619 results about "Sustainability" patented technology

Methods and apparatuses are provided for simulating components and processes using discrete, variable-granularity, component-specific data relating to energy consumption or other sustainability factors. Simulations can be analyzed and optimized to facilitate forecasting of sustainability factors and determine advantageous modifications to the components or processes.

A system and methods for encouraging a user to continue recycling behavior through various rewards systems and economic benefits, each of which contribute to the overall efficiency and sustainability of a recycling program. The system includes both hardware and software components that are adapted to receive, quantify and assess the quality of recyclable goods. Further, a method includes cooperating with the system to provide users with economic incentives to increase both the quantity and the quality for recycling. Further still, a method includes steps of receiving recyclables from a recyclables container associated with a user, electronically capturing data relating to individual recycled items, and providing a benefit to the user associated with the recyclables container in response to both the quantity and the quality of the recyclables received.

A pump for processing molten metal having an enlarged tubular body which houses a centrifugal lifting pump at its bottom end. The bottom end has a curved shape that aids in the formation and sustainability of: a) a forced vortex; b) a highly forced vortex; and c) a super forced vortex, depending on the application when it which receives the ejected molten metal from the lifting pump's impeller. The lifting pump is controlled to cause the vortex to climb up the inner wall of the body up to and out of an outlet formed in the upper end of the body. A recirculation centrifugal pump is mounted coaxially to and rotates with the lifting impeller.

According to various embodiments of the invention, systems and methods are provided for analyzing and designing architectural structures. Such embodiments may be utilized by architects and engineers as tools that assist in designing architectural structures that achieve specific design goals, such as those related to sustainability. For example, an embodiment may comprise a system that: (i) provides a sustainability analysis on an architectural structure design created using a computer-assisted design (CAD) tool, and then (ii) applies a design option to that design (e.g., changes to orientation of building on a project site, size of fenestrations on the structure, choice of wall insulation, etc.) to improve its sustainability. In addition, various embodiments may be accessed through a web-based platform, which provides a user with easier access and better collaboration between and among design team members.

A hybrid energy market and currency systems is provided to manage energy consumption in an energy market comprising a community of users. Energy currency units may be issued to users and an exchange rate between the energy currency units and a monetary currency unit may be set, providing a variable price for energy. Energy currency units may have a defined validity period, at the end of which the energy currency unit is automatically converted to monetary currency units. Users consume energy currency units through use of energy consumptive services, such as domestic consumption of electricity and hot water, and through use of transportation. Prices for energy may be set by comparing the cumulative actual and desired demand. By providing a continuous feedback mechanism, some embodiments of methods disclosed herein may raise an energy conscience—an awareness of when the community needs the help of its citizens to meet its ambitious sustainability goals.

The invention discloses a fast rendering method and device for a virtual scene and a model. The method comprises steps of firstly obtaining the rendering request of the virtual scene and the model to be rendered and the standard material library; creating a read and write file including the corresponding relation among the scene parameter, the model and the material according to the rendering request, and selecting a material corresponding to the model to be rendered from the pre-established standard material library after loading; setting and adjusting the scene parameter according to the rendering request, rendering the model according to the selected material and adjusting the material parameter to complete the rendering satisfying the specified rendering request; when a single model corresponds to a plurality of materials, directly subjecting the plurality of materials to a three-dimensional presence UV mapping on the surface of the three-dimensional model; and generating a high light effect and its corresponding material by the hand-drawn trajectory according to the rendering request, and rendering the model's high light effect. The method has the advantages of high efficiency, openness, automation, integration of tools, light weight, sustainability, and the like on the basis of greatly improving the efficiency of virtual scene and model rendering.

Methods are disclosed for the simplification and integration of data from a diverse set of sources for environmental costs and societal benefit data. The methods allow for the computation of five basic metrics: material use, water use, energy use, toxics emitted, land use and overall pollutants emitted. Further, they facilitate the computation of complementary metrics, as well as the estimation of net present value of costs of unrealized environmental impacts.

The invention, which belongs to the technical field of network intrusion detection, discloses an intrusion detection method and intrusion detection system based on sustainable ensemble learning. A multi-class regression model is constructed by using a class probability output and a classification confidence product of an individual learner as training data, so that the decision-making process of the ensemble learning has high adaptability to the attack type to improve the detection accuracy. At the model updating stage, parameters and decision results of historical models are added into the training process of a new model, thereby completing incremental learning of the model. According to the invention, on the basis of the ensemble learning fusion plan of the multi-regression model, the decision-making weights of the individual learner during the detection processes for different attack types are allocated in a fine granularity manner; and the parameters and results of the historical models are used for training the new model, so that the stability of the model is improved and the sustainability of the learning process is ensured. Besides, the experiment result is compared with theexisting MV and WMV plans, the accuracy, stability and sustainability of the intrusion detection method and intrusion detection system are verified.

An industrial control system is provided. The system includes a processor to analyze one or more sustainability factors and a scoring component to assign a weight to the sustainability factors. An optimizer automatically adjusts a production process in view of the sustainability factors, the weight, and at least one of a recycling requirement, a carbon footprint, a procurement process, a shipping process, or a regulatory requirement.

Embodiments of the invention relate to a method for providing performance driven municipal asset needs and sustainability analysis. The method includes calculating asset health scores for a plurality of assets in an infrastructure. The asset health scores change as a function of time. The method also includes identifying prescription options for the assets. The identifying is based on the asset health scores. The prescription options include cost, value, and time for execution. A multi-objective optimization is applied based on the asset health scores and prescription options to identify at least a subset of the prescription options that may be implemented within a provided budget to maintain a sustainability threshold for an overall infrastructure health score.

The present invention provides a method of assessing the sustainability performance of an entity. This is achieved by monitoring the operation of the entity, and using this to determine one or more sustainability indicators, each sustainability indicator being a respective value determined based on the operation of the entity. The sustainability indicators are then compared to respective thresholds allowing the sustainability performance to be determined in accordance with the results of the comparison.

Novel hydraulic cements are disclosed that include reactive magnesium oxide prepared by low temperature calcination. The cements can be formulated to suit a large number of applications with various setting times, strength and levels of sustainability either by adding iron salts such as ferrous sulfate or blending with other compatible faster setting hydraulic cements such as Portland cement or by using both methods. The compositions are able to incorporate relatively large amounts of low cost pozzolans such as fly ash to advantage as well as wastes. Many excellent properties are exhibited and in particular good comprehensive strength and resistance to sulfates is able to be achieved.

The invention discloses a network device based on a customer identity verification system, which aims to solve the problem that the cases resulting from name borrow and false name happen occasionally due to the shortcomings existing in the process of manually verifying the customer identity in the current financial industry. A customer terminal consists of a group of self-service information acquisition and real-time comparison terminals which perform real-time comparison on the information acquired by a camera and a second-generation identity card reader and directly transmit the acquired information and the comparison result to a background server or forward through a middleground server; and a third-party server reads the required information and comparison result directly from the background server database through a communication interface or through the middleground server. Through the invention, the identification accuracy of the customer identity is high, and the cases resulting from name borrow and false name in the banking business are greatly reduced. In combination with the characteristics of the bank, the information can be acquired in a self-service manner and automatically identified and compared to avoid human risk in the banking business, thereby laying a firm foundation for the sustainable development of the bank.

The invention discloses a method for controlling stony desertification and restoring an ecosystem of a stony desertification region. A technology for conserving water and soil in the stony desertification region, a surface vegetation restoring method and a technology for establishing artificial succession of rock vegetations are involved in the method. The method is characterized by comprising the following steps of: firstly, controlling the stony desertification and conserving water and soil to prevent water and soil loss and increase soil moisture; secondly, restoring surface vegetations and restoring the ecosystem by the technology for establishing the artificial succession of the rock vegetations; and finally, forming an ecosystem of artificial biotic communities in the stony desertification region, re-establishing the ecological environment in the stony desertification region, recovering the land production capability and preventing the soil and water loss. By the method for controlling the stony desertification and restoring the ecosystem of the stony desertification region, a benign and sustainable ecosystem based on a plurality of species of plants is established, and the sunlight, heat, air, water, stones, the soil and the plants form a multi-level, multi-species, benign and sustainable operating mode, so that the use rate of water and soil resources is improved, the effects of controlling the stony desertification and establishing the ecological environment are achieved, and the economic, social and ecological benefits are good.

The invention relates to a preparation method for a chitosan natural polymer modified crude oil desalting demulsifier. The method comprises the following steps: 1) modifying polyethylene glycol monomethyl ether by halogenating; 2) preparing glycidyl dimethyl alkyl ammonium chloride; 3) preparing quaternized carboxy alkyl chitosan; 4) causing the modified polyethylene glycol monomethyl ether to react with the quaternized carboxy alkyl chitosan, thereby obtaining a target product, polyethylene glycol monomethyl ether grafted quaternized carboxy alkyl chitosan. According to the invention, the chitosan natural high-molecular compound is taken as the raw material and has the advantages of wide resource, naturality, non-toxicity, sustainability, excellent biological compatibility of products, degradability, and the like. The demulsifier prepared according to the invention has excellent demulsification dewatering effect; the molecule of the demulsifier contains a large amount of carboxy alkyl groups and quaternary ammonium salt groups and the electronegative ions, including metal cation, naphthene acid radicals, and surfaces are electronegative grains and have strong combining capacity, so that the demulsifier has the capacities of demulsifying while removing oil-soluble salt.

The invention provides a crop straw medium density fiberboard by natural gum. Raw materials of the medium density fiberboard comprise crop straw fiber, a bonding agent, a waterproof and lubricating agent and a flame retardant, wherein the bonding agent is natural gum and comprises plant gum and animal gum; the waterproof and lubricating agent is natural wax, stearic acid or stearate; and the flame retardant is non-toxic and harmless flame retardant. The mixture ratio for all the raw materials by weight percent is: 75 to 93 percent of the crop straw fiber, 1 to 8 percent of the bonding agent (dried), 0.5 to 8 percent of the waterproof and lubricating agent, and 5.5 to 23.5 percent of the flame retardant. All the raw materials are produced into a finished product through mixing, sizing, spreading, prepressing, hot pressing and edge cutting; and microwave is used for auxiliary heating in the hot pressing phase. The crop straw medium density fiberboard by the natural gum can realize complete degradation under natural condition after the medium density fiberboard is abandoned or destroyed without any nonreversible destruction to the environment, so the production and application of the crop straw medium density fiberboard realize complete sustainability and recyclability, and have significant realistic and historic significance.

An offshore, floating, moored, nuclear power generating plant and multi-purpose platform is disclosed herein. In a preferred embodiment, the invention consists of a spar or cell spar platform with multi-purpose, all weather topside decks, attached to a submerged “dry tank” that further includes: reactor generator deck(s), power plant main control deck, and central plant deck, that are all integrated within a watertight ballast hull. The invention design further includes cells that are modular for facilitating factory assembly and ultimate construction in a shipyard environment. Reactor vessels are typical naval nuclear reactor having a time tested outstanding safety record. A plurality of reactor generator modules are interconnected and operate independently and collectively and are transmitted by a plurality of high voltage direct current (HVDC) submarine cables through a transformer to the electrical grid. Multipurpose topside decks house vessel commend, crew, and any ancillary and co-generation equipment. The present invention, constructed in a multi-path manufacturing process, provides exceptional economic, environmental, sustainability, security, safety, and operational advantages over the current art of power generation.

The invention relates to a method for preparing comb-shaped polymer crude oil desalting demulsifier. The method comprises the following steps: (1) performing acrylatioed modification on methoxy polyethylene glycol; (2) preparing glycidyl dimethyl alkyl ammonium chloride; (3) preparing quaternized carboxyalkyl chitosan; (4) reacting modified methoxy polyethylene glycol with quaternized carboxyalkyl chitosan to obtain the target product demulsifier. The demulsifier is prepared by using chitosan naturalpolymer compounds as raw materials, and has the advantages of wide source, nature, no toxicity, sustainability, good product biocompatibility, degradability and the like. The prepared demulsifier has good demulsification and dehydration effect since the molecular structure is a comb-shaped polymer formed by simultaneously grafting a plurality of linear branched chains on a main chain, and has a strong binding capability on metal cations, naphthenate radicals and other negatively charged ions and particles which are electronegative on surfaces since a great amount of carboxyalkyl groups and quaternary ammonium salt groups on the molecules. Therefore, the demulsifier has capabilities of demulsifying and removing oil-soluble salt.

Liquid laundry detergent compositions are provided that show remarkable performance even though they utilize only eco-friendly ingredients and have a sustainability index of greater than 3. Some embodiments include a liquid laundry detergent composition comprising alkyl polyglycoside (APG) with fatty alcohol sulfate, at least two detersive enzymes, an enzyme stabilization system (e.g. borate and / or citrate and / or calcium salts), d-limonene or other natural essence, water and adjuvant. In another exemplary embodiment, APG is combined with fatty acid soaps, at least two detersive enzymes, an enzyme stabilization system (e.g. borate and / or citrate and / or calcium salts), d-limonene or other natural essence, water and adjuvant. Such compositions show remarkable performance, good viscosity, physical storage stability, enzyme stability, and have a sustainability index of greater than 3.

The invention relates to a planting method of famous and precious Chinese herb medicine dendrobium officinale, and the method is characterized in that a cultivation bed of a plantation trough with an undulated bottom is established under a certain facility environment, multiple mixed organic matrixes mainly comprising pine bark are paved, a nondestructive planting technology for stretching tissue culture seedling roots is adopted, and scientific and reasonable dendrobium officinale planting method adopting comprehensive cultivation measures such as a photo and temperature control technology, a fertilizer control technology, an insect and harmful organism nuisanceless control technology and a sustainable harvesting technology is adopted in different growth seasons and for different plants according to the biological characteristics of the dendrobium officinale; and due to the adoption of the method, the ventilation, moisture evaporation and moistening functions of a plant root environment can be enhanced, and harmful substances influencing the growth of the plant can be eliminated in time, so that the plant can grow strong, active components are highly concentrated, the resistance is enhanced, a purpose of high yield and excellent quality can be realized, the high yield and stable yield of the dendrobium officinale can be guaranteed, the product quality is excellent, sustainability for harvesting the dendrobium officinale for multiple years can be realized, and super high yield of fresh products about 600kg per Mu every year can be realized after the method is put into production.

Methods are disclosed for the simplification and integration of data from a diverse set of sources for environmental costs and societal benefit data. The methods allow for the computation of five basic metrics: material use, water use, energy use, toxics emitted, land use and overall pollutants emitted. Further, they facilitate the computation of complementary metrics, as well as the estimation of net present value of costs of unrealized environmental impacts.

According to various embodiments of the invention, systems and methods are provided for parametrically analyzing architectural structures. Such embodiments may be utilized by architects and engineers as tools that assist in designing architectural structures that achieve specific design goals, such as those related to sustainability. For example, an embodiment may comprise a system that: (i) provides a sustainability on an architectural structure design created using a computer-assisted design (CAD) tool, and then (ii) applies a design option with a parametric value to that design to determine one or more improvements that provide a desired sustainability. Various embodiments may be accessed through a web-based platform, which provides a user with easier access and better collaboration between and among design team members.

The invention discloses a video monitoring system and a moving target detecting and tracking method thereof. The method is applied to the video monitoring system on the condition that a camera is in a moving state. The method comprises the following steps: a moving target detection step, in which combination of a Harris corner and an HOG descriptor is employed as an image feature as well as processing including image feature extraction, image projection conversion, and image subtraction operation and the like is carried out to obtain a plurality of moving targets; a moving target model establishment step, in which moving target models are established for all the moving targets as well as a combination mode of a Harris corner, an extreme point and an HOG descriptor is employed to express features of the moving targets; and a target tracking step, in which target tracking is carried out according to the moving target models. According to the invention, corner feature matching is employed to reduce the calculated amount and precision of moving target detection is ensured; a corner and an extreme point are employed as target features, so that target identification has high robustness and tracking sustainability is strong; and a target motion estimation method is employed to reduce the calculated amount.

The invention belongs to the technical field of biological fuel cells, and discloses a phycomycetes microbial fuel cell and a preparation method and application of the phycomycetes microbial fuel cell. The phycomycetes microbial fuel cell comprises an anode chamber, a cathode chamber, a transverse diaphragm, an anode, a cathode and an outer circuit, wherein phycomycetes, a culture solution and a carbon source are respectively installed in the anode chamber and the cathode chamber. In the operation process of the phycomycetes microbial fuel cell, operation is conducted by repeatedly converting the electrodes; in the whole operation process, with the help of synergistic effects of the phycomycetes, the effect that azo dye pollutants are degraded efficiently is achieved; the electrodes are alternately used for degrading the azo dye pollutants, therefore, the physiologically toxic effect on current-producing bacteria by the azo dye pollutants is eliminated, and continuous efficient current generation is realized; the phycomycetes is adopted as a biocatalyst for both the anode and the cathode, no metal catalyst is used for modification, no exogenous artificial mediator is added, aeration is not needed, therefore, the construction and operation cost of the microbial fuel cell is lowered, the sustainability of the microbial fuel cell is enhanced, and industrial amplified production of the microbial fuel cell can be conducted beneficially.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a multistage porous carbon material. The preparation method comprises the following steps: blending a carbon source with an activator, and performing two-step carbonization and after treatment to obtain the multistage porous carbon material, wherein the two-step carbonization comprises low-temperature carbonization and high-temperature carbonization, the temperature of the low-temperature carbonization is 200-400 DEG C, and the temperature for the high-temperature carbonization is 800-1200 DEG C; the carbon source is a biomass, monosaccharide, disaccharide or polysaccharide of which the cellulose content is more than 20%; and the activator is selected from ammonium oxalate, potassium oxalate, potassium hydrogen oxalate, potassium tetroxalate, sodium oxalate, sodium hydrogen oxalate, sodium tetroxalate, sodium hydrogen carbonate or potassium hydrogen carbonate. The invention provides the preparation method of the multistage porous carbon material rich in macropore, and according to the preparation method, physical expansion and chemical activation are utilized, and a carbon source is used as a raw material to match with a specific activator in order to prepare the multistage porous carbon material rich in macropore; and the raw material is low in price and easy to obtain, the method is simple and strong in sustainability and has a potential for large-scale production.

A system which creates a wireless monitoring network of programmed and computing devices for the capture and transmission of real-time monitoring data. The system uses programmed devices that incorporate at least one sensor, a micro-controller, a data store, transmitters and receivers for multiple wireless communication methods and data input and output ports. The micro-controller may be programmed to operate the programmed device as a collector and transmitter of data from sensors in the programmed device or from other sensors connected to its input port, or as a reader and transmitter of data from other programmed devices. When a computing device is connected to a programmed device via USB, WiFi or Bluetooth (LE), the programmed device acts as a data reader providing monitoring data to the computing device. The system optimizes communications and power usage to maximize network sustainability and performance by managing alternative functional states with finite state machine firmware.