33 results about "Global warming" patented technology

An object of the system according to the embodiment is to promote communication and information sharing between users by efficiently matching works and projects related to forest protection.SOLUTION: A system includes a reception part, an information analysis part, a matching part, a communication promotion part, and an information provision part. The reception unit inputs information of a user. The information analysis unit analyzes the information input by the reception unit. The matching unit matches the project and the work based on the information analyzed by the information analysis unit. The communication promotion unit promotes communication between users. The information providing unit provides information on improvement of energy efficiency and countermeasures against global warming.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

A technological improvement to a system for vehicle navigation is provided. The improvement diminishes a contribution to global climate change, e.g., global warming, by generating a flight path (generated flight path) or modifying the flight path (modified flight path) of a vehicle to avoid an atmospheric region in which the vehicle would create a contrail if the vehicle travelled through the atmospheric region.

The invention belongs to the technical field of life cycle evaluation methods, relates to a method for quantifying full life cycle environmental influence of a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, and is particularly suitable for accurately evaluating environmental benefits in a province popularization scene. According to the method, firstly, a target and a range are determined, wherein a function unit is set to enable the PHEV to run on a road under a comprehensive working condition for 150 thousand kilometers, and a research range covers a whole life cycle process; then collecting a material list and material energy input data of each component of the PHEV, carrying out list analysis, and constructing a full-life-cycle model; after classification, characterization and normalization processing, 11 kinds of midpoint environmental influence indexes are adopted for influence analysis, and meanwhile, probabilistic evaluation of key indexes (such as global warming potential (GWP)) is achieved through coupling of electric power structure clustering and Monte Carlo simulation; and finally, through result explanation, an accurate reference basis is provided for optimizing a PHEV manufacturing process, promoting technical innovation and reducing full-life-cycle environmental influence.

In some embodiments, a thermal management fluid conversion composition includes an additive. The additive is selected to miscibilize a first lubricant for a high global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant with a low GWP refrigerant. In some embodiments, a thermal management fluid conversion composition includes an additive and a first refrigerant. The thermal management fluid conversion composition is selected to miscibilize a second lubricant for a high global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant with a low GWP refrigerant.

Particles, powders thereof, particle dispersions throughout the stratosphere and corresponding methods for solar radiation modification and management (SRM) are provided. Disclosed particles are safe for inhalation and in the biosphere, inert towards most compounds in the atmosphere, optionally produced in large-scale production of millions of tons per year, scatter in the visible and ultraviolet (UV) ranges without significant absorption, scatter and minimize absorption in the infrared (IR) range, sized to achieve a residence duration in the stratosphere that is longer than a year, optical properties and safety criteria, tagged for monitoring dispersal and distribution, and dispersible from an airplane with a bulk density over 0.3 g / cc and with respect to the required energy and air available for dispersal from the airplane.

A foamable polymeric mixture is provided that includes a polymer composition and at least one blowing agent. The blowing agent may comprise any blowing agents known not to deplete the ozone or increase the prevalence of global warming, such as CO2, HFO, HFC and mixtures thereof. The foamable polymeric mixture may further includes at least one processing aid comprising an organic phase changing material. The inventive foamable mixture is capable of processing at a pressure range of 800 to 1200 psi (5.5 to 8.3 MPa).

A system is provided.SOLUTION: A system comprising: means for obtaining real-time weather data; means for calculating a global warming risk index by comparing with historical weather data; means for displaying the calculated global warming risk index on a user device; means for collecting daily behavior data of a user; means for analyzing behavior of the user based on the collected data and generating feedback; means for notifying the user device of the generated feedback; and means for providing a reward for eco-friendly behavior of the user.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

The invention discloses an evaluation method for a global warming influence potential value of an electrode product for metallurgy. The evaluation method comprises the following steps: S1, defining a target and an evaluation range; s2, constructing a life cycle list; s3, processing the multi-output flow by a physical distribution method: distributing the generated environmental load according to the physical attribute proportion of mass, energy or heat value and the like between the main product and the by-product for the unit process with the multi-output condition, and forming a life cycle list of the metallurgical electrode product based on the functional unit; s4, environmental influence evaluation; and S5, result interpretation and optimization suggestion. The method has the advantages that the full-life-cycle environmental influence of the metallurgical electrode product is quantified comprehensively and objectively, a solid theoretical support is provided for upgrading of a production process and carbon and emission reduction in the whole process, and meanwhile, a powerful basis is provided for green attribute authentication and market promotion of the product.

The present invention relates to an insulating gas used for electrical insulation or arc extinguishing of an electrical device, and an electrical device for insulating electricity using the same. The insulating gas of the present invention, which may replace SF6 gas, consists of a mixed gas of trifluoromethyl trifluorovinyl ether (CF3OCFCF2) and a carrier gas. The insulating gas of the present invention has the characteristics of a low boiling point, high dielectric strength, low toxicity, and a low global warming potential (GWP=1 or less), and thus may replace SF6, and the low global warming potential with no loss of high insulating capacity and arc extinguishing capability may reduce greenhouse gases.

A software tool for analysis of the economic and global warming impact of multilayer barrier films enables the design of a sustainable circular economy for the multilayer barrier films is disclosed herein. The tool can provide circular economy analysis for a plurality of different plastic types and various potential end of life scenarios.

The present invention provides a system and method for enhancing adhesion between microplastics and air bubbles. More specifically, the present invention relates to a system and method for enhancing adhesion between microplastics and air bubbles so that the maximum number of microplastics can be collected from aquatic environments. The pressure difference between the stern section (from the buttock stern to the bottom baseline) and the outflow and inflow of air bubbles maximizes collection efficiency. The collected phytoplankton are reintroduced to the ocean surface to enhance the conversion of carbon dioxide to oxygen as a means of mitigating global warming.

The invention discloses a method and a system for evaluating environmental protection performance of gas-insulated power transmission pipelines. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring the number and the size of the gas-insulated power transmission pipelines and the type of mixed insulating gas; calculating a global warming potential value of the mixed insulating gas according to the type of the mixed insulating gas; according to the size of the gas insulation power transmission pipeline, the maximum volume of each gas insulation power transmission pipeline is calculated, and the maximum mass of the mixed insulation gas needed by each gas insulation power transmission pipeline is obtained; and on the basis of the maximum mass and global warming potential value of the mixed insulating gas, calculating the equivalent discharge amount of CO2 gas generated by the mixed insulating gas and annual leakage mixed insulating gas of all gas insulated power transmission pipelines, and taking the equivalent discharge amount as a quantitative index for environmental protection performance evaluation. The invention relates to the technical field of electrical equipment, quantitatively calculates the environmental protection performance of the gas insulated power transmission pipeline, and provides a key reference basis for selection of an insulating medium when the environmental protection performance is considered in practical engineering.

Provided is a plasma processing device in which the operating cost of a disinfestation device is minimized. This plasma processing apparatus is provided with: a processing chamber in which a sample is subjected to plasma processing; a high-frequency power supply for supplying high-frequency power for generating plasma; a sample stage on which a sample is placed; a disinfestation device for decomposing the exhaust gas from the treatment chamber; and a control device for controlling the pest control device. The control device controls the disinfestation device according to the operating conditions of the disinfestation device specified on the basis of the global warming coefficient per unit time calculated using the etching conditions.

A refrigeration device (10) includes: a first refrigerant circuit (21) including a first heat exchanger (26) that dissipates heat from a first refrigerant, the first refrigerant being carbon dioxide; a second refrigerant circuit (22) including a second heat exchanger (36) for dissipating heat from a second refrigerant having combustibility or toxicity or a second refrigerant having a global warming coefficient of 4 or more, and a pressure reducer (38) for reducing the pressure of the second refrigerant; and a third heat exchanger (27) that exchanges heat between the first refrigerant after heat dissipation in the first heat exchanger (26) and the second refrigerant after heat dissipation in the second heat exchanger (36) and after pressure reduction in the pressure reducer (38), the second heat exchanger (36) having a plurality of flat perforated pipes (36b).

The invention belongs to the technical field of methane leakage risk evaluation, and discloses a mainland edge methane lateral migration path identification and shallow water scaffold area methane leakage risk evaluation method, which innovatively focuses on a brand new process of deepwater area release-lateral migration-shallow water area leakage. By constructing a multi-factor weighted evaluation model for comprehensively evaluating key parameters such as a deepwater area gas source condition, a fluid migration channel, a'source-leakage 'distance and a shallow water area water depth, relatively accurate quantitative evaluation on the potential that methane at different mainland edges in the world finally enters the atmosphere is realized. The method not only effectively solves the long-standing scientific contradiction of how deep water methane affects the atmosphere under the barrier of a huge thick water layer, but also more scientifically and accurately evaluates the climate feedback effect of the natural gas hydrate and the shallow gas reservoir under the global warming background, and provides a brand-new and crucial analysis tool and decision basis.

The B-Spike IYKYK roofing shingle sheet features a honeycomb-shaped design with three smaller tiles arranged side by side. These sheets are designed to overlap for installation, maintaining the typical process of residential roofing. The shingle sheet includes a solar reflective white color and an overlapping design, providing enhanced energy efficiency, structural integrity, and wind resistance. The honeycomb shape effectively disperses wind forces during high wind storms while maintaining impact resistance. The B-Spike IYKYK offers significant improvements over traditional roofing materials, representing the next generation of roofing solutions designed to keep buildings cool and energy-efficient in the face of global warming.

The application provides a carbon dioxide liquefaction method, device and ship for a ship, the carbon dioxide liquefaction method for the ship comprising the following steps: compressing carbon dioxide gas to increase the pressure and temperature of the carbon dioxide gas; compressing and expanding air to obtain a heat exchange medium with a temperature lower than that of the carbon dioxide gas; and exchanging heat between the heat exchange medium and the carbon dioxide gas to obtain carbon dioxide liquid. The carbon dioxide liquefaction method for the ship solves the problem of high global warming potential and global warming potential of the commonly used low-temperature liquefied refrigerant of the carbon dioxide gas for the ship by using environmentally friendly air as a refrigerant. Meanwhile, the mechanical energy generated by the air expansion can be output to the first compressor in the process of air expansion, so that the system working efficiency is improved and the system energy consumption is reduced while refrigeration is achieved.

Provided is an insulating gas replacement method that can sufficiently achieve the effect of preventing global warming and that can efficiently execute replacement of insulating gas. This insulating gas replacement method comprises a recovery step (ST10), an encapsulation step (ST20), and an atmospheric pressure test step (ST30), and involves replacing a first insulating gas in a gas insulated switchgear (100) with a second insulating gas (20) having a global warming potential lower than that of the first insulating gas (10). In the recovery step, the first insulating gas is recovered from the interior space of a sealed tank (101). In the encapsulation step, the second insulating gas is introduced and encapsulated in the interior space of the sealed tank from which the first insulating gas has been recovered. In the atmospheric pressure test step, an atmospheric pressure test is executed on the gas insulated switchgear. The second insulating gas comprises at least one substance selected from oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, helium, neon, argon, xenon, and krypton. The recovery step, the encapsulation step, and the atmospheric pressure test step are each executed at a location where the gas insulated switchgear is installed.

This invention discloses a method and system for determining design schemes for urban engineering projects. The method involves acquiring design information for each scheme and calculating its information density index; obtaining subjective evaluation indicators and objective performance indicators; determining subjective weights using fuzzy hierarchical analysis and extracting objective weights using CRITIC; and performing a game-theoretic equilibrium fusion of the subjective and objective weights to obtain a weight decision matrix for each design scheme. When the information density index is not less than a preset information density threshold, the method calculates annual photovoltaic capacity indicators and annual building global warming potential, updating the weight decision matrix. Based on the weight decision matrix, the TOPSIS method is used to rank the design schemes. Using this invention, adaptive adjustments to decisions can be achieved during the design phase evolution, enabling an automatic switch from a subjective-objective integrated decision structure to a life-cycle objective performance-driven decision structure.

To provide a temperature control device that contributes to preventing global warming while achieving energy and cost savings. [Solution] The system comprises a heat exchanger 2, a water supply circuit 3 that supplies water produced in the semiconductor factory to the heat exchanger, and a control fluid circulation circuit 10 that circulates control fluid between various processes M in semiconductor manufacturing and the heat exchanger. The control fluid circulation circuit comprises a control fluid supply section that supplies control fluid to various processes, a control fluid circulation section that returns the control fluid used in the various processes to the heat exchanger, and a control fluid bypass section that connects the control fluid supply section and the control fluid circulation section. A pump 13 is placed in the middle of the control fluid supply section, a bypass valve 11 is placed in the middle of the control fluid bypass section, and a circulation valve 12 is placed in the middle of the control fluid circulation section. The amount of control fluid flowing to the heat exchanger is adjusted by adjusting the opening of the bypass valve and the circulation valve.

A Novel thermodynamic cycle known as the ‘Hybrid Power Cycle’ is proposed consisting of a power cycle and a refrigeration cycle in a partial form, using fixed amounts of the same working-fluid in closed cycles. The vapor in the partial refrigeration cycle undergoes a polytropic compression with the rejected heat removed by the compressed liquid in the partial power cycle before both are combined at same pressure prior to entering a heat exchanger to absorb ambient heat. When the temperature reaches the desired level, they undergo turbo-expansion yielding a minimum external achievable work of 60.63KJ / kg of liquid nitrogen (LN2). A novel binary-hybrid cycle was also invented to increase the external work-output to 77.79KJ / kg (LN2). This technology can be used to generate clean electrical and mechanical power including transportation without any fuel at a low cost, using only ambient heat with zero environmental pollution and zero global warming potential.

A turbo chiller that has an oil-free configuration, which reduces the frequency of maintenance and maintenance-induced release of refrigerant, and can achieve a reduced environmental impact by utilizing the characteristics of the low-pressure refrigerant R1233zd(E) that reaches negative pressure at a saturation temperature of 18° C. or lower. The turbo chiller comprises a refrigeration cycle that includes a turbo compressor, a condenser, a decompression device, and an evaporator connected in sequence via piping and is filled with a refrigerant; wherein the refrigerant is a low-pressure refrigerant R1233zd(E) refrigerant with low global warming potential and low ozone depletion potential; the turbo compressor has a direct drive configuration in which a rotating shaft of impellers is directly joined to a motor; and the rotating shaft is supported by magnetic bearings.

A thermal management fluid conversion kit includes at least one component selected from the group consisting of at least one low global warming potential (GWP) service port connector sized to fit over a high GWP refrigerant service port of an air conditioning (A / C) system, a recharge hose for charging a miscibility additive to the A / C system, an additive container containing the miscibility additive, a retrofit label meeting SAE J639 standards, conversion instructions for converting the A / C system from operating with a high GWP refrigerant to operating with the low GWP refrigerant, and combinations thereof.

[Problem] To provide a carbon dioxide emission reduction plant and a carbon dioxide emission reduction method capable of reducing the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) without using fossil fuel and contributing to the suppression of global warming. [Solution] A carbon dioxide emission reduction plant 1 according to the present invention comprises: a sunlight condensing apparatus that takes in sunlight and condenses the taken-in sunlight by means of a parabolic reflection device 2; and a reaction apparatus 10 to which the light condensed by the condensing apparatus is emitted and which is heated by the emitted light, to cause a chemical reaction to occur between carbon dioxide and methane. As a result, by carrying out the reaction by using solar energy which is renewable energy, the carbon dioxide emission reduction plant reduces the emission of carbon dioxide without consuming fossil fuel, and contributes to the suppression of global warming.

Due to global warming, humans, animals and plants are consuming more and more water. Furthermore, severe weather events occur with heavy rainfall that the existing rainwater drainage system can no longer handle. This causes significant damage, especially in densely populated residential areas. In the future, it will be necessary to treat these precipitation volumes and infiltrate them into the ground to replenish the groundwater. This storage capacity will be created in a retention and infiltration channel with permeable side walls.

The invention discloses a dynamic game modeling method for a regional environment-climate-economy system, and relates to the technical field of environment-climate-economy coupling modeling. According to the method, a dynamic game model is constructed, Nash equilibrium is solved, the emission reduction effects of regional cooperation and non-cooperation games are quantitatively compared, the optimal path of carbon emission reduction and pollution emission reduction of each region is described, an economic module, a climate module and an environment module are included, and the pollution reduction and carbon reduction synergistic effect and the like are considered. Under the cooperation strategy, all regions cooperate, and the welfare maximization of the whole society is pursued. And under the non-cooperative strategy, the regions do not cooperate, and the social welfare maximization of each region is pursued. The model comprises five sub-models which interact with each other. CO2 and pollutants are generated at the same time through economic activities in all regions; cO2 is discharged to a climate system, and global temperature rise and income loss are caused; pollutants are discharged to an environmental system for regional diffusion and transfer, heterogeneity influence is caused on health of people, and then labor loss is caused; meanwhile, economic cost is generated by carbon emission reduction and pollution emission reduction measures in each region; finally, climate damage, health damage, carbon emission reduction cost and pollution emission reduction cost jointly act on an economic system; and emission synergy and cost synergy of CO2 and pollutants are also considered, so that global carbon emission and pollutant emission of each region under a cooperative situation and a non-cooperative situation can be accurately predicted.

Multi-band spectral filters that can transmit visible light but block ultraviolet and infrared light can be used for energy-saving windows to address global warming. However, such filters typically only consider normal incident light. The present disclosure describes PML structures that allows selective solar spectrum transmission in wide angles using a quantum computing-enhanced active learning scheme, which includes machine learning, quantum annealing, and wave-optics simulation in an iterative loop. The optical characteristics of the PML structure disclosed herein may be capable of reducing the temperature rise in an enclosure space when combined with a thermal radiation layer (e.g., reduction of 5.4 – 7.2°C and an annual energy saving of ~97.5 MJ / m2). The structure disclosed herein may be incorporated into new and existing windows (e.g., in buildings or automobiles) to reduce energy consumption (e.g., relating to cooling), and the active learning scheme can be applied to design other materials with complex properties.

In some embodiments, a thermal management fluid conversion composition includes an additive. The additive is selected to miscibilize a first lubricant for a high global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant with a low GWP refrigerant. In some embodiments, a thermal management fluid conversion composition includes an additive and a first refrigerant. The thermal management fluid conversion composition is selected to miscibilize a second lubricant for a high global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant with a low GWP refrigerant.

The field of the invention is surface albedo modification which applies to modifying the surface of areas of the earth to increase albedo. The invention relates to a means of preserving and restoring glaciers that are shrinking or receding due to climate change. Global warming has led to widespread shrinking of the cryosphere, with mass loss from ice sheets and glaciers. The shrinking of the cryosphere is accelerated by the ice-albedo feedback loop. The invention is a method of modifying the surface of a glacier by covering portions of it with highly reflective granules to increase albedo and reduce the melting of the glacier due to solar radiation. The invention may be used to preserve or restore glaciers and ice sheets that are melting due to climate change.

To provide a working medium for heat cycle which has less influence over the ozone layer, which has less influence over global warming and which provides a heat cycle system excellent in the cycle performance (the efficiency and the capacity), and a heat cycle system excellent in the cycle performance (the efficiency and the capacity). A working medium for heat cycle comprising 1,2-difluoroethylene is employed for a heat cycle system (such as a Rankine cycle system, a heat pump cycle system, a refrigerating cycle system 10 or a heat transport system).