168 results about "Environmental energy" patented technology

A system and method that optimizes use of renewable energy sources using modern satellites and telemetry to reduce the impact of renewable energy limitations. Location data corresponding to the device is retrieved using GPS technology and a GPS receiver which is located proximate to the device. Renewable energy generators are identified and include generation parameters that indicate the efficiency and output of the devices. Environmental energy factors are retrieved based upon the location data. The amount of available renewable energy is calculated based upon the environmental factors and the renewable energy generation parameters corresponding to each of the renewable energy generators. A travel plan that contains the user's travel intentions can be used. The travel plan indicates future location data as well as device idle time. Collected energy can fuel batteries and can also be used to provide hydrogen to a hydrogen fuel cell.

Provided is an electronic device capable of completely interrupting a power source and an electronic circuit when the electronic circuit is not being operated, and reducing power consumed wastefully. In the electronic device including the power source, a switch, and the electronic circuit, the power source and the electronic circuit are electrically interrupted by the switch when the electronic circuit is not being operated. The electronic device further includes a power generation source for converting environmental energy into electric energy, and a switch control circuit driven by the power generation source.

The invention provides a method for recovering waste hard alloy. According to the method, the waste hard alloy is used as an anode to directly perform electrolysis in a fused salt. The method comprises the following steps: 1) carrying out vacuum dehydration by using a fused salt dielectric; 2) by using the waste hard alloy as the anode and an inert electrode as the cathode, electrolyzing in the molten fused salt dielectric at 350-1000 DEG C; and 3) separating and collecting the metal powder and fused salt dielectric after electrolysis. According to the technical scheme, tungsten and cobalt ions can be directly dissolved out of the anode material-waste hard alloy to enter the fused salt dielectric, and deposit on the cathode plate under the driving action of the electrolysis voltage, thereby obtaining the metal powder granules. The tungsten, cobalt and other product materials obtained by electrolysis can be used as hard alloy materials, high-temperature structure materials, weapon materials, photocatalytic materials and the like, and are applicable to the fields of production processing, aerospace, war industry, environmental energy sources and the like. The method has the advantages of short technical process, no discharge of solid / liquid / gas waste and environment friendliness.

A system and method that optimizes use of renewable energy sources using modern satellites and telemetry to reduce the impact of renewable energy limitations. Location data corresponding to the device is retrieved using GPS technology and a GPS receiver which is located proximate to the device. Renewable energy generators are identified and include generation parameters that indicate the efficiency and output of the devices. Environmental energy factors are retrieved based upon the location data. The amount of available renewable energy is calculated based upon the environmental factors and the renewable energy generation parameters corresponding to each of the renewable energy generators. A travel plan that contains the user's travel intentions can be used. The travel plan indicates future location data as well as device idle time. Collected energy can fuel batteries and can also be used to provide hydrogen to a hydrogen fuel cell.

A system and method for system for providing on-demand renewable energy are provided. The system comprises at least one power unit for converting environmental energy into electrical power, wherein the electrical power is drawn from the at least one power unit; and a regulator for controlling an amount of the electrical power drawn from the at least one power unit based on an authorization rule, wherein the authorization rule is checked upon each attempt to draw the electrical power from the at least one power unit.

Provided is an electronic device capable of completely interrupting a power source and an electronic circuit when the electronic circuit is not being operated, and reducing power consumed wastefully. In the electronic device including the power source, a switch, and the electronic circuit, the power source and the electronic circuit are electrically interrupted by the switch when the electronic circuit is not being operated. The electronic device further includes a power generation source for converting environmental energy into electric energy, and a switch control circuit driven by the power generation source.

The invention discloses an environmental energy conversion device which comprises an energy conversion unit, wherein the energy conversion unit comprises a positive pole, a negative pole and an intermediate; the intermediate is made of a semiconductor and is clamped between the positive pole and the negative pole, and two sides of the intermediate are respectively contacted with the positive pole and the negative pole; and the positive pole and the negative pole have asymmetry. The asymmetry of the positive pole and the negative pole refers to that the materials of the positive and negative poles have different work functions or different surface modification or different geometric structures; and the energy conversion unit can be connected in parallel and in series to form a whole environmental energy conversion device. The surface effect of the semiconductor is utilized, so that the environmental heat energy is continuously converted into electric energy in an environment, such as gas, liquid, gel or plasma, contacted with the semiconductor, particularly in solution, and a cooling effect is achieved. The environmental energy conversion device can be used for power generation and refrigeration, provides energy and refrigeration for various building constructions, transport equipment or electronic equipment, and can be used for concentration, temperature and flow velocity detection devices.

The invention discloses a method of generating hydrogen for twice at the same time that the waste water containing cadmium heavy metal is treated by harmless biological absorption by using an algae and fungi synergistic system, and belongs to the technical field of the environmental energy source. The method is mainly characterized in that algae cell wall and fungi cell wall are cooperated to absorb the cadmium; at the same time of removing the cadmium, Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii can generate hydrogen by using the characteristic that the stress effect of the heavy metal of the Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii is similar to the deficiency effect of sulfur element during cultivation; furthermore, butyric acid clostridium is used to ferment the biomass cumulated by the photosynthesis of the Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii to re-generate hydrogen; the fungi used during cadmium absorption and hydrogen generation is treated in an immobilized way. The method has high efficiency, is easy for downstream treatment, can get clean water and a great deal of hydrogen finally with qualified cadmium concentration, and can be widely used for the clean treatment and energy recovery utilization to industrial waste water containing the cadmium.

The invention discloses a triphenylamine-BODIPY derivative organic dye and a preparation method thereof. The triphenylamine-BODIPY derivative organic dye is prepared by that a triphenylamine-aldehyde compound is in reaction with pyrrole under the catalytic action of a catalyst, so as to synthetize dipyrromethane, and then a triphenylamine-BODIPY derivative is obtained through further oxidation and fluorine boronizing, and the general formula is shown in a structural formula I. The stokes displacement value of the triphenylamine-BODIPY derivative can reach 180 to 238 nm, and the fluorescence emission peak thereof locates in the near infrared region of 700 to 800 nm. The synthetic method of the compound is simple, the reaction is easy to control, the yield is high, common applicability is achieved, so that the BODIPY dye can be composited efficiently, and can be widely applied to the field of bioscience, analytic chemistry, environmental energy science and the like, and is particularly used as a near-infrared fluorescent dye and an organic solar cell material (refer to the description).

An energy conversion system is described and includes a cylindrical rotor having a mass and multiple magnets affixed on an outer face thereof; a cylindrical stator including a dielectric cylinder wound with copper wire in a predetermined configuration, the cylindrical rotor being placed within the cylindrical stator; and a rotatable shaft for rotating the rotor, the rotatable shaft being placed in the center of the cylindrical rotor. The system harvests environmental energy for lower power generation and accounts for non-mechanical sources of rotational resistance within the generator.

The invention discloses a wireless sensor network (WSN) node self-powered system based on solar energy-wind energy complementation. The system mainly comprises a solar energy acquisition module, a piezoelectric type vertical axis wind energy acquisition module, a super-capacitor energy storage module and an interface circuit, wherein the solar energy acquisition module acquires luminous energy in the environment through a solar cell panel, the piezoelectric type vertical axis wind energy acquisition module acquires wind energy in the environment, the super-capacitor energy storage module stores the acquired energy into a super capacitor, and the interface circuit provides a channel for energy storage and WSN node power supply. In addition, in order to improve acquisition efficiency of the wind energy acquisition module and reduce influences of a wind direction, a vertical axis piezoelectric type scheme is adopted by the wind energy acquisition module. Due to the facts that rechargeable times of a lithium cell are limited, and in the process of acquisition of environmental energy, charging and discharging are frequent, the super capacitor in the system is used for replacing the lithium cell to serve as a system energy storage unit, and the service life of the energy storage unit can be prolonged. The WSN node self-powered system can collect energy in the environment, does not need to conduct maintenance on a cell, such as cell replacement and charging, therefore prolongs service life of a node, and solves the energy supply problem of a WSN.

The invention provides a method for synthesizing anatase titanium dioxide and manganese dioxide nanocomposite through surfactant assisted electrodeposition. According to the method, a manganese saline solution serves as a water phase, microemulsion is formed by the water phase, a surfactant, a cosurfactant and an oil phase and serves as an electrolyte solution, a constant potential deposition method is used, and a titanium sheet serves as a titanium source, so that the nanocomposite is prepared. Through changing of the composition of the microemulsion, the concentration of manganese ions and fluorine ion, the magnitude of electrolytic voltage and the electrolytic time, the morphology and the size of the nanocomposite are adjusted. According to the method, a low reagent is selected to serve as a raw material, under the room microemulsion electrolyte environment, the reaction is carried out, and the nanocomposite is obtained. The problem that during high-temperature treatment, the morphology and the stability of products are affected is solved, the beneficial effects of being high in preparing technology, low in cost, rapid, energy-saving, and high in efficiency are achieved, the prepared nanocomposite is expected to be widely applied in fields of photocatalytically splitting of water into hydrogen, degradation of organic contaminants, electrochemical energy storage, environmental energy catalysis, battery materials and the like.

The invention discloses a termite detection system based on a wireless sensing network, and the system comprises a positioning system, a sensing system and a far-end management platform, wherein the positioning system is connected with the far-end management platform through the sensing system, the positioning system is formed by communicating a plurality of detection systems. The sensing system comprises a sensor node set, a backbone node and a gateway node. The far-end management platform comprises a management terminal module, a service unit and a data analysis module. The sensor node set is connected with a server set through the backbone node and the gateway node, the data analysis module is connected with the server set, and the server set is communicated with the management terminal module. The termite detection system disclosed by the invention is mainly used for solving the selection of the positions of detection points of different objects to be tested, and drawing the moving paths of the termites on the basis of the detection state of the distributed detection points. Moreover, the termite detection system disclosed by the invention also can be used for solving the problems of standardization and uniformity of the interfaces of a plurality of sensors, as well as the high guard grade special sealing, packing and the like of the nodes in a power supply system capable of obtaining various environmental energy and outdoor environment.

The invention belongs to the technical field of energy, power supply and micro electronics, and relates to a low-frequency and low-loss energy management chip based on a piezoelectric effect, wherein the energy management chip collects environmental energy from a piezoelectric element and provides a voltage-stabilized power supply for micro-power equipment through energy management. The chip comprises an SSHI circuit and a DC-DC converter circuit, and is characterized in that the SSHI circuit can collect more energy of the piezoelectric element; and the DC-DC converter circuit can operate at low frequency, and the width of a power tube of the DC-DC converter circuit is smaller than that of a general commercial power tube. Compared with a piezoelectric energy management circuit in the prior art, the chip provided by the invention can obviously reduce the power consumption, is not only suitable for collecting more energy at a high-vibration level, but also capable of collecting energy effectively at a low-vibration level, thereby effectively improving the energy collection efficiency.

The invention discloses a self-energizing supply system and a working method of the system, which relates to the field of energy management. The self-power supply system comprises an energy collectionmodule and an energy management module. The energy collection module is connected with the load device through the energy management module so as to provide working energy to the load device. The energy collecting module is used for collecting environmental energy and outputting the environmental energy after converting the environmental energy into electric energy; The energy management module is used for receiving electric energy output from the energy collection module and outputting stable electric energy to power consumption circuits at various levels according to the configuration of the system and the requirements of energy consumption at various levels. The load device includes at least one energy dissipating element of a sensor, a processor, a communication module, or a communication device for performing respective circuit functions. The scheme provided by the invention can realize the complete self-supply of energy and does not need an external spare battery. It can judge the switch intelligently and adjust the load cycle adaptively, and has the characteristics of ultra-low power consumption.

The invention belongs to the field of environmental energy application, and relates to an efficient photo-thermal conversion material and preparation thereof, and specifically relates to an efficient photo-thermal conversion material with a macroscopically controllable morphology roll-like structure as well as preparation method and application thereof. The photo-thermal material is a three-dimensional photo-thermal material obtained by modification and rolling. The photo-thermal conversion roll is composed of a base with a gap structure and a functional photo-thermal polymer, and has a macroscopic cone or cylinder hollow structure. The photo-thermal roll provided by the invention remarkably promotes the water evaporation efficiency.

The present invention discloses an environmental energy-saving inorganic active wall thermal insulating material which is obtained by mixing plant protein fiber, perlite, fiber brucite, tripolite, attapugite, gypsum, cement, methyl cellulose, lemon acid, dodecyl sodium sulfate and active inorganic filler. The material is added with appropriate water and mixed to paste after conveying to the construction site, and is painted to the base surface of the wall according to the project construction request, and can have a heat preserving function after drying. The material has the characters of convenient transportation, easy construction technique, low cost at unit area, innocuity, environment protection, light weight, fire prevention, sound insulating, heat insulating, low thermal conducting coefficient, quick solidifying, high intensity, low shrinking, excellent adhesive property and long service lifetime, after testing each performance index obtains and exceeds the national relative standard request. The material is suitable for the heat preserving of the exterior wall, building roof, balcony and staircase, and is also suitable for the heat preserving of the boiler and pipeline.

A tracking system comprising a tag reader comprising an interrogating antenna. One or more tags comprising an electrical energy generator configured to convert environmental energy to electrical energy. A radio frequency, RF, communication circuit. A controller configured to use the electrical energy generated by the electrical energy generator to transmit a data signal to the tag reader using the RF communication circuit.

The invention discloses a composite micro-energy system suitable for a small load and an energy management method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of composite micro-energy management. Thecomposite micro-energy system consists of an environmental energy collection module, an energy management module and an energy storage module connected in series, and the energy management module is connected with a small load. The energy management method of the composite micro-energy system is that the energy management module collects the power consumption information of the small load, the power generation state of the energy collection module and the power storage state information of the energy storage module. As such, the information energy management module decides to charge or discharge the energy storage module, rationally distributes the charge and discharge power of the supercapacitor and the lithium battery in the energy storage module, and gives full play to the respective advantages of the energy storage of the lithium battery and the energy storage of the supercapacitor, thereby improving the reliability of the system, ensuring that sufficient energy is supplied to thesmall load, and ensuring the stable operation. The method is simple and effective, and prolongs the life of the system.

Disclosed is a fixed type environmental energy capacity measurer. A power unit comprises a solar energy unit, a wind power unit and an air energy unit, the solar energy unit comprises a solar cell panel and a storage battery, the air energy unit comprises a centrifugal compressor, an evaporator, a condenser, a throttling valve, a steam engine and an electromagnetic converter, the wind power unit comprises wind blades and a transmission shaft, the solar cell panel acquires environmental solar energy to convert optical energy into electric energy, the electric energy is stored in the storage battery to drive the centrifugal compressor to operate, when pressure of air in a container is twice higher than standard atmospheric pressure, an alarm is started by a pressure sensor, the compressor stops operation, the volume of delivered air is display on a control panel, and calculated results of the capacity of the measured container are displayed on the control panel. The fixed type environmental energy capacity measurer has the advantages that manufacturing cost is low, response is rapid, measurement period is short, the calculated results are precise relatively and are not affected by the shape of the measured container, and the fixed type environmental energy capacity measurer is applicable to large-scale factories, relevant units of customs inspection and the like for measuring capacities of containers in a batch manner.

The invention relates to a fiber sensor-based self-powered bridge damage condition real-time monitoring device and belongs to the technical field of real-time embedded monitoring control. The fiber sensor-based self-powered bridge damage condition real-time monitoring device comprises a photoelectric detection circuit, a signal amplifying and bandpass filtering circuit, a data conversion module, a data wireless transmission module, a remote monitor center, an environmental energy acquisition module, a fiber sensor module, and a GPRS (general packet radio service) data transmission terminal. Energy consumption of the whole device can be effectively reduced, acquired information is transmitted through optical signals with no influence from electromagnetic interference and little influence from ambient temperature and humidity, the sensor is good in stability and high in reliability, the technique is simple to implement and low in price, the device is reasonable in composition and may be self-powered through environmental energy, and the device is convenient to perform, safe and reliable, low in cost, and economical and environment-friendly; moreover, the device has good economic universality.

The invention discloses a Sn2Nb2O7 photo-anode material and a Sn2Nb2O7 photoelectrode film. Sn2Nb2O7 powder is prepared with SnO and Nb2O5 via a solid reaction process and is used as a raw material; the raw material is made into a film electrode by electrophoretic deposition; Sn2Nb2O7 photoelectrode film is calcined to obtain an electrode film of good crystallinity; Sn2Nb2O7 is a multicomponent metal oxide, energy band of Sn2Nb2O7 may cross a conduction band and valence band of water, Sn2Nb2O7 is suitable for water decomposition and has stable properties in aqueous solutions as well as good photochemical properties, and a preparation method is simple. Studies on Sn2Nb2O7 provide novel catalytic materials for water decomposition, studies on renewable energy are benefited, and the severe condition of current environmental energy tension is relieved.

The invention discloses a power self-supplying intelligent system and a circuit system, relating to the field of energy management. The power self-supplying intelligent system comprises a power self-supplying device and a communication platform, wherein the power self-supplying device comprises an energy harvesting module for harvesting and storing energy, an energy management module and a loadingmodule; the energy harvesting module is connected with the loading module through the energy management module; the energy management module is used for receiving electric energy output by the energyharvesting module and outputting stable electric energy to the loading module according to system configuration, working condition and the requirement management and configuration of various levels of energy consumption; the energy harvesting module comprises one or more environmental energy harvesting unit, which is used for harvesting environmental energy, converting the environmental energy into electric energy and then outputting. According to the scheme provided by the invention, complete self-supplying of energy can be realized, and the external connection of a standby battery is not required; the judgment of switching on and off can be intelligently performed, the work period of a load can be adjusted in a self-adapting mode, and the power self-supplying intelligent system has thecharacteristics of ultra-low power consumption at the same time.

A magnetic fuel-saving rubber composite material relates to a rubber material and comprises components of butadiene-acrylonitrile rubber, a chloroprene rubber adhesive, zinc white, stearic acid, an antideteriorant 4010NA, an antideteriorant RD, a coumarone, dioctyl phthalate, carbon black, a magnetic material, brimstone, a promoter M, and a promoter PZ. The magnetic fuel saving rubber composite material is prepared through the steps of plastifying, mixing, vulcanizing and the like. The magnetic fuel saving rubber composite material provided by the invention has the benefits of enabling an oil delivery pipeline to have a magnetic radiation performance, enabling fuel oil molecules to become small aggregate structures from a large aggregate structure by using a magnetic line to smash the clustering states of fuel oil molecules, and enabling the fuel oil molecules to be activated so as to change physical chemical property thereof, thereby being helpful to sufficient burning of fuel oil, improving the fuel-saving performance of an engine and also reducing contaminant emission. The magnetic fuel saving rubber composite material is in favour of energy conservation and environment protection. Therefore, the magnetic fuel-saving rubber composite material has a stronger promotion and application value. The magnetic fuel saving rubber composite material belongs to products of green environmental energy saving facilities on the aspects of rubber industry and is used on the aspect of automobile fuel saving.

The invention relates to a microampere-scale charging and discharging control circuit for a low-power-consumption circuit and the low-power-consumption circuit. The charging control part of a charging and discharging capacitor C4 of the microampere-scale charging and discharging control circuit consists of a low dropout linear regulator (LDO) and a field-effect tube (VT1). The grid of the VT1 is connected with the output end of the LDO and the source of the VT1 is connected with the input end of the LDO. In the scheme, the on and off of the VT1 is controlled through difference between input voltage and output voltage of the LDO. When the input energy of a fourth diode (VD4) is not enough to meet main power consumption of a system, the difference between the input voltage and the output voltage of the LDO is not enough to turn on the VT1. When the output energy of the VD4 is enough to drive a main system load, the difference between the input voltage and the output voltage of the LDO is enough to turn on the VT1. At the moment, excessive energy acquired from environmental energy is saved in the energy storage capacitor C4, so as to store excessive electric energy at the same time when power is supplied.

The invention discloses an environmental energy conversion device which comprises an energy conversion unit. The energy conversion unit comprises an anode body, a cathode body and a intermediate body; the anode body is not connected with the cathode body; the intermediate body is positioned between the anode body and the cathode body and is respectively in contact with the anode body and the cathode body; the anode body and the cathode body are electric conductors; the anode body and the cathode body are asymmetric; and chemical reaction is not performed between the intermediate body and the anode body as well as the cathode body. The environmental energy conversion device utilizes a surface effect to spontaneously convert environmental heat energy into electric energy, provides a revolutionary energy acquisition manner and has groundbreaking significance; and the environmental energy conversion device is widely applied, can be used as a power supply and a refrigerating device and also can be used as a temperature sensing device, or a solution ion concentration detection device or a gas and liquid flow rate detection device.

The invention discloses a bridged double-center BODIPY derivative containing fluorene at a meso-position and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following steps: synthesizing a symmetric dialdehyde compound containing bridging groups consisting of benzene, thiophene and furan and different substituent groups like a butyl group and an octyl group; then subjecting the symmetric dialdehyde compound and pyrrole to a reaction under the catalysis of indium trichloride so as to synthesize a bis(dipyrrolidine) compound; and successively carrying out oxidation by chloranil and fluoroboronation by boron trifluoride ether so as to obtain a fluorene-containing different bridging group-substituted BODIPY dye which has a structural general formula as shown in a formula I that is described in the specification. According to the invention, fluorene and the bridging groups consisting of benzene, thiophene and furan are introduced for the first time and conventional synthetic methods are improved, so the obtained double-center BODIPY dye has stable spectral absorption; and introduction of thiophene, furan and fluorene enables the fluorescence emission peak of the derivative presents obvious red shift, and fluorescence effect is enhanced with enhancement of system conjugative effect. The organic dye can be efficiently synthesized and widely used in fields like life science, analytical chemistry and environmental energy.

The invention discloses a novel double-effect dual-temperature high temperature heat pump device and belongs to the field of environmental energy. The device comprises a refrigerant circulation, a high temperature hot water circulation and a refrigerant water circulation. An oil separator is connected between an exhaust end of a compressor and a refrigerant inlet end of a condenser, the bottom of the compressor is connected with an oil cooler, a refrigerant outlet end of the condenser and a refrigerant inlet end of an evaporator are sequentially connected with a subcooler, a stop valve, a dryer, an electromagnetic valve and a throttle valve, and a refrigerant outlet end of the evaporator and an air suction end of the compressor are connected with a superheater. The high temperature hot water circulation and the refrigerant water circulation are formed by the condenser, the evaporator, a water segregator, a heat exchanger and a water collector. The novel double-effect dual-temperature high temperature heat pump device has the advantages that waste heat of high temperature hot water and refrigerant water is recycled in the high temperature hot water circulation and the refrigerant water circulation, cold flow can be provided for a system while the heat is provided for the system, the energy efficiency is improved and cold and heat simultaneously supplying is achieved by the aid of the waste heat recovery, the equipment investment is reduced, and the device is widely applied to various industrial processing and production.