Method and system for providing carbon offset sources. For example, the method includes determining an amount of total carbon emission of a user, receiving a desired percentage of carbon offset, determining a total number of carbon offset units corresponding to a predetermined carbon offset source, providing multiple carbon offset sources, receiving a respective number of carbon offset units corresponding to the predetermined carbon offset source for each of the multiple carbon offset sources, determining a respective cost for each of the multiple carbon offset sources, and providing a total amount of cost based upon the respective cost for each of the multiple carbon offset sources, where a total of the respective number of carbon offset units is equal to the total number of carbon offset units.

Method and system for determining total carbon emissions of a first vehicle are disclosed. For example, the method includes determining a first amount of carbon emissions produced during a commissioning stage of the first vehicle, collecting driving data for one or more trips made by the first vehicle during an operating stage of the first vehicle, determining a second amount of carbon emissions produced during the operating stage of the first vehicle based at least in part upon the driving data, determining a third amount of carbon emissions produced during a decommissioning stage of the first vehicle, and determining the total amount of carbon emissions produced during a life cycle of the first vehicle based at least upon the first amount of carbon emissions, the second amount of carbon emissions, and the third amount of carbon emissions.

An HVAC system has a plurality of humidity sensors and a controller configured to selectively control which of the plurality of humidity sensors affects operation of the HVAC system. A method of controlling humidity includes providing a plurality of humidity sensors, assigning one of the plurality of humidity sensors as a humidity priority sensor, and affecting a humidity in response to feedback from the humidity priority sensor. A system controller for an HVAC system has an interface configured to present a plurality of humidity sensors and the system controller is configured to allow a user to select which of the plurality of humidity sensors affects operation of the HVAC system.

A control system for controlling the storage of metabolically active produce in a defined confined environment. The control system comprises gas analyzing and pressure measurement means including a control unit for determining an adjusted gas medium composition of the confined environment for protecting the produce against metabolic degradation. An operating/actuating means for adapting the gas medium in the confined storage environment is based on the determined adjusted gas medium composition. The control unit is adapted for determining the adjusted gas medium composition based on a mathematical model of the system that determines a metabolic coefficient of the produce by combining measured changes of gas composition in the confined environment with dynamic pressure changes in the confined space. The value of the metabolic coefficient is used as input for a control algorithm to continuously adjust the gas composition in the confined space in response to the metabolic activity of the produce.

The present invention relates to a method of controlling a concentration of a first component of a rectification column for separating a binary mixture of the first component with a second component on the basis of temperature measurements, wherein a control path defined by temperature sensors (T3, T2, T6) arranged in the longitudinal direction of the column is linearized with the aid of an estimated temperature profile, wherein a real temperature profile T*(h), determined by means of the temperature sensors, is approximated by a function T(h) in dependence on a column height h, wherein the column id divided into two sections along the column height h and the function T(h) is defined section by section on the basis, in each case, of a logistical function.

The present invention relates to a method of controlling a concentration of a first component of a rectification column for separating a binary mixture of the first component with a second component on the basis of temperature measurements, wherein a control path defined by temperature sensors (T3, T2, T6) arranged in the longitudinal direction of the column is linearized with the aid of an estimated temperature profile, wherein a real temperature profile T*(h), determined by means of the temperature sensors, is approximated by a function T(h) in dependence on a column height h, wherein the column id divided into two sections along the column height h and the function T(h) is defined section by section on the basis, in each case, of a logistical function.

The control device includes a storage configured to store two or more functions indicating a relationship between the power source output and the ozone concentration corresponding to the power source output in accordance with different gas flow rates in the ozone generator. The control device obtains a first power source output corresponding to the set ozone concentration and a second power source output corresponding to the detected ozone concentration based on the set ozone concentration of the ozone generator, an index indicating the gas flow rate of the ozone generator, the detected ozone concentration, and the two or more functions, and executing feedback control of controlling the power source output based on a difference between the first power source output and the second power source output.

A method of operating a liquid separator includes detecting a volume of a multi-phase liquid mixture inside the operating liquid separator using one or more detectors; determining, from a signal of the one or more detectors, a volume of the multi-phase liquid mixture; determining an amount of a chemical treatment, or other operating parameter, based on the volume of the multi-phase liquid mixture; and applying the amount of chemical treatment, or other operating parameter, to the separator.

A method of operating a liquid separator includes detecting a volume of a multi-phase liquid mixture inside the operating liquid separator using one or more detectors; determining, from a signal of the one or more detectors, a volume of the multi-phase liquid mixture; determining an amount of a chemical treatment, or other operating parameter, based on the volume of the multi-phase liquid mixture; and applying the amount of chemical treatment, or other operating parameter, to the separator.

Method and system for determining a total amount of carbon emissions of an individual are disclosed. For example, the method includes collecting, by a computing device, one or more individual telematics data associated with a user during a predetermined time duration, generating, by the computing device, first lifestyle data indicative of one or more lifestyle activities engaged by the user based at least in part upon the one or more individual telematics data, and estimating, by the computing device, a total amount of carbon emissions associated with the user during the predetermined time duration based at least in part upon the first lifestyle data.