SYSTEM FOR CONVERTING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS TO CARBON CREDIT AND METHOD FOR SAME

• US 20140100937A1
• Filed: 06/30/2011
• Published: 04/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Econuri Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Econuri Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Na, Tae In, Seo, Jong Hyuk, Na, Yun Bok, Seo, Yong Gi
• Application Number:
  US14/123,776
• Publication Number:
  US 20140100937A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.27
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0226 Incentive systems for frequent usage, e.g. frequent flyer miles programs or point systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/06 Energy or water supply
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/84 Greenhouse gas [GHG] management systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/845 Inventory and reporting systems for greenhouse gases [GHG]

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for converting greenhouse gas emissions to carbon credit and a method for same. The system for converting the greenhouse gas emissions to carbon credit includes a carbon emission reduction device which detects an amount of fuel filled in a vehicle and an amount of fuel used by the vehicle, minimizes the supply of fuel to the engine of the vehicle to prevent excessive fuel consumption and limit carbon emissions when the vehicle does not move within a preset time, supplies fuel to the engine of the vehicle in a normal manner when the vehicle is moved according to detection of the acceleration pedal of the vehicle, generates carbon dioxide reduction information by adding or subtracting an emitted amount of carbon dioxide that is limited during an idling prevention time to or from the emitted amount of carbon dioxide of the vehicle, and converts the carbon dioxide reduction information to carbon credit which includes a generated economic value upon reduction of a ton of carbon emissions. According to the present invention, a greenhouse gas reference emission amount for the vehicle may be reduced, and the greenhouse gas reduction amount for the vehicle may be converted into carbon credit that includes an economic value through the carbon emission reduction device so as to induce active participation by individuals for the reduction of greenhouse gas. Thus, the country, companies, and also individuals may play a role in resolving the problem of global warming, and the economic value of carbon credit generated by reducing the greenhouse gas from the vehicle may be sold or transferred to or acquired from the country or companies to provide economic benefit to the individual and stable growth for the companies.

Claims

1. A system for converting greenhouse gas emissions into carbon credit, comprising:

a carbon emission reduction device for detecting an amount of fuel fed into a vehicle and an amount of fuel used by the vehicle, minimizing supply of fuel to an engine of the vehicle to prevent fuel consumption due to idling and suppress carbon emission when the vehicle does not move within a preset time period, normalizing supply of fuel to the engine of the vehicle when the vehicle is moved depending on detection of an acceleration pedal of the vehicle, generating carbon dioxide reduction information by adding or subtracting an amount of carbon dioxide whose emission is suppressed during an idling prevention time period to or from an amount of carbon dioxide emitted from the vehicle, and converting the carbon dioxide reduction information into carbon credit which has an economic value generated upon reduction of 1 ton of carbon emissions.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the carbon emission reduction device comprises:

an idling limitation module for minimizing supply of fuel to an engine of a vehicle to prevent fuel consumption due to idling and suppress carbon emission when the vehicle does not move within a preset time period depending on detection of an acceleration pedal of the vehicle, and normalizing supply of fuel to the engine of the vehicle when the vehicle is moved depending on detection of the acceleration pedal of the vehicle;

a carbon dioxide reduction calculation module for generating carbon dioxide reduction information by adding or subtracting an amount of carbon dioxide whose emission is suppressed during an idling prevention time period by operation of the idling limitation module to or from an amount of carbon dioxide emitted from the vehicle; and

a carbon credit conversion module for reading out carbon emission reductions included in the carbon dioxide reduction information, indexing conversion history of an economic value for carbon credit determined in real time from an economic value information DB, and converting the carbon emission reductions so as to be consistent with the conversion history of the economic value to produce carbon credit.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the carbon emission reduction device further comprises:

a fuel information management module for detecting a kind and amount of fuel fed into a vehicle to generate measurement information on an amount of fuel fed, detecting an amount of fuel consumed by movement of the vehicle to generate measurement information on an amount of fuel used, and storing and managing the information, wherein the fuel information management module receives preset oil company information and additional oil company information upon supply of fuel to the vehicle and stores and manages the information, and receives preset credit card company information and additional credit card company information upon payment of fuel fed into the vehicle and stores and manages the information.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the measurement information on the amount of fuel fed includes vehicle model data, fuel model data, vehicle travel time data, and data for an amount of fuel fed into a fuel storage space of a vehicle.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the carbon emission reduction device enables any one selected from among preset oil company information, additional oil company information, preset credit card company information and additional credit card company information to be included in the carbon credit upon detection of the amount of fuel fed into the vehicle and the amount of fuel used by the vehicle, thus identifying whether the carbon credit is produced by feeding the fuel from any oil company and whether the carbon credit is produced by paying the fed fuel using any credit card company.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the carbon emission reduction device further comprises:

a carbon credit authentication module for transmitting user identification data, vehicle identification data and carbon credit authentication request information, which are input by a user, to a carbon credit management server, along with the carbon credit and the carbon reductions, and receiving carbon credit authentication information from the carbon credit management server and storing and managing the information.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the carbon emission reduction device further comprises:

a carbon credit trading module for transmitting user identification data, vehicle identification data, user account data and carbon credit trading request information, which are input by a user, to a carbon credit management server, along with the carbon credit, and checking whether a carbon credit trading price is added via inquiry of preset user account data.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the carbon credit trading request information includes any one selected from among trading quantity data, trading price data, trading agency data and trading company data, regarding the carbon credit to be traded by the user.

9. The system of claim 1, comprising:

a carbon credit management server for receiving user identification data, vehicle identification data, carbon credit authentication request information, carbon credit and carbon reductions from the carbon emission reduction device connected via an information communication network, wherein when those thus received correspond to user identification data and vehicle identification data indexed from a carbon credit management DB, carbon credit authentication information is generated and transmitted to the carbon emission reduction device.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the carbon credit authentication information is information which establishes an economic value included in the carbon credit by determining a real-time conversion price compensating for reduction of 1 ton of carbon emissions so as to correspond to the carbon reductions based on the user identification data, vehicle identification data and carbon reductions included in the carbon credit authentication request information.

11. The system of claim 1, comprising:

a carbon credit management server for receiving user identification data, vehicle identification data, user account data, carbon credit trading request information and carbon credit from the carbon emission reduction device, transmitting the carbon credit to an agency server or a company server corresponding to trading agency data or trading company data included in the carbon credit trading request information to trade the carbon credit, and adding a carbon credit trading price to the user account data.

12. A method of converting greenhouse gas emissions into carbon credit, comprising:

(a) minimizing supply of fuel to an engine of a vehicle to prevent fuel consumption due to idling and suppress carbon emission when the vehicle does not move within a preset time period and normalizing supply of fuel to the engine of the vehicle when the vehicle is moved depending on detection of an acceleration pedal of the vehicle, by a carbon emission reduction device;

(b) generating carbon dioxide reduction information by adding or subtracting an amount of carbon dioxide whose emission is suppressed during an idling prevention time period to or from an amount of carbon dioxide emitted from the vehicle, by the carbon emission reduction device; and

(c) converting the carbon dioxide reduction information into carbon credit having an economic value generated upon reduction of 1 ton of carbon emissions, by the carbon emission reduction device.

13. The method of claim 12, comprising, after (c):

(d) transmitting user identification data, vehicle identification data, carbon credit authentication request information, carbon credit and carbon reductions, which are input by a user, to a carbon credit management server, by the carbon emission reduction device;

(e) generating carbon credit authentication information when the user identification data, vehicle identification data, carbon credit authentication request information, carbon credit and carbon reductions, which are transmitted to the carbon credit management server, correspond to user identification data and vehicle identification data indexed from a carbon credit management DB, and transmitting the carbon credit authentication information to the carbon emission reduction device;

(f) transmitting user identification data, vehicle identification data, user account data, carbon credit trading request information and carbon credit, which are input by a user, to the carbon credit management server, by the carbon credit management server; and

(g) transmitting the carbon credit to an agency server or a company server corresponding to trading agency data or trading company data included in the carbon credit trading request information to trade the carbon credit, and adding a carbon credit trading price to the user account data, by the carbon credit management server.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein (a) comprises:

(a-1) detecting a kind and amount of fuel fed into a vehicle to generate measurement information on an amount of fuel fed, detecting an amount of fuel consumed by movement of the vehicle to generate measurement information on an amount of fuel used, and storing and managing the information, by an fuel information management module of the carbon emission reduction device;

(a-2) determining whether the vehicle is moved or not within a preset time period depending on detection of the acceleration pedal of the vehicle, by an idling limitation module of the carbon emission reduction device;

(a-3) minimizing supply of fuel to the engine of the vehicle to prevent fuel consumption due to idling and suppress carbon emission by the idling limitation module of the carbon emission reduction device when movement of the vehicle is not detected within the preset time period, as a determination result of (a-2); and

(a-4) normalizing supply of fuel to the engine of the vehicle by the idling limitation module of the carbon emission reduction device when the movement of the vehicle is detected within the preset time period, as a determination result of (a-2).

15. The method of claim 12, wherein (c) comprises:

(c-1) reading out carbon emission reductions included in the carbon dioxide reduction information, by a carbon credit conversion module of the carbon emission reduction device;

(c-2) indexing conversion history of an economic value for carbon credit determined in real time from an economic value information DB, by the carbon credit conversion module of the carbon emission reduction device; and

(c-3) converting the carbon emission reductions so as to be consistent with the conversion history of the economic value, by the carbon credit conversion module of the carbon emission reduction device, thus producing carbon credit.