542 results about "Resource conservation" patented technology

Apparatus, systems, methods, and related computer program products for optimizing a schedule of setpoint temperatures used in the control of an HVAC system. The systems disclosed include an energy management system in operation with an intelligent, network-connected thermostat located at a structure. The thermostat includes a schedule of setpoint temperatures that is used to control an HVAC system associated with a structure in which the thermostat is located. The schedule of setpoint temperatures is continually adjusted by small, unnoticeable amounts so that the schedule migrates from the original schedule to an optimal schedule. The optimal schedule may be optimal in terms of energy consumption or some other terms.

Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a system and method for administering an incentive-based program to encourage environmentally-conscious behavior. In one embodiment, a method for administering an incentive-based program to encourage environmentally-conscious behavior comprises providing a network-accessible database, hosted by an administrator, having a plurality of sets of records, each set of records corresponding to a user, monitoring an environmentally-conscious behavioral activity of a first user, and recording a record of the behavioral activity in the database, using a computer-based mathematical calculation to translate the record of the behavioral activity to a value, and storing the value within a record of a set of records corresponding to the first user, and allowing the first user to access the database, using a computing device to communicate through a data portal to the database via a network, to redeem the value for a credit at a third party retailer.

A Bluetooth device searches for another Bluetooth device or a Bluetooth command in response to a user intervention event. A user intervention event can take many forms, such as, for example, a connection to a power source or communication device, a mechanical configuration change, or a user input. Specifically, a Bluetooth device begins searching when the user intervention event takes place. To list some examples, the Bluetooth device may enter a page state, a page scan state, an inquiry state or an inquiry scan state in response to the user intervention. Alternatively, as more examples, if the Bluetooth device is in a sniff mode, a hold mode or a park state, the Bluetooth device may enter the active mode in response to the user intervention event.

Methods are described for encoding and decoding blocks of image data using intra block copying (IBC). A source block for intra block copying is selected from a source region of a current image that is closer to the current block than a threshold, wherein the source region does not include a portion of the current image that is further from the current block than the threshold.

Described herein are processes and devices that use smart objects in a virtual universe to conserve computing resources. One of the devices described is a virtual resource conserver. The virtual resource conserver reads data that indicates that a resource conservation setting is to be selected for a virtual object in a virtual universe. The virtual resource conserver selects the resource conservation setting for the displayed virtual object. The resource conservation setting comprises data that describes a displayable characteristic about the virtual object, which can be reduced in display quality. The virtual resource conserver reduces the display quality of the virtual object in accordance with the selected resource conservation setting, thus conserving computing resources.

The invention discloses a resource adjusting method and device of an application service system. The method comprises, according to the parameter values of reserved resources which are collected in real time or periodically, determining whether to perform dilatation or shrinking adjustment; based on resource adjusting schemes in two directions, including a longitudinal resource adjusting scheme for increasing or reducing the resources on the basis of the inside of virtual machine systems and a transverse resource adjusting scheme for increasing or reducing the number of the virtual machine systems on the basis of application templates, preferably selecting a longitudinal dilatation direction during the dilatation, and preferably selecting a transverse reduction method during the reduction; according to a finally-determined increase or reduction direction, adjusting the resources of the application service system. According to the resource adjusting method and device of the application service system, resource allocation can be diversified in granularity, actual requirements and resource saving principles can be better met, and accordingly the resource utilization rate can be improved.

The invention relates a treatment and utilization technology of saline soil resources, in particular to a treatment and utilization method of muddy seashore saline soil. The method comprises the following steps of: establishing a water supply system consisting of a fresh water well, a water pump and a water supply pipe; excavating a salt leaching drainage ditch so as to establish a drainage salt leaching system; applying a cow dung and crop stalk fertilizer and a phosphogypsum soil and fertility improving fertilizer; with a small raised field as unit, irrigating fresh water to wash and leach salt; and planting and maintaining vegetation through cultivating the land by machine, sunning the upturned soil, planting the vegetation and irrigating the vegetation, wherein a planting technology with gradient increasing salt tolerance is adopted in planting the vegetation. According to the invention, for the salinity and structural characteristics of the muddy seashore saline soil, the muddy seashore strongly salined soil in the coastal zone is treated and utilized in combination with engineering measures, physical measures and chemical measures on the basis of salt tolerant plant appraisal; and The treatment and utilization method of the muddy seashore saline soil provided by the invention has the advantages of simplicity in operation, resource conservation, soil treatment and utilization cost of less than 166.21 yuan/m2 and plant survival rate of more than 90%.

The invention relates to a screening apparatus, and particularly relates to a rapid screening apparatus for treating construction waste. The invention aims at solving the technical problem of providing a rapid screening apparatus for treating the construction waste which is high in garbage treatment speed. In order to solve the technical problem, the invention provides the rapid screening apparatus for treating the construction waste. The rapid screening apparatus comprises a separation plate, a garbage truck, a filter screen, a first slide block, a first slide rail, a collection frame, a bearing seat, a second slide rail, a rotating shaft, a second slide block, a rack, a gear, a motor, a feeding hopper, a baffle plate, an electromagnet, a bracing wire and an electric reel, wherein the feeding hopper is arranged at the right side of the top of the garbage truck, a through hole is respectively formed in the left side and the right side of the feeding hopper, the motor is arranged in the top of the garbage truck, and the motor is disposed at the left of the feeding hopper. By adopting the rapid screening apparatus, effects of high garbage treatment speed, convenience in operation, time conservation and resource conservation can be achieved.

The invention discloses a drought resisting and water saving cultivation technique for performing direct sowing on a dry paddy field by fully using natural precipitation, which is used for adjusting the growth period of paddy rice according to water requirements at each growth and development stage of the paddy rice and statistical data of historical meteorological data for a natural precipitation rule of every local ten days, so that each growth and development stage of the paddy rice is matched with the natural precipitation of every local ten days and corresponding comprehensive technical measures are taken to fulfill the aim of resisting drought, saving water and stably increasing yield. The cultivation technique changes a traditional paddy rice cultivation mode, finishes one season of paddy rice production only by using natural precipitation without soaking seed, raising rice seedlings and transplanting or needing irrigation and plowing and can directly perform direct sowing production on the dry paddy field in a dry land or a non-dry land. Therefore, the technique saves irrigation water, lowers costs of seedlings, transplanting, drought resisting, water pumping, plowing and the like, saves labor, cuts down expenditures and increases income and is favorable for realizing increment of grain production and rural incomes and agricultural efficiency and realizing resource conservation, energy conservation and emission reduction.

The invention discloses a position updating system and a method for a high-speed railway GSM private network. The system comprises a mobile group header and a mobile terminal with WiFi function, wherein passengers in the same carriage form a whole body (group), and the mobile group header in the group is used as a representative of the whole group to uniformly update the position. The system and the method contribute to frequency resource conservation, reduce cost of the system on position updating, need no modification on the mobile terminal, and solve the problem of wireless resource waste of the network caused by massive position updating at the same time previously.

The invention belongs to the field of road engineering and provides an anti-rutting additive containing direct coal liquefaction residue. The anti-rutting additive containing direct coal liquefaction residue comprises the direct coal liquefaction residue, a thermoplastic elastomer and an additive, wherein the weight ratio of the direct coal liquefaction residue to the thermoplastic elastomer is 1 to (1-4), and the additive accounts for 5-20% of the sum of the weights of the direct coal liquefaction residue and the thermoplastic elastomer. Based on resource conservation and environmental friendliness, comprehensive advantages of the direct coal liquefaction residue and macromolecules are utilized, so that the prepared asphalt mixture has excellent anti-rutting performance and good low-temperature performance and durability, construction cost is reduced while anti-rutting performance of a road is improved when the prepared asphalt mixture is applied to a middle surface layer, and service life of the road is prolonged.

The invention relates to an analyzing system based on a VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) and a mileage. The analyzing system comprises a car-carried terminal and a big data center, wherein the car-carried terminal comprises an MCU, and a vehicle bus data acquisition module, a car-carried storage module and a signal transmission module which are electrically connected with the MCU respectively; the big data center comprises a data acquisition center, a data storage module and a server; the VIN, the mileage or/and vehicle fault information acquired from a vehicle diagnostic interface are transmitted by the vehicle bus data acquisition module to the MCU for processing; the processed information is stored by the MCU in the car-carried storage module and sent signal transmission module to the data acquisition module through the signal transmission module; the acquired information is stored by the data acquisition center in the data storage module and transmitted to the server. According to the invention, the car-carried terminal and the big data center are adopted, so that the analyzing system has the advantages of simple structure, multiple functions, intelligence, social resource conservation, convenience for maintenance and repair and the like.

The invention discloses a metal organic skeleton material for removing cobalt ions from wastewater and a preparation method of the metal organic skeleton material. The method comprises the following steps: preparing UiO-66-NH2 firstly, then preparing UiO-66-R1, and finally, preparing a bis-Schiff base functional group-containing metal organic skeleton material; and then using the bis-Schiff base functional group-containing metal organic skeleton material for adsorption treatment on the cobalt ions in the wastewater, namely, carrying out adsorption treatment on the cobalt-containing wastewater, and inspecting influences of factors, including cobalt-containing solutions with different pH values, different adsorption temperatures, different adsorption time and different original cobalt ion concentrations on cobalt ion adsorption with UiO-66-Schiff base as an adsorbent, wherein the adsorbing capability of the adsorbent to the cobalt ions under a preferred condition can reach 256mg/g. The preparation method of the invention has the characteristics of simpleness in technology, no secondary pollution and high adsorbing capability; the metal organic skeleton material has the characteristics of capability of cyclic utilization, resource conservation, cost reduction and the like; and a new method for removing the cobalt ions from the cobalt-containing wastewater is found.

The invention aims at an intermittent process with uncertainty, and proposes a constrained 2D tracking control method for the uncertainty intermittent process. The constrained 2D tracking control method comprises the steps of: firstly, designing an iterative learning control law for a given system dynamic model; secondly, converting the original system dynamic model into a 2D-FM closed-loop systemmodel expressed in the form of a predictive value according to a 2D system theory and the designed iterative learning control law through introducing state errors and output errors; and finally, giving a sufficient condition expressed in the form of a linear matrix inequality (LMI) for ensuring robust asymptotic stability of a closed-loop system and an expression form of the optimal control law according to a designed infinite time domain performance index and a Lyapunov stability theory. According to the constrained 2D tracking control method, numerical values of tracking errors under the control of the constrained 2D tracking control method are smaller, and the convergence is faster; more importantly, the control input does not drastically fluctuate and only require slight adjustment, thereby being conducive to resource conservation and reducing troubles caused by frequent operations.

The invention discloses an inner ring rib two-way mold-splitting rotary extrusion forming mold and a mold opening method. According to the inner ring rib two-way mold-splitting rotary extrusion forming mold and the mold opening method, a solid bar is adopted as a blank and used for the forming of a cylindrical component with an inner ring rib, and the internal streamline completeness of the formedcomponent is guaranteed. The inner ring rib two-way mold-splitting rotary extrusion forming mold comprises a mold splitting device, a convex mold I, a convex mold II and a concave mold, wherein two sliding blocks used for the mounting of the convex mold I and the convex mold II are arranged in the mold splitting device; the shapes of the convex mold I and the convex mold II are completely the same; only one side of each of the two convex molds is provided with a groove used for the forming of the inner ring rib; the two convex molds are symmetrically mounted and capable of parallelly slidingalong a symmetric surface, namely a mold splitting surface, in a two-way manner; during the forming process, the blank is driven by the concave mold to rotate and the two concave molds are fed along the axial direction; and meanwhile, the leftward mold splitting motion and the rightward mold splitting motion of the two convex molds are correspondingly used for the forming of an inner rib or a cylinder wall, so that the forming of the cylindrical component with the inner ring rib can be achieved. The inner ring rib two-way mold-splitting rotary extrusion forming mold and the mold opening methodhave the following forming characteristics: the technological process is short and the streamline is complete; a relatively high ratio between the axial height and the radial height of the inner ringrib can be achieved; the material utilization ratio is high; and the resource conservation can be achieved.

The invention relates to a method for producing energy-saving sintered bricks from mud. The sintered brick is made from river mud, municipal sludge and sea mud as raw material, by mixing with silica-based inorganic binder at a certain proportion, ageing, extruding with a extrusion molding machine to obtain blanks, cutting the blanks with a cutter, drying, sintering and burning. The invention makes full use of mud and the additional amount of mud is high up to 50%. The invention realizes energy and resource conservation and helps develop the circular economy and realize the comprehensive utilization of resources. The produced energy-saving sintered brick has the advantages of high porosity and good heat-insulation effect. During the sintering process, the flue gas is circularly treated, the exhaust gas is treated with acidic and alkaline solutions to remove harmful substances (such as dioxin) from the exhaust gas, and harmful substances such as heavy metals are solidified, therefore, the whole production process and the final product do not cause environmental pollution or hazard.

Computer configurations, search processors (2), software, and methods of viewing and analyzing information regarding agriculture or land use automatically located relationally-linked agronomic entities with both real (18) and virtual (8) displays. Relational linking exist through broad assessment of commonality information with fuzzy logic heuristics. Dynamic link presentation (6) can exist with congregated and hierarchical information displays (29) such as at the farm level, at a location level, at a physically aggregated parcel level with hierarchical display of farms or agronomic entity ownership, management, organization, and crop usages that afford users an unprecedented series of views into the businesses of land use, food production, and resource conservation. A meta-syntactic agronomic information generator (31) can facilitate imputed information through the integration of multiple databases (32). Predictive and application-specific configurations can allow at-a-glance understanding of agronomic organizations and agronomic decision-making to see where to most optimally devote resources for higher success or efficiency.

The invention provides an environmental-friendly coal-saving agent for a cement shaft kiln, comprising the following raw materials by weight portion: 3-7 portions of a coal combusting low-temperature modifying agent, 2-6 portions of a compound sulphur-fixing agent, 0.5-0.96 portion of a combusting inductive agent, 3-7 portions of a raising agent, 56-96 portions of a combusting poising agent, and 5-15 portions of a highly-efficient sulphur-fixing agent. The coal combusting low-temperature modifying agent can be potassium permanganate, potassium chlorate, potassium perchlorate, sodium chlorate, sodium nitrate and the like; the compound sulphur-fixing agent can be sodium carbonate, calcium oxide and the like; the raising agent can be waste liquor of paper mill containing Na or/and Ca sulphonate and the like; and the combusting poising agent can be a chemical waste reducing substance containing sodium chloride and the like. The method solves the problems of environmental pollution and resource waste in the prior art, uses compatibility of multiple chemical raw material of 6-10 percent and chemical waste to prepare the coal-saving agent with small dosage and fast effect to be added to the production of the cement shaft kiln in trace quantity, and has the advantages of resource conservation by using waste, coal conservation and consumption reduction, and reduction of dust and SO2 discharge and environmental pollution.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a paper-surface gypsum board. The method comprises the following steps: after being metered, gypsum clinker and PGCS are fully mixed, and then the mixture enters a mixer; paper pulp, mixing cement and foam respectively enter the mixer; the above dry and wet materials are fully stirred in the mixer to prepare uniform slurry, the slurry is continuously poured between two layers of covering paper, and a wet gypsum board is prepared by extrusion molding; and the wet gypsum board undergoes solidification, cutting, drying, final trimming, edge banding, stacking and packaging so as to prepare the paper-surface gypsum board finished product. According to the invention, bonding quality and strength of the board are enhanced; raw materials can be saved, energy consumption is reduced, and production cost is decreased; and dependence of bonding quality of the covering paper on operation and drying system is reduced. The scheme of drying the paper-surface gypsum board by the use of waste heat from a power plant or a steel mill is feasible. Energy conservation and emission reduction as well as automatic disposal of industrial waste residues are realized. In addition, the aggregate resources conservation purpose of ''low energy, low pollution and high return'' is achieved.

The invention provides a disinfecting detergent and a preparation method thereof. The disinfecting detergent contains didecyldimethylammonium chloride, didecyldimethylammonium bromide, poly(hexamethylene biguanide) hydrochloride, dodecyldimethylbenzylammonium chloride, fatty alcohol-polyoxyethylene ether (9), fatty alcohol polyoxyethylen ether (7), fatty alcohol polyoxyethylen ether (8), alkyl polyglucoside, alkanolamides of fatty acids, lauramidopropyl betaine, essence, citric acid monohydrate food grade and deionized water. The method has the advantages of environmentally-friendliness, combination of disinfection and cleaning, synchronous completion of stain removal and disinfection, safety, unstimulating property, and resource conservation.

The invention relates to a lightweight porous heat insulation material prepared by iron tailings and other solid wastes and a preparation method thereof. The lightweight porous heat insulation material comprises solid wastes, adhesives, fluxes, a flexibilizer and a foaming agent according to a mass ratio of 1:0.58-1.7:0.18-0.56:0.04-0.24:0.02-0.03, wherein the components are mixed and sintered to obtain the flexibilizer. According to the invention, the volume density of the product as well as the size and distribution of air holes are controlled by the adding quantity of the foaming agent and the temperature regulation; and the lightweight porous heat insulation material provided by the invention has the advantages of utilization of solid wastes, resource conservation, heat insulation property, lightweight, durability, fireproof property, flame retardance, water resistance, corrosion resistance, convenience in construction and the like.

Systems and methods for automatically and dynamically improving user interface visibility in response to environmental conditions are presented. In an example embodiment, a display device can be configured to operate in a variety of modes differentiated by display parameters and characteristics. Designation of a particular operational mode can be dependent on a number of factors, including whether an operator is looking at the screen or not. A display control unit (DCU) can be configured to receive sensor and geoposition data and use the data to designate an operational mode for a display device. A glare mitigation mode can be implemented to improve visibility under glare conditions, and an enhanced visibility mode can be implemented to improve visibility under low-light conditions. Other modes can include a normal operation mode and a resource conservation mode.

There is provided a baseball bat that has performance similar to that of the conventional wooden bat and moreover is excellent in terms of cost and resource conservation. For this baseball bat 11, a reinforcing core 12 having a rectangular cross section is arranged in the center of the cross section thereof continuously so as to penetrate both end thereof, bamboo pieces 24 are laminated around the reinforcing core 12, and an adhesive is caused to permeate into the contact surface between the reinforcing core 12 and the bamboo pieces 24 evenly under a pressure, by which firm bonding can be attained. In addition, by using a material that is hard and has a large specific gravity as compared with bamboo, such as hickory or reinforced wood, as the reinforcing core 12, the flexural rigidity is enhanced as a whole, and the weight is increased. Therefore, the characteristics and feel in use are improved as compared with the conventional bamboo bat, and the baseball bat 11 can be used as a substitute for a wooden bat. Bamboo, hickory, and reinforced wood have no problem in terms of resource conservation, can reduce the product price, and can lower the consumption of scarce resources such as serrata.