OEO Ontology

Overview / Open Energy Ontology / Class - technology
Label: technology
Definition:
A technology is a plan specification that describes how to combine artificial objects or other material entities and processes in a specific way.

Sub classes:
sector coupling technology
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Definition:
A sector coupling technology is a technology that intends to connect processes from the electricity, heat, mobility or industrial sectors, as well as their infrastructures.

carbon capture and storage technology
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Definition:
A carbon capture and storage technology is a technology that describes how to combine artificial objects and a carbon capture and storage process in a specific way to permanently store CO2.

energy technology
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Definition:
An energy technology is a technology that describes how to combine energy transformation units, energy transformations, energy carriers and energy in a specific way.

manufacturing technology
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Definition:
A manufacturing technology is a technology that describes how to combine manufactuing plants and manufacturing processes to produce manufactured materials.

mobility technology
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Definition:
A mobility technology is a technology that describes how vehicles participate in transport

non-energy use technology
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Definition:
A non-energy use technology is a technology that describes among other things how to combine the consumption of energy carriers for non-energy use with other processes and artificial objects or other material entities in a specific way.

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plan specification
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Definition:
A directive information entity with action specifications and objective specifications as parts, and that may be concretized as a realizable entity that, if realized, is realized in a process in which the bearer tries to achieve the objectives by taking the actions specified.

Editor note:
2009-03-16: provenance: a term a plan was proposed for OBI (OBI_0000344) , edited by the PlanAndPlannedProcess branch. Original definition was " a plan is a specification of a process that is realized by an actor to achieve the objective specified as part of the plan". It has been subsequently moved to IAO where the objective for which the original term was defined was satisfied with the definitionof this, different, term.

Editor note:
2014-03-31: A plan specification can have other parts, such as conditional specifications.

Editor note:
2022-01-16 Updated definition to that proposed by Clint Dowloand, IAO Issue 231.

Editor note:
Alternative previous definition: a plan is a set of instructions that specify how an objective should be achieved