Greenhouse effect gas emission index monitoring and converting system

• US 20030083980A1
• Filed: 08/29/2002
• Published: 05/01/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Horiba Limited
• Original Assignee: Horiba Limited
• Inventors: Satake, Tsukasa
• Application Number:
  US10/231,932
• Publication Number:
  US 20030083980A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/37
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 21/3504 for analysing gases, e.g. multi-gas analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 33/0062 concerning the measuring method or the display, e.g. intermittent measurement or digital display
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/84 Greenhouse gas [GHG] management systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/90 Financial instruments for climate change mitigation, e.g. environmental taxes, subsidies or financing

Abstract

A system for providing an exchange market for trading assigned quotas of permissible pollutants and monitoring the pollutants through a global computer network is provided. A standardized source for providing formulas or algorithm data to establish a relationship between pollutant emissions and an assigned quota to enable a usage rate relative to a predetermined index value can be provided by a regulatory body connected to the global computer network. Individual users can provide monitoring units for measuring the actual pollutant emissions and outputting a corresponding signal. An operation control unit can store the algorithm data or formulas and the pollutant emission signal and calculate a real time usage rate. This usage rate can be monitored to determine compliance and provide a real time usage rate over a number of different users forming a particular district or division. A trade market unit is established for listing real time surplus usage rates relative to a predetermined index rate that is common to all users. Users that are below their assigned quota can be advised to purchase or trade with users who are above their assigned quotas. The individual users can be connected so that the trade market unit can determine a matching of a listed surplus rate with the real time usage rate when the user rate is over the assigned quota, or a listed shortage rate with the real time usage rate when the user is under the assigned quota.

Claims

1. A system for providing an exchange market for trading assigned quotas of permissible pollutants comprising:

a standard source for providing algorithm data to establish a relationship between pollutant emissions and an assigned quota to enable a usage rate relative to a predetermined index value to be determined;

a monitoring unit for measuring the actual pollutant emissions of a user having an assigned quota and outputting a corresponding emission signal;

a control unit for storing the algorithm data and emission signal and calculating a real time usage rate;

a trade market unit for listing real time surplus usage rates relative to the predetermined index rate that are below their assigned quotas and available for purchase; and

means for connecting the control unit to the trade market unit to determine a matching of a listed surplus rate with the real time usage rate when the usage rate is over the assigned quota.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the means for connecting further includes listing an available surplus rate on the trade market unit when the usage rate is below the assigned quota.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the control unit can poll the standard source to download the current algorithm data applicable to the trade market unit.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the trade market unit further lists the monetary values of surplus usage rates that can be purchased.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the monitoring unit can measure more than one pollutant.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the monitoring unit measures consumption of a gas and the emissions from the act of consumption.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the means for connecting includes a global computer network.

8. A system for monitoring pollutants relative to a standardized quota system, comprising:

a standardized source of data to enable a determination of a relationship between pollutant emission of a user and an assigned quota to the user;

a monitoring unit for measuring the pollutant emissions of the user having the assigned quota and outputting a corresponding emission signal;

a control unit connected to the monitoring unit and storing the standardized source of data and the emission signal for calculating the actual pollutant emission rate relative to the assigned quota;

means for entering the standardized source of data in the control unit; and

means for outputting the actual pollutant emission rate relative to the assigned quota.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the means for outputting includes interconnecting the control unit with a global computer network.

10. The system of claim 9 wherein the means for entering includes interconnecting the control unit with a global computer network to download the standardized source of data.

11. A greenhouse effect gas emission index converting system comprising:

a data input unit for entering data for calculating an emission index of greenhouse effect gases;

an information input unit for incorporating the conversion information for calculating the emission index of greenhouse effect gases by using various data;

an operation processing unit for calculating the emission index of greenhouse effect gases by calculating the various data according to the conversion information; and

an information output unit for issuing the calculated emission index.

12. The greenhouse effect gas emission index converting system of claim 11 wherein a part of the data includes measured at least one concentration and/or flow rate data of at least one greenhouse effect gases, and the emission index is calculated by integration of their multiplied products.

13. The greenhouse effect gas emission index converting system of claim 11 wherein at least one of incorporation of data in the data input unit, incorporation of conversion information in the information input unit, or output of emission index in the information output unit is executed through a global computer network.

14. The greenhouse effect gas emission index converting system of claim 11 wherein the conversion information involves a conversion index for calculating the emission index of greenhouse effect gases determined by a monitoring organization for organizing the emission amount of greenhouse effect gas and/or the constants used in such conversion formula.

15. The greenhouse effect gas emission index converting system of claim 11 wherein the conversion information has a conversion rate for calculating the emission expense of greenhouse effect gas by multiplying with the emission index of greenhouse effect gas, and operation processing unit has a market reference function of entering the conversion rate, exchange rate and other trade information from a trade market unit for exchanging a greenhouse effect gas quota through the information input unit.

16. The greenhouse effect gas emission index converting system according to claim 11 wherein the above-mentioned, operation processing unit has a market disclosure function of outputting a user trade right amount by multiplying trade information such as conversion rate and exchange rate with the emission index of the greenhouse effect gases to a trade market unit of greenhouse effect gases through the information output unit.