129 results about "Environmental impact assessment" patented technology

Methods, devices and systems are provided for enabling the selection of a shipping option responsive to an environmental preference. A user indicates a shipping criteria preference including an environmental impact weighting. A cost value of each of a plurality of shipping options is determined including an environmental impact cost. A shipping options is selected and implemented for a shipping of an item as a function of the indicated environmental impact weighting. Each of the plurality of shipping option cost values may be dynamically recalculated and the status of at least one of the shipping options updated, the updating determining a change in value a shipping option cost value, an implemented selected shipping option changed to another of the plurality of shipping options as a function of the status updating.

The present invention provides a method of assessing the sustainability performance of an entity. This is achieved by monitoring the operation of the entity, and using this to determine one or more sustainability indicators, each sustainability indicator being a respective value determined based on the operation of the entity. The sustainability indicators are then compared to respective thresholds allowing the sustainability performance to be determined in accordance with the results of the comparison.

The invention discloses an evaluation method of a leather-making industry technology based on a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method. The method comprises the steps of: utilizing a multi-index hierarchy analysis method and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation in the evaluation to consider the influence factors such as economy, society, environment and performance and the like, and on the basis of establishing a multi-hierarchy evaluation index system, combining a multi-hierarchy index weight analysis method and the fuzzy membership concept of uncertain indexes in fuzzy mathematics. In the evaluation method, the comprehensive and reliable evaluation can be carried out on the whole production process of the leather-making industry, and effective technical support can be provided for environment management such as the evaluation on environmental influence of the leather-making industry, engineering design, construction, inspection and acceptance, operation management and the like.

A WRF-CHEM-based large point pollution source atmosphere environment influence evaluating method comprises the following steps: acquiring meteorology data and landform data, arranging a simulation area, and preprocessing the meteorology data and the landform data; selecting different parameterization scheme combinations having large influences on simulation, and designing a contrast experiment scheme; acquiring artificial source discharge and natural source discharge lists, and carrying out space, time, discharge height and species division and other pretreatments; running a WRF-CHEM model, and comparing simulation results of the different parameterization scheme combinations with observation data to obtain an optimum simulation scheme; processing large point pollution source discharge data, adding the processed large point pollution source discharge data to the model under the optimum simulation scheme, and running the WRF-CHEM; comparing the large point pollution source considered simulation result with the result under the optimum simulation scheme, and evaluating the degree and range of influences of the large point pollution source on circumferential atmosphere environment; and visually displaying the simulation result, and providing management decision basis for environment influence evaluating reports.

The invention provides a new algorithm for an atmospheric environment capacity by using a region air quality model (RAQM). The new algorithm comprises the following computation steps: utilizing a meso-scale meteorological model to perform analog computation on an average value of year-round meteorological elements per hour in an estimation region to obtain uout and uin; utilizing the RAQM to perform analog computation on an average value of pollutant concentration per hour in an estimation year in the estimation region to obtain c; using a process analysis module to output transportation volumes Fout and Fin, dry deposition volume Ddry, wet deposition volume Dwet and chemical conversion volume T of pollutants per hour; performing the computation to obtain V and Asection; using cstandard to obtain a static volume of each atmospheric pollutant in the estimation region; and according to an expression of atmospheric environment capacity Q, performing the calculation to obtain a total environmental volume of atmospheric pollutants in the estimation region. With the adoption of the new algorithm provided by the invention, not only is the maximal capacity of atmospheres to contain the pollutants, regional transportation features of the atmospheric pollutants are reflected, but also key factors of influencing the pollutants in the estimation region are obtained, and assessment judgment basis such as more reasonable theories, more reliable data and more credible result can be provided for atmospheric environmental impact assessment.

The invention relates to a method for reclaiming fluorine-containing and ammonia nitrogen-containing waste water in electronic industry. In the method, waste water passes through a three-in-one integral device formed by the sequential series connection of a waste water treatment plant treating process, a water works treating process and a pure water treatment plant treating process to obtain reclaimed water. The device for implementing the waste water treatment plant treating process comprises a conditioning tank, a reaction tank and a clarifying tank; the device for implementing the water works treating process comprises a quartz sand filter tank, an ozone contact tank and an activated carbon filter tank; and the device for implementing the pure water treatment plant treating process comprises an ultrafiltration membrane device and a cleaning-resistant reverse osmosis membrane device, and thick water produced by the cleaning-resistant reverse osmosis membrane device can be reclaimed or not to obtain the reclaimed water according to the reclamation rate requirement and environmental impact assessment requirement of a reclamation customer. The reclaimed water treated by the invention has stable and favorable quality, meets and surpasses the leading indicators of GB5749-2006 Standards for Drinking Water Quality issued by China, and can be used as primary pure water for industrial production.

The invention relates to the technical field of computer environment assessment, in particular to an atmosphere pollution source diffusion assessment system and an assessment method constructed based on a GIS (Geographic Information System) technology and an AERMODE model. The assessment system comprises a pollution source parameter database, a pollution source meteorological database, a pollution source forecast point and sensitive point database, an AERMODE model subsystem and a GIS subsystem, wherein the pollution source parameter database is used for storing pollution source parameter data meeting AERMODE format requirements; the pollution source meteorological database is used for storing pollution source meteorological data meeting the AERMODE format requirements; the pollution source forecast point and sensitive point database is used for storing forecast point and sensitive point data meeting the AERMODE format requirements; the AERMODE model subsystem acquires data from the pollution source parameter database, the pollution source meteorological database and the pollution source forecast point and sensitive point database and operates the AERMODE model for analysis; and the GIS subsystem renders and outputs the analysis result of the AERMODE model subsystem to a map.

Culture substrates, cell arrays, automatic chemical dispensers and assay systems necessary for conveniently assaying multiple chemicals such as drugs and toxic agents are provided. Herein used is a substrate for a high-density cell array characterized in that it has a surface comprising an ordered array of discrete microdomains coated with a cell adhesive polymer and successively surrounded by a domain coated with a cell non-adhesive hydrophilic polymer and then a domain coated with a cell non-adhesive highly hydrophobic material. This substrate for a high-density cell array and an assay system using it can greatly reduce side effects of drugs and dramatically improve the performance of drug therapy for diseases by optimizing the type and concentration of the drug used (e.g., an anticancer agent). The present invention provides a very useful technology that can also be used for drug development, environmental impact assessment and basic life science researches.

A system for assessing environmental impact of processing print jobs includes a processor and a computer-readable storage medium. The computer-readable storage medium in communication with the processor and comprises one or more programming instructions for: electronically receiving a campaign specification data structure including at least one job specification; operatively selecting a plurality of vendors from a database. Each of the selected vendors is capable of performing a job as operatively specified by the at least one job specification of the campaign specification data structure. The computer-readable storage medium in communication with the processor and also includes one or more programming instructions for generating a plurality of environmental impact assessments corresponding to the campaign specification data structure. Each of the plurality of environmental impact assessments is operatively associated with one of the selected capable vendors.

The invention discloses a multi-threading information aggregation based monitoring system and monitoring method for environmental protection measures in power transmission and transformation project construction process. According to the system and the method, environmental impact assessment report is consulted, related environmental impact assessment influence factor parameter values are extracted, different influence factor indexes acquired from the report are matched with different stages of power transmission and transformation project planning correspondingly and analyzed one by one; pictures and videos about environmental protection measure implementation of different stages of the power transmission and transformation project are encrypted and then uploaded; a power transmission and transformation project acceptance report is consulted, acceptance results of related environmental protection measures are extracted, and are packed and uploaded; according to the environmental impact assessment report and the acceptance report, and the actual pictures and videos about the environmental protection measure implementation, different stages of the environmental protection measures implementation are monitored in real time, continuous video and audio information are compressed through the streaming media technology and then are uploaded to a website server for field staff to consult. The system and the method can fill the gap of weak monitoring of environmental protection in construction process between links of environmental protection permitting and completion acceptance.

The invention discloses a plaque image and pollution feature coupling method for use in environmental risk assessment of regional tailing ponds; the method comprises: acquiring tailing pond environmental information of multi-source multi-dimensional plaque images and pollution features; cutting, assembling and integrating the multi-source multi-dimensional plaque images of the tailing ponds; establishing a plaque image and pollution feature data coupled model according to coupling association of spatial interpolation simulation, spatial data and attribute data; constructing a regional tailing pond environmental risk assessment index system that includes: quantitatively classifying regional tailing pond environmental risk values, using ArcGIS as an aid in conjunction with tailing pond environmental risk grading and accumulative environmental risk investigation results, using spatial representation technique to carry out key region accumulative environmental risk and tailing pond environmental risk quantitative assessment, and regionally dividing environmental risks of multiple tailing ponds in the region. The environmental risk assessment can be performed on the multiple tailing ponds in the region more accurately, and accurate basis is provided for the joint prevention and joint control decision-making for regional tailing ponds.

The invention relates to a method for determining a population exposure area according to environmental health risk assessment on river pollution specific pollutants and application of the method, and belongs to the field of environmental science and health risk assessment. According to the method disclosed by the invention, by comprehensively considering a specific pollutant screening result, a pollution status simulation result of target specific pollutants and a pollution cause analysis result, pollution status simulation and exposure area determination are performed by adopting spatial analysis software, and an area range that the potential environmental health risk of an exposed population is high is artificially determined. According to the method disclosed by the invention, a technical support can be provided for the environmental health risk assessment and management on river pollution.

The invention discloses an emission inventory processing method of a city-scale high-resolution model based on a SMOKE model, which comprises the following steps: S1, acquiring emission inventory data; S2, generating a template according to the data requirements of the SMOKE model; S3, converting the template generated in the step S2 to the format required by the SMOKE mode; S4: consolidation of combing of multiple emission inventory files; 5, establishing an administrative division code file; S6: correction of the use of the CMAQ model in inland areas requiring the mandatory provision of waveemission documents; S7, generating a KML tag file of point source emission data; S8, creating a SMOKE model run script that matches the urban emission inventory and merging it into the four-dimensional X-Y-Z-T emissions NetCDF format emission data. The invention can meet various scientific research and business requirements based on air quality model, such as pollution source analysis, control measure assessment, environmental impact assessment and the like.

The invention belongs to the technical field of energy-saving and environmental protection, in particular to a comprehensive environmental impact assessment method of green building based on the lifecycle theory, which mainly comprises the following steps of: 1) establishing a life cycle model; 2) acquiring data; 3) model result and analysis; 4) establishing an evaluation system. The invention provides an environmental impact assessment method of green building, which synthesizes a large number of research green building assessment standards at home and abroad, and utilizes life cycle assessment and life cycle cost theory to carry out a relatively comprehensive assessment method for the comprehensive environmental impact of green building. As one of the longest-serving economic products,buildings will consume a lot of resources and have a tremendous impact on the environment. If we can fully analyze what factors and activities will have an impact on the environment throughout the life cycle of the building, and evaluate its comprehensive impact on the comprehensive cost. On this basis, with the corresponding effective improvement, the sustainable development of the construction industry can be realized.

The present invention solves the problems with the prior-art environmentally friendly design. That is, in order to achieve continual improvement, it is necessary to make a detailed evaluation based on the parts configuration. If a method of setting a basic unit for each individual part is used, a large number of process steps are required, and it is impossible to conduct accurate life cycle assessments (LCAs) frequently. The present invention provides an environmental impact assessment support and design support system incorporating a database in which information about the basic unit is associated with information about product classifications, parts classifications, and materials classifications. The system manages the information about the parts configuration and the basic unit while associating their histories of creation with each other.

An ecological design method of the steel slag asphalt concrete material belongs to the technical field of material ecological design. According to the characteristics of the ecological design method,a comprehensive evaluation model for the ecological design of the steel slag asphalt concrete material integrating performance, resource consumption and environmental influence evaluation is constructed. The method is divided into a planning stage, a scheme making stage, a scheme verification stage and an implementation stage. The method comprises determining a reference and an evaluation target for the ecological design of a target material; determining a technical scheme of integrally utilizing the waste slag, optimizing component design, and optimizing a production process according to a targeted key technology; determining a comprehensive evaluation scheme by analyzing the characteristics of performance, resource consumption, and environment load of the steel slag asphalt concrete material; determining a data collection scheme by formulating a collection plan, a system boundary and a specification of the environmental load foundation data; and determining an optimal ecological design scheme by verifying the feasibility of the prototype scheme to obtain a comprehensive decision result.

The invention relates to a transformer station noise coupling separation method. The transformer station noise coupling separation method includes the following steps: S1, performing spectrum analysis on the original signal of noise, sorting 50Hz of resonant frequency and the resonant frequency taking 50Hz as the fundamental frequency according to energy from high to low, obtaining a plurality of resonant frequencies which are taken as the noise frequency of the main body of a transformer; S2, taking the original signal as an initial residual error signal, separating the noise of the main body of the transformer from the original signal successively, and obtaining a residual error signal; S3, separating the corona noise from the residual error signal obtained from the step S2; and S4, taking the residual noise as other noises, including the blower fan noise and the background noise. Compared with the prior art, the transformer station noise coupling separation method constructs a coupling function according to the intrinsic characteristics of the noises generated from different noise sources of the transformer station, and organically considers the original noise source characteristics, thus having high practicality, and being able to effectively separate the main body noise of the transformer, the corona noise and other random noises. The transformer station noise coupling separation method can provide means and methods for transformer station noise environmental impact assessment, noise treatment and part evaluation.

An environmental impact assessment method based on an atmospheric diffusion model and a linear programming is characterized in that the method comprises the following steps: (1) determining an assessment area on an atmospheric diffusion model platform and dividing the assessment area into computational grids; (2) establishing a parameter database of the assessment area which meets the requirementsof the atmospheric diffusion model platform, and selecting several points of interest in the assessment area; (3) The atmospheric diffusion model platform outputs the results of the concentration contribution value of each pollutant emitted from each pollution source to each point of interest for use by the linear programming platform; (4) the linear programming platform establishes the maximum emission model of atmospheric pollutants, the model is as follows: the objective function is f (Q) = D * B * Q 0 * A; (5) After waiting for the end of the current appraisal cycle, return to step (3) toenter the next appraisal cycle. The method of environmental impact assessment based on atmospheric diffusion model and linear programming has high accuracy and real-time performance.

The invention belongs to the field of environmental protection, and particularly relates to a solidified soil and an anti-fouling and anti-seepage treatment method for large coal yards. The solidifiedsoil is prepared from the following components in parts by weight: 80 to 90 parts of soil, 0.02 to 0.4 part of soil solidifier, 12 to 18 parts of cement and 6 to 12.6 parts of water. The anti-foulingand anti-seepage treatment method for large coal yards comprises the following steps: (1) the soil solidifier and the water are uniformly mixed, so that a soil solidifier aqueous solution is prepared; (2) the soil solidifier aqueous solution is sprinkled onto clay and uniformly mixed, so that a first mixture is obtained; (3) the cement is spread onto the first mixture, and after uniform mixing, asecond mixture is obtained, i.e., the solidified soil; (4) the second mixture is rolled and cured. The solidified soil anti-seepage layer disclosed by the invention has good anti-seepage property andhigh compressive strength, and not only is the use requirement of piled weight in a large material yard met, but also the anti-seepage requirement of environmental impact assessment is met.

The present invention provides a noise map drawing method applied to urban planning and construction project environmental impact assessment. The method comprises the steps of: S1, establishing a noise automatic monitoring network to perform automatic monitoring of noise, wherein the noise automatic monitoring network performs statistics automatic monitoring statistic data of the noise once at intervals; S2, comparing the current automatic monitoring statistic data with a background noise map, if the different therebetween does not exceed a threshold value, finishing the steps, or else, entering the next step; and S3, updating and drawing a noise map according to the current automatic monitoring statistic data, and applying the noise map to the urban planning and construction project environmental impact assessment. The noise map drawing method can update the noise map in short time to combine the noise automatic monitoring and the noise map technology to meet the noise environmental evaluation requirement of urban planning and projection construction in the period of rapid development in our country.