108 results about "Arctic" patented technology

Methods and compositions for developing a series of microfluidic, USB-enabled, wireless-enabled, lab-on-chip devices, designed to reduce the chain-of-custody handling of samples between sample acquisition and final reporting of data, to a single individual. These devices provide on-the-spot testing for micro- and nanoscale (molecular) analysis of blood, urine, infectious agents, toxins, measurement of therapeutic drug levels, purity-of-sample testing and presence of contaminants (toxic and non-toxic, volatile and non-volatile); and for the identification of individual components and formal compounds—elemental, biological, organic and inorganic—inclusive of foodstuffs, air, water, soil, oil and gas samples. These devices may be relatively inexpensive, ruggedly designed, lightweight and capable of being employed—depending upon the specific application—by individuals with limited training, in remote and extreme environments and settings: including combat zones, disaster areas, rural communities, tropical/arctic/desert and other inhospitable climates and challenging terrains. The device may be comprised of materials that are reclaimed, are re-usable and are recyclable.

A quantum photonic imaging device used in an underwater vehicle for stealthy detection of underwater objects includes a photon generating module that generates an entangled pair of photons that includes a signal photon and an ancilla photon, wherein the ancilla photon is retained within the device; a transmitter that transmits the signal photon towards a region of space for detecting an underwater object; a receiver that detects an incoming photon to the device; and a correlation module that distinguishes the signal photon that is reflected back to the receiver due to a presence of the object from environmental noise photons, wherein the distinguishing includes determining an entanglement correlation of the detected photon with the ancilla photon, and wherein a presence of the entanglement correlation between the detected photon and the ancilla photon indicates that the detected photon is the signal photon reflected back from the object.

A method and system for building modular platform structures from which oil and gas wells are drilled and maintained is disclosed, wherein a plurality of easily transportable, multifunctional platform modules are interconnected on-site to form a unitary platform structure. The interconnected platform modules are elevated above a ground surface on one or more legs coupled to at least one of the platform modules. The elevated, interconnected platform modules support both drilling and production operations in land-based, arctic, inaccessible, near-offshore and environmentally sensitive locations.

The invention discloses a multi-body arctic navigation ship which comprises a plurality of ship body structures. The ship body structures comprise an ice-breaking stem structure, a cargo compartment structure, a head ballast tank, a tail ballast tank, a side ballast tank and an engine room. The upper portions of the ship body structures are provided with superstructures, and the tails of the ship body structures are provided with a plurality of propellers. The head ballast tank is communicated with the tail ballast tank and the side ballast tank through pipes; and among the head ballast tank, the tail ballast tank and the side ballast tank, the water flow direction is controlled through a solenoid valve and a ballast pump. According to the multi-body arctic navigation ship, a conventional mode of ice breaking by a single ship body is replaced with multi-ship body ice breaking, and the ice-breaking capability and flexibility during polar region ice region navigation are greatly improved; and the ship expands an ice breaking area, so that a safer navigation region is opened up. A head molded line is optimized, and main engine power needed for ice region navigation is reduced.

The invention discloses an intelligent ship for arctic navigation. The intelligent ship comprises a voyage data recorder, an alarm management system, an ice load monitoring system, a stress monitoring system, an ice layer thickness and ice condition monitoring system, a longitudinal inclination optimization and navigational speed optimization system, a storage system, a noise and vibration monitoring system and an intelligent management system, wherein the voyage data recorder comprises a wave gauge, an anemorumbometer, a rotational speed meter, a fore-and-aft draft gauge and a satellite positioning receiver, and the alarm management system comprises a fuel thermometer, a fuel mass flow meter and a shaft power meter detection alarm system. A mariner adjusts the floatation condition, navigational speed and course of a ship according to data and information provided by the intelligent systems, so as to avoid icebergs or dangerous sea areas where ice layers are thick during arctic navigation, and then navigation safety is guaranteed; navigation resistance is reduced in ice-free or little-ice sea areas, and then oil consumption is reduced. Meanwhile, the maintenance and repair plan of equipment including a main engine and an auxiliary engine can be adjusted in time according to the monitored operation condition of machinery equipment.

The instant disclosure relates to a system and method of constructing drilling and production platforms that are particularly useful in remote, inaccessible and/or environmentally sensitive operating environments. According to one aspect of the invention, an arctic drilling platform is provided wherein various methods and means of interlocking neighboring platform modules are provided. Methods and means for sealing the intersections formed between a plurality of interlocked platform modules are also disclosed. According to further aspects of the invention, improved platform floor plans are provided, and various wellhead cellar layouts and sealing means are also described. Methods and means of enhancing the usefulness of modular storage platforms are disclosed, and a number of support post installation and removal techniques are also provided. Also taught are a variety of methods of adjusting the height and level of an assembled drilling platform, and methods and means of adding extension members useful for extending the length of a support post are also described.

Method and apparatus enabling worldwide reduction of carbon dioxide emissions and/or deforestation, personal clean energy system providing for cooking and/or electricity needs, earning emission credits, monetizing values of tradable emission rights/credits accruing from emissions avoided by using the apparatus to pay for the cost of the apparatus and/or to provide ongoing revenue thereby inducing many people to substitute carbon containing fuels for cooking and/or electricity needs by a synergic combination of cooking 0 and/or electricity generation 21 on sunlight H through a low cost two-axis easy sun tracking mechanism including a bendable mirror 14 having variable curvatures r_m and tilt angles s_m optimized for the solar altitudes α_s at the latitudes, seasons and day times from equator to arctic, resulting in greatly augmented cooking power enabling high quality meals 0 through much shorter cooking times and/or longer/higher PV cell 21 outputs charging batteries 24 powering lights, refrigerator, television, computer, enabling worldwide education and sustainable development.

The present invention relates to a polar sea ice type remote sensing monitoring method for extracting high-resolution sea ice type from passive microwave remote sensing images of the Arctic by using asuper-division technique, in particular to a high-resolution sea ice type extracting method based on the super-division technique. The invention is characterized in that the passive microwave image is firstly superdivided and reconstructed, and then the sea ice type is extracted based on the obtained high-resolution superdivided image. The invention utilizes the strategy of super-resolution reconstruction, firstly, the passive microwave remote sensing image of the polar sea ice is super-reconstructed to obtain a higher-resolution image, and then the high-resolution extraction of the polar seaice type is further realized on the basis of the super-resolution reconstruction.

Method and apparatus enabling worldwide reduction of carbon dioxide emissions and/or deforestation, personal clean energy system providing for cooking and/or electricity needs, earning emission credits, monetizing values of tradable emission rights/credits accruing from emissions avoided by using the apparatus to pay for the cost of the apparatus and/or to provide ongoing revenue thereby inducing many people to substitute carbon containing fuels for cooking and/or electricity needs by a synergic combination of cooking 0 and electricity generation 21 on sunlight H through a low cost two-axis easy sun tracking mechanism including a bendable mirror 14 having variable curvatures rm and tilt angles sm, optimized for the solar altitudes alphas at the latitudes, seasons and day times from equator to arctic, resulting in greatly augmented cooking power enabling high quality meals 0 through much shorter cooking times and longer/higher PV cell 21 outputs charging batteries 24 powering lights, refrigerator, television, computer, enabling worldwide education and sustainable development.

A temporary berm or bin system, easily transported, erected without tools, and easily dismantled. A set of panels or planks is joined with sliding clips to form a bin having vertical or near vertical sides. The bin is lined with an impervious sheet of geocloth to form a containment berm for use in controlling the dispersal of hazardous material spilled from storage or work facilities. Spring loaded clamps hold the geocloth securely to the uppermost plank without nailing, sewing, or other labor consuming and/or tear prone methods. The berm is particularly suited to protect oil well drilling sites in environmentally sensitive environments such as arctic tundra. No excavation or other disturbance of the soil is required to erect the protective berm. The berm is secured to the ground by spiking through triangular support gussets. In the arctic, securing may be accomplished by freezing ice or mud as an “ice mortar” over the gusset feet and along the lower edge of the planking. The berm system may be transported by ordinary truck, specially adapted transport/laying truck, or on a portable drilling platform.

The invention provides an arctic bacteria strain P29 for highly efficiently degrading crude oil, which is characterized in that the arctic bacterial strain belongs to Pseudoal teromonas sp., and has the preservation number CGMCC 2913; the bacterial colony is round, the diameter is about between 1.0 and 3.0mm, the edges are smooth, the surface is upheaved, moist and has a smooth upheaval, and the bacterial colony is not transparent and is straw yellow; the thalli is bacillus, the size is (0.8 mu m-1.1 mu m)*(1.5 mu m-3.1 mu m), and the suitable growing conditions are that: the pH is between 8.0 and 8.5 and the temperature is between 5 and 15 DEG C; and at a shaking speed more than 100 r/min, the arctic bacteria strain P29 can grow quickly by taking the crude oil as a unique carbon source and energy at a low temperature (5 DEG C). The bacteria strain has function of degrading various compositions of the crude oil, and has strong capacity of degrading the crude oil, high degradation efficiency and easy culture and reproduction at the low temperature.

The present invention discloses a transgenic fly that expresses the Arctic mutant version of the human Aβ42 peptide of human amyloid-β precursor protein (APP), and a double transgenic fly that expresses both the Tau protein and the human Aβ42_Arctic peptide of human amyloid-β precursor protein (APP). The transgenic flies of the present invention provide for models of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease. The invention further discloses methods for identifying genetic modifiers, as well as screening methods to identify therapeutic compounds to treat neurodegenerative disorders using the transgenic flies.

The invention relates to a skin spray based on deep repair and long-lasting moisture preservation. The skin spray is prepared from antarctic ice brown alga extract, auroral alga extract, arctic draparnaldia extract, jellyfish extract, sea spring water, hydrolyzed lupin protein, fragrant citrus fruit extract, 1,3-propanediol, poly-gamma-sodium glutamate, beta-sitosterol sodium sulfate, tocopheryl linoleate, wild soybean seed extract and other raw materials. Compared with the prior art, the skin spray has the advantages that the varieties and use quantities of the raw materials are strictly regulated, so that the technical formula of replenishing water to the surface layer (cuticle), replenishing nutrients (lipopolysaccharide, protein, microelements and the like) to the deep layer and activating cells meets the skin moisture preservation mechanism better, and the optimized formula design of the ingredients with the moisture preservation barrier and repair synergism is achieved.

The invention relates to Atlantic salmon broodstock culture feed. Each kilogram of feed includes 430 to 450 grams of Arctic Ocean fish meal, 30 to 55 grams of expanded blood meal, 340 to 360 grams of expanded soybean, 60 to 80 grams of imported refined fish oil, 60 to 95 grams of special-grade flour, 2.5 to 6.5 grams of Vb, 4.7 to 7.5 grams of Vc, 20 to 40 grams of Ve, 1 to 3 grams of Vd, 8 to 15 grams of choline chloride and 8 to 12 grams of adhesive. The invention has the advantages that the invention can meet the nutrition requirements of the broodstock in the Atlantic salmon broodstock culture period, and promote the gonadal maturation of the Atlantic salmon brood stock, thereby reaching the breed standard.

The invention provides an on-ice seismic source positioning method based on bending waves, and the method comprises the steps: extracting a bending wave frequency dispersion curve through employing a Hilbert-Huang transform time-frequency analysis method based on the characteristics of ice layer sound propagation based on the huge difference between the vertical thickness and the horizontal size of polar sea ice, and combining the advantages of large energy and easy detection of the bending waves of the ice layer, and acquiring the bending wave propagation group velocity. The frequency dispersion characteristic of the bending wave is fully utilized, and the focus distance is calculated through the arrival time and wave velocity difference of sound energy of different frequencies of the bending wave; and the positions of the three detectors and the calculated three distances are combined, and the position of the seismic source can be estimated by using a geometrical relationship. The invention provides the on-ice seismic source positioning method aiming at the acoustic propagation characteristics in the polar region environment and polar region sea ice so as to meet the economic development and potential target positioning requirements in the arctic region.

The invention relates to Atlantic salmon baby fish feed. Each kilogram of feed includes 335 to 370 grams of Arctic Ocean fish meal, 30 to 60 grams of expanded blood meal, 163 to 238 grams of expanded soybean, 200 to 275 grams of imported refined fish oil, 100 to 150 grams of soya lecithin, 60 to 95 grams of special-grade flour, 0.04 to 0.2 grams of Va, 2.5 to 6.5 grams of Vb, 4.7 to 7.5 grams of Vc, 0.3 to 0.7 grams of Ve, 1 to 3 grams of Vd, 8 to 15 grams of choline chloride, and 0.5 to 0.9 grams of acacia gum. Because a large amount of unsaturated fat and multi-vitamin are added into the feed, the appetite of the Atlantic salmon baby fish can be improved, and the survival rate of the baby fish can be increased.

The invention relates to an ice worthy jack-up rig that may extend the drilling season in shallow water off shore Arctic or ice prone locations. The inventive rig would work like a conventional jack-up rig while in open water with the hull jacked up out of the water. However, in the event of ice conditions, the hull is lowered into the water into an ice defensive configuration. The hull is specifically shaped with a lower portion that is an ice-bending surface to bend and break up ice that comes in contact with the hull while in the ice defensive configuration. Furthermore, the ice worthy jack-up rig that comprises at least two derricks so as to double the exploration efficiency and lower the relating costs.

The invention relates to an ice worthy jack-up rig that may extend the drilling season in shallow water off shore Arctic or ice prone locations. The inventive rig would work like a conventional jack-up rig while in open water with the hull jacked up out of the water. However, in the event of ice conditions, the legs are held in place by cans embedded in the sea floor to resist lateral movement of the rig and the hull is lowered into the water into an ice defensive configuration. The hull is specifically shaped with an ice-bending surface to bend and break up ice that comes in contact with the hull while in the ice defensive configuration.

The invention discloses a compound essential oil for preventing or repairing stretch marks and a preparation method thereof. 0.1-1.0 parts of cabbage seed oil, 0.5-2.0 parts of bitter neroli oil, 0.5-2.0 parts of lavender essential oil, 0.5-1.5 parts of cane fruit oil, 5-10 parts of wintergreen and 5-15 parts of Angelica dahurica. The present invention uses a variety of pure natural plant ingredients to formulate the essential oil formula, each component is well coordinated, and the formula is rich in various nutrients required for skin metabolism, repair, regeneration, etc., which can nourish and tighten the skin for a long time. The skin is elastic and can effectively prevent the growth of stretch marks or repair stretch marks.