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Methods and systems provided for creating a scalable building block for a virtual power plant, where individual buildings can incorporate on-site renewable energy assets and energy storage and optimize the acquisition, storage and consumption of energy in accordance with a value hierarchy. Each building block can be aggregated into a virtual power plant, in which centralized control of load shifting in selected buildings, based on predictive factors or price signals, can provide bulk power for ancillary services or peak demand situations. Aggregation can occur at multiple levels, including developments consisting of both individual and common renewable energy and storage assets. The methods used to optimize the system can also be applied to “right size” the amount of renewable energy and storage capacity at each site to maximize return on the capital investment.

A CDN service provider shares its CDN infrastructure with a network to enable a network service provider (NSP) to offer a private-labeled network content delivery network (NCDN or “private CDN”) to participating content providers. The CDNSP preferably provides the hardware, software and services required to build, deploy, operate and manage the CDN for the NCDN customer. Thus, the NCDN customer has access to and can make available to participating content providers one or more of the content delivery services (e.g., HTTP delivery, streaming media delivery, application delivery, and the like) available from the global CDN without having to provide the large capital investment, R&D expense and labor necessary to successfully deploy and operate the network itself. Rather, the global CDN service provider simply operates the private CDN for the network as a managed service.

A method and apparatus for purifying crude terephthalic acid from a liquid dispersion thereof also containing impurities selected from unreacted starting materials, solvents, products of side reactions and/or other undesired materials is provided. The method comprises the steps of filtering the dispersion to form a crude terephthalic acid filter cake, dissolving the filter cake in a selective crystallization solvent at an elevated temperature to form a solution, crystallizing purified terephthalic acid from the solution in the crystallization solvent by reducing the pressure and temperature of the solution, and separating the crystallized purified terephthalic acid from the solution. According to the invention, the selective crystallization solvent is non-aqueous, non-corrosive and essentially non-reactive with terephthalic acid. Preferably, the selective crystallization solvent is N-methyl pyrrolidone. The method and apparatus produces purified terephthalic acid having a purity desired for use in forming polyester resin and other products at an economically attractive rate and at operating conditions of reduced severity which require a lower capital investment and simplified processing.

Diluted wet combustion forms a hot process fluid or VASTgas comprising carbon dioxide (CO₂) and fluid water which is delivered geologic formations and/or from surface mined materials to reduce the viscosity and/or increase hydrocarbon extraction. This may improve thermal efficiency and/or increases heat delivery for a given combustor or per capital investment. High water and/or CO₂ content is achieved by reducing non-aqueous diluent and/or adding or recycling CO₂. Power recovered from expanding the VASTgas may be pressurize the VASTgas for delivery by partial expansion through a Direct VAST cycle, and/or by diverting compressed oxidant through a parallel thermogenerator in a Diverted VAST cycle. Pressurized VASTgas may be injected into well within the hydrocarbon formation or with mined material into a heavy hydrocarbon separator vessel to heat, mobilize, solubilize and/or extract heavy hydrocarbons. Light hydrocarbons may be mixed in with the hot process fluid to enhance hydrocarbon mobilization and recovery. Microwaves may further heat the VASTgas and/or hydrocarbon. Sulfur oxidation, calcining limestone and/or recycling may increase CO₂. Oxygen enrichment may increase the specific power. VASTgas may be delivered through and back injection wells and/or production wells, and/or between sequential injection wells in alternating and/or paired zigzag formations with multiple wells per VAST combined heat and power recovery system.

The present invention is applicable in the field of corporate finance, corporate capital investments, economics, math, risk analysis, simulation, decision analysis, and business statistics, and relates to the modeling and valuation of investment decisions under uncertainty and risk within all companies, allowing these firms to properly identify, assess, quantify, value, diversify, and hedge their corporate capital investment decisions and their associated risks

The present invention relates to methods for facilitating capital investment decisions and transactions concerning development, expansion, consolidation, location, relocation, merger, acquisition, and/or disposition of business operations and/or facilities using computer interface inquiries. The inventive method allows a user to select and compare business locations based on demographic and/or economic criteria and to optionally determine financial factors associated with operating a business in selected locations. In particular, the invention is directed to a method for deciding whether, where, and to what extent to invest capital for the development, expansion, consolidation, location, or relocation of a business, business operation, or business facility. For example, the invention provides a method for selecting locations for expansion or relocation of a business operation or business facility.

The present invention is applicable in the field of sales performance management coupled with corporate finance, corporate capital investments, economics, math, business risk analysis, simulation, decision analysis, qualitative risk analysis, risk management, quantitative risk analysis, and business statistics, and relates to the modeling and valuation of investment decisions and sales performance management and analysis under uncertainty and risk within all companies, allowing these firms to properly identify, assess, quantify, value, diversify, and hedge their corporate capital investment and sales management decisions and their associated risks. Specifically, the present invention looks at starting from comprehensive qualitative sales performance management and moving the analysis into the realms of quantitative risk-based sales performance modeling, simulation, and optimization.

The present invention is applicable in the field of corporate finance, corporate capital investments, economics, math, risk analysis, simulation, decision analysis, and business statistics, and relates to the modeling and valuation of investment decisions under uncertainty and risk within all companies, allowing these firms to properly identify, assess, quantify, value, diversify, and hedge their corporate capital investment decisions and their associated risks

The invention provides an edge drop control method of cold-rolled non-oriented silicon steel. The edge drop control method includes that a cold rolling five frame and all six roller rolling mill is utilized as an object; an objective function is that the horizontal thickness difference of the non-oriented silicon steel is minimum; the complete set of working roller forecast and feedback and working roller bending compensation control method for edge thinning control of the non-oriented silicon steel is established through introduction of an efficiency effected function array. According to the edge drop control method of the cold-rolled non-oriented silicon steel, the original control device is fully utilized; the maintenance is easy; the technology import capital investment is saved; meanwhile the influence on the flatness control accuracy can be effectively reduced and the horizontal thickness control accuracy of the non-oriented silicon steel can be improved to enable the horizontal thickness difference to decrease from 25 microns to 8 microns below and accordingly the laminated rate of the non-oriented silicon steel finished product and the qualified rate of the quality of the finished product are improved and a new solution is provided to adapt to the edge drop control presetting and feedback of industrial application.

A method of placing nodes in an area that requires coverage, the method includes the step of creating a network topology such that the average path length is kept to a minimum number of hops at the time of placement of a new node, wherein a limit is placed on a number of neighbors at the time of placement of the new node, the number being a parameter that impacts the average path length, resiliency and capital investment. The new node is connected to at least one node in the network.

A Transmit Diversity Redundancy controller dynamically mediates implementation of diversity and antenna hopping by detecting and remediating faults on antenna branches while minimizing the capital investment required. The controller monitors the equipment along the antenna branches. If a fault occurs, the controller determines the appropriate fault remediation measures to implement based on default settings, or relays an indicator to an external processor (e.g., a BTS or BSC CPU) and awaits instructions. If traffic on the BTS is high, the external processor instructs the TDR controller to combine the signals carried by the downed branch with the signals carried by the active branches, and the combined carrier signals are transmitted over the active branches. Otherwise, the external processor instructs the controller to allow signals carried by the downed antenna branch to be dropped, and notifies the BSC to suspend assignment of calls to the dropped carriers until the branch is restored.

The invention discloses a financial account capital management system and method. The system comprises account information management, capital real-time monitoring management, financial management, credit management, risk assessment management and payment management. The capital real-time monitoring management comprises an account capital database, a real-time monitoring module, an alarm module, a capital outflow module and a capital inflow module. The account capital database is connected with the alarm module through the real-time monitoring module; the alarm module is connected with the capital outflow module and the capital inflow module; and the real-time monitoring module comprises a bank monitoring system and a client monitoring system. The system is simple in structure and high in practicability; conventional financial transactions can be realized, and through real-time monitoring management of an account, safety of financial transactions is improved; and selected investment products are subjected to quota allocation according to credit rating, risk tolerance grade and risk tolerance period of a user, thereby reducing capital investment risk and improving risk management and control capability of the whole account.

The invention discloses a load simulation device used for electric power test and a control method for a system thereof. The load simulation device comprises a drive motor and a control module, an electric vehicle speed control module, and a load motor and a control module. The electric vehicle speed control module is a vehicle load mathematical model. The drive motor is a permanent magnet synchronous motor. The load motor is a direct current motor. The load simulation system calculates the target simulation speed of the system based on the drive torque of the electric vehicle drive motor andthe load model of a vehicle. The target simulation speed is used as the target rotation speed of the load motor coupled to the drive motor to control the speed of the load motor. According to the invention, the control precision is high; outdoor driving is not affected by the weather environment; the research and development test level of a pure power vehicle powertrain and key technologies thereof is improved; the development cycle of the powertrain and related components thereof can be greatly shortened; and capital investment is reduced.

Disclosed here is the design of a new vertical thin film transistor (VTFT) using hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) technology. This design allows the channel length to be scaled down to nanometer-scale (100 nm and beyond) as well as the smallest possible TFT size on glass, plastic, or other common types of substrates, based on the standard photo-etching and thin film deposition processes. The emphasis of using the standard processes for the new VTFTs has a strong implication that no additional process equipment and capital investments are required for technological advancements and gains in performance.

A method and a computer network system for establishing a transaction for transferring security shares in exchange of capital investment via the use of second screen technology is disclosed. The system synchronizes a plurality of client computing devices by periodically sending thereto a notification regarding a television program about a fund-seeking company currently in broadcast. An investment user registered with the system may use the client computing device to obtain further information regarding the fund-seeking company while watching the television program, and complete a transaction to acquire shares thereof.

The invention relates to a hybrid power/electric vehicle power motor/battery hardware-in-loop test bed, in particular to a motor control and braking energy recovery strategy test system under energy-saving hybrid power/electric vehicle-mounted power motor/battery hardware-in-loop vehicle running whole-environmental simulation. A simulation test bed is constructed by using physical objects such as a power motor, a battery pack, power drivers such as IGBT (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor) and the like. Power motor control strategies, braking energy recovery strategies and overall vehicle control effects of various vehicle models under whole environment can be quickly verified by cooperating high-quality simulation environment through parameter setting in the established semi-physical simulation system, and the verifications of vehicle motor control strategies and braking energy recovery strategies are dynamically integrated. When energy is saved, the capital investment to real vehicle tests can be reduced, the development cost is saved, the development period is shortened, and the times and the dangerousness of real vehicle tests are reduced.

The invention relates to a flexible welding production line for a side wall plate of an automobile, which is used for improving the flexible production capacity of an autobody welding line body, and comprises a clamp body, a trolley, a frame, a drive mechanism and a PLC (programmable logic controller) control system. The clamp body is installed on the trolley which is connected with the drive mechanism. The trolley is controlled by the PLC control system and dragged by the drive mechanism to reciprocate on a track of the frame to convey the clamp and workpiece of the welding line body. The drive mechanism is arranged on the frame which is fixed on the level ground. The flexible welding production line for the side wall plate of the automobile provided by the invention has the advantages of stable performance, strong universality and high degree of automation, and according to the flexible welding production line, not only is the work efficiency of the welding operation improved remarkably and the production pace of the factory is ensured, but also the flexible production capacity of the welding line body is improved, the capital investment on devices is lowered, the period of new products in batch production is shortened, and large economic benefits is brought for enterprises.