Hydrogen Supply Interface for Environmental Burden Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current hydrogen gas supply systems do not provide users with information on the methods of hydrogen manufacturing, preventing users from selecting hydrogen that is higher in cost but lower in environmental burden, and limiting their ability to choose between hydrogen stations with different environmental impacts.
Innovation Solution
A hydrogen gas supply system that includes a storing unit for hydrogen, a communication unit for receiving burden and quality information, a user interface unit for outputting this information to users, and a controller for managing the user interface based on the received information and the amount of hydrogen stored.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If hydrogen is manufactured using fossil fuel and water vapor reaction, then a large amount of hydrogen can be stably manufactured at low cost, but carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide are generated causing high environmental burden
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments hydrogen supply into multiple sources with different environmental characteristics. The system divides hydrogen into categories (e.g., green hydrogen from renewable electrolysis, gray hydrogen from fossil fuels) and allows users to select based on their environmental preferences, enabling simultaneous support for both high-volume low-cost and low-burden hydrogen.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of hydrogen supply by introducing environmental burden information as a selectable attribute. Users can adjust their hydrogen supply parameters by choosing different environmental burden levels, allowing the system to adapt between cost-effective fossil-fuel-based hydrogen and environmentally-friendly renewable-based hydrogen.
2Object-generated harmful factors
If hydrogen is manufactured using electrolysis with solar or wind power, then no carbon dioxide is generated, but the amount of hydrogen varies depending on weather conditions and cost is higher
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal hydrogen supply system that can handle multiple hydrogen sources with different characteristics. The system is designed to accept both stable low-cost fossil-fuel hydrogen and variable high-cost renewable hydrogen, making it multi-functional in terms of source accommodation and user preference fulfillment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates information copies of hydrogen characteristics (environmental burden, cost, stability) and transmits them to users through communication interfaces. This allows users to make informed decisions without physically testing or verifying each hydrogen batch, enabling selection based on replicated information rather than direct measurement.
3Adaptability or versatility
If hydrogen station stores hydrogen from multiple supply sources with different manufacturing methods, then users have more choices, but users cannot currently select based on environmental burden information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback by providing environmental burden information back to users through display interfaces. The system receives hydrogen supply information from multiple sources, processes it, and feeds back relevant environmental characteristics to users, enabling them to make informed selections based on their environmental preferences.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary information system that bridges hydrogen supply sources and users. This intermediary collects, processes, and transmits environmental burden information between the hydrogen storage system and user interfaces, enabling users to select hydrogen based on environmental characteristics without direct access to manufacturing data.
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AI summary
A hydrogen gas supply system comprises a storing unit that stores hydrogen, a communication unit that receives at least either of burden information indicative of an environmental burden exerted during manufacturing of hydrogen externally received by the storing unit and quality information indicative of quality with respect to the hydrogen externally received by the storing unit, a user interface unit that provides an output in accordance with the at least either of the burden information and the quality information with respect to the hydrogen supplied from the storing unit to the user, and a controller that controls the user interface unit based on an amount of the hydrogen received by the storing unit and the at least either of the burden information and the quality information, which is received by the communication unit.