofstra New College. and New York University Stern School of Business. Stern is one of the oldest and most prestigious business schools in the world. Mr. Kay will continue as Chief Technology Officer with responsibility for overall system design, integration, testing and product technology refinement.

  • CHIEF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING OFFICER - PROFESSOR DOUGLAS B. CHRISEY

    Professor of Physics and Engineering Physics, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, New Orleans. Mr Chrisey has 300 peer-reviewed publications and 20 patents and has been honored with the endowed Jung Chair of Materials Engineering. Doug began his stellar engineering and academic career when he earned a B.S. in Physics from the State University of New York At Binghamton in 1983 and later a Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from the University of Virginia in 1987. He spent the next 17 years at the Naval Research Laboratory as the Head of the Laser Processing Section. After spending 1 year as the Deputy Director at the North Dakota State University Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Doug joined Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a Professor of Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering. Currently, Doug is teaching and performing research at Tulane University and is the Jung Chair of Materials Engineering in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics with Adjunct appointments in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Tulane and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Material Science Department.

    Doug is well known to the world of science and engineering with more than 400 citable publications and over 9,000 citations and an h-index value of 49. He has edited or co-edited 15 books and has 18 patents. He also serves as a Scientific Advisor to Nanotherapeutics, Science and Engineering Officer at MSI Limited, the Chief Technology Officer for Nano Solutions, and is President of Omni-Metrics.

    Doug’s research interests are wide ranging and include the novel laser fabrication of thin films and coatings of advanced materials for electronics, sensors, biomaterials, and for energy storage. Doug is world renown and is considered one of the pioneers in the field of Pulsed Laser Deposition and was the lead inventor of MAPLE processing technique (matrix assisted pulsed laser evaporation). He is currently publishing in areas of metallic nanoparticle fabrication, biosensing, bionanotechnology, tissue engineering, stem cell processing, ceramics, and polyamorphism.

  • STRATEGIC PLANING, SYSTEM INTERGRATION ADVISOR - JOHN SORENSEN

    Ph D, Dr. John Sorensen has over 40 years of engineering, technical project management, business development, and corporate management experience. His technical background has been primarily in the areas of design and analysis of dynamic systems with expertise in automatic control and traffic management. His early technical career was devoted to spacecraft flight control and space booster (rocket) guidance for NASA. Since 1971, he focused on aviation systems design. His work has also included significant contributions to the integration of air traffic management with airline flight dispatch and the flight deck. He has taken over 100 technical projects from initiation to successful completion. In July 1985, Sorensen co-founded Seagull Technology, Inc. where thereafter he was Chief Executive Officer for twenty years. He led Seagull to become a well respected, high technology company, and in the process, he spun off two related successful companies. In April 2005 Seagull was sold to Sensis Corp. of Syracuse, NY, where Sorensen became a Sr. Fellow. In April 2009, he became an independent systems engineering and organizational management consultant. His education includes B.S. Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State U (1962); M.S. Engineering Mechanics, Iowa State U (1964); and PhD Aeronautics & Astronautics, Stanford U (1970).