9471 results about "Greenhouse" patented technology

The present invention invention provides methods, apparatus, and systems for determining greenhouse gas (including carbon dioxide) emissions and energy usage, costs and savings of individuals, families, homes, buildings, businesses, or the like. User inputs specific to an end user are accepted, and one or more of the user inputs are correlated with at least one of historic data and modeled characteristics pertaining to greenhouse gas emissions and energy usage to obtain at least one of greenhouse gas emissions and energy usage corresponding to said one or more of said user inputs. An overall greenhouse gas emissions and energy usage can then be determined for the end user based on the greenhouse emissions and energy usage corresponding to the one or more of the user inputs. A specific impact of a particular user action on the end user's overall greenhouse gas emissions and energy usage may also be calculated.

The process and system of the invention converts carbonaceous feedstock such as coal, hydrocarbon oil, natural gas, petroleum coke, oil shale, carbonaceous-containing waste oil, carbonaceous-containing medical waste, carbonaceous-containing military waste, carbonaceous-containing industrial waste, carbonaceous-containing medical waste, carbonaceous-containing sewage sludge and municipal solid waste, carbonaceous-containing agricultural waste, carbonaceous-containing biomass, biological and biochemical waste, and mixtures thereof into electrical energy without the production of unwanted greenhouse emissions. The process and system uses a combination of a gasifier, e.g., a kiln, operating in the exit range of at least 700° to about 1600° C. (1300-2900° F.) to convert the carbonaceous feedstock and a greenhouse gas stream into a synthesis gas comprising mostly carbon monoxide and hydrogen without the need for expensive catalysts and or high pressure operations. One portion of the synthesis gas from the gasifier becomes electrochemically oxidized in an electricity-producing fuel cell into an exit gas comprising carbon dioxide and water. The latter is recycled back to the gasifier after a portion of water is condensed out. The second portion of the synthesis gas from the gasifier is converted into useful hydrocarbon products.

A vertically-integrated greenhouse for growing plants in suspended trays. The design is particularly well-suited for installation in a double-skin façade of a building, or in an interior atrium, lobby, or similar structure. In addition to producing food, plants can reduce building maintenance costs by providing shade, air treatment, and evaporative cooling to building occupants. The vertically-integrated greenhouse involves the use of a dynamic movable array of plant trays as a mechanical shading device. The spacings and arrangements of the trays in the tray suspension system can be adjusted on both a diurnal basis and a seasonal basis to maximize plant light capture and building shading, thereby maximizing crop yield and building energy savings, or for esthetic considerations.

The invention discloses a remote monitoring and intelligent control system and method of an agricultural greenhouse based on an M2M framework. The system comprises an information acquisition module, an M2M network transmission module, a service monitoring module, an expert decision module, a system display module and a remote control module. The method comprises: firstly, deploying a plurality of environmental parameter sensors in a glasshouse to collect key information; then, in an M2M mode, sending the key information to a centered platform via the Internet or the 3G network; storing, displaying and analyzing data in the centered platform; combining with a crop model and an expert system to output decision information; and issuing a control order via the Internet or the 3G network. The system can avoid the limitation of the local automatic control system of the common greenhouse and realizes the situation that the production in a plurality of greenhouses is supported on one platform, thus the system has good expansibility and supports scale application. The system provides the means for checking systems and issuing orders on the Internet and a mobile terminal, is convenient and can transmit information by the broadband Internet and the 3G communication network.

A system and method are provided for aerobic treatment of waste, such as animal or human waste. The method includes the continual introduction of microalgae. The high amounts of oxygen produced by the microalgae satisfies the biochemical oxygen demand in the treatment process and also allows oxidation of undesirable contaminants. Delivery of the microalgae at a desired rate is achieved by incorporation of a series of electrical and mechanical devices housed within a greenhouse type structure which optimizes growth conditions for the microalgae, and also allows the system to be automated.

The process and system of the invention converts carbonaceous feedstock such as coal, hydrocarbon oil, natural gas, petroleum coke, oil shale, carbonaceous-containing waste oil, carbonaceous-containing medical waste, carbonaceous-containing hazardous waste, carbonaceous-containing medical waste, and mixtures thereof into electrical energy without the production of unwanted greenhouse emissions. The process and system uses a combination of a gasifier, e.g., a kiln, operating in the exit range of at least 700° to about 1600° C. (1300–2900° F.) to convert the carbonaceous feedstock and a greenhouse gas stream into a synthesis gas comprising mostly carbon monoxide and hydrogen without the need for expensive catalysts and or high pressure operations. One portion of the synthesis gas from the gasifier becomes electrochemically oxidized in an electricity-producing fuel cell into an exit gas comprising carbon dioxide and water. The latter is recycled back to the gasifier after a portion of water is condensed out. The second portion of the synthesis gas from the gasifier is converted into useful hydrocarbon products.

A method for a panel having a magnetic mounting that utilizes a plurality of magnets in a magnet structure that allows high magnetic force when the panel is installed and the magnet structure is aligned while permitting removal using relatively light force applied to misalign the magnet structure to allow removal. In one embodiment, the magnet structure can provide precision positioning of the panel to a position on the order of the width of a single component magnet of the magnet structure. In another embodiment, the magnet structure may be misaligned for removal by a rotation of the magnet structure. In a further embodiment, the misalignment may be achieved by a lateral shift of the magnet structure. The invention may be adapted to a wide variety of panels including but not limited to doors, window coverings, storm coverings, seasonal covering panels, baby gates, white boards, and green house panels.

A high-transparency, low-emissivity window film or coating is designed to maximize so-called greenhouse heating. This effect is achieved through the use of conductive grids and/or gratings whose width and spacing has been selected such that the grid appears as a uniform conductive film to long-wavelength infrared (blackbody) radiation. The conductive grid film reflects the blackbody radiation strongly, and such that the grid appears highly transparent to visible and near-infrared light, and therefore transmits it.

An intelligent greenhouse control system comprises an information collection unit, a processor and an adjusting and controlling unit, wherein the information collection unit collects environmental information inside a greenhouse; the processor processes the information collected by the information collection unit; the adjusting and controlling unit adjusts and controls the environment inside the greenhouse; the information collection unit collects information of environment inside the greenhouse and data information of soil; the adjusting and controlling unit adjusts, controls and supplements the parameters. The data indexes needed by growth of plants are set in the processor in advance, then environmental indexes and soil indexes of the greenhouse are monitored in real time in the growing process, the indexes are compared with the data indexes set in advance, if a certain index deviates, adjustment and control are carried out through corresponding equipment, and therefore the optimal environment for growth of the plants is provided, the whole process is completely and intelligently controlled by the processor, automatic production is achieved without large accidents, the degree of dependence on people is reduced, and efficiency is improved.

Invented is a method of making combustion air for a fossil fuel burner, as a coal burning power plant, oil refinery or gas fired household appliance. Combustion air is made from solar, wind, biomass, hydropower or geothermal. A staged progression using lower cost greenhouses, or flatplates, or solarponds, feed warm air to higher cost concentrator solar collectors. Wind energy, biomass, geothermal energy heat and compress combustion air. Hydropower also heats and compresses combustion air. Solar evaporation from salt or impure water creates water or local rain for the hydropower system. Combustion air thus is made economically hot, compressed and high velocity, and placed into a heavily insulated pipes for long distance transmission to a distant power plant.

There is provided a modular LED system comprising a frame (1) having a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) (8) of at least two different colors for generating light within a color spectrum, said LEDs (8) being mounted, preferably clickable, on or adjacent to a, preferably heat conductive, plate equipped with cooling means (3) for cooling the LEDs with cooling medium; a processor for controlling an amount of electrical current supplied to the plurality of LEDs, so that a particular amount of current supplied thereto determines a color of light generated by the plurality of LEDs, —and a flat translucent member (5) having translucent lenses (4) associated with the LEDs for decreasing or increasing the diffusion angle for light emitted from each LED. The LED system is suitable as an illumination system for plants to supplement natural light without substantially interfering with the amount of natural light. The system delivers uniform illumination and reduces energy and maintenance costs. The system may be installed in a commercial greenhouse. Because of its narrow width, the system is useful to supplement natural light because it allows a maximum amount of natural light to reach the plants.

A greenhouse environment forecasting feedback method of a back propagation (BP) neural network based on the improvement of a genetic algorithm comprises the following steps: obtaining a plurality of groups of temperatures of plant leaves to be tested and monitoring data values of other five factors which have influence on the temperatures, normalizing the data into values from -1 to +1, and classifying the normalized data into groups to serve as training and testing data for use; establishing the BP neural network which comprises an input layer, a middle layer and an output layer; using the genetic algorithm to optimize the established BP neural network; training and testing the optimized BP neural network; and forecasting the temperatures of the plant leaves according to the BP neural network which passes the test. Through the greenhouse environment forecasting feedback method of the BP neural network based on the improvement of the genetic algorithm, a model suitable for greenhouse environment parameter forecasting can be established, and target parameters in a greenhouse environment can be forecasted accurately and rapidly through a computer simulation test.

The invention relates to a bacillus amyloliquefaciens growing in a disease-preventing and growth-promoting plant and application thereof, relating to bacillus amyloliquefaciens and the application thereof. The bacillus amyloliquefaciens TF28 growing in the disease-preventing and growth-promoting plant belongs to bacillus, has the storage number of CGMCC No.4038 and the storage data of July 26, 2010. The application of the bacillus amyloliquefaciens TF28 comprises the following steps of: (1) preparing activated bacilli liquid; (2) inoculating the activated bacilli liquid in an NYD culture fluid to obtain a strain fermentation solution; and (3) soaking seeds in a dilution solution 50 times of the strain fermentation solution. The strain TF28 in the invention can be colonized, reproduced and transmitted in plants, can simultaneously generate two antibacterial substances, i.e. antimicrobial proteins and lipopeptide antibiotic and has the multiple efficacy of preventing diseases, stimulating growth, increasing the yield, improving the quality, widening an antibacterial spectrum, and the like. Rice seeds treated by the dilution solution 50 times of the fermentation solution of the strain TF28 reach a room-temperature bakana resistance rate over 84.6 percent.

The invention relates to the technical field of intelligent equipment of the facility agriculture, particularly to an automatic spraying robot for a greenhouse, which comprises a track traveling component, a liquor spraying component fixed on the track traveling component and a control unit connected with the track traveling component and the liquor spraying component respectively, wherein the track traveling component comprises a driving device and track wheels; the track wheels travel on a group of tracks; the control unit is used for automatically controlling the traveling of the track traveling component and the spraying of the liquor spraying component. According to the automatic spraying robot for the greenhouse, provided by the invention, the track wheels are taken as supports, and travel on the tracks, all that is needed is to pave tracks on the ground, and a support frame is not needed to be erected, so that the cost is low, and the automatic spraying robot can be applied in a small-sized greenhouse; besides, the track automatic traveling manner has stronger adaptability to uneven pavements inside a greenhouse, and the robot can travel on a concave-convex ground well, so that the smooth traveling of the robot is guaranteed.

The invention discloses a breeding method for aseptic seeding and test tube seedling formation of orchids and the adopted broad-spectrum culture medium. In this method, a healthy orchid mother plant is selected, and artificially pollinated when it blooms, and the fruit that develops to maturity after pollination and has not cracked is used as an explant, or the orchid fruit that is basically mature and not cracked is taken from the wild as an explant. Implants undergo reproductive steps such as aseptic sowing, seed germination, strong seedling cultivation, and test-tube seedling transplantation. The specially prepared medium is used for aseptic sowing and seed germination to obtain small plants, and then the small plants are cultivated on the specially prepared strong seedling medium, and the seedlings are hardened under natural light in the greenhouse for 7-14 hours before being released from the bottle. One day, the test-tube seedlings were taken out, the root medium was washed off, and they were planted in a mixed substrate of bark, bluestone and peat, and further cultivated into seedlings. The invention has the characteristics of high seed germination rate, fast seedling growth, good seedling quality, low cost, etc., can obtain a large number of test-tube seedlings in a short period of time, and the transplanting survival rate of the seedlings can be kept above 90%. An effective way can be provided for the production of orchid seedlings.

This invention relates to an apparatus and a method for a wireless sensor to monitor barrier system integrity, such as used or employed during sequestration of greenhouse gases. This invention includes an apparatus for integrity monitoring of a borehole suitable for sequestration of greenhouse gases. The apparatus includes one or more sensors for placement outside of a casing to monitor a borehole, and a tool for movement within the casing to power and interrogate the one or more sensors. This invention also includes a method for monitoring integrity of a borehole suitable for sequestration of greenhouse gases or other types of well. The method includes the step of disposing one or more sensors outside a casing and the step of powering the one or more sensors with a tool inside the casing. The method also includes the step of interrogating the one or more sensors with the tool to monitor an engineered borehole and/or a natural caprock seal.

The invention discloses a method for cultivating cherries and tomatoes. The method comprises the steps of: cultivation preparation, seedling raising, planting, flower and fruit protection, rich water management and picking. The method has the advantages that: cultivation matrix bags are adopted for cultivating the cherries and the tomatoes without soil, so continuous cropping obstacles do not happen, the conditions of a greenhouse cannot be limited by seasons, and the production can be arranged for annual supply according to the market requirement; and the preparation of nutrient solution is adjusted according to different growth periods, optimal growth effect is achieved, the cherries and the tomatoes are vigorously grown, the yield is increased, the quality is improved, plant diseases and insect pests are reduced, the consumption of pesticide is reduced, and the environmental pollution is reduced.

The present invention relates to self-cleaning surfaces having improved mechanical stability and a process for the production thereof. The present invention is achieved by producing self-cleaning, hydrophobic, structured surfaces having mixtures of particles, which are fixed on their surface and which comprise structure-producing particles selected from semimetal or metal oxides, silicas and metal powders, and wax particles. Structured surfaces that are structured by such mixtures of particles are distinguished by substantially higher mechanical stability of the structure and are therefore especially suitable for the production of self-cleaning surfaces, which are exposed to relatively high mechanical loads, such as, for example, the surfaces of tarpaulins, awnings, greenhouse elements, conservatories or truck tarpaulins.

The invention provides an intelligent ecological greenhouse system based on solar light supplement and geothermal insulation. The system comprises a greenhouse, a water accumulation and feed device, a fertilization device, a solar light condensation device, an optical fiber receiver, an optical fiber light splitter, a light supplement lamp, a solar photovoltaic generation device, a geothermal pump, hot water heat-radiating fins, a water curtain cooler, a CO2 generation device, a constant-flow ventilating window, a temperature sensing device, a humidity sensing device, a photosensitive sensor, a video monitor device, a CO2 sensing device, a rainwater collection pool, a storage battery, a power supply controller, an inverter, a control host, a monitor, a mains supply and the like, wherein electric power of a solar photovoltaic module and electric power of the mains supply are respectively supplied to the geothermal pump and the control host as well as a water feed pump and the light supplement lamp; and the control host respectively receives different signals of the temperature sensing device, the humidity sensing device, the photosensitive sensor and the CO2 sensing device to control respective terminal devices, respectively performs light supplement, temperature insulation, watering, fertilization and CO2 adjustment, and carries out remote monitoring at the same time.

The invention provides a fluid-dynamic renewable energy harvesting system which includes fluid-foil means for interfacing with a fluid current such as a water current or wind or both, and which includes energy harvesting means utilizing fluid current driven periodic motion of the fluid-foil means for capturing fluid-dynamic renewable energy and converting it into usable energy in a desired form such as electricity. The invention provides devices, methods and systems for harvesting renewable energy for small-scale, medium-scale and large-scale applications, to provide real and substantial benefits towards efficiently fulfilling energy needs while also more broadly serving humanity and our global environment. The various embodiments of the invention provide energy with zero consumption of fossil fuels and zero emissions of greenhouse gases, and some selectively sited embodiments can beneficially counter global warming induced ice melting.

The invention discloses an intelligent agricultural integrated management system which is provided with a plurality of camera shooting devices in a greenhouse, wherein each camera shooting device is used for acquiring the current plant image in a monitoring area of each camera shooting device; each environment parameter sensor is used for acquiring the current environment parameter in a monitoring area of each environment parameter sensor; plant images in healthy growth states are prestored in a database; the current plant images and the plant images are compared; if plants are healthy, the current environment parameters serve as standard environment parameters. The system has the advantage of self-learning; the growth states and health states of the plants are judged by the acquired current plant images; cultivation of the plants is facilitated; in addition, a planting logic server controls area separation components to separate the plants which are judged to be unhealthy; the current environment parameters of the plants are adjusted; growth environments of the plants can be improved specifically by the area separation components; the system is finer.

The invention discloses a planting method for Dendrobium officinale. The method comprises the following steps of building a greenhouse, preparing a culture substrate, conducting transplanting, conducting field management, preventing and controlling plant diseases and insect pests, and conducting harvesting. According to the planting method for the Dendrobium officinale, the cultivation method for the Dendrobium officinale is standardized, significant technical problems and production problems, such as the problems of the substrate processing technology, the spraying technology and the pest control technology, existing in production are solved, the quality technology test and research are improved, and standardization production technical regulations are established.

Disclosed is a novel plant cultivation method applicable to classification cultivation with simplified management, in which an enclosed box like container or greenhouse like space provides an enclosed cultivation space having a bottom forming a water reservoir for collecting condensed water so as to realize natural circulation of water evaporation and convection, by which cultivation control and management is realized in an almost watering free manner. Further, arranged outside the enclosed space is a carbon dioxide generation device in connection with an air compressor, which through proper treatment of drying and heating, supplies the interior cultivation space with pressurization and supplement of carbon dioxide and nutrients through piping arrangement, whereby the growth of plants can carry out completely free of pest damage or application of pesticides. Through the control of sunlight, the growth and cultivation of plants can be realized in a management simplified, secured, and stable manner.

The invention discloses an intelligent greenhouse demonstration measurement and control system based on an Internet of things technology. The intelligent greenhouse demonstration measurement and control system comprises a plurality of field control station networks, a plurality of embedded gateways and a central server, wherein one field control station network is accessed into one embedded gateway; and the embedded gateways realize communication between the central server and the field control station networks. The intelligent greenhouse demonstration measurement and control system acquires parameters inside and outside a greenhouse and parameters of crop growth soil constitutes through a sensing network of the Internet of things; a network layer of the Internet of things combines various data transmission networks and communicates with the central server through an embedded Ethernet controller interface, so that communication among various nodes is realized; and an application layer, namely the central server, of the Internet of things realizes optimization control, page publish and short message inquiry control for the parameters.

The invention discloses a method of hardwood cutting propagation of Qilian Juniper, which is characterized in that, annual hardwood of the Qilian Juniper having the age ranges from seven years to ten years is cut as branches; the average length of the branches ranges from 14.0cm to 18.0cm; the average diameter of the branches ranges from 3.0mm to 5.0mm; on the last ten days of April of each year, the branches are inserted into a greenhouse for seedling; the cutting medium is the mixture of peat and perlite mixed according to the proportion of 1:1; the cutting medium is firstly formed into a medium sausage having the length ranging from 13cm to 16cm; then the cutting medium is put in a 58 x 32cm tray and is put on the cutting bed in the greenhouse. The breeding of Qilian Juniper is realized by the method of hardwood cutting propagation. The method has the advantages of reduced seedling period of Qilian Juniper, saved cost and remarkable effect.

The invention provides a lighting system (100, 200, 300) for controlling the growth of plants, the system comprising; an array of solid state/semiconductor light sources (101, 201, 301) adapted to emit light of a predetermined wavelength or wavelength range; and a cooling arrangement(102, 202, 302) comprising a pipe (103, 203, 303) having at least one inlet opening for receiving a gaseous cooling medium and a plurality of outlet openings (105, 205, 305) for releasing said gaseous cooling medium from said cooling arrangement, the cooling arrangement being in mechanical and thermal contact with said light sources. The invention also provides a method for controlling the growth of a plant in a greenhouse of growth chamber. The invention allows promoting the photosynthesis of a plant by modifying the conditions (light intensity, temperature, CO₂ concentration) locally around the plant.

This invention relates a series of steps to provide an economical production of a carbon based fertilizer and soil amendment made during the capture of greenhouse gases from the combustion of fossil and non fossil fuels. The invention uses biomass and other carbonaceous sources through pyrolytic conversion to gases and charcoal, to allow for the further production of co-products, such as hydrogen and ammonia. The invention also relates to the combination of hydrated ammonia, combustion flue gas exhaust, and charcoal, provide for the conversion of the charcoal into a valued added soil amendment to return essential trace minerals and plant nutrients to the soil. The ability to produce a large volume carbon co-product while removing mandated emissions and producing renewable based hydrogen provides an economic gain to a large number small and large businesses and increase the chance of achieving significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

The invention relates to an automatic aeroponic vegetable planting and harvesting production line which is composed of a sowing and seedling hastening workshop, a planting and transplanting workshop, a sunlight planting greenhouse, a harvesting and packaging workshop, a cleaning workshop and a planting frame conveying system. The sowing and seedling hastening workshop is used for sowing vegetable seeds in planting sponges and cultivating the seeds into seedlings. The planting and transplanting workshop is used for transplanting the seedlings to planting plates and placing the planting plates onto planting frames. The sunlight planting greenhouse is used for growth of the seedlings. The harvesting and packaging workshop is used for harvesting, packaging and transporting ripe vegetables. The cleaning workshop is used for recycling and cleaning the planting plates. The planting frame conveying system is used for transporting vegetables between the planting and transplanting workshop, the sunlight planting greenhouse and the harvesting and packaging workshop. The automatic aeroponic vegetable planting and harvesting production line integrates sowing, breeding, transplanting, culturing, harvesting, packaging and logistics, and is complete in function, stable and reliable in performance, high in automation degree, capable of meeting the planting requirements of different vegetables, convenient to use and high in applicability.

The present invention relates to a method for illuminating plants in a greenhouse, comprising the provision of a lamp above the plants, with adjustment of the distance between the lamp and the tip of the plants growing upwards to the height of the growing plants, this distance being kept between 80 cm and 240 cm. The present invention furthermore relates to a greenhouse, containing plants and an installation for illuminating plants, wherein the installation comprises a lamp, lifting gear for moving the lamp in the height direction relative to the plants and control means for measuring and/or setting the distance between the lamp and the tip of the plants growing upwards, and also relates to an installation for illuminating plants intended for use in such a greenhouse.

The invention belongs to the technical field of building materials, and provides a method for preparing building material products through processing industrial solid waste by hydration-carbonation coupling technique. The method comprises steps of uniformly mixing the industrial waste comprising at least one of calcium oxide, calcium hydroxide, dicalcium silicate, tricalcium silicate and tobermorite with alkaline excitation material and proper amount of water so as to prepare the blank of the building material product, wherein the industrial waste comprises steel slag, mineral waste residue, furnace slag, coal ash or coal gangue, the alkaline excitation material comprises carbide slag, lime, Portland cement or waste cement; maintaining for a period through hydration, then maintaining through carbonation so as to obtain the carbonate-based building material product. The coupling technique can effectively use the industrial solid wastes such as steel slag, mineral waste residue, furnace slag, coal ash, coal gangue, carbide slag and the like, so that emission of greenhouse gases is reduced, the greenhouse effect is relieved, furthermore, the method can be used for producing the building material products with good properties, effectively uses the waste and is environmentally friendly.