3D Coordinate Waste Solidification Tracking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current waste fill management systems at final disposal sites lack clear demarcation of coordinate positions and dumping frequencies, leading to uncertainty in waste placement and tracking, which affects reliability and accountability.

Innovation Solution

A compressed solidification manufacturing management system that specifies and manages inorganic waste types, weights, and consigners using a three-dimensional coordinate system, manufacturing type-A and type-B banking materials with varying hazardous substance concentrations, and tracks their usage and treatment through a memory management system, issuing treatment certifications.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If a two-dimensional coordinate system is used for waste placement management, then the system is simple to implement, but the actual placement location cannot be clearly demarcated and tracked

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecoordinate system complexityVSAvoidwaste placement tracking reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transitions from a two-dimensional coordinate system to a three-dimensional coordinate system by adding the vertical dimension (layer information). This allows precise identification of waste placement locations by combining horizontal coordinates (X, Y) with vertical layer information (Z), enabling clear demarcation and tracking of actual placement positions in the landfill space.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent divides the landfill space into multiple layers (vertical segmentation) and further divides each layer into grid cells using coordinate lines (horizontal segmentation). This segmentation creates discrete, identifiable units for waste placement, allowing precise tracking of where waste is deposited and by whom.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If hopper crane repeatedly dumps waste to identical coordinate position, then waste consolidation is achieved, but dumping frequency and vertical stacking become unclear

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewaste consolidation efficiencyVSAvoiddumping frequency information
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the management system records and stores information about each waste dumping operation, including the coordinate position, layer, dumping frequency, and responsible party. This feedback loop allows the system to track and manage dumping activities, making dumping frequency and vertical stacking information visible and manageable despite repeated dumping to the same location.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Measurement precision

If three-dimensional coordinate system and wall demarcation are implemented, then waste placement location is clearly specified, but system complexity and manufacturing cost increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveplacement location precisionVSAvoiddemarcation system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-establishing the three-dimensional coordinate system and placing coordinate markers and walls at designated positions before waste disposal begins. This preliminary setup creates a ready-to-use framework for precise waste placement tracking, eliminating the need for complex real-time measurements during waste disposal operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Enables clear specification, tracking, and management of compressed solidifications, improving reliability by correlating actual fill demarcated spaces with preliminary coordinate spaces and providing comprehensive treatment certification.

Implementation Method 1

a type-A banking material prepared by kneading a cement and water with a type-A inorganic waste... or a type-B banking material prepared by kneading the cement and water with a type-B inorganic waste

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectCement hydration: Chemical Bonding

Implementation Method 2

forming a first compressed solidification... by pouring and compressing the type-A banking material... forming a second compressed solidification... by pouring and compressing the type-A banking material

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectMechanical compression: Compression

Implementation Method 3

compressing-solidifying means which forms the compressed solidification... by pouring and compressing the type-A banking material

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectSolidification: Phase Change

Data Source

PatentEP2644286B1Method for manufacturing compacted molded body
Publication Date: 2016.08.17 FUJI CORP CO LTD
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AI summary

To provide a compressed solidification manufacturing management system capable of manufacturing a compressed solidification obtained by filling a banking material containing an inorganic waste so as to be specified afterwards, and capable of tracking and managing all history of the manufactured compressed solidification. The compressed solidification manufacturing management system is equipped with a raw material specifying means 11 which specifies a type and the like of the inorganic waste introduced into the final disposal site, a banking material manufacturing means 21 which manufactures a type-A banking material from a type-A inorganic waste in which a hazardous substance concentration is equal to or less than a predetermined reference value, and a type-B banking material from a type-B inorganic waste in which the hazardous substance concentration exceeds the predetermined reference value, a compressing-solidifying means 22 which demarcates and forms by walls an actual fill demarcated space corresponded to a coordinate space preliminarily demarcated three-dimensionally with respect to the fill space, and which forms the compressed solidification by compressing and solidifying the type-A banking material arranged so as to encompass the type-B banking material in the fill demarcated space, and a memory managing means 12 which memorizes and manages information on the type-A banking material and the type-B banking material compressed and solidified in the fill demarcated space for each coordinate space.