Innovative Green Technologies Research Articles

Background, Analysis, & Solutions for UNFCCC COP-19 & Beyond

COP-19 provides a critical opportunity for the global community to come together and move forward to combat climate change. This paper will provide background on climate change and the major issues to be negotiated at COP-19, concluding with recommendations for the negotiators.Countries must make firm and binding commitments at COP-19. The ADP must set a 2015 deadline to finalize a legal instrument that is binding for all countries, and thus significant progress must be made at COP-19 as far as mitigation ambition. In the spirit of the Kyoto Protocol Article 2’s principle of CBDR, developed countries have a strong obligation to curb global climate change, as far as mitigation and adaptation, by helping to build capacity and transfer technology to developing countries. However, ignoring the impacts of climate change is inexcusable, and developing countries must also undertake sustainable development.Governments must make strong commitments in the areas of (1) climate finance, (2) loss and damage, (3) adaptation, (4) MRV, (5) mitigation and accounting, and (6) forests / REDD. At COP-19, we recommend that (1) the GCF should be operationalized, (2) developed countries should create an international mechanism for loss and damage, and (3) developing countries should make concessions in the areas of MRV and mitigation and accounting, implementing the principles of transparency and accountability.With the advent of greater information sharing and many viable new green technologies, it will be easier than ever before to implement solutions to combat climate change while simultaneously creating sustainable win-win solutions in cities and countries. A new business model involves building public private partnerships to enable the utilization of innovative green technologies through creative structured financing and emerging market partners working with developed country counterparts. Thus the public and private sector will work together to build a green economy that is truly sustainable and climate resilient.

Innovative Green Technology for Sustainable Industrial Estate Development

Sustainable industrial development requires a balance between economic growth,equity and environment. Two major components of industrial development are energy and rawmaterials. To minimize the environmental impacts of energy and raw materials, important stepsare required to deal with the green economy and global warming issues. The use of innovationtechnology to industrial gas emission is a preventive solution facing global warming. A research hasbeen done in Industrial Estate in Cilegon (IEC) Banten province, Indonesia, to see how to reduceenergy demand and encourage uses of more environmentally-friendly energy in the estate. Fossilenergy needs in the industrial estate were analyzed to see the opportunities of energy saving andrenewable energy development. The target to be achieved is to reduce the greenhouse gasemissions and improve the energy efficiency in the industrial park.

Innovative Green Technology and Products Meeting Geo-Environmental Challenges

Abstract Climate change issues have a significant impact on our environment. In this paper, development and use of innovative green technology products to meet the current pressing geo environmental challenges are presented. The environments addressed include contaminated water streams, landfills, challenging foundations, recycling wastes, highway slope failures and manufactured aggregates. Green technology develops and supports a strategy to address sustainability in the environment.

Chemical-Free and Reusable Cellular Analysis

To advance innovative green technology in studying cytology, this study developed an electrochemical impedance spectroscopic (EIS) system with an indium tin oxide (ITO) culture chip module. This paper also demonstrates typical examples of solution effects and B16-F10 cell culture. Results indicate that higher concentrations of saline or albumin had lower impedance. From impedance data, cell proliferation and decline could be elucidated. The impedance soon decreased when Triton X-100 was applied to kill cells. Furthermore, the implemented transparent ITO culture chip module is experiment-friendly to perform optical inspections. The proposed green EIS system which is advantage of chemical-free and reusability can be widely applied to cytology studies in the future.

An Overview of Chinese Green Building Standards

ABSTRACTWith rapid urbanization and industrialization, China is now facing a great challenge in meeting the soaring demand for new buildings and the corresponding energy consumption. Under such circumstances, the setting of a national standard on green buildings would be an effective way to respond. In fact, China has made significant progress in developing national green building standards. But such progress is not explicitly released to the international societies. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to introduce such progress. China's green building efforts are first discussed in detail with the various provisions of the national indicator system. By conducting a comparison with other countries' green building standards, a critical analysis of such a national standard is presented. The comparison indicates benefits to be gained and challenges to be met, such as lack of indicators on responding climate change, lack of region‐specific indicators, lack of quantitative indicators, higher costs for receiving certification and lack of applying innovative green technologies. So, substantive revision is critically needed. The knowledge gained from Chinese efforts on green building indicators are valuable to both developed and developing nations seeking to implement sustainable development measures within their regulatory policies. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

Innovative Green TechnologyinTurkey: Electric Vehicles’Future and Forecasting Market Share

The demand for oil is ever increasing due to the adaptation of developing countries to the global economy;as a result, marketpricesareconstantlyfluctuatingbecause of the basic economic law of demand. In 2007,oil prices in the market reached approximately 150 USD per barrel.Subsequently, with the global financial crises, the price dropped to approximately40 USD per barrel.The volatility in the oil and energy costs forces governments and industries to seek new solutions. Price volatility is not the only reason to transform markets to green technologies. Other motives includethe negative impact on the environment and the consequent social movements to protect nature.The environmental issues and consumer sensitivity to these issues have impact on corporations’ production processes. Green technologies appear to be a major future tendency.Corporations – especially the MNCs (Multinational Corporations)– invest in innovative technologies and R&D (Research and Development), which is already greatly focused on green technologies.There are many environmental issues modern societies have to deal with, such as climate change, global warming, industrial waste, and heavy air pollution. In order to control and reduce the effects of these on the environment, one of the most significant change factorsthat need to be considered is green and renewable energy. Electric vehicles(EVs) emerge with strong potential to remove a substantial part of these effects by introducing green energy. Furthermore, its technologycan contribute significantly to global innovation. Along with developed countries, Turkey,(as a developing country) did take a leading role in adopting this new innovative green technology andintends to become the main manufacturer of the EVs for Europe and global markets. In this paper, EV's expected consumer demand, the market share, and the contribution to the foreign trade volumeofTurkey for the near future are studied.

A Qualitative Study of Green Building Indexes Rating of Lightweight Foam Concrete

Green building index is considered as the rating tool for evaluating the siting, design and performance of buildings and infrastructures based on worldwide acceptable six main criteria’s It was invented after the Kyoto protocol, Japan, on 11 th of December 1997 and the adoption in Marrakesh in 2001 by the United Nations and her subcommittee. It was developed in the built environment industry by the Government support of each country to combat the issue of green house gas emission. Carbon dioxide is acclaimed as one of the main greenhouse gas emission which is mainly through the activities of human race in the world resulting into global warming hence the effort to make the environment lighter enough to inhabit. Construction industry was assessed through studies to be contributing 5% of the world total carbon dioxide emitted through cement production. It was also claimed that a tonne of concrete produces carbon dioxide in the range of 0.05 to 0.13 tonnes. Foam concrete being a new innovative green technology material for sustainable building and civil construction needs to fulfill the criteria’s of this rating tools for it to be considered as sustainable materials. This paper study the assessment of this lightweight concrete material in view of green building index criteria’s and the result are hereby analyze and concluded that foam concrete can be effectively used as sustainable material for building and civil engineering construction.

グリーンケミストリーと新化学産業創造

Green sustainable chemistry (GSC) program promotes the research, development, and implementation of innovative chemical technologies that accomplish pollution prevention and chemical risk reduction. Supporting and promoting the research and development of innovative green sustainable chemical technologies is the main part of GSC program. Also, it is important for Japanese industry to develop new businesses using the output of GSC research & development.

APPLICATION OF INNOVATIVE SYSTEMS AT THE FACILITIES OF THERMAL ENERGY

A well-known problem in the direction of the development of the modern economy is the innovative direction of ensuring and the effectiveness of the introduction of new forms of consolidated types of economic activity of industrial and service enterprises. The issue of formation and development of innovative systems adapted and capable of efficient use of ecological, organizational and technological resources of production at many enterprises is topical. The main function of which is to ensure a balance in the process of developing an effective innovative development strategy to eliminate destructive consequences in the process of innovation production. Insufficient effective use of innovations by enterprises is due to the need to improve the efficiency of the implementation of the economic development strategy of enterprises and the introduction of targeted innovative technologies. They can reflect the technological essence, organizational content and industry specialization of many industries. Systemic principles determine the essence of the development of a modern innovation economy. An analysis of existing scientific hypotheses about the effect of a magnetic field on a water molecule is provided. The features of magnetic water, which were introduced in many sectors of the life of the EU countries, are noted: energy, construction, medicine, light and heavy industry, agriculture, healthcare, and many others. International experience is shown that contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals - a decisive force in the current issues of Green Technology. It is aimed at minimizing the negative impact on the environment. Innovative green technologies promote energy efficiency, reduce waste of water, resources and waste, and lead to a reduction in carbon emissions. This provides a holistic framework for resilience and mitigation of their climate change impacts. The article deals with the main issues of modernization of heat generation processes at thermal power facilities, including housing and communal services. Modernization is connected with the use of magnetized water in heat generation processes and positive results have been obtained. The use of technologies using magnetic water contributes to the saving and conservation of natural resources, and the solution of many environmental issues. The paper reveals the issues of the features of the economy of nature management at the stage of improving information management methods. The proposed management methods in the environmental and economic dimension have found application in the modernization of systems of thermal power facilities and many other industries, including the further use of environmental measures at thermal power plants as objects of economic analysis, subject to the environmental efficiency of management, integrated management of production processes of thermal power facilities.