34 results about "Residential energy" patented technology

The present invention is directed to a system and method for quantifying residential emissions reductions. In particular, the system and method may comprise the steps of: measuring an energy savings resulting from an energy savings opportunity in a residential property, calculating an emissions reduction resulting from the energy savings, aggregating a plurality of emissions reductions into a tradable commodity, monitoring the residential energy savings opportunities, monitoring the quantification of the emissions reduction, and verifying the quantification of the emissions reduction. The system may include means for conducting each of these steps.

The present invention is directed to a method of residential emissions trading and a residential emissions trading commodity. In particular, an embodiment of the present invention is a method for identifying, quantifying, and aggregating reductions in residential emissions into a tradable commodity. The step of quantifying the emissions reduction may further comprise the steps of measuring an energy savings resulting from the energy savings opportunity and calculating the emissions reduction resulting from the energy savings. The method may further comprise the steps of verifying the quantification of the emissions reduction and monitoring the residential energy savings opportunities and the quantification of the emissions reduction.

The present invention is directed to a method of residential emissions trading and a residential emissions trading commodity. In particular, an embodiment of the present invention is a method for identifying, quantifying, and aggregating reductions in residential emissions into a tradable commodity. The step of quantifying the emissions reduction may further comprise the steps of measuring an energy savings resulting from the energy savings opportunity and calculating the emissions reduction resulting from the energy savings. The method may further comprise the steps of verifying the quantification of the emissions reduction and monitoring the residential energy savings opportunities and the quantification of the emissions reduction.

An inexpensive energy monitoring device and method for measuring energy usage and power costs in real time. The invention can include an external type digital battery powered camera that can be mounted away from and adjacent to the outdoor utility meter on a rotatable arm, which can send data signals to remote locations indoors using wireless such as an RF signal to a detector / display inside the residence. The indoor unit can be programmed to display desirable energy status information to a home owner on power usage and power costs on a daily bases, monthly bases, and yearly bases so that the home owner can budget energy usage and energy costs as needed. A shield can also be used with device and method for shielding power meters from adverse weather conditions.

A HVAC controls system for zone controls that is comprised of one or more Wall Sensor Units (WSU) and zero or more Damper / Register Units (DRUs). The invention is a low networked cost solution for residential and light commercial that is easy to install in new and existing building. The WSUs detect, log and use occupancy data to predict where in a building HVAC conditioning is needed and to save energy where it is not needed. The DRU use shape memory alloy wires to control the opening and closing of a damper plate with very little power allowing batter operation.

An electrical utility meter system measures residential energy consumption and automatically communicates this information to a host computer via the Internet. The host computer can then be accessed by the end utility customer or other authorized entities. This Internet or web based system offers two-way communication capability to support meter reconfiguration. This system is comprised of two major elements, a hardware unit and database software. The hardware unit includes a printed circuit card that is retrofitted into a form 2S single-phase residential meters. The unit measures residential energy consumption in predefined intervals, stores the measurements, and communicates at predefined times to a host database server. The unit can accommodate various wired or wireless communication technologies through a simple communications port.

A methodology is provided for informing targeted Demand-Response (DR) and marketing programs that focus on the temperature-sensitive part of residential electricity demand. The methodology uses energy consumption readings collected from “smart” electricity meters, as well as hourly temperature readings. Individual consumption is decomposed into a thermal-sensitive part and a base load (non thermally-sensitive), a model of temperature response that is based on thermal regimes, i.e., unobserved decisions of customers to use their heating or cooling appliances. This model is used to extract useful benchmarks that compose a thermal profiles of individual customers, i.e., terse characterizations of the statistics of these customers' temperature-sensitive consumption. This knowledge may, in turn, inform the DR program by allowing scarce operational and marketing budgets to be spent on customers whose influencing will yield highest energy reductions at the right time. Methods are also provided for scheduling optimal, individual customer controls of the thermal appliance to achieve a desired profile of the aggregate energy reductions.

The invention discloses a DC residential energy router based on a multi-port converter and a control method thereof. The energy router is characterized in that the energy router is composed of four H bridge modules, two-way buck / boost converter modules BB1 and BB2, four external series inductors, and a high-frequency four-winding transformer; driving signals used to control on-off of full-control power devices in the converter modules BB1 and BB2 are obtained by means of pulse width modulation; and driving signals used to control on-off of full-control power devices in the H bridge modules are obtained by means of single phase shift modulation. The energy router integrates photovoltaic energy, stored energy, a power grid, and a residential load with different voltage grades. Two-way power flow between stored energy and the power grid is realized. Maximum use of renewable energy, reduction in power exchange with the power grid, charge and discharge based on stored energy, input source use priority, control on port voltages and power balance control in the system are realized.

The invention discloses a residential energy local network (RELN) energy optimization control method under the consideration of demand side management. The method comprises the following steps: S1, inputting an electricity utilization state and demand information of a user; S2, forecasting a regenerable energy output; S3, recording state information of an energy storage system in an RELN; S4, dynamically optimizing the energy of the RELN; S5, in the current time period, performing specific electricity utilization, idling or discharge operation on all family electrical appliances, PEVs (plug-in electric vehicles) and the energy storage system according to an electricity utilization scheme obtained in the step S4, transmitting scheduling information by adopting an AMI (advanced measurement infrastructure); S6, receiving and updating operation time and energy consumption of residential loads as well as state of charge information of the PEVs and the energy storage system by a RELN energy management center via the AMI; S7, repeating the steps S1 to S6 until the optimization range is ended. According to the RELN energy optimization control method under the consideration of demand side management, dispatching decisions are made for all the residential electrical appliances, the PEVs and the energy storage system based on the target that the operation cost of the RELN is minimized, so that energy optimization control over the RELN is realized.

The invention discloses a single-phase residential energy meter missort checking method. The method adopts a zero line shunt method for checking, a wire or a cable is used for being sequentially in short circuit connection with a zero line row or a client load-side zero line, the wire carries out shunt on current of the zero lines, the current of the zero line at each part in the same loop after short circuit is reduced to be half the original, an air switch and an energy meter in actual connection relationship with the client are found out in the method, the air switch and the energy meter are compared with an air switch and an energy meter marked to belong to the client and compared with a marketing business application system archive, and missort exists in the case of inconsistency. Whether missor exists in the energy meter and the specific missort situations can be quickly checked only by using one wire and a common tong-type ammeter in the condition of not cutting power and not increasing load. The method is simple and practicable, few in devices, little in investment, and obvious in effects.

The invention discloses a residential energy consumption prediction method based on a residential user activity mode. The method comprises two steps of identification and classification of activity behaviors and energy consumption modes and building energy consumption prediction based on living activity modes.The identification and classification of the activity behavior and the energy consumptionmode extract the social and economic characteristics of the common characteristics of the living activity data set and the residential energy consumption data set, and the social and economic characteristics of the living activity data set and the residential energy consumption data set are respectively clustered to obtain the corresponding relationship between the corresponding cluster and the corresponding crowd; the activity mode and the building energy consumption mode are analyzed in the corresponding cluster, and the mapping between the interaction mode and the building energy consumption mode is mined; activity behavior modes and energy consumption mode categories to which the residents belong are identified through classification; and building energy consumption prediction is performed based on the living activity mode, firstly a residence type is simulated, then the activity mode and the residence type are fused, meteorological data characteristics are fused, and building energy consumption prediction is performed based on an engineering calculation method.

The invention relates to a preparation method for preparing organic fertilizer through cow dung. The preparation method comprises the following methods of cutting waste straw into sections; then adding the cut straw sections into fresh cow dung, adding the defined amount of urine, evenly mixing, adding the defined amount of leavening agent into an initially-fermented material, putting the material into a methane tank to be fermented for the second time to form methane and methane slag, filtering the fermented methane slag, taking out the methane slag and drying; putting to a normal temperature, then smashing and packaging to obtain the organic fertilizer. The methane can be used as residential energy resources. In an implementation process of the preparation method for preparing organic fertilizer through cow dung, the cow dung is fermented to be used as methane. Thus, the problem of residential energy resources of people is solved, and the methane slag can be processed into the organic fertilizer. The organic fertilizer can be widely applied to planting industry, the use of a lot of chemical fertilizer is reduced, the soil is loosened, and the soil is more fertile.

The invention discloses a cell energy-saving method, a NodeB and long term evolution (LTE) system. The method comprises the following steps that: a NodeB that a first cell belongs to sends a request message to a NodeB that a second cell belongs to, wherein the request message is used to indicate the second cell to carry out energy-saving operation and carries a cell identifier of the second cell and an energy-saving / compensation execution time parameter; and after the NodeB that the first cell belongs to sends the request message to the NodeB that the second cell belongs to, energy-saving operation corresponding to the first cell is carried out according to the energy-saving / compensation execution time parameter. Specifically, the first cell is a compensation cell and the second cell is an energy-saving cell; or the first cell is an energy-saving cell and the second cell is a compensation cell . According to the invention, accuracy of energy conservation of the cell is improved; and the network performance and user experience are enhanced.

The invention discloses a rural residential electric heating system combined with wind energy and a control method thereof. The system includes a production part, an energy conversion part and an energy consumption part; the production part includes a small wind power generator connected to the output end of the small wind power generator The main controller and the wind speed sensor that monitors the outdoor wind speed and feeds the induction signal back to the main controller; the energy conversion part includes the first branch that adjusts the direct current generated by the small wind turbine to the standard working condition alternating current and outputs it externally, and converts the small The second branch of direct current storage generated by the wind power generator; the energy-using part includes a temperature regulator connected to the output end of the first branch, a kang surface heating cable and a wall heating cable connected to the temperature regulator. The invention uses wind power as the system energy, and uses the surface of the kang and the wall as the heating and cooling surface, which not only improves the heating comfort of the rural residence, but also increases the use of renewable energy, and has a positive effect on realizing the energy saving of the rural residence.

The invention relates to a thermoelectric optimization day-ahead scheduling method for a residence integrated energy system considering multiple uncertainties. According to the scheme, a fuel cell, a storage battery, a photovoltaic power generation unit, a heat storage unit, a heat pump and other devices are included. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, carrying out random characteristic modeling on each uncertainty variable based on a time-varying Markov model; then, an operation model of the residence integrated energy system is established, and an optimal economic day-ahead scheduling problem taking the total fuel cost as a target and various operation and safety conditions as constraints is designed based on the model; and finally, solving the day-ahead scheduling problem by adopting a random dynamic programming algorithm to realize optimal scheduling of energy management under multiple uncertainties. According to the invention, thermoelectric cooperation of the residence integrated energy system can be realized, multiple uncertainties are effectively coped, thermoelectric supply and demand balance is realized, the energy utilization efficiency of the system is improved, the fuel cost is reduced, and the sustainability of operation of the residence energy system is promoted.

The invention, Solar Attic Pressurizer is a unique and simple approach to a residential energy problem. The first and main purpose for the invention is to actively move air through the attic space in the most efficient means possible. The Department of Energy through their Energy Star program have stated that traditional active attic fans, solar and conventional can draw air out of your living space into your attic and out of your house. This increased the losses in energy both in cooling and heating which not only costs more in energy but also overworks the air conditioning equipment. This invention not only ventilates the attic space but uses pressure to reduce or eliminates losses from the living space to the attic that can occur with or without an active attic ventilation system.

A method for measuring rural residential energy consumption by using electric heating equipment as an auxiliary heat source is disclosed. The method relates to the method for measuring the rural residential energy consumption. In the prior art, measurement of rural residential unit heating heat consumption can not be achieved. By using the method of the invention, the above problem can be solved.In the method of the invention, a building is considered as a whole; a heated kang, a hot wall and a matched stove in the rural residential houses are taken as baseload heat sources; the electric heating equipment is taken as the auxiliary heat source; under the condition of maintaining a same room temperature in each room of the rural residential houses, building energy consumption measurement can be performed. By using the method of the invention, measuring problems can be solved. The measuring problems comprise that: heat inertia of the rural residential houses is small; there are many kinds of fuels; room temperature fluctuation is large; there are many rooms but there are limited rooms to be used; rural residential house wires allow a small working current and the like. The novel method for measuring the rural residential energy consumption is provided. The method can be used for measuring the residential energy consumption of northern areas in our country.

The invention relates to the technical field of thermal energy storage, and discloses a device for collecting and storing the thermal energy in automobile exhaust. The device for collecting and storing the thermal energy in automobile exhaust comprises an outer barrel and an inner barrel arranged in the outer barrel. The outer barrel and the inner barrel are arranged coaxially. An end cover is arranged at the right end of the outer barrel. The right end of the inner barrel penetrates through the end cover and extends to form a gas inlet pipe. A gas outlet pipe is arranged in the center of the left end of the outer barrel. The space between the outer barrel and the inner barrel is filled with a plurality of thermal storage balls. The device for collecting and storing the thermal energy in automobile exhaust has the beneficial effects of being capable of collecting and storing the thermal energy in automobile exhaust for use as residential energy resources, and high in efficiency of heat absorption and heat release.

The invention discloses an island intelligent power utilization system. A terminal system is divided into a family-level energy management unit and an intelligent residential energy management terminal, a transmission system is divided into dispersedly-distributed terminal system equipment and information interaction providing link foundation of an application system, and the application system isused for achieving concentrated management and exhibition of the intelligent residential energy management terminal and the family-level energy management unit in the whole island. The island intelligent power utilization system and an interaction method of a microgrid control center comprises the steps of collecting load information sent from each intelligent residential energy management terminal by the intelligent power utilization application system, making network load forecast by the microgrid control center according to a current load condition and load characteristic, generating loadquantity needed to be cut during load cutting control, and issuing to the intelligent power utilization system. The island intelligent power utilization system and the interaction method have the advantages the intelligent power utilization system is used as an interaction control means and is fused to an integral control strategy of an island microgrid, and the island microgrid is enabled to moreeconomically, stably and reliably run by active interaction of a microgrid side.

The invention provides a residential energy consumption double-target optimization method based on a regional energy center. The method comprises the specific following steps: firstly, collecting energy consumption information, environment information and energy conversion electric appliance information of resident users in a region, regional energy center equipment parameters and energy sales prices; secondly, constructing a resident energy consumption double-target optimization model by taking the minimum resident energy purchase cost and the minimum user discomfort as targets; then, converting the multi-objective optimization problem into a single-objective optimization problem by using a weighting coefficient, and uniformly changing the weight distribution of an objective function to obtain a Pareto front; and finally, solving an optimal compromise solution of resident energy consumption double-objective optimization based on the fuzzy membership degree, and performing resident energy consumption optimization according to the optimal compromise solution. According to the resident energy consumption double-target optimization method provided by the invention, the flexibility ofmulti-energy conversion of the resident energy conversion electric appliance and the regional energy center is fully utilized, the economy and comfort of resident users can be considered, and simultaneous optimization of multiple energy consumption of residents is realized.

The invention discloses a large-depth land-saving residence which is composed of living rooms (1), bedrooms (2), kitchens (3), bathrooms (4), doors (5), bedroom doors (6), bathroom doors (7 ), kitchen doors (8), sliding doors (9), plumbing well doors (10), electric well doors (11), elevators (12), stairs (13), external windows (14) and flower beds (15). With adoption of the structure above, the residential depth is increased, and the width is reduced, so as to significantly save the land. Take one hectare of residential land for example, a 13.5 meters deep residence can save 690 square meters of land than a 10.5 meters deep residence. If concave-convex changes of external walls are reduced, areas of the external walls and roofs are reduced, the shape is regular, the shape coefficient is small, the used heat-preservation materials is reduced, the residential heat consumption is reduced, the residential energy conservation is favorable.

The invention discloses a single-phase residential energy meter missort checking method. The method adopts a zero line shunt method for checking, a wire or a cable is used for being sequentially in short circuit connection with a zero line row or a client load-side zero line, the wire carries out shunt on current of the zero lines, the current of the zero line at each part in the same loop after short circuit is reduced to be half the original, an air switch and an energy meter in actual connection relationship with the client are found out in the method, the air switch and the energy meter are compared with an air switch and an energy meter marked to belong to the client and compared with a marketing business application system archive, and missort exists in the case of inconsistency. Whether missor exists in the energy meter and the specific missort situations can be quickly checked only by using one wire and a common tong-type ammeter in the condition of not cutting power and not increasing load. The method is simple and practicable, few in devices, little in investment, and obvious in effects.

This invention relates to a residential energy consumption monitoring system and a method for monitoring energy consumption of a residential premise. The system comprises a smart distribution board (DB) and at least one smart socket outlet. The smart DB comprises a metering board having a number of metering channels, each metering channel is connected to one of a miniature circuit breakers (MCBs) and configured to obtain frequency (Hz), current (A), and voltage (V), a DB processing unit configured to receive data from the metering device and, a direct current power supply for driving the processing unit. The smart socket outlet comprises a live inlet connected to one of the MCBs, a neutral inlet, metering device configured to obtain frequency (Hz), current (A),and voltage (V) from the live and neutral inlets, an outlet processing unit configured to receive data from the metering device and transmit a data package comprising the data from the metering devices to the DB processing unit. The outlet processing unit is communicatively connected to the DB processing unit.

The present invention relates to systems and methods for quantifying residential sewage reductions. In particular, the system and method includes the steps of: measuring energy savings resulting from energy saving opportunities in residential real estate; calculating emissions reductions resulting from energy savings; aggregating multiple emissions reductions into a tradable commodity; monitoring residential energy Savings opportunities; monitoring quantification of blowdown reductions and verification of quantification of blowdown reductions. The system can include means for performing each of these steps.

A method for measuring rural residential energy consumption by using electric heating equipment as an auxiliary heat source is disclosed. The method relates to the method for measuring the rural residential energy consumption. In the prior art, measurement of rural residential unit heating heat consumption can not be achieved. By using the method of the invention, the above problem can be solved. In the method of the invention, a building is considered as a whole; a heated kang, a hot wall and a matched stove in the rural residential houses are taken as baseload heat sources; the electric heating equipment is taken as the auxiliary heat source; under the condition of maintaining a same room temperature in each room of the rural residential houses, building energy consumption measurement can be performed. By using the method of the invention, measuring problems can be solved. The measuring problems comprise that: heat inertia of the rural residential houses is small; there are many kinds of fuels; room temperature fluctuation is large; there are many rooms but there are limited rooms to be used; rural residential house wires allow a small working current and the like. The novel method for measuring the rural residential energy consumption is provided. The method can be used for measuring the residential energy consumption of northern areas in our country.

The invention relates to the technical field of thermal energy storage, and discloses a device for collecting and storing the thermal energy in automobile exhaust. The device for collecting and storing the thermal energy in automobile exhaust comprises an outer barrel and an inner barrel arranged in the outer barrel. The outer barrel and the inner barrel are arranged coaxially. An end cover is arranged at the right end of the outer barrel. The right end of the inner barrel penetrates through the end cover and extends to form a gas inlet pipe. A gas outlet pipe is arranged in the center of the left end of the outer barrel. The space between the outer barrel and the inner barrel is filled with a plurality of thermal storage balls. The device for collecting and storing the thermal energy in automobile exhaust has the beneficial effects of being capable of collecting and storing the thermal energy in automobile exhaust for use as residential energy resources, and high in efficiency of heat absorption and heat release.

The invention relates to the technical field of thermal energy storage, and discloses a thermal storage device based on automobile engine exhaust. The thermal storage device based on automobile engine exhaust comprises an outer barrel and an inner barrel arranged in the outer barrel. The outer barrel and the inner barrel are arranged coaxially. An end cover is arranged at the right end of the outer barrel. The right end of the inner barrel penetrates through the end cover and extends to form a gas inlet pipe. A gas outlet pipe is arranged in the center of the left end of the outer barrel. The space between the outer barrel and the inner barrel is filled with a plurality of thermal storage balls. Connectors are arranged at the outer end of the gas inlet pipe and the outer end of the gas outlet pipe. The gas inlet pipe and the gas outlet pipe are each provided with a connecting ring, the two connecting rings are connected through a wire rope, and a thermal insulation handle is arranged in the middle of the wire rope. The thermal storage device based on automobile engine exhaust has the beneficial effects of being capable of collecting and storing the thermal energy in automobile exhaust for use as residential energy resources, and high in efficiency of heat absorption and heat release.

The invention discloses a cloud computing-based smart home energy management and control system and method. The system includes: an on-site controller for on-site control of various energy-consuming devices of a smart home according to user-set parameters; energy consumption parameter collection The controller is used to collect the parameters related to the energy consumption of each energy-consuming equipment; the cloud computing management and control platform is used to adjust the on-site controller based on the collected parameters related to the energy consumption of each energy-consuming equipment and the parameters set by the user. On-site control mode of each energy-consuming device; power line networking module for mutual communication. The method corresponds to the system. The invention uses the cloud computing management and control platform to manage and control the energy consumption of household energy consumption equipment with prominent scattered characteristics, which can realize the optimal configuration of energy and achieve the purpose of saving energy; and uses the power line networking module for communication, and does not need to be in the household. It is simple and convenient to set up a complex network for data transmission, as long as there are wires.

The invention discloses rural residential energy-saving heating equipment which includes a furnace body. A combustion chamber is arranged in the furnace body, the rear side of the combustion chamber can be opened, a plurality of rows of heating pipes are fixedly arranged in the combustion chamber, the multiple rows of heating pipes are in curved design, and therefore the heating area of water is increased. The left and right sides of the multiple rows of heating pipes are in communication with heating radiators, the bottom of the combustion chamber is provided with a swing plate in a sliding manner, the swing plate is fixedly provided with a vertical rod, the vertical rod can swing when furnace slag is discharged, and therefore the furnace slag can be conveniently discharged. By means of the rural residential energy-saving heating equipment, the multiple rows of heating pipes can be heated by fire coal for heating at night, the multiple rows of heating pipes are in curved design, and therefore the heating efficiency is higher. Flue gas can drive a fan to blow air to make coal combustion more fully; and meanwhile, a solar water heater can be used for heating a water source for heating in the day, dependence on the fire coal is reduced, energy is saved, and cost is controlled.