36 results about "Carbon offset" patented technology

Real-time monitoring of an energy characteristic of a building such as an energy performance of the building or a carbon offset of the building is performed by first computing a heat transfer coefficient of the building from nighttime steady-state thermal load data of the building and from nighttime steady-state indoor and outdoor temperature data of the building. A thermal inertia of the building is then computed from nighttime transient indoor temperature data of the building and nighttime transient thermal load data of the building. During daytime, a solar radiation gain coefficient is computed from daytime thermal load data, daytime indoor and outdoor temperature data, incident solar radiation data, and the heat transfer coefficient. The energy characteristic of the building is then estimated in real time from the heat transfer coefficient, the thermal inertia, and the solar radiation gain coefficient.

A method and process is described for producing negative carbon fuel. In its broadest form, a carbon-containing input is converted to combustible fuels, refinery feedstock, or chemicals and a carbonaceous solid concurrently in separate and substantially uncontaminated form. In an embodiment of the invention, biomass is converted via discrete increasing temperatures under pressure to blendable combustible fuels and a carbonaceous solid. The carbonaceous solid may be reacted to synthesis gas, sold as charcoal product, carbon credits, used for carbon offsets, or sequestered.

A method and process is described for producing negative carbon fuel. In its broadest form, a carbon-containing input is converted to combustible fuels, refinery feedstock, or chemicals and a carbonaceous solid concurrently in separate and substantially uncontaminated form. In an embodiment of the invention, biomass is converted via discrete increasing temperatures under pressure to blendable combustible fuels and a carbonaceous solid. The carbonaceous solid may be reacted to synthesis gas, sold as charcoal product, carbon credits, used for carbon offsets, or sequestered.

Disclosed is a method and system for incorporating a carbon offset calculation into a shopping cart subsystem of a merchant website that calculates an estimated cost to offset a calculated estimate of the carbon emissions generated from shipping purchased products in order to allow the incorporation of the estimated carbon offset cost into the cost for the purchased products and allocate at least a portion of the payment of the estimated carbon offset cost to an entity building, managing, or operating a carbon offsetting application. Some embodiments may permit the customer purchasing the products to optionally select to incorporate the carbon offset costs in the costs for the purchased products. The estimate of carbon emissions generated calculation is based on specific information for the purchased products and the selected shipping methods for shipping the purchased products such as the shipping weight of the purchased products, a distance the purchased products are being shipped, and a designation of the shipping or transportation method. Additional embodiments may include dimensional weights of the purchased products, additional factors to account for the specific aspects of the selected transportation method for shipping the purchased products, and permitting the customer to select a specific carbon offsetting application to fund.

Compositions, methods and business applications of using new and recycled cardboard infused with a plurality of saprophytic (including endophytic) and mycorrhizal fungi matched with seeds of plants (including trees, vegetables, herbs and grasses) whereby the cardboard can be sprouted by end-users to start ecosystems. Such containers may have carbon-credit value for companies and consumers when planted and grown as a carbon sink or carbon offset for the photosynthetic and mycelial sequestration of carbon dioxide. The relative weight of the Life Box's added seeds and spores does not significantly affect the total weight of the infused cardboard, thus not increasing transportation costs.

A system and method for a carbon calculator including carbon offset determination is described. Distance and modes of transport may be used to determine carbon emissions and carbon offsets to compensate for the carbon emissions. The calculator may also provide trade-off comparisons between alternate modes of transportation such as air, truck, train, boat, and the like. The distance determination may involve actual mileage traversed in a shipment or may be calculated using GPS, for example.

A method and process is described for producing negative carbon fuel. In its broadest form, a carbon-containing input is converted to combustible fuels, refinery feedstock, or chemicals and a carbonaceous solid concurrently in separate and substantially uncontaminated form. In an embodiment of the invention, biomass is converted via discrete increasing temperatures under pressure to blendable combustible fuels and a carbonaceous solid. The carbonaceous solid may be reacted to synthesis gas, sold as charcoal product, carbon credits, used for carbon offsets, or sequestered.

A club or community of mineral producers or other interested parties is put together for the purpose of responsibility account for CO2 and / or other pollutants in produced minerals. The community utilizes a community system to track the amount of CO2 that is associated with produced minerals. The community member sponsoring the mineral contributes to the community fund an amount representative of the value of the estimated CO2 as determined by the community system. The community then utilizes the received funds to invest in carbon offset activities which in turn are returned as benefits to the community members so that either those members can sell carbon offset accounted minerals or the community can do so on the community members' behalf.

A method, a system and a computer program product for specifying the source of power and provider of carbon offsets for an electrical device or service. A power supply specification (PSS) utility enables a user or program to specify a preferred blend of power sources and preferred carbon offset provider via a set of programmable requirements and the utility dynamically configures the electrical device or service, based on those requirements. The PSS utility determines the instantaneous power consumption of the device based on the outputs of sensors that measure voltages and currents associated with the operation of the device. The PSS utility compares the device's power consumption with the power from available power generating sources against the set of programmable requirements. When the available power is unable to satisfy the programmable requirements and / or is not sufficient to fully power the device, the PSS utility automatically places the device into a reduced power state. The PSS utility reports information about the device's power consumption to the power supplier.

Methods, including service methods, articles of manufacture, systems, articles and programmable devices are provided for linking and utilizing monetary and carbon credit accounts through a programmable arbitrating device providing a transaction interface to the buyer. A composite price is set for an item having a monetary portion and a carbon credit portion, a buyer executing a purchase of the item through an input to the arbitrating device transaction interface, the arbitrating device automatically charging a monetary payments from the buyer's monetary account, carbon credit payments from the buyer's carbon credit account, a difference between the payments and the composite price debited to the buyer's carbon credit account balance for a monetary value of the difference as a function of a monetary-carbon exchange rate, or to the buyer's monetary account for a carbon credit value of the difference as a function of the monetary-carbon exchange rate.

Compositions, methods and business applications of using new and recycled cardboard infused with a plurality of saprophytic (including endophytic) and mycorrhizal fungi matched with seeds of plants (including trees, vegetables, herbs and grasses) whereby the cardboard can be sprouted by end-users to start ecosystems. Such containers may have carbon-credit value for companies and consumers when planted and grown as a carbon sink or carbon offset for the photosynthetic and mycelial sequestration of carbon dioxide. The relative weight of the Life Box's added seeds and spores does not significantly affect the total weight of the infused cardboard, thus not increasing transportation costs.

The invention is an optimization method comprising of: (a) uniform and efficient model and associated methods for computing the energy and emission impacts of each of a range of technological and commercial options, and (b) an integrated and efficient optimization model for trading off the technological and commercial options against each other to arrive at a financially optimal solution that complies with regulatory caps on emission. The energy and emission impact model handles options such as energy efficiency measures, renewable energy projects, carbon capture projects and carbon offsets. In addition to handling the direct emissions, the model handles indirect emissions resulting from purchased electricity or fuel. The integrated optimization model selects the solution that maximizes the total net present value of savings across the various technological and commercial options considering the location specific rates, prices and carbon caps as well as the different levels of investments within each project to choose from; this model performs this optimization over a series of time periods respecting capital budget and operational budget constraints. The quantities of carbon offsets that must be purchased or sold are also determined as part of this integrated model.

Novel tools and techniques for management of urban forestry projects. Some tools feature the integration of forestry tools and business intelligence techniques to provide enhanced insight into urban forestry projects and / or can incorporate data from a wide variety of data sources without the need for complex data transformation processes. In an aspect, some tools to enable urban forest project owners to capitalize on project offset credits as a revenue source. In another aspect, such tools can provide a variety of different analyses, from canopy analyses to tree health analysis, to work order generation, to carbon offset calculations, including the calculation of carbon offsets using accepted standards, to allow a project owner to quickly and easily establish the amount of offsets to which the project is entitled.

A system and method for facilitating and incentivizing resource conservation. A monitoring module generates data regarding consumption of energy or other resources by one or more devices. A processing module automatically compares the resource usage data to a baseline, and determines a direct cost savings based on the comparison, optionally along with indirect value based on tax shelter value, investment, carbon offset credits, and the like. Based on this, a financial module automatically directs money to a set of financial instruments. A feedback module provides a user with indications of resource usage data, monetary value, and status of the set of financial instruments. A database configured for accumulating information related to device resource consumption, device performance, and device-related context is also provided.

There is a system for carbon offsetting a travel product comprising a system provider server configured to provide one or more user screens to one or more computing devices used by a user of the travel product, a travel provider of the travel product or a carbon offset sponsor of the travel product, allow selection of a travel product by one or more of the computing devices through interaction with one or more user screens of the system provider server, arrive at the environmental currency required by the travel product, receive, from one or more of the computing devices, environmental currency, or value used to purchase environmental currency for the travel product, and add the received or purchased environmental currency to a total of received environmental currency for the travel product.

According to the present invention, a route search condition input from a user via an input unit is received from information processing terminal, at least one route satisfying the received route search condition is created by using route search information stored in a storage unit. For created at least one route, it is determined whether the route has been carbon offset in other systems for each of transportation facilities or each of operating distances of the transportation facilities, based on attribute data stored in the storage unit. When it is determined that the route has been carbon offset in other systems, the carbon-offset route is excluded from the created at least one route, and emissions emitted at the time of using the created at least one route are calculated for each corresponding the route, by using a calculation standard stored in the storage unit.

Methods, systems, services and program products are provided for implementing carbon offset computing. During performance of a specified computing task data concerning resource consumption regarding that specified computing task is gathered and stored. Upon completion of the specified computing task, the amount of carbon offset required to compensate for resource consumption associated with performance of the completed specified computing task is calculated based upon stored or known resource consumption data. The calculated amount of carbon offset information may be transmitted to a carbon offset function provider, and a carbon offset function provider implements the specified amount of carbon offset based upon the calculated amounts communicated for the completed specified computing task.

An article / asset tag and a system for managing a plurality of articles / assets using the tag, including a database system storing information on assets or articles, and the tag providing a plurality of electronically readable elements, such as 2D barcodes and / or RFID tags, that provide a link to the database containing information that relates to an asset or article to which the tag is applied. At least a portion of the plurality of electronically readable elements store different data which can be read individually to retrieve information on a particular aspect of the asset or article, such as, but not limited to, asset management information, financial information, service history information, waste management information, or carbon offset information.

Methods, systems, services and program products are provided for implementing carbon offset computing. During performance of a specified computing task data concerning resource consumption regarding that specified computing task is gathered and stored. Upon completion of the specified computing task, the amount of carbon offset required to compensate for resource consumption associated with performance of the completed specified computing task is calculated based upon stored or known resource consumption data. The calculated amount of carbon offset information may be transmitted to a carbon offset function provider, and a carbon offset function provider implements the specified amount of carbon offset based upon the calculated amounts communicated for the completed specified computing task.

The invention discloses a new technology for preparing natural gas through coke-oven gas methanation. The technology includes following steps: (1) performing desulfuration to coke-oven gas; (2) performing a methanation reaction in a three-stage adiabatic reactor, wherein hydrogen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide in the coke-oven gas are reacted to generate methane through a carbon compensation method at the inlet of the second stage of the methanation reactor; and (3) performing Condensation separation to obtain the natural gas with the content of methane being higher than 95%. The new technology can be used for prepare high-methane-content synthetic natural gas, is low in energy consumption, is free of circulating compressor and is less in equipment investment.

During performance of a specified computing task data concerning resource consumption regarding that specified computing task is gathered and stored. Upon completion of the specified computing task, the amount of carbon offset required to compensate for resource consumption associated with performance of the completed specified computing task is calculated based upon stored or known resource consumption data. The calculated amount of carbon offset information may be transmitted to a carbon offset function provider, and a carbon offset function provider implements the specified amount of carbon offset based upon the calculated amounts communicated for the completed specified computing task.

Disclosed herein is a method for facilitating generation of a carbon offset based on processing of a recyclable item. Accordingly, the method may include receiving, using a communication device, transportation data associated with transportation of at least one recyclable item from at least one first device. Further, the method may include analyzing, using a processing device, the transportation data. Further, the method may include determining, using the processing device, a carbon value associated with the transportation of the at least one recyclable item based on the analyzing. Further, the method may include generating, using the processing device, a net CO2e offset associated with the at least one recyclable item based on the carbon value. Further, the method may include storing, using a storage device, the net CO2e offset associated with the at least one recyclable item in a distributed ledger.

Methods and systems are provided for producing tradeable environmental attributes such as carbon offsets from the physical movements of users. The solution incorporates the use of a modal shift optimization application executed on a user's device. The application locates alternative transport options, and monitors the user's physical movements as the user travels to the destination using one of the alternative transport options. A carbon offset system receives the user's trip data and calculates project greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the user's journey. The carbon offset system also calculates baseline GHG emissions for a baseline transport option (e.g. single-occupancy private vehicle trip), based at least in part on the baseline emissions factor and a discount factor. The carbon offset system extracts the GHG emissions savings by determining a difference between the baseline and project emissions, which can be validated and verified for the production of carbon offsets.

The invention discloses a carbon offset method for methane synthesis gas prepared from dry distillation gas. The method is implemented through that a carbonate carbon offset raw material with a mineral powder particle size of less than or equal to 80 meshes is added into retort coal and uniformly mixed, the obtained mixture is added into a dry distillation furnace to heat, red heat furnace charges are cooled to room temperature, the obtained product is sieved so as to obtain a solid clean fuel, and produced CO2 and CO gases are directly fed into the dry distillation gas to match with excess H2 gas, so that the hydrogen-carbon ratio requirement for the synthesis of synthetic oil is met, thereby achieving the purpose of carbon offset. According to the method disclosed by the invention, carbonate minerals are directly added into the retort coal, and a carbon offset effect on dry distillation gas is achieved by using CO2 and CO gases produced by thermal decomposition, therefore, the method has the characteristics of rich raw material sources, simple technological processes, equipment investment saving, low carbon offset cost, good economical efficiency and the like, and can be widely applied to the comprehensive utilization projects of high and medium temperature dry distillation gas.

The invention discloses a modeling method for mulberry field ecosystem carbon sequestration accounting, which comprises the following steps: calculating the total biomass of mulberry twigs for fuel wood combustion by using basic planting information and mulberry felling quantity data of a mulberry field so as to establish a carbon sequestration accounting model for the mulberry felling twigs for fuel wood combustion, which considers carbon offset and greenhouse gas emission during combustion; a carbon release model of mulberry leaf in-situ compost is established to solve the carbon residue of compost, and a carbon sequestration accounting model of cut mulberry leaves is obtained; establishing a carbon sequestration amount model of the silk fibers and the silkworm chrysalis within a 100-year evaluation period; establishing an accounting model for the carbon sequestration amount in the silkworm excrement and the residual food leaves in consideration of compost greenhouse gas emission and carbon dioxide emission by silkworm respiration; seven carbon circulation path modeling such as a mulberry and underground biomass carbon sequestration amount accounting model is established. According to the method, modeling is carried out on carbon loss and carbon offset of seven circulation paths of photosynthesis carbon, an accurate and reliable mulberry field carbon sequestration accounting model is explored, and the method has important significance on quantitative evaluation of mulberry field carbon sequestration.

A carbon offset credit calculation system utilizing waste oil includes a first terminal device inputting information relating to waste oil regarded as a biomass resource; a second terminal device owned by a fuel manufactory and inputting information relating to biofuel, which is purified from waste oil. The fuel manufactory produces the biofuel based on the waste oil. The system includes a third terminal device owned by a site consuming biofuel and inputting information relating to power generation and fuel consumption; and a carbon offset credit calculation server, which calculates a carbon offset amount based on information input by the first terminal device, the second terminal device, and the third terminal device, and calculates a carbon offset credit based on the carbon offset amount. The first terminal device, the second terminal device, the third terminal device, and the carbon offset credit calculation server are connected to one another via the network.

During performance of a specified computing task data concerning resource consumption regarding that specified computing task is gathered and stored. Upon completion of the specified computing task, the amount of carbon offset required to compensate for resource consumption associated with performance of the completed specified computing task is calculated based upon stored or known resource consumption data. The calculated amount of carbon offset information may be transmitted to a carbon offset function provider, and a carbon offset function provider implements the specified amount of carbon offset based upon the calculated amounts communicated for the completed specified computing task.

A system and method is disclosed. A network computer can receive an authorization request message comprising access data. The network computer can also receive product data for a transaction. The network computer can then determine an offset value based on the product data. The network computer can then perform additional processing based upon the offset value.