Hazardous Chemical Ontology Database Construction

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Solution Overview

Problem

The current decentralized regulatory model for hazardous chemicals leads to inadequate management and supervision, resulting in resource waste and increased risks of chemical accidents due to dispersed data and lack of unified coordination.

Innovation Solution

A construction method for a hazardous chemical management database that integrates and fuses multi-field data throughout the entire lifecycle of hazardous chemicals, using ontology construction to define entity and relationship classes, and instantiating the ontology with actual data to achieve comprehensive data management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a decentralized regulatory model is used for hazardous chemicals, then each regulatory department can independently manage its own functions, but data becomes dispersed and coordination mechanisms are lacking, leading to resource waste and inadequate supervision

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveIndependent management capability of regulatory departmentsVSAvoidData dispersion and lack of unified coordination
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges data from multiple regulatory departments into a unified hazardous chemical management database. The system integrates production, storage, transportation, and supervision data from different departments into a single centralized database, eliminating data silos while maintaining each department's independent management capabilities through standardized data interfaces and protocols.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Reliability

If multiple departments conduct collaborative supervision, then comprehensive coverage is achieved, but the system becomes complex and resource allocation becomes inefficient due to overlapping responsibilities

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveComprehensive supervision coverageVSAvoidSystem complexity and resource allocation efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a universal hazardous chemical management database that serves multiple regulatory departments simultaneously. The database is designed with multi-functional capabilities to support production monitoring, storage management, transportation tracking, and supervision activities across different departments, reducing system complexity through a shared infrastructure rather than separate departmental systems.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the hazardous chemical lifecycle into distinct phases (production, storage, transportation, etc.) and assigns specific management functions to each phase within the unified database. This segmentation allows different regulatory departments to focus on their specific areas of responsibility while accessing relevant data from other phases, improving resource allocation efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Ease of operation

If decentralized management is implemented, then departmental autonomy is maintained, but dynamic warning and emergency linkage capabilities are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveDepartmental autonomyVSAvoidDynamic warning and emergency response capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms within the unified database system that continuously monitor hazardous chemical data across all lifecycle stages. The system automatically generates dynamic warnings when anomalies are detected and provides real-time feedback to relevant regulatory departments, enabling rapid emergency response while maintaining departmental autonomy through standardized notification protocols.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12321369B2Management method and device for hazardous chemicals, and a construction method for a management database
Publication Date: 2025.06.03 EAST CHINA UNIV OF SCI & TECH
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AI summary

The present invention relates to a management method and a device for hazardous chemicals and a construction method of a management database. The construction method comprises following steps: determining a plurality of entities involved in entire lifecycle of hazardous chemicals; classifying the plurality of entities to define a plurality of entity classes involved in the management database; defining a plurality of relationship classes according to one or more relationships involved between every two of the entity classes; using the relationship from one or more of the relationship classes to constrain the relationships between every two entities, so as to construct an ontology of the database; and importing actual data of the hazardous chemicals throughout their entire lifecycle into the ontology, so as to carry out instantiation of the ontology. By implementing this construction method, a management database for hazardous chemicals can be obtained, which can break the island phenomenon of multi-field data by integrating and fusing the multi-filed data throughout the entire lifecycle of hazardous chemicals, thereby achieving the effects of reasonable resource allocation, dynamic warning and supervision, and emergency linkage.