1. A VOC removal method from VOC impregnated materials, comprising the first process to produce VOC hydrate complexes with VOC absorbedimpregnated at the inside of said VOC impregnated materials by humidifying a processed space wherein said VOC impregnated materials exist to a vapor-phase high humidity and then making vapor-phase water molecules infiltrate into said VOC impregnated materials; and promoting to radiate said VOC hydrate complexes produced in said VOC impregnated materials on said first process into said processed space.
2. A VOC removal method from VOC impregnated materials as defined in claim 1 wherein said VOC hydrate complexes radiated into said processed space dissociate to water and VOC by dehumidifying said processed space to lower the humidity.
3. A VOC removal method from VOC impregnated materials as defined in claim 2 wherein said processed space is dehumidified by liquid desiccant to lower the humidity and VOC are captured and collected.
4. A VOC removal method from VOC impregnated materials as defined in claim 2 wherein said processed space is dehumidified by solid desiccant to lower the humidity and VOC are captured and collected.
5. A VOC removal method from VOC impregnated materials as defined in claim 3 or 4 wherein the indoor relative humidity (RH) in the humidification on said first process is set at 60\u02dc95%, higher than the outdoor humidity, and the RH in the dehumidification on the second process is set at 40% or less.
6. A VOC removal method from VOC impregnated materials as defined in claim 3 or 4 wherein in the humidification on said first process and the dehumidification on said second process, said processed space is warmed to make the temperature of the processed space within a temperature range of the original temperature of said processed space +30\xb0 C.
7. A VOC removal, method from VOC impregnated materials as defined in claim 3 or 4 wherein said first process and said second process are made one cycle and said cycle is repeated multiple times.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A scheduler in a communication network comprising a communication channel which is shared by a plurality of user nodes, the communication channel having a succession of slots, the scheduler comprising:
a quality unit for receiving an indication of the quality of the communication channel for each user node;
a delay unit for receiving a predetermined delay factor for each of at least some of the user nodes, the delay factor representing a level of tolerance to a time delay; and
a selection unit connected to the quality and delay units and being arranged to determine, for each slot, which of the user nodes is to use that slot based on the channel quality indication and the delay factors.
2. The scheduler of claim 1, wherein the delays factors vary for successive slots.
3. The scheduler of claim 2, wherein if a user node having a predetermined delay factor is not selected for a slot, its delay factor is modified to indicate for the next slot that the user node is even less tolerant to a time delay.
4. The scheduler of claim 1, wherein the indication of the channel quality is a data transmission rate.
5. The scheduler of claim 4, wherein proportional fair scheduling is performed by selecting, for each slot, which user node has the highest ratio of an instantaneous data transmission rate to an average data transmission rate.
6. The scheduler of claim 5, wherein the ratio is modified by applying a delay factor to each of the transmission rates.
7. The scheduler of claim 1, wherein the delay factors and the indications of channel quality are received from the user nodes.
8. The scheduler of claim 1, further comprising a policy unit for storing the predetermined delay factors.
9. The scheduler of claim 1, wherein the slot is a time slot.
10. The scheduler of claim 1, wherein the communication network comprising another communication channel which is distinguished from the communication channel using at least one of CDMA, FDMA, OFDM, OFDMA, SDMA, MIMO or a combination thereof.
11. The scheduler of claim 1, wherein the communication network is wireless communication network.
12. The scheduler of claim 1, wherein the communication network is an ad hoc network, wherein a scheduler is located within each user node of the network for performing decentralised scheduling.
13. A method for scheduling access to a slot of a communication channel which is shared by a plurality of user nodes, the method comprising:
receiving a first set of quality values each representing a quality of the communication channel for each of the user nodes;
receiving a second set of predetermined delay factors each representing a tolerance to a time delay of at least some of the user nodes;
selectively determining which of the user nodes is to be granted access to the slot based on a combination of the quality values and the delay factors.