1026 results about "Air pollutants" patented technology

A safety indicator monitors environment conditions detrimental to humans e.g., hazardous gases, air pollutants, low oxygen, radiation levels of EMF or RF and microwave, temperature, humidity and air pressure retaining a three month history to upload to a PC via infra red data interface or phone link. Contaminants are analyzed and compared to stored profiles to determine its classification and notify user of an adversity by stored voice messages from, via alarm tones and associated flashing LED, via vibrator for silent operation or via LCD. Environmental radiation sources are monitored and auto-scaled. Instantaneous radiation exposure level and exposure duration data are stored for later readout as a detector and dosimeter. Scans for EMF allow detection with auto scaling of radiation levels and exposure durations are stored for subsequent readout. Electronic bugs can be found with a high sensitivity EMF range setting. Ambient temperature measurements or humidity and barometric pressure can be made over time to predict weather changes. A PCS RF link provides wireless remote communications in a first responder military use by upload of alarm conditions, field measurements and with download of command instructions. The link supports reception of telemetry data for real time remote monitoring of personnel via the wrist band for blood pressure, temperature, pulse rate and blood oxygen levels are transmitted. Commercial uses include remote environmental data collection and employee assignment tasking. GPS locates personnel and reporting coordinates associated with alarm occurrences and associated environmental measurements.

A safety indicator monitors environment conditions detrimental to humans e.g., hazardous gases, air pollutants, low oxygen, radiation levels of EMF or RF and microwave, temperature, humidity and air pressure retaining a three month history to upload to a PC via infra red data interface or phone link. Contaminants are analyzed and compared to stored profiles to determine its classification and notify user of an adversity by stored voice messages from, via alarm tones and associated flashing LED, via vibrator for silent operation or via LCD. Environmental radiation sources are monitored and auto-scaled. Instantaneous radiation exposure level and exposure duration data are stored for later readout as a detector and dosimeter. Scans for EMF allow detection with auto scaling of radiation levels and exposure durations are stored for subsequent readout. Electronic bugs can be found with a high sensitivity EMF range setting. Ambient temperature measurements or humidity and barometric pressure can be made over time to predict weather changes. A PCS RF link provides wireless remote communications in a first responder military use by upload of alarm conditions, field measurements and with download of command instructions. The link supports reception of telemetry data for real time remote monitoring of personnel via the wrist band for blood pressure, temperature, pulse rate and blood oxygen levels are transmitted. Commercial uses include remote environmental data collection and employee assignment tasking. GPS locates personnel and reporting coordinates associated with alarm occurrences and associated environmental measurements.

Disclosed is a sorbent for the removal of mercury from combustion flue gas and a preparation method thereof. The sorbent includes an activated heavy oil heavy ash impregnated with 0.1-30% by weight of any chemical substance selected from sulfur, iodine, bromine and chlorine. The sorbent is prepared in an economical manner using heavy oil fly ash, industrial waste generated from heavy oil-fired boilers, and has excellent sorption performance for mercury, so that a low concentration of mercury contained in combustion flue gas discharged from large-scale boilers can be removed by injection of a small amount of the sorbent. Thus, the invention can prevent a reduction in the recycling rate of coal fly ash in coal-fired power plants and minimize operation cost.

The invention discloses a microgrid operation optimizing method by considering combined supply of cooling, heating and power with a stored energy operation strategy.The microgrid operation optimizing method comprises the following steps of: establishing a CCHP (combined cooling heating and power) microgrid optimizing model; constructing a target optimizing function with a target of lowest generating cost under a microgrid grid-connected operation state; according to the established target optimizing function, comprehensively considering load level of front and time periods with an output trend of each micro power supply, and determining the operation principle of an energy storage unit and a fuel battery to determine the best operation mode of the whole CCHP system in a scheduling period. The microgrid operation optimizing method disclosed by the invention has the beneficial effects that the microgrid electricity selling profits can be effectively increased for energy storage optimization, obvious advantages are provided in lowering the operation cost of the microgrid; the energy resource utilization rate of the stem can be improved and the energy gradient utilization can be realized in comparison with the conventional heat-engine plant and thermal power plant, so that reference is provided for energy saving of the power system; moreover, the energy is saved and the emission is reduced, pollution of air pollutants is greatly reduced, and significance is achieved in improving environmental benefits.

Methods and apparatus for determining indoor air contaminant levels independent of outdoor contaminant levels. In one embodiment, an infinite geometric series is used to compute a true indoor air contaminant level in a room.

The disclosure provides methods and systems for sequestering and / or reducing sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides and / or carbon dioxide present in industrial effluent fluid streams. A solid particulate material comprising a slag component, a binder component (distinct from the slag component), and optionally water is formed and then contacted with the effluent fluid stream to reduce at least one of the sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and / or carbon dioxide. The contacting of the effluent stream may occur in a packed bed reactor with the solid dry particulate material. Methods of reducing pollutants from exhaust generated by combustion sources, lime and / or cement kilns, iron and / or steel furnaces, and the like are provided.

The invention relates to a method for recycling sulfur from acid gases containing hydrogen sulfide, comprising the following steps: (a) air supply; (b) acid gas pretreatment; (c) mixture; (d) primary direct catalytic oxidation; (e) primary sulfur condensation; (f) process gas reheating; (g) secondary direct catalytic oxidation; (h) secondary sulfur condensation; (i) sulfur re-separation; (j) degasification in a liquid sulfur tank; and (k) tail gas burning. When the volume concentration of H2S in the acid gases in the prior art is 1-15%, the recycle rate of sulfur can reach over 99% by the method of the invention, and the emission load of H2S in the acid gases processed by the method of the invention meets the emission requirement of Integrated Emission Standard of Air Pollutants (GB16297-1996).

Provided are a system and method for detecting air pollution, characterized by using an air pollution detecting device for detecting air pollutants, using a positioning device for locating the air pollution detecting device, and enabling a data transmission device to transmit air pollution data and position data to a data analysis and management device via a network system, and then enabling the data analysis and management device to perform analysis and management process on the data; accordingly, perceiving air pollution status at each area and thus proving air pollution information and improvement to air pollution areas in a shorter time.

The invention relates to the field of air pollutant removing devices, in particular to a haze pollutant removing device which comprises a ventilation system with a fan, an air filter device, purification devices and silencers. The ventilation system with the fan comprises a rainproof haze air inlet, an air pressure equalizing chamber, the fan and an air cleaning static pressure tank type spherical jet air outlet; the air filter device comprises a primary filter, an intermediate filter and a high-efficiency filter; the purification devices include one or a plurality of devices including an alkaline aqueous solution spray washing device, an activated carbon adsorption device, a negative ion purification device, a catalytic combustion purification device, an electrostatic dust collection device, an ultraviolet disinfection device, a photonic hydrogen ion purification device, a biological purification device and a three-way catalytic purification device; the silencers include one or a plurality of devices including a silencer at an induce draft end of the fan, a vibration damping muffler device and a silencer at an exhaust end. The haze pollutant removing device has the advantages that clean air can be exhausted to the atmosphere under the filter effects of filters and purification treatment effects of the various purification devices, and accordingly the purpose of quickly removing haze pollutants can be achieved.

A method for hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual forecasted air quality health effects caused by air pollutants generated over a determined geographical area and a system implementing the method.

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for providing temporary electrical power to stationary locations and moveable locations. For example, vessel marine power systems may be directed to the reduction and elimination of air pollutants produced when using a ship's generator while at dock. The power system is modular, portable, and generates electricity over a wide range of voltages and frequencies.

An air pollution control apparatus usable for capturing airborne pollutants present in a relatively confined environment. The apparatus is a portable airborne-pollutant capturing device movable to a site of pollutant origin and having at least one airborne-pollutant collector member, a vacuum system, and a filter system. The filter system can include one filter or more than one identical or different filters chosen for enhanced filtration capabilities in relation to pollutants present. Preferably, more than one type of filter can be accommodated simultaneously to thereby capture multiple pollutants. Fugitive particulate is captured by positioning the airborne-pollutant collector member proximate the activity causing pollution, and operating the collector member simultaneously with the polluting activity to thereby cause particulate to be captured by the filter system.

An air cleaner for removing air pollutants by a water spray type of dust collecting system, which includes a dust collecting part and an air and water separating part in the interior of an air duct, the dust collecting part composed of primary and secondary dust collectors by water spraying, each of which having a plurality of spraying nozzles layeredly arranged by predetermined intervals to be opposed at an angle of 30° from the top to bottom thereof, and a space dust collector by water spraying disposed in a space between the primary and secondary dust collectors by water spraying, such that the three-step air and water contact causes foreign materials such as dust, gases and so on to be absorbed, dissolved and settled, and the air and water separating part formed of a groove-engaged type and layeredly curved by six-step folding at an angle of 90° in consideration of air resistance, for passing only the air flowing from the dust collecting part and collecting water drops.

The invention relates to a kind of wet-form stack-gas desulfurizing industrial art monitoring and auto-control system, which can be used in desulfurizing industrial art by spraying lime powder or size mixture of lime to stack gases in order to forming high purity gypsum. The hardware of the invention contains industrial cybertron, PLC, group of server, router, Internet system and remote terminal. And the feature of it is that it contains the subsystems as follows: the monitoring and data acquisition subsystem, which includes the intelligence instrument; the simulated instrument and the observation system of the air pollutant that is CEMS; the data processing and electrical control system, which controls the on-the-spot actuating mechanism by PLC; the network and data communication subsystem and the safety control subsystem, which include the safety emergency power supply and the control cabinet on the spot of the subject equipment. The industrial cybertron works for data processing and central control, which uses PLC to control spot actuating mechanism, and it can manifest the data of equipment state at the right moment and can type all kinds of report form, in order to realize auto-control and remote control at the right moment.

Provided is a calculating method for dynamically establishing port and vessel air pollutant emission lists. A port emission module (including a cargo storage and shipment submodule, a port operation facility submodule, a collecting and distributing submodule and a database), a vessel emission module (including a cruising submodule, a berthing and departing submodule, an operation and construction submodule and a database), an operation scene (including an emission reduction strategy) dynamic combining module and a data base are included. The calculating method is used for calculating single and superposed accumulated emission lists for air pollutants (mainly PM2.5, NOx, SOx, VOCs, CO, CO2 and the like) which has general characteristics and are emitted by coastal or inland vessels entering, leaving and passing through ports through cruising, berthing and departing and / or operation, and facilities for port cargo loading, unloading, storage, transporting, collecting and distributing in identical or similar time and space in different working conditions and modes, reliable data support is provided for port and vessel energy conservation and emission reduction schemes of related departments, and design and strategies of structure adjustment and mode transformation green traffic development planning of the ports, and the goals of air pollution prevention, carbon emission control, port air quality improvement and weather climate changing handling are achieved.

Chromium-free coating composition with anti-corrosion and anti-fingerprint properties, particularly suitable for metal alloys, especially galvanized steel, and coated articles. Composition comprises aqueous-resin emulsion, hazardous air pollutant-free co-solvent, organo-functional silane, metal chelating agent, and chromium-free corrosion inhibitor, and optionally pH adjusting agent.

The present invention provides an apparatus 1 for the treatment of air comprising a low power corona discharge ozone generator 5,6 inside a chamber 9 having an inlet 2 and an outlet 7, and at least one air flow impeller 3 for inducing a flow of air through the chamber 9. The ozone generator 5,6 is formed and arranged for generating a restricted concentration of ozone, within an inactivating zone 10 contained within the chamber 9, through which the air flow is passed. The restricted concentration is sufficient to inactivate airborne pollutant material entrained in the air flow, yet decays sufficiently outside the inactivating zone so that the concentration of ozone in the cleaned air expelled from the apparatus 1 is at a physiologically acceptable level without the use of an ozone decomposition catalyzer.

The invention describes software (including mathematical models implemented in software) and related electronic circuits that can be used to combine data from local, inexpensive dust sensors (particle counters) with Internet-available rich data on pollutants, weather, optional household devices, sensors, and appliances to create a rich picture of the local environment, shape that environment through non-trivial control of said household appliances and ventilation systems to reduce buildup of household dust on surfaces or reduce sensitive individuals' exposure to specific pollutants, and monitor individuals' exposure to pollutants. The software might live in a smartphone (such as the inventors' iPhone prototype), related hardware devices (such as a pollution sensor communicating via bluetooth with the smartphone) or in heating / cooling control system such as a common household thermostat. In particular, advanced control of windows or inexpensive air filters within a common forced air climate system to mitigate air pollution inexpensively are envisioned.

The invention provides a composite fiber material applied to visible light photocatalytic purification of sewage and air pollutants and a preparation method thereof. The composite fiber material is synthesized by loading a visible light response type bismuth-based photocatalytic material on a textile fiber material through a green chemical synthetic route. A powdered photocatalyst is solidly loaded by the unique net-like felt structure of the textile fiber material, so that the catalyst is prevented from losing and agglomerating during sewage treatment and air purification, and the separability and reusability are improved.

An exhaust gas capture system for capturing the exhaust gas emitted by auxiliary engines, auxiliary boilers, and other sources on an Ocean Going Vessel (OGV) while at berth or at anchor so that these gases may be carried to an emissions treatment system for removal of air pollutants and or greenhouse gases. The exhaust gas capture system includes a manifold and a family of parallel-flow flexible ducts for connecting directly to individual OGV exhaust pipes. The exhaust gas capture system further includes apparatus for connecting the parallel-flow flexible ducts to the OGV exhaust pipes.

The invention discloses an air quality remote monitoring and purifying system in a cloud technology. The system comprises an air quality detector, an intelligent terminal, a cloud computing server and an air purifier. The system is characterized in that the intelligent terminal is connected with the air quality detector, the cloud computing server and the air purifier in a wire communication mode and a wireless communication mode. The air quality detector comprises one or a plurality of PM2.5 detectors, a PM10 detector, a nitrogen dioxide detector, a sulfur dioxide detector, a carbon monoxide detector, an ozone detector, an atmospherium and a formaldehyde detector. The real data and historic data can be checked by people through the intelligent terminal, the detected data can be shared to people and can be provided from environment-related department as reference; the air purifier can be automatically opened by people in manual operation so as to reduce the concentration of air pollutants in the surrounding environment.

An air sterilizer for eliminating an associated airborne contaminant from an associated volume of air is provided. The air sterilizer includes a housing including an air inlet and an air outlet, an airflow pathway initiating approximately at the air inlet of the housing and terminating approximately at the air outlet of the housing, and an ultra-violet (UV) radiation source for producing a germicidal UV light. The UV source is disposed in the airflow pathway of the housing for exposing the associated airborne contaminant to the germicidal UV light. The air sterilizer further includes a reflecting member for increasing the exposure of the germicidal UV light to the associated airborne contaminant in the airflow pathway. The reflecting member being disposed in the housing proximal to the UV source. A power supply is provided for powering the UV source. The power supply is disposed within the housing and an electrical power plug assembly is secured to the housing and is in electrical communication with the power supply. The power plug assembly is selectively engageable with an associated electrical power receptacle and capable of supporting the air sterilizer when the power plug is selectively engaged with the associated electrical power receptacle.

The invention discloses a washing type air purifying system and relates to the field of washing type air purifying technologies. The washing type air purifying system is at least composed of a first-stage air pollutant aeration washing device, an air pollutant spraying washing device, a clean air supply device or a rain-proof silencing static pressure box-type jet flow air outlet device and a purifier body sterilization and disinfection device. Indoor polluted air is aerated through the first-stage air pollutant aeration washing device, sprayed through the air pollutant spraying washing device and then blown indoors through a fan. In the washing and purifying process, through the two stages of aerating and spraying polluted air, the air purifying effect is good without replacing expensive filtering and adsorbing materials, and because the purifying system needs to consume water for operation, operation and maintenance cost is low.

The invention relates to a nanometer negative ion environmental-protection coating, which is characterized by being prepared from the following components in parts by weight: 10 to 30 parts of emulsion, 10 to 50 parts of deionized water, 1 to 5 parts of negative ion additive, 15 to 25 parts of titanium dioxide, 0.5 to 5 parts of accessory ingredient, and 1 to 15 parts of filler. When being coated in any indoor site, the nanometer negative ion environmental-protection coating not only achieves a decorative effect, but also can durably and effectively adsorb indoor air pollutants, releases a large number of negative oxygen ions at the same time for cleaning air, and builds a healthy environment of a natural air anion bar indoors completely for comprehensively caring life health of people. The nanometer negative ion environmental-protection coating provided by the invention is beneficial to durably improving the indoor environment, purifying indoor air, bacterium-resisting, disinfecting, purifying volatile organic cancerogens such as formaldehyde, methylbenzene, benzene, sulphur and ammonia indoors, and removing peculiar smells such as stinks, musty taste and smoke flavor; can durably release the negative oxygen ions for building the natural air anion bar indoors, and has a health-care effect for making people healthier; can effectively adsorb for a long time and settle particulate pollution of PM2.5 (Particulate Matter2.5) entering indoor from outdoor so as to enable people to escape from an outdoor haze air environment.

The air purification system and method for purifying and cooling air for use in a building has an air pollutant removal stage, an air pre-cooling unit, and a dual cooling and water removal unit, including a cyclone separator having a cooling coil wrapped around the separator for condensing and removing water from the airflow. The method comprises the steps of removing pollutants from an incoming polluted airflow to provide a substantially pollutant free outgoing moist airflow; pre-cooling the substantially pollutant free moist airflow to provide a clean cool moist airflow; and condensing water out of the clean cool moist airflow to provide a substantially clean dry airflow suitable for use in a building.

The invention relates to a graphene-based haze-resisting mask filtering material and a preparation method thereof. The material has a three-dimensional graphene sponge structure assembled from graphene oxide. The method and an application comprises the following points: (1) cross-linking agents such as ascorbic acid are added into a graphene oxide water solution; with a hydrothermal reaction, graphene slices are subjected to self assembly, such that porous spongy three-dimensional graphene is obtained; (2) the porous spongy graphene has good mechanical strength, and can be cut into different shapes; (3) the structure of the graphene sponge can be regulated through changing the size of graphene oxide and the addition amount of the cross-linking agents; (4) the porous spongy graphene has high specific surface area and relatively high quantity of surface functional groups; and the porous spongy graphene has high absorption effect and certain bacteria resistance. The preparation process of the graphene absorption material has simple process and low cost. With the method, graphene sponge pore size can be regulated. The graphene sponge can be used as a mask filtering sheet which can effectively filter air pollutants such as PM2.5 particles, and can be used in the fields such as dye and oil dirt absorption.

The invention discloses a cloud data joint debugging calibration method based on a machine learning algorithm, and belongs to the air monitoring technical field; a meshing air monitoring platform, a cloud server and an equipment management system are provided; the meshing air monitoring platform provides air pollutant and meteorology data gathered by meshing air quality monitoring micro-stations and national standard monitoring stations, and sends the gathered data to a Hbase database in the cloud server; the cloud server reads the air quality monitoring micro-station and national standard monitoring station gathered data in the Hbase database in the cloud server, carries out data consistency contrast, and determines whether the air quality monitoring micro station data is deviated or not;if yes, a data calibration model can calibrate the data and outputs calibrated parameters; the cloud server can send the calibrated parameters to the equipment management system via a communication unit, thus effectively solving the air quality monitoring micro station data deviation problems; the cloud automatic calibration can be realized, thus ensuring the monitoring data quality usability.

The invention relates to an air pollutant monitoring and early-warning method and an air pollutant monitoring and early-warning cloud platform. The air pollutant monitoring and early-warning cloud platform comprises a data acquisition module, a data processing platform and a communication module, wherein the data acquisition module is used for acquiring a pollutant concentration in the air, a wind direction and a wind speed; the data processing platform is used for acquiring data output by the data acquisition module, adopting a puff orbit model for conducting three-dimensional flow field simulation, correcting error data through utilizing fitted historical pollutant concentration and wind speed monitoring data, predicting a pollutant concentration at a fixed location in future and calculating an air pollution index, and conducting three-dimensional flow field simulation by means of the puff orbit model to obtain pollutant concentration planar distribution by utilizing pollutant concentrations at monitoring points and the wind speed monitoring data for tracking a pollution source precisely; and the communication module is used for connecting a management system in a wired or wireless manner, connecting a user terminal in a wireless manner, and issuing air quality inspection reports, prediction reports, pollutant distribution contour diagrams and possible pollution source locations to the user terminal.