30 results about "Energy infrastructure" patented technology

A hydrogen production and distribution system which may exploit pre-existing energy infrastructure such as offshore hydrocarbon production facilities, sewage treatment plants, and natural gas pipelines. The offshore facilities and sewage treatment plants may have wind turbines, photovoltaic elements, and wave powered generators to generate electricity, which is then stored in batteries. Electrical power is drawn from the batteries to electrolyze water. Hydrogen collected from electrolysis is conducted to consumers through a system using the natural gas pipelines and optionally, tank trucks formerly used to deliver propane gas. A master computerized control system controls the hydrogen production and distribution system, and is isolated from public communications channels.

The invention provides an acceleration type electric eddy inert energy dissipation device. The acceleration type electric eddy inert energy dissipation device is characterized by comprising a connecting lug ring, a ball screw rod, a rotary outer barrel, a rotary nut, a coil inner barrel, a coil, a rotary permanent magnet, an additional mass block, a rotary groove, a ball, a connecting rod, a spring unit, a spring unit protection barrel and the like. The acceleration type electric eddy inert energy dissipation device has the beneficial effects that additional mass is more convenient to set and the mass synergistic agent is remarkable. Actual small mass is synergized into equivalent big mass through a synergistic mechanism, and more energy of an input structure is shared; meanwhile, the structure safety is more effectively protected, vibration energy of earthquake, wind vibration, human-induced excitation and the like are consumed, and the energy consumption performance is good; the acceleration type electric eddy inert energy dissipation device can be widely applied to the fields of earthquake (vibration) reduction and absorption and energy source infrastructures. Safe, green and efficient social and environment targets of development of China are met. An electromagnetic damping force is convenient to set and earthquake responses of the structure are effectively reduced.

A system for modeling networks of electricity supply and demand including a first user interface; a second user interface; a database, a memory; and a controller adapted to: receive, via the first user interface, a first request to create a first plan for a first node of a collection of the one or more collections, the first request specifying a domain of the collection, receive plan instructions for the first plan, receive a second user request to create a second plan for a second node of the collection, the second user request specify ing the domain of the collection, receive a plan instruction to interconnect the first node with the second node in the first plan, generate a forecast including a projected value for an energy infrastructure variable using the assumptions provided in the first plan and the second plan, and display the forecast on the first user interface.

The invention relates to a tuning inertance system using collision friction damping energy consumption in the civil engineering and energy infrastructure field. The system comprises a tuning spring unit, an inertance unit, a collision friction damping unit and an installation unit. The inertance unit is taken as an energy absorption and energy consumption synergy mechanism, one end is connected tothe side portion of the installation unit and the other end is connected to the collision friction damping unit. The inertance unit and the collision friction damping unit are slidably arranged on the bottom of the installation unit through the respective bottom. Simultaneously, the two ends of the tuning spring unit are connected to the side portion of the installation unit and the collision friction damping unit. In the invention, multiple vibration absorption and energy dissipation mechanisms are established, the quality synergy effect of the inertance system is fully used and additional physical mass required for the collision friction damping unit is effectively reduced, and simultaneously, the deformation of the entire collision friction damping unit can be effectively controlled and the efficiency of the internal damping energy consumption of collision friction damping is further improved.

The invention relates to an urban energy infrastructure planning system and method. The system comprises a cooling and heating, power and fuel gas demand module which calculates the cooling and heating, fixed power and fixed fuel gas demands of each area; a cooling and heating preparation cost module which calculates the cooling, heating and power preparation cost of each area; a cooling, heating and power preparation and transaction comprehensive optimization module which obtains the cooling, heating and power preparation quantities of each area and the cooling and heating transaction network of each area according to the cooling and heating demands and the cooling, heating and power preparation cost; a power, fuel gas and cooling and heating supply calculation module which calculates the obtained power, fuel gas and cooling and heating supply quantities of each area according to the cooling, heating and power preparation quantities of each area and the demands of the fixed power and the fixed fuel gas; and an energy infrastructure planning module which carries out the planning configuration of the power, fuel gas, an energy station room and a cooling and heating pipe network according to the power, fuel gas and cooling and heating supply quantities of each area and the cooling and heating transaction network. Compared with the prior art, the system can improve the energy supply and demand matching degree, and reduces the construction cost of facilities.

The invention belongs to the field of civil engineering and energy infrastructure and provides a shear wall system with a hysteretic inerter, comprising a shear wall structure, a hysteretic inerter structure, and a mounting base. The hysteretic inerter structure includes a plurality of groups of hysteretic energy-dissipating support units and a plurality of groups of viscous self-resetting inerterunits. A double self-resetting mechanism and a multiple energy-absorbing energy-dissipating means are established; structural vibrational energy is absorbed and dissipated via hysteretic shear platesand the viscous inerter units; rotational effect of a rocking shear wall helps decrease horizontal action that a rocking device bears; the inerter units enable system inertial characteristics to be effectively adjusted and overall deformation of the shear wall to be effectively controlled at the premise of not improving deformation rigidity of the shear wall; a rocking shear wall vibration-damping energy-dissipating system suitable for effective structural multimodal vibration control is provided; multiple aseismic lines are provided; the shear wall system herein has the advantages of energy-dissipating synergy, good robustness, good convenience of post-quake restoration and the like, and is well worthy of popularization and application.

The invention relates to a plate type viscosity damping device for an attached gear-type inertia unit which is used for civil engineering and energy infrastructures. The device comprises an upper connecting plate, a lower connecting plate, a gear-type inertia unit, outer steel plates, inner steel plates and high-viscosity liquid. Two sets of plate type viscosity energy dissipating units are composed of the outer steel plates, the inner steel plates and the high-viscosity liquid, the two sets of plate type viscosity energy dissipating units arranged on the two sides of the damper device are placed between the upper connecting plate and the lower connecting plate, and the inner steel plates and the outer steel plates are fixedly connected with the upper connecting plate and the lower connecting plate correspondingly to be whole bodies. The gear-type inertia unit is arranged between the two sets of plate type viscosity energy dissipating units. The device is composed of the plate type viscosity energy dissipating units and the gear-type inertia unit, vibration energy is absorbed by making full use of two node mass synergying units of the gear-type inertia unit, and the energy is dissipated by utilizing the plate type viscosity energy dissipating units. The damping device can effectively reduce the dynamic response of the structure, layer-to-layer displacement is controlled, and good application and popularization values are achieved.

A system and method for energy distribution leveraging dynamic feedforward allocation of distributed energy storage using multiple energy distribution pathways to maximize load-balancing to accelerate return on investment, reduce system energy consumption, and maximize utilization of existing energy infrastructure particularly for modular construction.

The invention relates to an inertial type shock-absorbing layer system used in the fields of civil engineering and energy infrastructure, which comprises an upper truss and a lower truss, an anti-buckling restrained brace energy consumption unit and a friction limit type viscous inertial system. The system provides the basic rigidity of the shock-absorbing layer through the upper truss group and the lower truss group, and limits the sliding of a lead screw through the friction limit unit of the inertial system under the action of wind load and small earthquake. When the external loading actionis enhanced, by relaxing the restraint with the friction limit unit of the inertial system, the energy of the shock-absorbing layer is dissipated by utilizing the friction damping, the viscous damping and an anti-buckling restrained brace hysteresis unit. The shock-absorbing layer establishes a systematically complete energy consumption path and a two-stage rigidity adjusting mechanism. The designed anti-buckling restrained brace meets the energy consumption requirement of the multi-stage support. The friction limit type viscous inertial system improves the energy consumption efficiency of the shock-absorbing layer. The inertial type shock-absorbing layer system is convenient and flexible, can effectively absorb and dissipate earthquake energy, has the advantages of high energy consumption efficiency, strong robustness, easy repair after earthquake and the like, and has good popularization and application value.

The invention discloses an energy data monitoring and comprehensive analysis device, and belongs to the technical field of energy management. The energy data monitoring and comprehensive analysis device comprises a device body, and a WEB interaction system, an energy monitoring system, an energy analysis system, a support service system and an external data system are linked to the device body. The WEB interaction system is linked with a government unit interaction module, an energy supplier interaction module, an energy consumer interaction module and an energy service provider interaction module; According to the invention, various energy infrastructures in a region are integrated, various energy consumption data and management systems are butt joint, an intelligent energy network based on an energy platform is depended on, an intelligent decision basis is provided for the government by adopting rich functions of various energy elements and the cloud platform, and the optimal experience and approach of energy consumption optimization are provided for enterprises.

A system and method for energy distribution with decoupled by time and space domains that integrates energy storage capabilities that feature co-products utilization at the point of energy storage charging, byproduct utilization at the point of energy production, and time and space decoupling of vehicle shuttling energy storage media discharge to accelerate return on investment, reduce system energy consumption, and maximize utilization of existing energy infrastructure. Additionally, the system executes the energy transactions by controlling and integrating distributed energy producers and consumers with minimal grid dependence.

A system and method for energy distribution with decoupled by time and space domains that integrates energy storage capabilities that feature co-products utilization at the point of energy storage charging, byproduct utilization at the point of energy production, and time and space decoupling of vehicle shuttling energy storage media discharge to accelerate return on investment, reduce system energy consumption, and maximize utilization of existing energy infrastructure. Additionally, the system executes the energy transactions by controlling and integrating distributed energy producers and consumers with minimal grid dependence.

The invention relates to the technical field of liquid organic hydride catalytic hydrogen production, in particular to a vehicle-mounted hydrogen supply system and method based on a hollow fiber membrane microreactor, and the vehicle-mounted hydrogen supply system comprises a hydrogen oil-oil storage tank, the hollow fiber membrane microreactor, a cooling system and a fuel cell system; the hollowfiber membrane microreactor comprises a reaction unit and a separation unit, wherein the reaction unit comprises a plurality of array reaction tubes and an electromagnetic heating module, hollow fibertubes with dehydrogenation catalysts loaded in cavities are assembled in the array reaction tubes, and cavities between the outer tube surfaces of the two ends of each hollow fiber tube and the innersurfaces of the array reaction tubes are of a sealed structure; and a Pd film or a Pd / Ag film is plated on the outer surface of the middle section of the hollow fiber tube. The vehicle-mounted hydrogen supply system is ingenious in design, compact in structure, high in raw material utilization rate, capable of saving energy, environmentally friendly, compatible with existing energy infrastructures, free of a large amount of investment and wider in application range.

A system for modeling networks of electricity supply and demand including a first user interface; a second user interface; a database, a memory; and a controller adapted to: receive, via the first user interface, a first request to create a first plan for a first node of a collection of the one or more collections, the first request specifying a domain of the collection, receive plan instructions for the first plan, receive a second user request to create a second plan for a second node of the collection, the second user request specifying the domain of the collection, receive a plan instruction to interconnect the first node with the second node in the first plan, generate a forecast including a projected value for an energy infrastructure variable using the assumptions provided in the first plan and the second plan, and display the forecast on the first user interface.

The invention discloses a method for scheduling and controlling energy Internet, belonging to the technical field of network communication and energy transmission. The method comprises the following steps that an energy Internet control node determines a source micro-grid, a target micro-grid, a source host and a target host, which need energy transmission, and IP (Internet Protocol) addresses of the source host and the target host; the energy Internet control node sends a control notification message to the source host, and the control notification message adopts a UDP (User Datagram Protocol) to transmit; the source host sends a transmission path test message to the target host and sends an opening signal message out after a response; the target host establishes route path information, maps the route path information to an energy router through information-energy infrastructure integration, and establishes an energy transmission path to start energy transmission; and when the energy transmission duration is up, the source host sends a closing signal message to disconnect the energy transmission. According to the method, establishment and revocation of the energy transmission path of the energy Internet are controlled through an SDN (Software Defined Network), so that the energy transmission is timely and effectively scheduled and controlled.

Techniques for positioning energy infrastructure such as petroleum well pads, and related access roads and gathering pipelines are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system for positioning energy infrastructure comprises one or more processors. The one or more computer processors are configured to receive user input. The user input comprises a boundary where energy infrastructure is placed within and additional features to consider when positioning energy infrastructure. The one or more processors are further configured to store, in a shareable format, a plurality of layouts for the energy infrastructure and associated metrics and parameters based on the user input and base datasets. The base datasets comprise spatial datasets. The base datasets may also comprise default values for input parameters. The one or more processors are further configured to output, on a display device, the plurality of layouts for the energy infrastructure and the associated metrics and parameters.

Systems, devices, products, apparatuses, and / or methods for generating a land parcel for a siting request in a geospatial area by receiving a land parcel request within a requested region to provide requirements for land development siting indicating one or more requested proximity factors, determining at least one primary site selection having a size below a requested sizing threshold based on information received from a geographical information system (GIS) including land parcel data defining a plurality of land parcels and energy data defining a plurality of energy infrastructures, automatically determines geospatial data representing one or more secondary land parcels and generates an updated site selection comprising the at least one primary site selection and at least one of the one or more secondary site selections.

The invention relates to an inertial type shock-absorbing layer system used in the fields of civil engineering and energy infrastructure, which comprises an upper truss and a lower truss, an anti-buckling restrained brace energy consumption unit and a friction limit type viscous inertial system. The system provides the basic rigidity of the shock-absorbing layer through the upper truss group and the lower truss group, and limits the sliding of a lead screw through the friction limit unit of the inertial system under the action of wind load and small earthquake. When the external loading actionis enhanced, by relaxing the restraint with the friction limit unit of the inertial system, the energy of the shock-absorbing layer is dissipated by utilizing the friction damping, the viscous damping and an anti-buckling restrained brace hysteresis unit. The shock-absorbing layer establishes a systematically complete energy consumption path and a two-stage rigidity adjusting mechanism. The designed anti-buckling restrained brace meets the energy consumption requirement of the multi-stage support. The friction limit type viscous inertial system improves the energy consumption efficiency of the shock-absorbing layer. The inertial type shock-absorbing layer system is convenient and flexible, can effectively absorb and dissipate earthquake energy, has the advantages of high energy consumption efficiency, strong robustness, easy repair after earthquake and the like, and has good popularization and application value.

The invention relates to a double-tuned inertance system in the civil engineering and energy infrastructure field. The system comprises a first-grade collision friction type tuning mass unit, a second-grade tuning mass unit, a liquid inertance damping unit and an installation unit. In the invention, a double damping tuning mechanism is established to adjust a system frequency and carry out dampingcontrol, and the frequency bandwidth of the effective damping control of the damping system is increased. The two grade tuning mass units and the liquid inertance unit are used to store energy. The nonlinear collision of a collision friction block and a liquid inertance damping dissipation structure are used to vibrate energy. Based on the quality synergy effect of the liquid inertance unit, additional mass required for the first-grade collision friction type tuning mass unit is greatly reduced, and a light-weight tuning damping device is provided. In addition, the inertance unit effectivelycontrols the deformation of the entire first-grade collision friction type tuning mass unit, the installation space of the device is saved, the efficiency of the internal damping energy consumption of collision friction block damping is improved, and the system has a wide application prospect.

The invention relates to a light module for electrical and thermal attachment to an energy infrastructure having at least one power supply, each power supply comprising two electrodes, said light module comprising a light source to emit light, wherein the light source is a heat source when emitting light, two electrical contacts to contact the electrodes of the at least one power supply and thereby establishing the electrical attachment between the light module and the energy infrastructure, a control system arranged between the light source and the electrical contacts to control a power supplied to the light source, wherein the light module comprises a measurement system to measure a thermal resistance of the thermal attachment between the light module and the energy infrastructure when establishing the electrical attachment, and wherein the control system is configured to reduce the power supplied to the light source when the thermal resistance is above a predetermined value to protect the light module from overheating. The invention also relates to a method for protecting a light module from overheating.

The invention relates to a Visio-based distributed energy system construction method, which designs a computer model and a Visio icon module for each distributed energy infrastructure, and combines the connection relationship between the icon modules in the Visio environment based on the relevance between the computer model of the distributed energy system and the corresponding icon module to construct the mathematical model of the distributed energy system, the pre-testing and application of the energy system in the design stage are obtained, the defect of manual modeling of the energy system can be effectively overcome, and the method has high practicability, accuracy and efficiency; all devices with working medium interaction relations in the energy system are integrally defined into an energy subsystem, and a storage function of a subsystem model is provided, so that a user can use the energy subsystem conveniently; the whole design can provide a perfect database management module to provide data support for software calculation; the whole design scheme can effectively improve the working efficiency of the energy system application test and ensure the stability and economy of the actual application of the energy system.

The invention relates to a tuned liquid type inertial volume system in the field of civil engineering and energy infrastructures. The device comprises building a dual shock absorption tuning mechanism, which uses a tuned liquid mass unit and a tuned inertial volume limiting unit to adjust the system frequency and control shock absorption; and building a dual energy storage mechanism, which is an energy dissipation mechanism based on friction motion and liquid nonlinear shaking. The additional mass and a relative deformation of the tuned liquid mass unit are significantly reduced by effectivelyusing the mass synergism of the tuned inertial volume limiting unit; a lightweight tuned shock absorbing device is provided, and the installation and use space for the device is saved; and the energydissipation efficiency of tuned liquid damp is improved. The device disclosed by the invention is convenient and flexible to set, can effectively absorb and dissipate vibration energy, has the characteristics of light weight, high energy dissipation, high robustness and the like, and has a relatively good popularization and application value.

The invention belongs to the field of civil engineering and energy infrastructure and provides a shear wall system with a hysteretic inerter, comprising a shear wall structure, a hysteretic inerter structure, and a mounting base. The hysteretic inerter structure includes a plurality of groups of hysteretic energy-dissipating support units and a plurality of groups of viscous self-resetting inerterunits. A double self-resetting mechanism and a multiple energy-absorbing energy-dissipating means are established; structural vibrational energy is absorbed and dissipated via hysteretic shear platesand the viscous inerter units; rotational effect of a rocking shear wall helps decrease horizontal action that a rocking device bears; the inerter units enable system inertial characteristics to be effectively adjusted and overall deformation of the shear wall to be effectively controlled at the premise of not improving deformation rigidity of the shear wall; a rocking shear wall vibration-damping energy-dissipating system suitable for effective structural multimodal vibration control is provided; multiple aseismic lines are provided; the shear wall system herein has the advantages of energy-dissipating synergy, good robustness, good convenience of post-quake restoration and the like, and is well worthy of popularization and application.

A method for managing an electric utility power grid including a utility power line route may include generating an infrastructure model including utility assets and image information; receiving power line imaging data collected on the route and including utility asset imaging data; receiving geospatial topological model information; and generating a navigable simulated virtual environment model including an integrated visualization of infrastructure model image information with geospatial topological model image information and power line imaging data. A trained classification algorithm categorizes the condition of utility assets on the route from virtual views.

The invention provides an intelligent energy computer tomography system, an energy architecture method, an energy management method and a medium. The system comprises a built-in energy subsystem and an energy consumption component. The energy subsystem comprises an energy module and an energy bus, wherein the energy module comprises at least one energy model; the energy module supplements energy through the energy bus; the energy models correspond to at least one energy consumption component, and the energy models provide energy to the energy consumption component; and the energy module can meet the energy and power which are required for one-time computed tomography scanning. The energy module is combined with the energy supply component, and the energy is supplemented through the energy bus to meet the actual operation energy requirement. According to the intelligent energy infrastructure of the computer tomography system, the autonomous controllability of the energy quality can be realized, the intelligent energy infrastructure no longer depends on the special line of the medical equipment and the energy is very easy to supplement; and the intelligent energy infrastructure can be used in emergency situations, and can also be applied in remote places with poor power grid quality, thereby expanding the use range of the computer tomography system.

The invention relates to a light module for electrical and thermal attachment to an energy infrastructure having at least one power supply, each power supply comprising two electrodes, said light module comprising a light source to emit light, wherein the light source is a heat source when emitting light, two electrical contacts to contact the electrodes of the at least one power supply and thereby establishing the electrical attachment between the light module and the energy infrastructure, a control system arranged between the light source and the electrical contacts to control a power supplied to the light source, wherein the light module comprises a measurement system to measure a thermal resistance of the thermal attachment between the light module and the energy infrastructure when establishing the electrical attachment, and wherein the control system is configured to reduce the power supplied to the light source when the thermal resistance is above a predetermined value to protect the light module from overheating. The invention also relates to a method for protecting a light module from overheating.

The invention relates to a tuning inertance system using collision friction damping energy consumption in the civil engineering and energy infrastructure field. The system comprises a tuning spring unit, an inertance unit, a collision friction damping unit and an installation unit. The inertance unit is taken as an energy absorption and energy consumption synergy mechanism, one end is connected tothe side portion of the installation unit and the other end is connected to the collision friction damping unit. The inertance unit and the collision friction damping unit are slidably arranged on the bottom of the installation unit through the respective bottom. Simultaneously, the two ends of the tuning spring unit are connected to the side portion of the installation unit and the collision friction damping unit. In the invention, multiple vibration absorption and energy dissipation mechanisms are established, the quality synergy effect of the inertance system is fully used and additional physical mass required for the collision friction damping unit is effectively reduced, and simultaneously, the deformation of the entire collision friction damping unit can be effectively controlled and the efficiency of the internal damping energy consumption of collision friction damping is further improved.

The invention relates to a tuned liquid type inertial volume system in the field of civil engineering and energy infrastructures. The device comprises building a dual shock absorption tuning mechanism, which uses a tuned liquid mass unit and a tuned inertial volume limiting unit to adjust the system frequency and control shock absorption; and building a dual energy storage mechanism, which is an energy dissipation mechanism based on friction motion and liquid nonlinear shaking. The additional mass and a relative deformation of the tuned liquid mass unit are significantly reduced by effectivelyusing the mass synergism of the tuned inertial volume limiting unit; a lightweight tuned shock absorbing device is provided, and the installation and use space for the device is saved; and the energydissipation efficiency of tuned liquid damp is improved. The device disclosed by the invention is convenient and flexible to set, can effectively absorb and dissipate vibration energy, has the characteristics of light weight, high energy dissipation, high robustness and the like, and has a relatively good popularization and application value.

The invention provides an acceleration type electric eddy inert energy dissipation device. The acceleration type electric eddy inert energy dissipation device is characterized by comprising a connecting lug ring, a ball screw rod, a rotary outer barrel, a rotary nut, a coil inner barrel, a coil, a rotary permanent magnet, an additional mass block, a rotary groove, a ball, a connecting rod, a spring unit, a spring unit protection barrel and the like. The acceleration type electric eddy inert energy dissipation device has the beneficial effects that additional mass is more convenient to set and the mass synergistic agent is remarkable. Actual small mass is synergized into equivalent big mass through a synergistic mechanism, and more energy of an input structure is shared; meanwhile, the structure safety is more effectively protected, vibration energy of earthquake, wind vibration, human-induced excitation and the like are consumed, and the energy consumption performance is good; the acceleration type electric eddy inert energy dissipation device can be widely applied to the fields of earthquake (vibration) reduction and absorption and energy source infrastructures. Safe, green and efficient social and environment targets of development of China are met. An electromagnetic damping force is convenient to set and earthquake responses of the structure are effectively reduced.

The invention relates to a light module for electrical and thermal attachment to an energy infrastructure having at least one power supply, each power supply comprising two electrodes, said light module comprising a light source to emit light, wherein the light source is a heat source when emitting light, two electrical contacts to contact the electrodes of the at least one power supply and thereby establishing the electrical attachment between the light module and the energy infrastructure, a control system arranged between the light source and the electrical contacts to control a power supplied to the light source, wherein the light module comprises a measurement system to measure a thermal resistance of the thermal attachment between the light module and the energy infrastructure when establishing the electrical attachment, and wherein the control system is configured to reduce the power supplied to the light source when the thermal resistance is above a predetermined value to protect the light module from overheating. The invention also relates to a method for protecting a light module from overheating.