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Potential for energy conservation: A portable desktop paper reusing system for office waste paper
- Source :
- Energy and Built Environment, Vol 1, Iss 2, Pp 165-177 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- KeAi Communications Co., Ltd., 2020.
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Abstract
- Renewable paper reusing plays a significant role in the sustainable environment under the background of the shortage in forest resources and the pollution from the paper industry. The conventional reusing stream of waste office paper appears to have low reusing rates while consuming massive amounts of energy in intermediate steps. In this study, we developed a novel portable renewable desktop paper reusing system based on font area detection and greyscale sensor. The proposed system consists of two main parts, namely, a greyscale sensor and font area detection model and a polishing mechanism. Acting as an ink mark detector for waste desktop paper, the greyscale sensor and font area detection model can detect the font in the waste desktop paper using an adaptive dynamic compensation schematic. The polishing mechanism will grind the font area of the wasted desktop paper, and this paper reusing processing is non-chemical, energy saving and environmentally friendly. The proposed system is demonstrated through simulations and experimental results, which show that the proposed renewable desktop paper reusing system is portable and is effective for reusing waste office paper in the office. An accuracy of 99.78% is demonstrated in the greyscale sensor and font area detection model, and the average reuse rate of one piece of paper is 2.52 times, verifying that the proposed portable system is effective and practical in renewable desktop paper reusing applications.
- Subjects :
- Computer science
Transportation
Reuse
computer.software_genre
Grayscale
lcsh:TD1-1066
lcsh:TH1-9745
Compensation (engineering)
Save energy and resources
Font
lcsh:Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Civil and Structural Engineering
Database
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
Paper reusing system
Greyscale sensor
Schematic
Building and Construction
Font area detection
Environmentally friendly
Renewable energy
Energy conservation
business
computer
lcsh:Building construction
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 26661233
- Volume :
- 1
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Energy and Built Environment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e12eb0e21814d4eb8e207b4740cc43c5