Carbon Offset Credit Calculation System for Waste Oil

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Solution Overview

Problem

The challenge lies in creating a carbon offset credit calculation system for waste oil that addresses the dispersion of data across various locations, requiring advanced technologies for waste oil separation, purification, and stable biomass generation, while ensuring interoperability and portability of CO2 credit information.

Innovation Solution

A system comprising terminal devices for inputting waste oil, biofuel production, and power generation/consumption data, connected via a network to a carbon offset credit calculation server, which calculates credits by multiplying biofuel power generation/consumption with CO2 emission coefficients, integrating data from dispersed sources and facilitating data interoperability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If data are collected from dispersed locations (shops, factories, power plants), then the completeness of carbon offset data is improved, but the complexity of data integration and interoperability increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of carbon offset dataVSAvoidcomplexity of data integration
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a server as an intermediary component that receives, standardizes, and integrates data from multiple dispersed sources including shops, factories, and power plants. This server acts as a central mediator that handles data interoperability issues, converting data from various formats and sources into a unified structure for carbon offset calculation, thereby reducing the complexity faced by individual data collection points.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The server is designed with universal functionality to handle multiple types of data inputs from different sources (waste oil collection data, biofuel production data, power generation data) using standardized protocols. This multi-functional capability allows the system to integrate diverse data types without requiring separate specialized systems for each data source, thus improving data completeness while managing integration complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Manufacturing precision

If advanced technologies are used for waste oil separation and purification, then the quality of biofuel production is improved, but the device complexity and manufacturing difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequality of biofuel productionVSAvoiddevice complexity for waste oil processing
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The waste oil processing system is divided into distinct functional segments: separation units that isolate waste oil from other materials, purification units that remove contaminants, and conversion units that transform purified waste oil into biofuel. This segmentation allows each unit to be optimized for its specific function, improving overall biofuel quality while making the complex processing system more manageable and modular.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Measurement precision

If a centralized calculation system is implemented, then the accuracy of carbon offset credit calculation is improved, but the loss of time for data transmission and processing increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of carbon offset credit calculationVSAvoidtime for data transmission
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Data standardization and validation procedures are performed preliminarily at the source locations (shops, factories, power plants) before transmission to the central server. This preliminary processing ensures that data arrives at the calculation system in a ready-to-use format, reducing the time required for data transmission and initial processing while maintaining calculation accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP4092604B1Co2-reduction credit computing system using oily wastewater
Publication Date: 2024.03.06 TBM CO LTD
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AI summary

A carbon offset credit calculation system (1) utilizing waste oil comprising: a first terminal device (10,20), which inputs information relating to waste oil regarded as a biomass resource; a second terminal device (30), which is owned by a fuel manufactory and inputs information relating to biofuel, which is purified from waste oil, wherein the fuel manufactory produces the biofuel based on the waste oil; a third terminal device (40,50), which is owned by a site consuming biofuel, inputs information relating to power generation and fuel consumption; a carbon offset credit calculation server (60), which calculates a carbon offset amount based on information input by the first terminal device (10,20), the second terminal device (30), and the third terminal device (40,50), and calculates a carbon offset credit based on the carbon offset amount; wherein the first terminal device (10,20), the second terminal device (30), the third terminal device (40,50), and the carbon offset credit calculation server (60), are connected to one another via the network.