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US 12,229,785 B2Granted
Method for determining the carbon footprint of a product in production processes of a production plant
AssigneeBASF SE
InventorsJan Schoeneboom, Olaf Huber
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Abstract
The present invention is in the field of computer-implemented methods for determining the carbon footprint of a product in a production process in a production plant, in particular of a product in interconnected production processes. Certain embodiments of the present invention relate to a computer-implemented method for determining the carbon footprint of a product produced in production process of a production plant.
Claims15
An apparatus for determining a carbon footprint of a product produced in a production process of a production plant, the apparatus including an input including an interface to a consolidation system, at least one processor for executing processor-executable instructions that, in response to execution, enable the apparatus to perform actions comprising:
- (a) gathering process data comprising information about one or more process step(s) from raw materials to the product;
- (b) gathering the carbon footprint of one or more raw material(s);
- (c) gathering energy data comprising information about energy consumption for one or more process step(s);
- (d) determining the carbon footprint of the product taking into account the process data, the carbon footprint of each raw material and/or the energy data;
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- (e) outputting the carbon footprint of the product obtained in step (d);
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- an output including a graphical user interface, wherein the graphical user interface presents for display a visual representation of the one or more raw material(s) and intermediates as a chain of interconnected process steps, and wherein a visual characteristic of each visual representation corresponds to an amount of greenhouse gas the respective process step contributes to the carbon footprint of the product, wherein each process step of the interconnected process steps is represented by an arrow displayed in the graphical user interface, wherein each arrow has a width that reflects an amount of greenhouse gases in a respective process step that contribute to the carbon footprint of the product that are generated as a result of each respective process step, wherein further information is displayed when hovering over each arrow to provide information about one or more of the raw material, intermediate, product, or exact value of the greenhouse gas emission of each process step, and wherein the width of each arrow reflecting the amount of greenhouse gases associated with a respective process step is updated based on the gathered process data in the graphical user interface.
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A system for determining a carbon footprint of a product produced in a production plant comprising:
- (a) an input configured to receive (i) process data, wherein the process data comprises information about one or more process step(s) from raw materials to the product, (ii) the carbon footprint of one or more raw material(s), and/or (iii) energy data comprising information about energy consumption for one or more process step(s);
- (b) a processor configured to determine the carbon footprint of the product taking into account the information gathered in step (a);
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- (c) an output configured to output the carbon footprint of the product determined by the processor, wherein the input comprises an interface to a consolidation system which collects process data from different production plant(s), and wherein the consolidation system consolidates the process data to identify intermediates produced by different production plants, and
- wherein the output comprises a graphical user interface configured to display a visual representation of the carbon footprint of the product and of one or more contribution(s) comprising the contribution of the raw materials, the contribution of the energy, and/or the contribution of the direct emissions of each process step as a chain of interconnected process steps, wherein a visual characteristic of each visual representation corresponds to an amount of greenhouse gas the respective process step contributes to the carbon footprint of the product, wherein each process step of the interconnected process steps is represented by an arrow displayed in the graphical user interface, wherein each arrow has a width that reflects an amount of greenhouse gases in a respective process step that contribute to the carbon footprint of the product that are generated as a result of each respective process step, wherein further information is displayed when hovering over each arrow to provide information about one or more of the raw material, intermediate, product, or exact value of the greenhouse gas emission of each process step, and wherein the width of each arrow reflecting the amount of greenhouse gases associated with a respective process step is updated based on the gathered process data in the graphical user interface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.