Sealed Absorbing-Material Wrappers for Accurate CO2 Capture Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems inaccurately record the captured amount of carbon dioxide due to fraudulent reporting and difficulty in accurately determining the amount absorbed by absorbing materials before they reach users, leading to incorrect profit allocation.
Innovation Solution
A management system with sealed wrappers for absorbing materials that prevent carbon dioxide absorption until use, featuring information storage units readable only when unsealed, ensuring accurate capture data transmission to a server device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If absorbing material is provided to user without sealing, then user can easily use the absorbing material, but the absorbing material may have already absorbed carbon dioxide before reaching the user, causing inaccurate capture amount recording
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by sealing the absorbing material in a wrapper before delivery to the user. The wrapper includes an information storage unit that stores capture information (such as initial weight, material composition, or unique identifier) before the absorbing material is activated. This preliminary storage of data prevents any carbon dioxide absorption from occurring before the user opens the wrapper, ensuring that all subsequent absorption can be accurately attributed to the user's usage period.
Solution Approach 2:
The wrapper acts as an intermediary between the absorbing material and the external environment. It physically isolates the absorbing material from carbon dioxide in the air while allowing the transmission of information about the material's capture capacity. The wrapper includes a sealed environment that prevents premature absorption, and an information storage unit that can be read by the user's terminal device to verify and record the absorbing material's initial state and expected capture amount.
2Measurement precision
If absorbing material is sealed in wrapper with information storage unit, then accurate capture amount can be recorded, but the device complexity increases due to additional components
Solution Approach 1:
The wrapper is constructed from flexible, thin-film materials that provide effective sealing against carbon dioxide penetration while maintaining a simple, lightweight structure. These thin-film wrappers are easy to manufacture, store, and transport, and can be easily opened by the user without requiring complex mechanisms. The thin-film material allows the wrapper to conform to the absorbing material's shape while maintaining hermetic sealing properties.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of storing complex verification data directly in the wrapper, the system uses a copying approach where the information storage unit in the wrapper contains only essential identification and capacity information. The user's terminal device reads this information and stores it locally for verification purposes. This copying method reduces the complexity of the wrapper while maintaining the ability to accurately track and verify carbon dioxide capture amounts through data matching between the wrapper's information storage unit and the user's device.
3Loss of information
If information storage unit is readable when sealed, then user can verify capture capacity before use, but fraudulent reporting can occur if user reads and submits data without actual absorption
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies preliminary anti-action by designing the information storage unit to be readable only after the wrapper is opened. This prevents users from accessing and potentially misrepresenting the capture information before the absorbing material has actually been used. The reading operation is deliberately timed to occur after opening, which serves as a preliminary verification step that the material has been activated and is ready to absorb carbon dioxide, thereby preventing fraudulent reporting of capture amounts.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by requiring the user's terminal device to read the information storage unit in the wrapper and automatically transmit the captured amount data to the server device. This automated feedback loop reduces manual intervention and the potential for fraudulent reporting. The server device can verify the data against the information read from the wrapper, creating a cross-check mechanism that enhances reliability. The feedback process ensures that only actually used absorbing materials can have their data recorded and verified.
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
Prevents fraudulent reporting and ensures that the captured amount of carbon dioxide stored matches the actual absorption, maintaining accurate records and preventing incorrect profit allocation.
Implementation Method 1
an absorbing material which absorbs carbon dioxide in air
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AI summary
The management system for captured amount of carbon dioxide includes a wrapper wrapping an absorbing material which absorbs carbon dioxide; an information storage unit, and a first information terminal transmitting an absorbable capacity read by a reading unit in associated with the identification information of the first user. The information storage unit is disposed at a position where it is unreadable by the reading unit when the inside of the wrapper is sealed, and it is readable by the reading unit when the wrapper is unsealed. The server device stores the absorbable capacity received from the first information terminal in a database as a captured amount of carbon dioxide by the first user.