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Energy service business method and system

If the energy service enterprise is responsible for paying costs for applying energy-saving measures to the object facilities, measures the energy consumption after taking the energy-saving measures, calculates the amount of curtailed energy cost by comparing the measured value with the energy consumption before taking the energy-saving measures previously stored in the database, and receives at least a part of the curtailed amount, the customer is not required to plan equipment investment in energy-saving measures and collection thereof. Introduction of the energy-saving measures is thus made easier.
Owner:HITACHI LTD

Wave power generator

A machine and a process to produce compressed air by sea waves, using the weight of the floating platform with its fixture using its up and down movement to compress air in both directions to absorb the maximum energy of that wave in a direct drive bidirectional pump with a single piston wherein the kinetic energy and wave bouncy force is used to compress ambient air as stored energy. This unique arrangement doubles air volume for compression in both directions in any single wave curve, doubles the energy production in both upper and lower chambers of the pump and multiplies the “psi” based on the float thrust area against the size of the piston in the pump. The preferred embodiment can be used as a stand alone unit as well as in array formation for the desired output 24 / 7.
Owner:KHAN GHAZI +1

Shingle system

A barrier, such as a PV module, is secured to a base by a support to create a shingle assembly with a venting region defined between the barrier and base for temperature regulation. Water resistant junctions may be formed between the bases of adjacent shingle assemblies of an array of shingle assemblies. The base may include an insulation layer underlying a water barrier. The base may also include a waterproofing element; the width and height of the barrier may be shorter than the width and height of the waterproofing element.
Owner:SUNPOWER CORPORATION

Wind turbine load control method

A method for limiting loads in a wind turbine by using measured loads or wind speed to increase the minimum pitch angle for extended periods. The minimum pitch angle will be allowed to relax down to the default when load excursions diminish. The method will allow turbines to capture more energy by operating in higher wind speeds and / or utilizing larger rotors without additional loss of fatigue life.
Owner:MCNERNEY GERALD

Energy service business method and system

An energy service business system includes a database which stores past data about an energy consumption of a facility before taking energy-saving measures, a measurer which measures present data of the energy consumption after taking the energy-saving measures, and a calculator which calculates energy curtailment quantities facility before and after taking the energy-saving measures. The past data in the database are stored in a form correlated with data of a production quantity, and the measurer measures the present data of the energy consumption together with data of the production quantity after taking the energy-saving measures. The calculator retrieves the past data having production quantity data within a set allowable range corresponding to the measured present data having production quantity data, and calculates the energy curtailment quantities by comparing the retrieved past data having production quantity data and the measured present data having the production quantity data.
Owner:HITACHI LTD

Apparatus for converting gravitational energy to electrical energy

The present invention discloses an apparatus of converting gravitational energy to electrical energy. The apparatus includes a reciprocating drive mechanism for lifting liquid from a bottom reservoir to an upper reservoir and turbines between the upper and lower reservoirs which are turned by liquid falling down a flow path from the top reservoir through the turbines to the bottom reservoir. The reciprocating drive mechanism includes a large circular ring or wheel pivotally attached at its hub or center to a support frame and a cable over the upper periphery of the ring with two pipes attached one at each end of the cable. The ring pivots back and forth lifting one pipe and lowering the other pipe and vice versa. As a pipe moves down liquid enters the bottom of the pipe while liquid drains out the top of the pipe into the upper reservoir. One of the turbines is connected to the reciprocating drive mechanism and the other to a generator for producing electricity.
Owner:DUTTA ALOK

Door control system with obstacle detection

System for controlling a door enabling driving from an initial position of its travel in a first direction at a speed v1 as far as a final position, said control system comprising a safety function comprising means for keeping a door in operation despite its having suffered an impact against an obstacle situated on its travel and enabling it to continue its initial movement automatically as soon as said obstacle is removed, through a design reconciling a sufficiently high normal speed of movement v1 of the door with the intention to prevent damage both to the obstacle and to the door by reducing the speed to v3<v1 close to the stored position of the impact.
Owner:DYNACO EURO

Oxygen-based biomass combustion system and method

InactiveUS7007616B2Heat loss from heating unnecessary oxidant is minimizedReduce heat lossSolidificationLiquefactionCombustion chamberOxygen
An oxygen-based biomass solid fuel combustion system and method has an air separator for separating oxygen from air providing a supply of oxygen for feeding oxygen to a solid fuel combustion chamber. An airlock feeds a metered amount of solid fuel to the solid fuel combustion chamber. A burner stage having a firetube for collecting fuel gases from the solid fuel combustion chamber combusts the collected fuel gases with further oxygen from the separator and heats a boiler to generate steam. A heat utilization device (e.g. an electrical generator) may be connected to the steam boiler. Nitrogen-free diluent gases (e.g. argon and carbon dioxide) are used to control combustion process temperatures. The usable heat energy and useful byproducts are extracted from the different stages of the process.
Owner:MUNIZ CESAR A

Oxygen-based biomass combustion system and method

InactiveUS20050022553A1Minimize heat lossHeat loss from heating unnecessary oxidant is minimizedSolidificationLiquefactionAutomotive engineeringCarbon dioxide
An oxygen-based biomass solid fuel combustion system and method has an air separator for separating oxygen from air providing a supply of oxygen for feeding oxygen to a solid fuel combustion chamber. An airlock feeds a metered amount of solid fuel to the solid fuel combustion chamber. A burner stage having a firetube for collecting fuel gases from the solid fuel combustion chamber combusts the collected fuel gases with further oxygen from the separator and heats a boiler to generate steam. A heat utilization device (e.g. an electrical generator) may be connected to the steam boiler. Nitrogen-free diluent gases (e.g. argon and carbon dioxide) are used to control combustion process temperatures. The usable heat energy and useful byproducts are extracted from the different stages of the process.
Owner:MUNIZ CESAR A

Solar reflector, collecting window and heat storage

A linear trough concentrates sunlight through a long target window in a greenhouse's roof or north wall. Heat is stored in a geothermal heat bank below the greenhouse's center, where a thermal skirt around the greenhouse reduces heat loss.
Owner:KLINKMON PAUL M

Apparatus, method, and system for lighting fixture cooling

A high-intensity LED lighting system is presented whereby one or more LED lighting fixtures are affixed to an elevating structure, the elevating structure having a substantially continuous internal pathway. Said pathway can be used as a conduit or duct for pressurized air which is introduced at or near the bottom of the elevating structure and forced upwardly toward the lighting fixtures so to provide cooling of one or more components of the lighting fixtures so to, ultimately, improve the efficacy of the LEDs contained therein. A method of designing lighting systems, including analysis of whether or not to add air cooling to increase light source efficiency is also disclosed.
Owner:MUSCO

Energy efficient building construction

A cost-effective and energy-efficient system and method for building construction, such as for residential dwellings and the like, uses dual-wall building envelope system having outer walls and corresponding partition walls spaced outwardly from the outer walls. The envelope system provides ample space for insulation to enhance the thermal efficiently of the house or building, while permitting construction at reduced cost using pre-fabrication methods.
Owner:ENERGYSMART BUILDING METHOD

Active optoceramics with cubic crystal structure, method of production of the optoceramics, and uses thereof

The transparent polycrystalline optoceramic has single grains with a symmetric cubic crystal structure and at least one optically active center. The optoceramic has the following formula: A2+xByDzE7, wherein −1.15≦x≦0, 0≦y≦3, 0≦z≦1.6, and 3x+4y+5z=8, and wherein A is at least one trivalent rare earth cation, B is at least one tetravalent cation, D is at least one pentavalent cation, and E is at least one divalent anion. The method of making the optoceramic includes preparing a powder mixture from starting materials, pre-sintering, sintering and then compressing to form the optoceramic. Scintillator media made from the optoceramic are also described.
Owner:SCHOTT AG

Alkaline cleaning liquid comprising metallic ions for aluminum or aluminum alloys and method of cleaning

There is provided an alkaline cleaning of aluminum alloy, in which the attained corrosion resistance is equal or superior to the acidic cleaning agent, and which mitigates the disadvantages of the acidic cleaning agent, such as corrosion of plant, processing of the waste liquid, and energy cost, and which attains improved productivity.The cleaning liquid from 0.5 to 40 g / L in total of one or more alkali builders selected from alkali metal hydroxide, alkali metal carbonate, inorganic alkali metal phosphate and alkali metal silicate, from 0.2 to 10 g / L of one or more of organic phosphonic acid and its salt (A), from 0.001 to 2 g / L of one or more metallic ions (B) selected from metallic ions having from 5.0 to 14.0 of stability constant with the organic phosphonic acid and its salt, and from 0.1 to 10 g / L of surfactant. Particularly, the weight ratio of (A):(B) is in a range of from 100:0.05˜20.
Owner:TOYO SEIKAN KAISHA LTD +1

Method for preparation of magnetic spinel ferrites from layered double hydroxide precursors

The invention describes a method of preparing magnetic ferrites from layered precursors in which Fe2+ is first introduced into the layers of layered double hydroxides (LDHs) in order to prepare Me-Fe2+—Fe3+ LDHs, and then by utilizing the easily oxidized nature of Fe2+, binary or multi-component ferrite materials containing Fe3+ in a single crystalline phase can be prepared. Values of the saturation magnetization of ferrites prepared by the method are significantly increased compared with ferrites prepared by traditional methods. Because the metal elements in the layered precursor have the characteristics of a high degree of dispersion, high activity and small particle size (average particle size 40-200 nm), no milling is required before calcination, thus simplifying the production process, shortening the production period, reducing capital investment in equipment and economizing on energy costs. In addition, the method does not corrode production equipment and does not pollute the environment.
Owner:BEIJING UNIV OF CHEM TECH

Display device

A display device includes an accommodating member in which an inner space is defined, a display panel accommodated in the inner space in the accommodating member, and an energy generating module disposed between the accommodating member and the display panel and which produces a triboelectricity, where the energy generating module includes a first electrified substrate fixed to the accommodating member and a second electrified substrate disposed on the first electrified substrate, the second electrified substrate moves relative to the first electrified substrate by a frictional event, and the triboelectricity is produced by the relative movement between the first and second electrified substrates.
Owner:SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO LTD

Active optoceramics with cubic crystal structure, method of production of the optoceramics, and uses thereof

The transparent polycrystalline optoceramic has single grains with a symmetric cubic crystal structure and at least one optically active center. The optoceramic has the following formula: A2+xByDzE7, wherein 0≦x≦1.1, 0≦y≦3, 0≦z≦1.6, and 3x+4y+5z=8, and wherein A is at least one trivalent rare earth cation, B is at least one tetravalent cation, D is at least one pentavalent cation, and E is at least one divalent anion. The method of making the optoceramic includes preparing a powder mixture from starting materials, pre-sintering, sintering and then compressing to form the optoceramic. Scintillator media made from the optoceramic are also described.
Owner:SCHOTT AG

Use of enzyme catalysts in co2 pcc processes

A method for processing a stream enriched in CO2 from a gas by the action of an absorbent in the stream includes desorbing CO2 from the stream by application of heat to the stream to desorb the CO2 and regenerate the absorbent in a reaction system that includes reconstitution of carbon dioxide and an alkanolamine from carbamate and ammonium ion solution. The energy requirement is materially reduced by the presence of a biocatalyst. In another aspect, a gas stream is contacted with a sorbent system to effect absorption of CO2 from the gas stream, the sorbent and absorbed CO2 are separated from the gas stream to form a CO2-rich stream, and the sorbent system contains a primary or secondary alkanolamine and a catalyst selected to modify the reaction kinetics of the absorption process so as to materially increase the proportion of bicarbonate in the CO2-rich stream relative to carbamate.
Owner:COMMONWEALTH SCI & IND RES ORG

Resource Tower

Invented is a Resource Tower that uses water electrolysis to separate out its elemental and purified H2 hydrogen gas and O2 oxygen gas. These gases form a pressurized flow for electricity generation for distribution and transport to heights atop the Resource Tower. Core advancements of this invention are the use of fuel cells at the top of the Resource Tower to electrochemically combine hydrogen gas and oxygen gas to produce electricity, heat, and water. The Resource Tower distributes the electricity, converts heat and water to steam to generate additional electricity for distribution, and ultimately coalesces the steam back to water at a height. The water that falls under acceleration of gravity from atop the Resource Tower is used to generate additional electricity for distribution. In addition to multiple sites of electricity generation for distribution, the purity of hydrogen gas and oxygen gas from water electrolysis is retained and the water resulting from the Resource Tower is purified and potable for distribution.
Owner:REILLY THOMAS MICHAEL

Method for preparation of magnetic spinel ferrites from layered double hydroxide precursors

The invention describes a method of preparing magnetic ferrites from layered precursors in which Fe2+ is first introduced into the layers of layered double hydroxides (LDHs) in order to prepare Me-Fe2+—Fe3+ LDHs, and then by utilizing the easily oxidized nature of Fe2+, binary or multi-component ferrite materials containing Fe3+ in a single crystalline phase can be prepared. Values of the saturation magnetization of ferrites prepared by the method are significantly increased compared with ferrites prepared by traditional methods. Because the metal elements in the layered precursor have the characteristics of a high degree of dispersion, high activity and small particle size (average particle size 40-200 nm), no milling is required before calcination, thus simplifying the production process, shortening the production period, reducing capital investment in equipment and economizing on energy costs. In addition, the method does not corrode production equipment and does not pollute the environment.
Owner:BEIJING UNIV OF CHEM TECH

Apparatus, method, and system for lighting fixture cooling

A high-intensity LED lighting system is presented whereby one or more LED lighting fixtures are affixed to an elevating structure, the elevating structure having a substantially continuous internal pathway. Said pathway can be used as a conduit or duct for pressurized air which is introduced at or near the bottom of the elevating structure and forced upwardly toward the lighting fixtures so to provide cooling of one or more components of the lighting fixtures so to, ultimately, improve the efficacy of the LEDs contained therein. A method of designing lighting systems, including analysis of whether or not to add air cooling to increase light source efficiency is also disclosed.
Owner:MUSCO

Method for preventing a risk of freezing in a reducing-agent feeding device of a selective catalytic reduction system

Disclosed is a method for preventing a risk of freezing in a device for supplying reducing agent to a selective catalytic reduction system in an exhaust line, a freezing temperature specific to the agent being stored in memory, the system including a controller operating the system and emitting pulses to an injector, the controller being inactive when the engine is switched off. With the combustion engine switched off, the controller is woken up at predetermined intervals to initiate an emission of a specific electric pulse to the injector with measurements of a current-strength and voltage of the electric pulse providing a value of the electrical resistance of the injector. A temperature of the reducing agent at the injector is estimated as a function of the measured resistance and, when at least the temperature thus estimated is below the freezing temperature, a purge of the device is initiated.
Owner:VITESCO TECH GERMANY GMBH

Method and firewall for soliciting incoming packets

This disclosure relates to controlling unwanted traffic to a device (40) in a communication network (30). The idea is to provide a more fine-grained control of incoming packets or connection attempts, by using an inclusive firewall (10) i.e. a firewall operating on “white-listed” traffic to a device (40). The disclosure, relates to a method for controlling a data flow to a device in a communication network, using a firewall located in the path between said device and a source node. The method comprises receiving (210), in said firewall, at least one data packet of said data flow. The firewall then reads (220), a predefined selection of bits of said at least one data packet, wherein the selection of bits is contained in at least one field of said data packet. The at least field or fields, including the selection of bits, carry a first type information. The firewall then forwards (240) the at least one data packet to the device, if selection of bits fulfills a policy of said device. The policy is defining requirements by which packets to said device are solicited. Hence, the solicitation of packets is a second type of information carried by said selection of bits. The disclosure further relates to a methods controlling a data flow, as well as to a firewall (10), a source (20) and a device (40).
Owner:TELEFON AB LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
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