281 results about "Economic return" patented technology

Embodiments of the present invention assist customers in managing the four types of energy assets, that is, generation, storage, usage, and controllable load assets. Embodiments of the present invention for the first time develop and predict a customer baseline (“CBL”) usage of electricity, using a predictive model based on simulation of energy assets, based on business as usual (“BAU”) of the customer's facility. The customer is provided with options for operating schedules based on algorithms, which allow the customer to maximize the economic return on its generation assets, its storage assets, and its load control assets. Embodiments of the invention enable the grid to verify that the customer has taken action to control load in response to price. This embodiment of the invention calculates the amount of energy that the customer would have consumed, absent any reduction of use made in response to price. Specifically, the embodiment models the usage of all the customer's electricity consuming devices, based on the customer's usual conditions. This model of the expected consumption can then be compared to actual actions taken by the customer, and the resulting consumption levels, to verify that the customer has reduced consumption and is entitled to payment for the energy that was not consumed.

A control system for an energy storage system located behind a utility meter uses a unique, feedback-based, communication and control method to reliably and efficiently maximize economic return of the energy storage system. Operating parameters for the energy storage system are calculated at an external, centralized data center, and are selected to prevent electrical power demand of an electric load location from exceeding a specified set-point by discharging energy storage devices, such as DC batteries, through a bidirectional energy converter during peak demand events. The control system can operate autonomously in the case of a communications failure.

A method of optimizing debt collection attitudinally classifies debtors into one of several attitudinal segments. The approach uses an assessment of current attitudes rather than past behaviors as to predict future behavior. Each segment can be addressed with an offer, which is a combination of attributes which together, have an expected, measurable, and predictable response from the debtor. Debt collection requires the expenditure of resources, at least one of which the availability of a relatively small number of debt collectors. The offers that can be extended to debtors are identified on a debtor-by-debtor, offer-by-offer basis to identify the best offer to propose to each debtor by the limited number of debt collectors in order to maximize the economic return from all debtors.

A method and apparatus for recruiting, communicating with, and paying participants of interactive advertising are described. The present invention is a system through which advertisers can recruit, communicate with, and pay their potential customers for their time. The system achieves these functions without the advertiser or the customer having to be in the same location—all logistics are handled through the system's web site, database, and communications interfaces. The system enables advertisers to promote interactive seminars in which they try to sell products to potential customers. Most importantly, the advertisers are able to offer their potential customers financial rewards for their time, such as 25 cents per minute to reward a customer for listening to a sales pitch. The system then provides a real-time communications link between the advertiser and customer. The system automatically bills the advertiser and rewards the customer for the time that they interact.

A device is provided for monitoring the economic performance of a machine for harvesting an agricultural product, the device having a plurality of sensors mounted on the machine for detecting operational information about the machine. A controller is provided that is connected to the sensors for receiving the operational information to determine settings for the machine that produce maximum economic return. Means are provided for adjusting settings of the machine either by the operator or by an automatic controller based on the determined settings to achieve maximum economic return. A method for adjusting the settings of an agricultural harvesting machine to produce maximum economic return also is provided.

The present invention provides a system and method for measuring the relative economic benefits from services offered by health care plans. The present invention quantifies value of health care quality by indicating an economic return on the investment in health care quality, enabling organizations and businesses to view health care quality in a familiar paradigm that extends health plan differentiation beyond premium and benefits. Businesses may employ the present invention to compare different health care plans or classes of plans, such as accredited versus non-accredited plans. Specifically, a particular plan or class of plans may provide improved monitoring, treatment and control of various medical conditions, and the present invention quantifies the economic benefits to employers from the improved health care for employees. In one embodiment, the present invention looks to a set of specific medical conditions and is based on three key steps. First, the present invention identifies the overall level of employees at the organization affected by these conditions. Second, the present invention uses the reduction in absenteeism and low productivity days made possible by improved monitoring and control of the medical conditions. Third, the present invention calculates a monetary valuation to the firm of the reduction in absenteeism and low productivity days based on the firm's average revenue per employee, average daily wage, and other parameters.

A system and method may be configured to support the evaluation of the economic impact of uncertainties associated with the planning of a petroleum production project, e.g., uncertainties associated with decisions having multiple possible outcomes and uncertainties associated with uncontrollable parameters such as rock properties, oil prices, etc. The system and method involve receiving user input characterizing the uncertainty of planning variables and performing an iterative simulation that computes the economic return for various possible instantiations of the set of planning variables based on the uncertainty characterization. The system and method may (a) utilize and integrate highly rigorous physical reservoir, well, production flow, and economic models, and (b) provide a mechanism for specifying constraints on the planning variables. Furthermore, the system and method may provide a case manager process for managing multiple cases and associated “experimental runs” on the cases.

Embodiments of the present invention assist customers in managing the four types of energy assets, that is, generation, storage, usage, and controllable load assets. Embodiments of the present invention for the first time develop and predict a customer baseline (“CBL”) usage of electricity, using a predictive model based on simulation of energy assets, based on business as usual (“BAU”) of the customer's facility. The customer is provided with options for operating schedules based on algorithms, which allow the customer to maximize the economic return on its generation assets, its storage assets, and its load control assets. Embodiments of the invention enable the grid to verify that the customer has taken action to control load in response to price. This embodiment of the invention calculates the amount of energy that the customer would have consumed, absent any reduction of use made in response to price. Specifically, the embodiment models the usage of all the customer's electricity consuming devices, based on the customer's usual conditions. This model of the expected consumption can then be compared to actual actions taken by the customer, and the resulting consumption levels, to verify that the customer has reduced consumption and is entitled to payment for the energy that was not consumed.

A method for providing personal funding opportunities to Sellers via an online personal finding marketplace includes registering a plurality of requests for funding in an Seller database, each request being associated with a particular Seller and reasons for the funding request, dividing each request into at least one share in a respective Seller, each share being associated with a purchase price and an economic return for an owner of said share, wherein said economic return comprises a percentage of the respective Seller's potential future income, and wherein the purchase price comprises a representative amount of the funding request upon an initial sale of the share, registering a plurality of investors in an investor database, each registration including information related to an investor's mentoring capabilities, offering the purchase price to the owner of the share by an investor, wherein the offer comprises the purchase price and the investor's mentoring capabilities.

A control system for an energy storage system located behind a utility meter uses a unique, feedback-based, communication and control method to reliably and efficiently maximize economic return of the energy storage system. Operating parameters for the energy storage system are calculated at an external, centralized data center, and are selected to prevent electrical power demand of an electric load location from exceeding a specified set-point by discharging energy storage devices, such as DC batteries, through a bidirectional energy converter during peak demand events. The control system can operate autonomously in the case of a communications failure.

A turbine installation configured for large scale hydrogen production includes a foundation structure separating an upper elevation headwater from a lower elevation tailwater. The foundation structure defines a water passageway extending therethrough between an inlet adjacent the headwater and an outlet adjacent the tailwater. A runner is supported for rotation by the foundation and disposed in the water passageway intermediate the inlet and the outlet so that water flowing through the passageway as a result of head differential causes rotation of the runner. A generator is supported by the foundation and connected to the runner by a rotary shaft for generating electrical power as the runner rotates. An electrolyzer is electrically coupled to the generator for receiving the electrical power and producing hydrogen. A control system is capable of sensing the remaining hydrogen storage capacity and performing an economic comparison analysis to determine whether operating the turbine to produce additional hydrogen or to supply a utility grid with power provides the highest economic return.

This invention relates to a environmental friendly multifunctional soil conditioner, and it prepared by mixed culture fermentation with composting product heaping and retting by vegetal organic offal, such as, dry branches and fallen leaves, traditional medicine gruffs and coconut chaff, natural mineral material (maifanshi, bentonite, zeolite), ammonium 2, 4-dinitrophenolate, organic amendment (Acid precipitation of lignin, glutamate dregs and furfurol dregs) and micro-organism strain. This soil conditioner will outstandingly improve physical and chemical characteristic of soil and promote the formation of the soil coacervate. It can also neutralize acid base nature of the soil and improve the cation exchange capacity of the soil. It can also outstandingly improve the growth and reproductive of the crop and the availability of the fertilizer. It has the merits of using reproducible material, changing waste into resources, obviously ecological advantage and economic returns.

This invention discloses a sort of high speed dynamic checking device of the railroad delimitation, it relates to a sort of railroad delimitation checking device. This invention uses synthetically several high-new technique in that the GPS global positioning system, the body measurement system, the dead rocking system, the auto-control, and so on. It realizes the measure and collection of the space geographical data and the attribute data to the objects which is in or near the railroad. It notes the actual photograph along the railroad real time. It provides the measurement result of the delimitation scene by the measurement function of the post treatment. This invention can shoot clear sight kinescope along the railroad too, it choices one point in the wheel path map, it can obtain expediently and fleetly the sight kinescope of this point and progress play. It helps to obtain the status message of the railroad establishment, and it progresses the conduction to the railroad capital. This invention is the same with this checking area of internal railroad delimitation, and has remarkable use value and economic returns.

The invention relates to a preparation method of an aluminum alloy corrosion resistant coating, comprising the following steps: forming a passivation layer which has a certain nanometer thickness and contains cobalt element on the surface of aluminum alloy by adopting a chemical reaction method and further covering a sulfydryl organic acid compound doped oxidation polyaniline coating on the passivation layer. By adopting the method, the corrosion resistant characteristic of the surface of the aluminum alloy is realized through inhibiting electrochemical reaction. The invention solves the problems of complex process, unstable oxidation quality, high energy consumption, severe pollution and the like of the traditional anode oxidation, and is suitable for use in the fields of special aluminum alloy materials in the industries of navigation, spaceflight, ships and warships and the like. Compared with the prior art, the invention has the characteristics of simple method, short reaction time, little equipment investment and high economic return.

The invention belongs to the bioengineering field, and discloses digest prepared from corn skin and its production method and application. The digest is prepared by treating the corn skin with physical method, and then treating the crushed corn skin with chemical and / or biological method to obtain the digest containing glucose, xylose, arabinose, galactose and mannose and the total amount of the monosaccharide occupies 54-71.9% wt. of the dry corn skin. The digest can be used for the preparation of medium. The digest of the invention can be used as sugar source for fermentation instead of glucose, lowers the fermentation cost, increases economic returns, makes full use of renewable resources, promotes the integrated usage of corn skin, reduces environmental pollution, improves ecological environment, promotes the sustainable development of national economy, and has wide social effects.

The invention discloses a high-quality domestic goose feeding method. The high-quality domestic goose feeding method includes a gosling feeding stage, a growing goose feeding stage and a fattened goose feeding stage, wherein the gosling feeding stage includes the steps of (1) heat preservation and damp prevention: keeping a brooding chamber at the temperature of 26-28 DEG C in the first week, at the temperature of 24-26 DEG C in the second week, at the temperature of 21-24 DEG C in the third week and at the temperature of 18-21 DEG C in the fourth week, stopping heat supplication afterwards, and keeping the relative humidity ranging from 60% to 70%; (2) density setting and grouping; (3) lighting time and light intensity; (4) first water feeding and first feed feeding; (5) indoor feeding: daily feeding times: 6-8 times for goslings 1-2 days old, 8 times for goslings 3-10 days old and 6 times for goslings 11-20 days old, the weight ratio of concentrated feed to green feed is 1:2-4 for the goslings younger than 10 days old, and the weight ratio of concentrated feed to green feed is 1:4-6 for the goslings older than 10 days old; (6) grazing and swimming; the growing goose feeding stage and the fattened goose feeding stage. The high-quality domestic goose feeding method has the advantages of high domestic goose meat-production rate, high nutritive value, high egg production, high immunity, good disease prevention performance, low feeding cost and good economic returns.

The invention disclosed a way to successively extract active ingredients from carpohole of north aweto. The invention adopts super critical CO2 to extract sterin substances, precipitating with alcohol to get nucleoside substances with cordycepin and Cordyceps polyose, separating with normal phase low pressure gel silica chromatography to get crude cordycipin, preparative reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography to get cordycepin crystal with high purity. The invention can not only successively extract sterin substances and Cordyceps polyose (CM-1) from the carpohole of north aweto, it can also get the cordycepin metamer; it is not applicable to small experiments but also applicable to industrial production. Since the producers can extract many substances by one treatment of carpohole, the invention can not only decrease the industrial cost but also make the biggest economic returns.

The invention discloses a modified phosphogypsum cement retarder and the preparation method thereof, comprising the following steps: performing composite modification to the industrial residue phosphogypsum by using acetylene sludge and fly ash which are also industrial residues, meanwhile, adding the glauber-salt powder used as a cement excitant and / or triethanolamine scrap used as a cement grinding aid, wherein the weight percentage of the components thereof is: 90 percent to 95 percent of phosphogypsum, 3 percent to 7 percent of acetylene sludge, 1 percent to 5 percent of fly ash, 1 percent to 3 percent of glauber-salt powder and / or the triethanolamine scrap; the materials are put into a storage hopper, then crushed, balled by a telescopic pelletizer and dried so as to finally obtain the product. The cement retarder prepared through the adoption of the invention can accelerate the hydration, promote the condensation of the cement, improve the initial strength of the cement and eliminate the influence of the soluble minor components upon the hydration of the cement; moreover, the cement retarder contains little moisture in the obtained balls, is stored for a short time, not only utilizes the waste but also is environment friendly, thereby achieving the aims of comprehensively using the waste residue resources and saving resources,; and the cement retarder has low cost, thereby enhancing economic returns for enterprises.

The invention discloses a feed for meat ducks. The feed is prepared by mixing main materials and Chinese herbal medicines. By adopting the feed provided by the invention, the meat duck has high immunity and less morbidity, and the meat is delicious, so that the feeding cost of raisers can be reduced, and the economic returns are improved.

A system and method may be configured to support the evaluation of the economic impact of uncertainties associated with the planning of a petroleum production project, e.g., uncertainties associated with decisions having multiple possible outcomes and uncertainties associated with uncontrollable parameters such as rock properties, oil prices, etc. The system and method involve receiving user input characterizing the uncertainty of planning variables and performing an iterative simulation that computes the economic return for various possible instantiations of the set of planning variables based on the uncertainty characterization. The system and method may (a) utilize and integrate highly rigorous physical reservoir, well, production flow, and economic models, and (b) provide a mechanism for specifying constraints on the planning variables. Furthermore, the system and method may provide a case manager process for managing multiple cases and associated “experimental runs” on the cases.

The invention belongs to the technical field of macromolecular heat-resistant impact modifiers, and relates to a one-step method for synthesizing a styrene / N-benzyl maleimide / maleic anhydride terpolymer. The method prepares the terpolymer by adopting a solvent polymerization one-time feeding method; the chemical structure of the related heat-resistant impact modifier is the terpolymer of N-benzyl maleimide, styrene and maleic anhydride; the molar ratio of the N-benzyl maleimide to the styrene is 1: 1-1: 2, and the content of the maleic anhydride is 1.8 to 2.6 percent; and the terpolymer represents a single glass-transition temperature. The method can solve the integrated problems of complex equipment, complex process, instable quality and the like in the prior art. The method has the characteristics of simple preparation, short reaction time, low equipment investment and high economic return.

The invention provides a method for separating a mixture of ethanol alcohol and water. The method comprises the following steps: the mixture of the ethanol alcohol and water at any ratio is used as a raw material, an ionic liquid or a compound solvent comprising the ionic liquid and an organic solvent is used as an extracting agent, the ethanol alcohol and the water are sequentially extracted after the raw material is processed in the extractive distillation stage and the extracting agent recovering stage, and the extracting agent can be recycled after being extracted in the recovering stage. The method provided by the invention has the advantages of low energy consumption, no pollution to the environment, high production purity, easiness in industrialization, low equipment cost, good economic return and the like.

A line-loss actual-measurement and positioning method based on a high-voltage electric energy meter and a system thereof belong to an intelligent grid power distribution automation field. The method and the system of the invention are characterized in that: sensor-type high-voltage electric energy meters, which are arranged on total loop points, each shunt point, each associated load point and each single-phase end point, use time synchronization technology to collect power consumption; a public network / an ad hoc network is used to form an electric quantity data cloud systems; the collected data is calculated through a main station and the data is controlled and displayed through an operation end. Therefore, the following advantages can be realized that: line-loss actual-measurement of the line with 6 kV-35kV or a higher voltage grade can be realized; abnormal point positioning can be achieved; electric energy can be directly read, calculated and output; calculation does not substitute a resistance; line loss situation of a distribution line and changes can be real-timely and accurately grasped and an error is small; an application scope is large; fault points can be eliminated; a line loss management level can be substantially increased; management line loss can be reduced; a phenomenon of theft and leakage of electrical energy and measurement errors can be reduced; investment and construction are less, energy consumption is less and economic returns can be improved.

The invention provides a multifunctional cement concrete reducing and anti-cracking curing agent, relating to the functional curing agent and reducing agent in the cement concrete admixture. The multifunctional cement concrete reducing and anti-cracking curing agent is composed of reducing compound, penetrant aid, film forming material, film forming material aid and water. The multifunctional cement concrete reducing and anti-cracking curing agent has good reducing and anti-cracking function and obviously increases the early strength of the cement concrete and increases the late strength to some extent, less dosage, good economic return and prevents the compatibility problem with the other additive. The multifunctional cement concrete reducing and anti-cracking curing agent is widely used for pouring component of cement concrete, road-surface maintenance, wall maintenance, thin-walled member or the other work.

The invention relates to a method for extracting gold, platinum and palladium from infusible gold ore, comprising: disintegrating infusible gold ore, pre-processing them by roasting, leaching out the roasted product by salt water, filtrating and separating, adsorbing filter liquor by active carbon and extracting gold, separating platinum and palladium from the remain filter liquor by extraction. The invention is a cyanogens-less leaching method with advantages of high extraction ratio of gold, platinum and palladium, less environmental pollution and good economic returns.

The invention discloses a biologic emulsifier for livestock feed. The biologic emulsifier is characterized by being prepared by two or more than two of sophorolipid, rhamnolipid and trehalose. The sophorolipid, the rhamnolipid and the trehalose and the like in the emulsifier are all secondary metabolites generated by microbial fermentation, can be naturally metabolized and degraded, do not cause residues in animal bodies, and do not influence quality of animal products. The biologic emulsifier can remarkably improve livestock fat digestion utilizing rate, improves feed reward, reduces livestock blood cholesterol and triglyceride, remarkably improves livestock production performances, improves carcass quality, improves body immune function, reduces morbidity and mortality, and remarkably improves economic returns.

The invention relates to a process and method for comprehensive utilization of garden wastes. The process and method comprise the following steps of firstly, classifying the garden wastes into two classes, namely branches of which the diameter is above 1.5cm as one class and branches of which the diameter is below 1.5cm, leaves and broken grass and flowers as the other class; then placing the two classes of garden wastes in a special charring kiln and charring, recycling the flue gas produced by charring via a special flue gas recycling device, and then carrying out a grooved-type composting fermentation on charcoal for charcoal-based fertilizers obtained by carbonizing branches of which the diameter is below 1.5cm, leaves and broken grass and flowers, stirring charcoal scraps and wood vinegar, mixing to obtain a vinegar-charcoal mixture, adding the vinegar-charcoal mixture into a fermentation reactor, sieving the fermented powder, continuously fermenting residual coarse particles, sieving to obtain powder and directly bagging to obtain the organic fertilizer. The process and method for comprehensive utilization of garden wastes disclosed by the invention achieve the full resource utilization of increasingly growing garden wastes in major cities and have the advantages of zero emission in production, good economic returns and enormous social benefits.

The invention discloses a planting method for high-quality eggplants. The planting method includes the following steps: 1 preparing a soil conditioner, 2 preparing a special insecticide, 3 growing seedlings; 4 selecting cultivating land and preparing soil, 5 field management, and 6 harvesting. By means of the planting method, pest control during the eggplant growing process is achieved, the production quality of the eggplants is improved, the harvested eggplants are thick in eggplant body and tender in taste, economic returns are good, and the planting method is suitable for popularization and application in large-scale vegetable plantations.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a metal anti-corrosion hydrophobic film layer, and belongs to the technical field of material engineering. A metal matrix surface is coated with a film by adopting a sol-gel method; the prepared film layer does not crack, has a compact structure, and is good in anti-corrosion performance and hydrophobic property; especially, after the sol-gel film layer is mixed with a corrosion inhibitor (cerate), the self-repairing performance to a certain extent can be acquired, the anti-corrosion capability can be improved, the hydrophobic property can be remarkably improved, and the static contact angle can reach 125 degrees; the preparation method can solve various problems that the hydrophobic property of the surface obtained after the modification by adopting various surface processing technologies is comparatively poor, the traditional surface processing technology is complicated in process, the equipment requirement is high, the environment is polluted, and the energy source consumption is great, and the method is suitable for the metallic material field in aviation, spaceflight, vessel and automobile industries; besides, the technology adopted by the method is simple, the raw materials are easy to get, the equipment investment is low, and the economic return is high.

The invention discloses a shale gas horizontal well bridge plug separation and ball throwing segmented fracturing process, which concretely comprises the following steps of: 1, draining, exploring and washing a well tube; 2, performing clustering perforation on a first segment; 3, performing fracturing construction on a first cluster; 4, throwing balls for sealing the first cluster; 5, repeatedly performing the fracturing construction, ball throwing and sealing steps in the third step and the fourth step on a second cluster, a third cluster to an N-th cluster; 6, sealing the first segment by a lower bridge plug, and performing clustering perforation on a second segment; 7, sequentially and repeatedly performing fracturing construction, ball throwing, sealing and lower bridge plug sealing steps in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth steps on the second segment to the N-th segment; and 8, performing sweeping grinding. The process method has the advantages that the design is reasonable; the construction cost is low; the optimum flowing passage of shale gas can be realized by adopting the process method; high economic return is obtained at high speed and high yield; and the fractures can be limited to the most economic positions.