2456 results about "Electric consumption" patented technology

A system for supplying electric power includes: a plurality of electric motors coupled to well treatment pumps; a mobile substation that receives power from a utility electric grid; a plurality of mobile electric power generating units; a controller configured to (i) receive a total required flow rate of the liquid; (ii) calculate a total amount of electric power required to achieve the required total flow rate; (iii) receive an amount of power available from the utility electric grid; (iv) direct the substation to provide electric power to the plurality of electric motors; and (v), direct one or more electric power generating units in the plurality of electric power generating units to provide electric power to the plurality of electric motors according to a priority order to meet the total amount of electric power, if the required amount of electric power exceeds the amount of power available from the utility grid.

A programmable system for monitoring electricity consumption by a residence or business, including: (a) a Measuring Transmitting Unit integrated in a main circuit breaker or utility meter in the residence or business; comprising: (1) a means of receiving AC analog signals, converting the AC analog signals to DC analog signals, summing the DC analog signals, and outputting the information; (2) a microcontroller; (3) a power line carrier transmission interface controller; and (4) a power supply for powering the Measuring Transmitting Unit; and (b) a programmable Receiving Display Unit, comprising: (1) a power supply for powering the Receiving Display Unit; (2) a power plug; (3) a power line carrier transmission interface controller; (4) a data decoder; (5) a microcontroller; (6) memory associated with the microcontroller; (7) a visual display; and (8) a mechanism for inputting to the Receiving Display Unit; and wherein the Measuring Transmitting Unit translates current to digitally encoded signals, and transmits the signals over existing power circuits in the residence or business; and the Receiving Display Unit receives the signals, decodes them, and translates them for viewing. A method for monitoring electricity consumption by a residence or business is also included.

A printer-built-in image-sensing apparatus including a camera which performs image sensing with film exposure, and a printer which prints an image sensed by the camera. After a shutter button has been pressed and image sensing with strobe light emission has been performed, if printing is instructed by pressing of a print button, then electric charging a capacitor of a strobe circuit is made after the completion of the print operation. Otherwise, the charging of the capacitor is started immediately after the image sensing. In this case, even if printing is instructed during the electric charge, printing is started after completion of the electric charge. Thus, electric consumption upon print operation can be reduced and fluctuation of voltage can be suppressed.

The invention discloses an estimation method of state of charge (SOC) of a power battery. The method comprises the following steps: estimating the SOC estimated value SOC2 of the power battery by an electricity accumulative method; taking a Sigma-point Kalman filter (SPKF) as a basic estimation tool, taking a dual-RC circuit battery model as a time and measurement update engine of the SPKF, and estimating the SOC estimated value SOC1 of the power battery by a Kalman filter method; and obtaining the final SOC estimated value SOC based on the SOC estimated value SOC2 by the electricity accumulative method and the SOC estimated value SOC1 by the Kalman filter method by utilizing a weighted average method. Correspondingly, the invention further discloses an estimation system of the SOC of thepower battery. The invention has the advantages of high SOC estimation accuracy, stable operation and the like, and is convenient in real-time estimation, thus being applicable to pure electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles in need of the power battery.

The invention relates to a technology for processing high-concentration organic wastewater in a composite electrochemical method, which comprises the main four steps of: pH adjustment, multidimensional electrocatalytic oxidization processing, micro coupling electric fenton reaction oxidation processing and coagulating sedimentation processing. The invention has the technical advantage that the technology has good breaking, chain scission, degradation effects to benzene ring organics, heterocyclic organics, polycyclic organics, macromolecule organics and sustaining organics, which have the most difficulty to degradation. Besides, the technology has no obvious selection to various kinds of high-concentration organic wastewater, has broad-spectrum processing effect, and is an effective measurement for pre-processing to high-concentration organic wastewater having difficulty to degradation. The invention is characterized in that the technology uses second-grade electrochemical processing equipment to realize third-grade advanced oxidation combination processing, effectively utilizes H2O2 and Fe2+ generated by the second-grade electrochemical processing equipment, and makes fenton oxidated and coupled in a micro reactor. During the technological processes, the oxidation capacity is strong to weak, and has reasonable distribution. The pH valve of wastewater does not need repeatedly adjusting. The invention has the obvious characteristics of low electric consumption, little medicine consumption, high processing efficiency, and good controllability.

The exemplary embodiment relates to a liquid crystal display device and a driving method thereof for reducing heat and electric consumption power of the data driving circuit. The exemplary embodiment includes: a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of data lines crossing a plurality of gate lines and liquid crystal cells arranged in a matrix e; a timing controller generating a polarity control signal, deciding if a predetermined weak pattern data is input, and shifting a phase of the polarity control signal in a next frame period following a frame showing the weak pattern data when the weak pattern data is input; a data driving circuit reversing the polarity of the data voltage in response to the polarity control signal and supplying to the data lines; and a gate driving circuit supplying a gate pulse to the gate lines sequentially.

The invention discloses a compressed air energy storage system, which comprises a compressor unit, a pre-expansion device, a turbine expansion machine, an intermediate cooler, an electric motor, a power generator, a hot water storage tank and a cold water storage tank, wherein the system utilizes electric energy which is not used up in the user electricity consumption valley period or wind power station power generation peak period for driving the compressor unit to work, the air at the normal pressure is compressed to high pressure, in addition, the part of air with rich pressure energy is stored into a high-pressure-resistance hole, in addition, the stored high-pressure air is released in the user electric consumption peak period or the wind power field generation valley period, an expansion unit is pushed to apply work, and the electric energy is output. The air pre-expansion device is additionally arranged at an outlet of an air storage chamber, so the air inlet pressure of the air turbine expansion machine is stable, the work stability of a power generation system is enhanced, low-temperature air at an outlet of the pre-expansion device is utilized for cooling hot water from the hot water storage tank, the temperature of the low-temperature air is raised through absorption of heat from the hot water, and the cooled water enters the cold water storage tank. The compressed air energy storage system is provided with the hot water storage tank and the cold water storage tank, the water is cyclically utilized in a closed loop, the water is not consumed, in addition, the heat discharged by the compressor is fully utilized and conveyed back to the high-pressure air at the outlet of the pre-expansion device. The high-pressure air at the outlet of the pre-expansion device is recovered through a heat recovering device (HRH).

Apparatus (10) for controlling supply of electricity through an electrical distribution network to a customer. An electrical meter (12) is plugged into an electrical socket (14) at a customer's premises. Electricity flows from a power line through the socket into the premises, the amount of electricity used being measured by the meter. The apparatus is interposed between the meter and the socket and includes a switch (18) to interrupt flow of electricity into the premises. The switch is controlled by the utility, preferably through programming of the apparatus or through a TWACS® communication system. This enables the utility to selectively control supply of electricity to the premises apart from the flow of electricity to any other premises connected to the same power line (L).

A system and method for automated trading of electrical consumption. A plurality of demand bids for energy on a power grid from a plurality of consumers are received, over a network. Each demand bid comprises an identification of a consumer, a quantity of energy, an economic value of the bid, and one or more demand bid criteria. Data relating to the price of energy on the power grid is received over the network. It is then determined, using at least one computing device, if not servicing at least one of the demand bids will decrease the locational marginal price of energy on the power grid. An offer for compensation is then transmitted, over the network, to the load associated with demand bids, wherein the consumer receives the compensation if the consumer does not consume the energy related to the at least one of the demand bids.

The invention relates to a radio frequency identification technology and particularly discloses a radio frequency identification method and a radio frequency identification system, which are applied in a monitoring management system for personnel, vehicles, commodities and the like. In the invention, by adopting a low-frequency awakening and information verification technology, an active tag can be subjected to high-frequency communication only within a low-frequency coverage area and does not need to work in other time, which reduces electric consumption of above 99% of time, therefore, the power supply of high-capacity batteries is not needed so that the size of the tag is further and effectively reduced. Compared with the traditional radio frequency identification technology, by adopting the mode combining the low-frequency identification and microwave signal intensity, the invention effectively improves the positioning precision to a high-speed moving object. The radio frequency identification method and system can realize the full duplex interaction of data, wherein the full duplex data communication between multiple identification objects and an information center can be realized within a large range by utilizing the characteristics of longer microwave communication distance and large wireless network capacity.

The method determines the structure of an electricity distribution system comprising a substation supplying a set of consumers via one or more feeders presenting one or more phases. It comprises the following steps:receipt of first electric consumption information relative to each consumer of the set,receipt of second electric consumption information relative to the feeders or to the phases of each feeder of the substation,use of the first and second information comprising a computing phase to determine consumer subsets, within the set, the consumers of the same subset being supplied by the same given feeder and / or by the same given phase of a given feeder.The device implements this method.

An increment of a fuel consumption rate caused by power generation is determined from a difference in fuel consumption rate between a case of performing power generation of an alternator and a case of stopping the power generation. The increment of the fuel consumption rate is divided by a power generation amount of the alternator to determine an increment of a fuel consumption per unit power generation amount. A use-frequency of the electric consumption is determined and also a possible power generation amount and average consumption power are calculated. A target electric consumption is set based upon the use-frequency, the possible power generation amount and the average consumption power so that the charge and discharge balance of the battery becomes zero. The present electric consumption is compared with the target electric consumption to determine whether or not to perform the power generation of the alternator.

The invention discloses a method for automatically monitoring and maintaining an optical cable. The method comprises the following steps of: automatically monitoring the power of the optical cable by a power meter and giving an alarm; when the power of the optical cable is alarmed, determining the alarm level of the optical power, and driving an optical time domain reflectometer module to test the optical cable; automatically analyzing whether the optical cable is broken and determining the breakpoint distance according to a test result; automatically calculating the geographical position of the breakpoint through optical cable facility information; automatically transmitting a short message to the mobile phone of an optical cable maintainer; and making an emergency maintenance by the maintainer or a manager. The invention is characterized in that: the method replaces the traditional polling mode so as to reduce the electric consumption, greatly improve the cruising capability of a handheld intelligent terminal, and improve the availability of the whole system; the optical cable is not required to be communicated with a server frequently so as to greatly save a general packet radio service (GRPS) flow; and when the optical cable is out of service, the server immediately transmits the message to the handheld intelligent terminal; and compared with the polling mode, the method has higher real time.

The invention provides a UniMonitor environment dynamic monitoring system and an implementation method thereof, and belongs to the field of electronic equipment. The system comprises an environment dynamic monitoring group, a monitoring center host computer and a remote browser. The system and the method have the advantages of monitoring various conditions including temperature, humidity, smoke, power off, infrared induction, distribution voltage, current, frequency, power, power consumption and other monitoring quantities, UPS power supplies, air conditioners, switching status, analog quantity of switch controlled environmental status, digital input quantity and the like in various machine rooms through acquisition and analysis, and directly realizing alarm function in various modes and functions of remote logon and searching so as to provide comprehensive and convenient monitoring information.

A system and method for evaluating power usage, applicable to a power consumption environment provided among a power supplying device, a battery, and a power supplying network, are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a receiving module, information about power usage, information about characteristics of the power supplying device, information about characteristics of the battery, and information about characteristics of the power supplying network entered by a user; storing the above-mentioned information to a storing module by the receiving module; and analyzing or comparing the above-mentioned information by an evaluating module according to a preset rule or algorithm so as to calculate information about power consumption. The system and method are effective in analyzing, evaluating and optimizing power consumption behavior of users, thereby assisting users in deciding on the best power consumption mode according to the calculated information about power consumption.

The invention relates to a stacking robot which aims at overcoming the existing defects and is low in gravity center, convenient to control various movements and small in electric consumption. The stacking robot comprises a base, a vertical arm, a cross arm and a picking device, is provided with a programmable control circuit and further comprises a planetary gear train and a cross arm adjusting parallelogram mechanism. The vertical arm is hinged on the base and provided with a vertical arm driving motor. The picking device is preferentially a clamping device and comprises a clamping mechanism and a swivel motor, and the front end of the cross arm is hinged on the swivel motor. The motors are all servo motors with reducing mechanisms, the servo motors are all connected with the programmable control circuit and controlled by the programmable control circuit, and a hinged shaft axis between a first swinging rod and the base is coincided with a hinged shaft axis between the vertical arm and the base. The stacking robot has the advantage of being low in gravity center, high in efficiency, less in consumed electricity and fast and correct in movement and is suitable for various automatic production lines.

The invention provides a BCD semiconductor device and a method for producing the same, and belongs to the technical field of a semiconductor power device. The device comprises a high-voltage nLIGBT, a first-class high-voltage nLDMOS, a second-class high-voltage nLDMOS, a third-class high-voltage nLDMOS, a low-voltage NMOS, a low-voltage PMOS and a low-voltage NPN. The semiconductor device is directly arranged on a single crystal substrate. The high-voltage nLIGBT, the high-voltage nLDMOSes and the low-voltage NPN are directly arranged on a single crystal p-type substrate, the low-voltage NMOS is arranged in a p-type well, and the low-voltage PMOS is arranged in an n-type well. During the production, the epitaxial process is not required. Single chips of the nLIGBT, the NLDMOSes, the low-voltage NMOS, the low-voltage PMOS and the low-voltage NPN are successfully integrated on the single crystal substrate. Because the epitaxial process is not required, the chips are relatively low in production cost. The nLIGBT device and nLDMOS devices of the invention have the characteristics of high input impedance, low output impedance and the like, and a high-voltage power integrated circuit formed by the nLIGBT device and the nLDMOS devices can be applied to various products in fields of electric consumption, display drive and the like.

An apparatus for analyzing electrical consumption measurements, including: a transferring component for receiving sampled electricity consumption data of at least two phases of power supplied to a machine from at least two sensors, and transferring the data to an application server; an application server for receiving the sampled values and analyzing the sampled values for the at least two phases, thereby obtaining information related to a status of the machine or to a type of manufactured item.

The invention discloses power over Ethernet method and device, and belongs to the field of communication. A power supply port is arranged in a sleep state by a power over Ethernet device, and a timer is arranged at the power supply port; the timer enables the power supply port when achieving a set time; a powered device (PD) is detected whether to be connected into the power supply port, when the PD is connected into the power supply, the power supply port is triggered to supply power for the PD; and when no PD is connected into the power supply port, the power supply port is set to be in the sleep state again, and the timer is arranged at the power supply port. By implementing the power over Ethernet method and device, the electric consumption of a system can be effectively reduced, and the energy can be saved.

The invention discloses a solar energy and electric energy combined heat pump system and a cooling and heating method. The heat pump system comprises a solar energy absorption heat pump unit, an intermediate work medium circulating device and a compression heat pump unit, wherein a solar drive absorption heat pump drives the absorption heat pump unit to prepare a lower-temperature intermediate work medium or higher-temperature intermediate work medium; the intermediate work medium bears partial / all cold energy / heat energy required by a user through first heat mass exchange equipment, and enters an intermediate heat exchanger of the compression heat pump unit for heat exchange; and the cold energy / heat energy contained in the intermediate work medium is recycled once again through the heat pump unit so as to save the electric consumption of the compressor of the compression heat pump unit. The system realizes high-efficiency utilization of a low-level renewable energy source solar energy, and has the advantages of stable and reliable operation, efficient energy utilization, good energy-saving effect and wild application prospect.

The embodiment of the invention discloses an electric quantity managing method. The method comprises the steps that the current surplus electric quantity of a terminal is obtained; the average electric quantity calculated in a most recent preset time quantum in advance is obtained; whether the current surplus electric quantity is smaller than the average electric quantity or not is judged; if yes, a prompt message is output, wherein the prompt message is used for prompting a terminal user that the electric quantity of the terminal is not enough to be kept being used for a preset time quantum. According to the electric quantity managing method, the user can be prompted of charging in advance according to the actual electric consumption of the terminal, the risk that the terminal cannot be used due to the insufficient electric quantity can be lowered, and user experience can be further improved.

The invention relates to a thermoelectricity tri-generation method and a system thereof, wherein the system includes a thermoelectricity tri-generation set used for generating the electric energy and the heat energy; an air-condition coupled with the thermoelectricity tri-generation set through the power line and for driving the heat pump to generate the heat energy by the electric energy generated by the thermoelectricity tri-generation set; an air-condition ammeter phase coupling with the air-condition specially used for detecting the power consumption of the heat pump in the air-condition; a control device used for obtaining the electric energy of the thermoelectricity tri-generation set and the optimal working point data generated by the heat energy according to the electric consumption data and the energy consumption, and controlling the operation of the thermoelectricity tri-generation set based on the optimal working point data. Adopting the device, the inhabitant heating users are divided into the air-condition heat pump heating users and the hot water type radiator centralized heating users, and the electric energy and the heat energy are supplied to the heating users by the thermoelectricity tri-generation for the requirement in the winter, which reduces the heat road difference in the summer and waiter, advances the energy source using efficiency and the economical profit of the thermal power plant.

A current-perpendicular-to-the-plane (CPP) structure magnetoresistive element (43) includes a spin valve film. A boundary (BR) is defined between electrically-conductive layers (55a, 55b) included in a non-magnetic intermediate layer (55) in the spin valve film. A magnetic metallic material (56) and an insulating material (57) exist on the boundary (BR). The insulating material (57) serves to reduce the sectional area of the path for the sensing electric current. A CPP structure magnetoresistive element (43) realizes a larger variation in electrical resistance in response to the rotation of the magnetization in the free magnetic layer (58). A sensing electric current of a smaller level is still employed to obtain a sufficient variation in the voltage. Accordingly, a CPP structure magnetoresistive element (43) embodying the present invention greatly contributes to a further improvement in the recording density and reduction in the electric consumption.

The invention belongs to the field of titanium smelting, and particularly relates to a method for quick reduction smelting of titaniferous furnace slag. The technical problems that in an existing titaniferous furnace slag reduction method, the smelting warm-up time is long, the time spent in adding reducing agents is long, the reducing agents and smelting slag are mixed unevenly, the smelting period is long, the transformation rate that titanic oxide is transformed into titanium carbide is low, and electric consumption is high are solved. According to the scheme for solving the technical problems, the method for quick reduction smelting of the titaniferous furnace slag comprises the following steps that a, a reducing agent and hot titaniferous furnace slag just discharged out of a furnace are mixed and then added into a reduction furnace together, and pre-reduction is carried out at the temperature of 1,500 DEG C-1,650 DEG C; b, after pre-reduction, temperature is raised to 1,600 DEG C-1,750 DEG C, the reducing agent is replenished, and high-temperature reduction smelting is further carried out; and c, after smelting is finished, heating is stopped, slag is discharged, and titanium carbide furnace slag is obtained. According to the method, in the whole process, heat losses are small, the reduction reaction is fast, time is short, and energy consumption is low.

The invention belongs to the technical field of environmental protection treatment and chemical engineering production, and relates to a production process for preparing calcium oxide and sulfur dioxide by decomposing ardealite. The process comprises the following steps of: mixing the ardealite and charcoal according to a dry weight ratio of 10-20:1, granulating the mixture to obtain particles of which the particle size is between 1 and 4mm, drying and dewatering the particles, putting the particles in a fluidized bed decomposing furnace to be directly contacted with high-temperature furnace gas for reaction for 15 to 50 minutes at a temperature of between 1,000 and 1,300 DEG C, and generating the sulfur dioxide gas and the calcium oxide. The process can solve the problem of comprehensively utilizing waste residues of ardealite, the content of SO2 in the discharged tail gas is high enough to be used for producing sulfuric acid, and the calcium oxide which is a byproduct can be used in various industries such as construction, road, aquaculture and the like, so that the process meets the requirements on the scientific outlook on development; moreover, compared with the process for co-production of cement by sulfuric acid prepared by the ardealite, the process greatly saves investment and electric consumption.

The invention relates to a preparation method of a special low-density grinding ball for a cement grinding mill. The preparation method comprises the steps of with bauxite, alumina powder and the like as main raw materials and chromium oxide, zirconium oxide, calcium oxide, magnesium oxide, ferric oxide, manganese oxide, titanium oxide, silicon dioxide and the like as modified raw materials, adding alumina sol, silica sol and metal salt into slurry at a grinding stage; molding by rolling, isostatic pressing or machine pressing to obtain a green body; and calcining after drying the green body to obtain the low-density grinding ball. By virtue of scientific proportion design, strict process control and unique calcining system, the special low-density grinding ball disclosed by the invention is low in cost, excellent in wear resistance, lower in power load as comparison with a high-density metal grinding body, suitable for substituting a metal grinding body in cement grinding, iron ore grinding and gold ore grinding and capable of reducing the electric consumption for grinding by 30-50%.

The invention discloses a central air-conditioning cold source system quota control method and system. The method includes the following steps: (1) a server stores system information in advance; (2) a refrigeration pump adopts a constant pressure difference control method capable of ensuring the worst working point pressure difference; (3) a cooling pump and a cooling tower fan adopt a constant temperature difference control manner and a constant outlet water temperature control manner respectively; (4) a system performs self-learning; (5) the system controls the total electricity consumption and the highest refrigeration water return water temperature after the system performs self-learning. The system includes the server, a controller, an outdoor temperature and humidity sensor, a refrigeration outlet water temperature sensor, a refrigeration return water temperature sensor, a cool outlet water temperature sensor, a cool return water temperature sensor, a refrigeration outlet and return water pressure difference sensor, a remote electricity meter, a water pump frequency converter, and a fan frequency converter. The method and the system can use energy consumption cost designated by a management worker as an operation target to control a cold source of a central air-conditioning, and ensure optimum allocation of refrigerating capacity at the quota.

The invention provides an intelligent power grid security and privacy protection data aggregation method based on fog computing. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring, encrypting and uploading a user electricity consumption data report through an intelligent electric meter; performing fine-grained aggregation by using the fog nodes capable of mining local computing power and uploading the fine-grained aggregation to the cloud nodes; completing coarse-grained aggregated data through the cloud node and uploading the coarse-grained aggregated data to the electric power service mechanism; and finally collecting, processing and analyzing the coarse-grained aggregation data by a reliable power service mechanism, and generating a power dispatching scheme according to the analysis results. The method comprises the following specific steps: (1) initializing a system; (2) packaging an intelligent electric meter data report; (3) packaging a fog node fine-grained aggregation report;(4) packaging the coarse-grained aggregation report of the cloud node; and (5) reading the aggregation report by the power service mechanism. The method has the advantages that the security and integrity of user privacy data are protected, multi-resolution aggregation is carried out on the user privacy data, the transmission consumption is reduced, and flexible power dispatching is realized.

The invention provides a liquid crystal display and driving method thereof. The exemplary embodiment relates to a liquid crystal display device and a driving method thereof for reducing heat and electric consumption power of the data driving circuit. The exemplary embodiment includes: a liquid crystal display panel including a plurality of data lines crossing a plurality of gate lines and liquid crystal cells arranged in a matrix e; a timing controller generating a polarity control signal, deciding if a predetermined weak pattern data is input, and shifting a phase of the polarity control signal in a next frame period following a frame showing the weak pattern data when the weak pattern data is input; a data driving circuit reversing the polarity of the data voltage in response to the polarity control signal and supplying to the data lines; and a gate driving circuit supplying a gate pulse to the gate lines sequentially.