Sustainable Technologies 2010

The design I came up with was based on watching a RowHouse project take so long to build and have a high retail price.
With endless delays and bad weather, I was walking by the project and then I had the "Flash of Genius" moment as it hit me that Building Homes hasn't changed since my High School days 40 years ago.The Patent ability is a bit vague because it is not a new item but a way to assemble it,so I think the Social benefit is worth me displaying at this point.The images show a basic home floor ...

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In the world of EMI-EMC there is an essential need to measure conducted as well as radiated RF power. Additionally, measurement of RF power is required for design, development and maintenance of various systems of communications; radar etc. An exhaustive literature survey is carried out on various methods of RF power measurement. Based on the analysis of the literature survey, an optimized way of RF measurement is conceived and converted into a realizable measuring system. In the new approach, demerits of the traditional methods are minimized. The proposed RF power meter consists of a matched input section, a central ...

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The project consists of a solar adsorption ice maker for vaccines storage in remote areas of Third World countries. The use of these machines does not need any human presence and electricity. The system is completely independent and meets the standards set by the World Health Organization. These standards were identified during the vaccination campaign against measles to reduce child deaths from 2001 to 2005.
Strategies for immunization should take into account the possibility of ensuring the vaccines preservation at a temperature between 2°C and 8°C until their final use in the territory.
At present common refrigeration ...

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• Here is a process that helps reduce dependence on non-renewable energy resources using environmentally friendly cooking process.

Problem

• Frozen pizza has a long baking time in a conventional oven
• Uncooked part is always around the center
• Pointy end with cheese is sticky
• Difficult to cut
• Difficult to serve
• Difficult to hold
• Difficult to eat

Objective

• Baking time acceleration of up to 50 %

Solution

• Introducing the "Coreless Pizza"!
• Significant form factor innovation
• As significant as the pocket pizza which do not taste good
• Unique ...

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Petroleum and plastic cannot be explained discretely, as plastic is nothing but one of the many useful products derived by processing petroleum. Plastic is obtained when crude petroleum is processed and treated with a few other additives. This would basically make plastic a polymer of hydrocarbon with few other elements.

If plastic can be made from hydrocarbons they can also be reverted back into oil. This has already been proven by experiments and trials have also come out fruitful.We intend to propose a processing unit to use this waste and get some fuel. The pros in this are two ...

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The inhabitants of the earth will continue to experience a declining availability of fossil fuels. As consumption of these fossil fuels contribute to global warming through emissions of CO2 there is a rising demand for “cleaner” energy. Advancements have been made towards cleaner energy through the harnessing of solar and wind energy. However, one potential source of energy has been nearly untapped and un-researched. This potential energy source is rain.

For centuries, energy from water has been harnessed and used by man. Chinese blacksmiths harnessed waters kinetic energy to pound the metal that required forming. Others used the waters ...

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In Developing countries, the Power plays a crucial role in development. In the Electrical Distribution Systems, Power Billing is crucial as it involves collecting Revenue for the Government. But due to Power Corruption, the quality of Power is being reduced and thereby affecting the different electrical equipment connected to it. And due to these Power losses the Supplier`s profits are reduced and increased the Risk of Hike in Power Tariffs.
We now introduce a new architecture for forming a huge network of smart electronic meters interacting with the servers placed at the Sub-stations and the Base Stations and generate ...

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SODIS (solar disinfection) is a proven method of water treatment for the developing world that utilizes ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun to kill pathogens living in drinking water. All that is required is a clear plastic bottle, filled with contaminated water, to be exposed to direct sunlight for 6-8 hours. This method can make clean water an affordable reality for the more than one billion people across the world who currently lack access to safe drinking water.

However, the amount of time a bottle needs to be left out in the sun is dependent on the day's weather ...

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This invention is in principal a new method of saving electrical energy. The usage of this invention will allow reduction of electrical losses which occur in the electrical transmission networks. The application of this invention would result in cutting energy losses in the electrical energy networks by half and therefore increasing the network efficiency. This invention is the basis for a device that could find wide application.
This device is placed between the electrical source at the end of the transmission network and the load. This invention does NOT REQUIRE ANY CHANGES in the existing transmission networks or the end user.
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Here is a “green” technology that should revolutionize materials, design and construction methods of highway and other bridges. In addition to considerable savings, it offers the unique inherent capacity to withstand earthquakes, hurricanes and flooding, and the design flexibility to accommodate rises in sea levels due to global warming.

Prevailing bridge building materials are concrete and steel. Both are non-sustainable, heavy, expensive and energy-consuming. An environmentally sustainable, superior alternative is our LPSA (light prestressed segmented arch) engineering system. This reduces bridge building to assembling a kit of compact parts that can be easily manufactured and transported, resulting in considerable cost, ...

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1. Replace the internal combustion engine with electric motor propulsion systems. 2. Replace the current electrical power productio system we now have in place, including the national grid network, with individual systems. 3. Replace the current way we use batteries for power. With the following Invention:
Electric Motor / Generator system, including three magnetic rotors, with synchronized rotation, either all the same direction or one rotor in the opposite direction, with rotor #2 being advanced slightly ahead of rotor #1 & #3 rotation. All three rotor centers are placed precisely and equally at the points of an equilateral triangle. ...

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The current tomato peeling process is a water- and energy- intensive operation and results in a large amount of wastewater. Particularly, the wastewater from caustic peeling method using hot lye solution is high in salinity and organic load due to loss of tomato solid during peeling. It is reported that the water consumption for tomato processing in California alone is about 10.7 billion gallons per year, while expenses of wastewater management could be up to $8,000 per ton of total dissolved solids. Presently, tomato processors are under intense regulation and environmental pressure and are seeking alternatives to replace caustic ...

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E-Path is a concept to facilitate electrification of the North American rail network while providing the right of way for the electrical transmission infrastructure needed to access the large amount of wind energy in the center of the continent. It then leverages the electrified rail network to provide an evolutionary path to fully autonomous intermodal rail service as well as a path to electrification/hybridization of commercial trucking. The intermodal carriages carry their own electric drive train that powers the rear set of tires. 4 deployable steel wheels carry the weight when on the rails. Initially the carriages would be ...

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The world population every year continues to grow at an alarming rate and we are feeling the effects of it increasing more and more every day. More people means more housing, more cars, more energy, and more pollution. More energy and pollution are two that go together. The bioreactor air scrubber is here to counter act that. Bioreactors are not a new technology. Many people use them to cultivate algae for biofuel but my bioreactor aims to optimize the exchange of carbon dioxide into oxygen using algae and a new designed bio reactor. As a result is also optimizes ...

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The reason rooftop turbine designs have not enjoyed commercial success in the past is more due to technological shortcomings than demand. Companies have tried to scale down familiar fan blade style designs that would normally be mounted on a tower to avoid turbulence, but these mini-turbines lack adequate surface area to be efficient. Others have attempted to use vertical axis wind turbines on rooftops, but these systems translate extreme stresses to the roof structure. My low-profile turbine takes advantage of a unexploited physical phenomenon which I have dubbed the Pitched Roof Effect (PRE), in which wind velocity increases significantly ...

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The need for green energy is increasing these days. This need may be met by incorporating one technology with another inter dependable technology.

Usually optical fibers are used to transmit data by using light as the carrier way. Likewise photovoltaic layers produce energy on exposure to light. Thereby this product is the combination of these two ideas in a unique way.

A photovoltaic layer is introduced between the core and the cladding layer of the optical fiber. The refractive index of the photovoltaic layer is same as the core layer. As the core is the denser medium compared to ...

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Alair aluminum-air battery for sustainable electricity production

This device is intended as a standalone electricity generator for off-grid living, in either developed or developing countries. It uses the chemical reaction:

4Al + 3O2 + 6H2O → 4Al(OH)3

to produce 12 VDC electricity which is then inverted to produce either 120 VAC or 240 VAC output. The device is simple to manufacture and uses easily-obtainable materials. Salt water is used as an electrolyte, aluminum plates for anodes, and activated charcoal as the air electrode. A carbon waffle grid embedded in the charcoal serves to collect electrons. Sponge is used to ...

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Buildings are one of the most intensive consumers of natural resources and account for a significant portion of the greenhouse gas emissions that affect the environment. In the U.S., buildings account for 38% of all CO² emissions and represent 72% of U.S electricity consumption, EIA (2008). Thermal insulation represents the easiest and most effective building energy and efficient technology available at the moment. However, for hot days, the insulated building remains warm even if the surroundings are cooler and extra energy is needed to keep the internal thermal comfort. In this way, an innovative intelligent wall based on thermal ...

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WORLDS MOST VERSATILE AND EFFICIENT (POINT FOCUS) TRACKING SOLAR COLLECTOR CONCENTRATOR

This unique Tracking Solar Collector Concentrator (TSCC) design employs a Cassegrain style primary and secondary conic collector-concentrator arrangement. Solar disk half angle offset is accounted for in the secondary conic reflector design therefore eliminating propagation spread of the concentrated beam.

Combined with a novel optical beam steering mechanism and accurate real time Sun Tracking Sensor, the solar energy application can now be moved to ground level thus eliminating many of the drawbacks and problems found in current art systems.

Past “point focus” solar collector-concentrator systems place solar applications ...

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Need:
In today’s fast developing world,the global warming phenomenon is the one that is receiving a turbo charge more than everything else. This explores a possible way of designing an environmentally friendly cooling device that utilizes one of the most abundant natural resource.
In Brief:
The proposed air conditioning (heating/cooling) device is the simplest of any such device in existance today. It does no cleaning or removal of microbial substances, but only heats or cools your environment to a specified temperature. Most of us generally feel comfortable in a temperature range of 20°C to 25°C.There is no real reason ...

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