New Green Energy, Environment & Sustainability
- (Jungfrau, Switzerland - Alvin Wei-Cheng Wong)
Green Technology
The field of “green technology” encompasses a continuously evolving group of methods and materials, from techniques for generating energy to non-toxic cleaning products. The present expectation is that this field will bring innovation and changes in daily life of similar magnitude to the “information technology” explosion over the last two decades.
The goals that inform developments in this rapidly growing field include:
- Sustainability - meeting the needs of society in ways that can continue
indefinitely into the future without damaging or depleting natural resources. In
short, meeting present needs without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs.
- “Cradle to cradle” design - ending the “cradle to grave” cycle of
manufactured products, by creating products that can be fully reclaimed or
re-used.
- Source reduction - reducing waste and pollution by changing patterns of
production and consumption.
- Innovation - developing alternatives to technologies - whether fossil
fuel or chemical intensive agriculture - that have been demonstrated to damage
health and the environment.
- Viability - creating a center of economic activity around technologies
and products that benefit the environment, speeding their implementation and
creating new careers that truly protect the planet.
Environmental Microbiology Research
A bio-based revolution is underway worldwide, and it is fundamentally changing how the world produces and consumes food, feed, fiber, materials, chemicals, fuel, and energy.
[The Ohio State University]: Biomass wastes, especially livestock manures and food-processing wastes, represent both a huge renewable energy source and challenge to the environment. The biomass wastes-to-energy research strives to efficiently convert manures and food-processing wastes to methane biogas through anaerobic digestion and then to convert biogas to electricity through fuel cells.
Current research projects seek to develop highly efficient anaerobic digestion processes, to develop on-line monitoring and control devices, to understand the microbiology driving the anaerobic digestion processes, and to develop fuel cells capable of directly converting biogas to electricity. Another important research area centers on reducing the negative impact of the livestock industry on climate change.
New Green Energy
- (Interlaken, Switzerland - Alvin Wei-Cheng Wong)
A. Energy Production:
1. Technology, Efficiency, and Safety Improvement of Current Generation Technologies
- Nuclear Generation
- Coal Gasification (Clean Coal Technology)
- Combine Cycle
- Combined Heat and Power (CHP)
- Etc.
2. Renewable and Alternative Energy
- Wind Generation
- Solar Power (Thermal and Electricity)
- Hydrogen Production
- Tidal Wave
- Geo Thermal
- Marine Current
- Bio Ethanol (Corn, Soy Bean, Sugar Cane, and Cellulosic)
- Syngas Production
- Bio Mass
- Fischer Tropsch Fuels
- Algal Bio Fuel
- Bio Diesel
- Energy Harvesting and Batteryless Operation
- New emerging energy technologies
- Etc.
B. Energy Delivery:
1. Transmission System
- Superconductor Cables
- Carbon Nanotube Power Cables
- Etc.
2. Smart Grid
- Seamless Interconnection of Low Environmental Impact New Generation Technologies
- Architecture & Communication Standards
- Advanced Components & Operating Concepts
- Advanced Monitoring & Demand Management
- Advanced Modeling & Simulation Tools
- Etc.
3. MicroGrid
- Architecture & Communication Standards of MicroGrid
- Advanced Components & Operating Concepts
- Advanced Monitoring & Demand Management
- Autonomous and Non-Autonomous Operation of MicroGrid
- Etc.
C. Energy Consumption:
1. Efficient Usage of Energy
- Demand Response
- Smart House and Smart Appliances
- Etc.
2. Green Technology in IT Industry
- Green Technology
- Green Computing
- Green Services
- Etc.
D. Energy Storage for the Smart Grid
- Compressed Air
- Pumped Hydro
- Ultracapacitors
- Flywheels
- Sodium Sulfur (NAS) Batteries
- Flow Batteries
- Lithium-ion Batteries
- Lead Acid Batteries
- Fuel Cells
- Etc.
