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Energy Fishing using Moving Wind Turbine System
Offshore wind turbines are typically fixed devices anchored to the seabed by a foundation. The advantages of a floating offshore system (economic, reusable, deeper water depths) as compared to fixed structures have resulted in increased interest in floating technologies. The major type of floating wind systems in use today are semisubmersible and concrete...
Published: 12/9/2024   |   Inventor(s): Hooman Ghasemi
Keywords(s): Green, sustainability
Category(s): Engineering, Environment, Other
Commercial Scale Isoflavone Extraction and Subsequent Conversion to Value-Added Chemicals and Materials
Isoflavones are a plant-derived compound with a variety of uses primarily derived from soybeans. Commercial production of soy-based Isoflavones is limited in scope, with many of today’s processing plants employing a variety of multifaceted steps, often utilizing synthetic chemicals for extraction. These techniques often result in low product yields...
Published: 12/16/2024   |   Inventor(s): John Chea, Joseph Stanzione, Kirti Yankie
Keywords(s): chemicals, Extraction, Isoflavone, Materials, soybeans, value-add
Category(s): Engineering > Materials, Environment
Collaborative farming robots
US farms have had to deal with a range of concerns including labor shortages, trade wars, climate change, water shortages and COVID-19. Despite these challenges, crop yields have increased and GHG emissions have decreased as a result of more efficient field management practices, new plant strains, environmentally friendly cultivation techniques and...
Published: 12/9/2024   |   Inventor(s): Hong Zhang, Paolo Sanchez
Keywords(s): Robotics
Category(s): Environment, Engineering > Electronics, Other
A method to determine the amount of residual binder in recycled asphalt pavement
Asphalt concrete, more commonly known as blacktop or asphalt, form the mainstay of roads throughout the world. Asphalt concretes form strong weather resistant yet low cost materials for paving roads. These mixes can support heavy pedestrian and vehicular traffic with durability and wear resistance. Among its many advantages, asphalt concrete can also...
Published: 12/9/2024   |   Inventor(s): Yusuf Mehta, Prashant Shirodkar, Khyati Sonpal, Aaron Nolan
Keywords(s): Asphalt, Concrete, Materials, Recycle
Category(s): Environment, Engineering > Materials
Method to actively control the direction of hydraulic fractures using ultrasonic waves
Hydraulic fracking has revolutionized the oil industry since the first successful application in 1950. In hydraulic fracking, high pressure fluids are injected into wells in order to crack and thereby render the oil containing substrate more permeable thus allowing the entrapped oil and gas to flow more freely. Wells may be drilled vertically hundreds...
Published: 12/9/2024   |   Inventor(s): Cheng Zhu
Keywords(s): Environmental , Fracking, Oil & Gas, Ultrasonic
Category(s): Environment
Method to synthesize ordered mesoporous resin
TechnologyMesoporous materials have several attractive properties including ordered pore structures, very high specific surface areas, and the potential to synthesize the materials in a wide range of morphologies such as spheres rods, discs, and powders. Mesoporous materials with uniform and tailorable pore dimensions with high surface areas are currently...
Published: 12/9/2024   |   Inventor(s): Iman Noshadi
Keywords(s): Biomaterials, Carbon Capture, Filtration, Mesoporous, Resin
Category(s): Engineering > Materials, Environment
Portable, inexpensive shield that inflates to protect against personal injury caused by falling debris and building collapse in earthquakes
TechnologyPopulations continue to increase in areas that have high levels of seismic activity, especially in urban communities along the western United States, Japan, China, South America, and India. By 2030, approximately 60 percent of the global population or approximately 5 billion people are expected to live in urban areas. Building construction...
Published: 12/9/2024   |   Inventor(s): Charles McGlynn, Cheng Zhu
Keywords(s): Disaster, Earthquake, Portable, Protection
Category(s): Environment, Engineering > Materials