194results about "Fog dispersion" patented technology

An irrigation control system for land comprising: (a) at least one meter to measure one or more wheather conditions in a first area; (b) at least one monitor to (i) examine rainfall data derived from a radar scanning at least the first area according to predetermined criteria and (ii) to extract data which is representative of the scanned rainfall in a sub-area of the first area; (c) a store to store the extracted data; and (d) a controller connected directly or indirectly to the meter and the monitor and to the store, to calculate a moisture content value for the sub-area and a predetermined moisture content value for the sub-area, and to regulate the irrigation in a sub-area.

A self-sufficient material property profile regulation method and system, for adjusting fluid property profiles such as in an ocean of multiple property layers, is described. Using this Fluid Property Regulator, the property profiles of a non-enclosed material, including property profiles related to material density, chemical characteristics and space-time position, are affected due to motion of the material relative to a body in the flow stream. The state of other matter with which the initial material then makes direct or indirect contact is also affected. For example, in the case of a liquid such as an ocean current, the temperature, salinity, nutrient content and other properties may be destratified (i.e. layers being combined) as the system lifts large quantities of deep water and combines this material with surface water in the downstream far-field region of the system. The resulting regulation of such ocean water property profiles may then also indirectly affect the properties of the atmosphere above the ocean so that the system can be said to affect planetary properties both oceanic and atmospheric. Rather than merely discharging a pumped material, such as cold water that might quickly re-submerge, the system regulates lasting property profiles. The new Fluid Property Regulator system described in this invention regulates material properties to produce desired outcomes such as increased food and energy production as well as to prevent undesirable outcomes such as hurricanes, elevated planetary temperatures, decreased planetary ice sheet size, raised sea level and glacial freshwater incursions that can halt important major currents.

A marine water conversion apparatus capable of pumping ocean surface water several hundred feel below the surface to cause sufficient cooler water to rise to the surface to prevent formation of or to moderate hurricanes. The apparatus is remotely controlled and includes a propulsion system for moving it to a new location or in predetermined patterns through use of a global positioning system and computerized controls. Power for driving the pumps may be provided by a wind turbine driven electric generator at the upper end of an upper tube section pivotally connected to a float tank on a vertical axis.

A method and apparatus for inhibiting or weakening the development of tropical cyclones by detecting the onset of tropical cyclonic activity using at least one storm tracking weather satellite and using at least one submerged modified nuclear powered submarine to pump cool subsurface water to cool the surface water in the area of such activity. The method and apparatus contemplate moving the submarine with the movement of the tropical cyclone as tracked by satellite with the objective that cooling activity is optimally positioned and unrelenting.

A variety of devices capable of bringing ocean water from a considerable depth to the surface using airlift systems. A bubble of air released in the ocean will rise to the surface. If a gas diffuser is employed to release millions of bubbles of air, the rising cloud of bubbles will entrain the surrounding water and pull it toward the surface.

The present invention provides a method of limiting sea level rise. In a first step heat that would otherwise cause thermal expansion of the ocean and resultant sea level rise is extracted to produce energy. The energy is used to convert a portion of the liquid ocean water to the gaseous elements hydrogen and oxygen by the process of electrolysis. The ocean level is reduced by the volume of water converted to gas. The hydrogen is captured for use as an energy source and is transported to a desert to be recombined with resident oxygen to produce energy and water for irrigation.

A method and system for inhibiting or weakening the formation of hurricanes, by detecting the onset of a hurricane in a region of open water and immediately cooling the surface water in the open water region. In the decribed preferred embodiments, the surface water is cooled by using one or more nuclear-powered submarines to pump cooler water at a depth in the open water region to the surface of the open water region.

Methods and systems are described for the abatement of hurricanes and other atmospheric disturbances. The methods and systems comprise the delivery of various coolants in either their liquid, gaseous, or solid states and applying such coolants to energy feeding regions of the atmospheric disturbance identified by analytical modeling. The coolants are both cryogenic and non cryogenic. In addition to cooling, the cryogenic coolants create wind-sheer and large frozen objects in mesoscale model identified updrafts of an atmospheric disturbance from high altitudes down to sea level. All coolants bring about the abatement of the hurricane by the dehydration of the moisture laden air, the disruption of the stability of the hurricane winds, and the preemption of work by the hurricane's heat engine prior to land fall.

An economical and compact air handler specially configured for use in agricultural applications is provided. The agricultural air handler includes a shroud formed to surround a rotating shaft having a propeller attached to each end of the shaft. The propellers draw air through an air inlet located proximate the top of the shroud. Each propeller blows the air out of an end of the shroud. A shaft drive rotates the shaft. The shaft drive can be powered by a source outside the shroud, or a source contained within the shroud. The power source can include a hydraulic pump driven by the power take-off of a tractor. An air stream is blown from the shroud. The air stream is directed in an approximately vertically planar flow pattern to remove water ponded within the stem cup of a agricultural crop, such as cherries. The air handler can be used as a freeze protecting heat exchanger or for the application of liquid or dust formulations of agri-chemicals. The agricultural air handling device can also be utilized for atmosphere modification of an enclosed area containing a crop or orchard.

The invention turns a hurricane / tropical cyclone into a tropical rainstorm by spraying a super coolant such as liquid oxygen, or liquid hydrogen, or liquid nitrogen, or other super cold liquid gas around the top of the eye wall and additionally if needed, into the front of the eye wall, or forming eye wall using aircraft with pre-measured amounts of super coolant. Based on actual results, a real time computer system will be developed to enable communications between aircraft and control the amount of super coolant dispersed. The result of the invention will reduce / eliminate the damage to life and property due to high winds and storm surge as well as the staggering costs for rebuilding.

A marine water conversion apparatus capable of pumping ocean surface water several hundred feel below the surface to cause sufficient cooler water to rise to the surface to prevent formation of or to moderate hurricanes. The apparatus is remotely controlled and includes a propulsion system for moving it to a new location or in predetermined patterns through use of a global positioning system and computerized controls. Power for driving the pumps may be provided by a wind turbine driven electric generator at the upper end of an upper tube section pivotally connected to a float tank on a vertical axis.

A method of cooling the Earth atmosphere along with inducing water precipitation and producing electricity by providing a super tall chimney 1000 m to 10000 m tall coupled with electric wind turbines, by allowing warm air to move up to chimney.

At least one method for indicating a weather condition includes indexing a storm based on two or more parameters. One of the parameters is a travel speed of the storm and a second parameter is a location of the storm. The method further includes providing a time before the storm impacts a recipient based on the travel speed of the storm and a track distance to the recipient location. The method further includes delivering the time before the storm impacts the location to the recipient.

An elongated pipe conduit snow making tower, and assembly method, having an upper end spray nozzle head and pivotally supported on a support pipe for vertical inclination by a hydraulic ram jack enabling infinite non-preselected incremental inclinations. A ram safety latch automatically latch / catches the tower pipe if the jack leaks. Secondary and tertiary external flexible water hoses are selectable to feed associated spray head snowmaking nozzles, and an internal compressed air conduit feeds spray head seeding nozzles. Secondary and tertiary ball valve assemblies mounted on a water feed block are outlet coupled to their respective hoses. In drain condition turbulent primary water continually washes against a valve ball flow closure side for an anti-freezing effect. The spray head is a four-piece modular planar stack up of disks each carrying spray nozzles that all discharge forwardly away from the pipe tower in generally parallel spray patterns.

The invention relates to a unmanned aerial vehicle haze detection eliminating system, and the unmanned aerial vehicle haze detection eliminating system comprises a particle spray gun, PM2.5 detector, an air temperature detector, a radio dispatcher and a processor, the particle spray gun is used for spraying fog eliminating particles, the PM2.5 detector is used for detecting the concentration of the PM2.5 in the air, the air temperature detector is used for detecting the air temperature, the radio dispatcher is used for receiving the cruise position from the local environment protection management control platform, the process is connected to the radio dispatcher for controlling the unmanned aerial vehicle to the cruise position, the processor is connected to the particle spray gun, PM2.5 detector and the air temperature detector respectively for controlling the particle spraying condition of the particle spray gun according to the detection result of the PM2.5 detector and the air temperature detector. According to the unmanned aerial vehicle haze detection eliminating system, suitable strategy can be formed according to the actual condition of the haze in the air for ensuring the haze eliminating effect.

The invention discloses an airplane demisting equipment, which comprises a water tank. The water tank is communicated with a plurality of injecting nozzles arranged outside the airplane through a pipeline, and water in the water tank can be sprayed through the injecting nozzles in the period when the airplane flies in the mist zone, to cause the mist to be formed into rain, snow or hail to fall off. Because the water tank is communicated with a plurality of injecting nozzles arranged outside the airplane through the pipeline, the water in the water tank can be sprayed through the injecting nozzles in the period when the airplane flies in the mist zone, to cause the mist to be formed into rain, snow or hail to fall off. The demisting method that water drops are taken as condensation nucleus has the advantages that the equipment is simple, the raw material cost is low, the airplane demisting equipment is suitable for the demisting in the large range, thus not only the demisting effect is good, and the mist cost is low, but also the demisting effect is enduring. The invention can be used for the demisting in the large range in the city area, on the highway, at the air port and at the dock.

The invention discloses a spray dust-removal haze-removal vehicle with a vector nozzle. The spray dust-removal haze-removal vehicle comprises a six wheeled vehicle chassis, a front-placed vector cyclone sprayer, a first worm gear, a first worm, a first plunger hydraulic motor and the like. The front-placed vector cyclone sprayer is fixedly installed on the upper portion of the first worm gear through a support. The first worm gear is installed on a boss of a lifting platform perpendicularly and rotationally. The first worm is installed on a support of the lifting platform transversely and rotationally and matched with the first worm gear. According to the spray dust-removal haze-removal vehicle, high power transmission can be achieved in a small space, and accordingly a very high rotation speed of a high speed fan can be achieved stably without noise. By arranging the vector nozzle, the spraying directions and angles of the front-placed vector cyclone sprayer and a rear-placed vector cyclone sprayer can be adjusted more accurately, and thus a better dust-removal effect is achieved.

The proposed advanced multi-level protective system comprises two types of barriers, harmoniously complementing to each other: a portable barrier for the protection of individual houses at the height of the floods up to 0.8-0.9 meters, and more powerful protective quick-installable barriers, suitable for mechanized installation and resistant to higher water flows up to 1.2-2 meters. The proposed advanced protective system comprises a number of additional means capable of weakening against dangerous natural processes that give rise strong water flows, and these means can weaken these flows and increase the efficiency of proposed protective barriers.

A method and apparatus of increasing the amounts of raining in the desert, which is to settle a water-pumping station on the beach, said water-pumping station is connected with a plurality of water-storage region in the desert with the water delivery pipeline, by means of the water-pumping station to pump the seawater and transports it to each water storage region in the desert to make the seawater in the water storage region arise by the evaporation of the seawater by the sunshine, and to settle to salt land to generate more water and salts, next to utilize the glasshouse design which makes the seawater being transformed into the fresh water to acquire the fresh water, by means of such method and apparatus to increase the water contents of the air in the desert and to lessen the temperature in the desert, whereas the steam could be transformed onto the clouds after arising, thus further increase the chance of raining in the desert.

A system for use in inducing rainfall is provided. The system includes an aircraft configured to travel through an ambient environment at a first temperature, and a precipitation system coupled to the aircraft. The precipitation system is configured to form a particle from a substance in the ambient environment, and is configured to discharge the particle at a second temperature lower than the first temperature such that moisture in the air condenses on the particle.

High sea surface temperatures (SST) are a major factor in the formation and maintenance of tropical cyclones. Global warming has contributed to a rise in SSTs causing an increase in tropical cyclone formation. This increase in SSTs in the Atlantic basin is attributed to failing of the ThemoHaline Currents (THC) that provides warm ocean waters to Europe. Should the THC fail, it is estimated that Europe would be plunged into a 200-400 year ice age. The invention described herein uses OTEC or similar technology to pump cold ocean water to the surface, reducing SSTs limiting the formation and growth of tropical cyclones. Additional benefits would include strengthening of the THC as well as providing a stop-gap solution for global warming while more responsible manufacturing and industrial methods are designed and implemented. With limited additions to the OTEC platform other benefits can be derived including but not limited to mariculture, algaeculture, biodiesel and ethanol production, and carbon sequestration.

The invention turns a hurricane / tropical cyclone into a tropical rainstorm by spraying a super coolant such as liquid oxygen, or liquid hydrogen, or liquid nitrogen, or other super cold liquid gas around the top of the eye wall and additionally if needed, into the front of the eye wall using aircraft with pre-measured amounts of super coolant. Based on actual results, a real time computer system will be developed to enable communications between aircraft and control the amount of super coolant dispersed. The result of the invention will reduce / eliminate the damage to life and property due to high winds and storm surge as well as the staggering costs for rebuilding.

A system for removing carbon dioxide from an atmosphere to reduce global warming including an air extraction system that collects carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through a medium and removes carbon dioxide from the medium; a sequestration system that isolates the removed carbon dioxide to a location for at least one of storage and generation of a renewable carbon fuel; and one or more power supplying units that supply heat to the air extraction system to remove the carbon dioxide from the medium, at least one of the one or more power supplying units being a fossil fuel plant.

The invention provides the use, a method, and an apparatus to reduce and remove liquid droplets in air, such as fog, mist, or haze, although the invention in specific embodiments might also be used to reduce and remove liquid droplets from a spray or steam.The invention of the mist and / or air borne water or other liquid droplets catching and collection apparatus creates an electric wind, especially enforced by charged needle points or line arranged constructions and / or wires of the first electrode and an electric charging of mist and / or air borne water or other liquid droplets, which will be directed by the electric wind and the electric field between the electric source and the opposite grounded or opposite charged counter electrode (second electrode) of fine gauze or something comparable.

The invention relates to a device and a method for alleviating flood discharging atomization of a high dam. The device comprises control rooms, connecting pipes, injection pipes and a low cost environmentally-friendly moisture absorption particle material. Injection systems are arranged at the top of a side wall of a downstream plunge pool of the dam or in a proper position of a downstream bank slope; the control rooms are close to the downstream face of the dam; the connecting pipes are arranged along the side wall top of the plunge pool and the injection pipes are arranged on the connecting pipes at intervals; the nozzles of the injection pipes face the inside of the plunge pool and the angles of the injection pipes can be adjusted toward a dense fog region. The environmentally-friendly moisture absorption particle material is injected to two sides of the dense fog region in the plunge pool by virtue of the injection devices. Atomized water drops are accelerated to combine and fall by virtue of the hydrophilicity of the moisture absorption particles and heavy rainfall is constrained in the plunge pool, so that the downstream atomizing damage is alleviated and the cost of a fog rain protective project is lowered, and meanwhile, a sufficient space is provided for optimizing project layout. The device and method not only can be used for a newly built high dam project, but also can be used for fog-reducing transformation of built projects.

A system comprises a plurality of albedo-increasing materials distributed on a surface of a man-made structure and having an albedo that is greater than an albedo of the surface of the man-made structure, wherein the albedo of the albedo-increasing materials is at least 0.15. The plurality of albedo-increasing materials are positioned and sized to increase an evaporation rate at the surface for a given temperature and decrease a temperature characterizing the man-made structure.

This invention describes a system whose operation can change the track and intensity of atmospheric storms. The invention uses arrays of wind turbines which are being built for power generation. Using existing atmospheric and storm tracking models, calculations of a storm track may be determined to establish a baseline track calculation. The storm track may then be calculated for a number of permutations where various groups or individual wind turbines are curtailed (e.g., feathered). The optimal storm track may be determined based on damage estimate calculations. Signals may be sent to individual or groups of wind turbines to curtail the turbines to alter the track of the tropical storm.

A method and system for protection against natural temperature-dependent dangerous phenomena connected with huge streams mainly water, mud, locust. The method allows weakening these streams and allows protecting against these dangers at least at of the first two stages of development of said phenomena: forming these masses and their moving, as far as possible. The method allows protecting ecology and increasing CO2 absorption. The system allows also transporting the electrical energy that is received from solar radiation with help of solar cells flying in stratosphere to ground-based reception stations.

The invention relates to a lift-off balloon for collecting particulate matters in the air by using wind power generation as power source, and belongs to the technical field of environmental protection application. Blades of a wind power generator are rotated under the blowing of wind force so as to drive the wind power generator to generate current, the generated current is input into an energy storage battery for storage after being adjusted through a wind power controller; when the lift-off balloon is in work, the energy storage battery outputs current for supplying power for the whole device; the air sucked into the airflow channel through an air pump is ionized in an ionization chamber to generate electronegative air ions so that the particulate matters in the air are loaded with negative electricity, under the effect of electric field force and the airflow, the particulate matters loaded with the negative ions passing through an adsorption chamber are adsorbed on an adsorption net of the adsorption chamber due to electro-discharging, and the purified air is discharged at a vent through the airflow. The lift-off balloon for collecting particulate matters in the air by using wind power generation as power source can persistently stay in the air to collect the particulate matters in the air; and meanwhile, since the non-pollution wind power generation is used as the power source, the environment cannot be influenced.