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Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jonas Warmuth, Jan Friedrich Georg Brütting, Alex-Manuel Muresan, Edisson Xavier Estrella Arcos

The construction industry is a significant contributor to resource consumption and waste generation. To address this issue, component reuse has been proposed as a way to prevent valuable building elements from being discarded and avoid producing new ones. ...

Curran Associates, Inc.2023

Data mining in the context of urban metabolism: A case study of Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Aristide Henri Roger Athanassiadis, Nicole Sophie Wiedmann

The highest share of the global population lives in cities. The current configuration of the latter requires considerable amounts of resource flows causing the degradation of local and global ecosystems. To face the complexity of these challenges, scientis ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Upcycling of printed plastic films: LCA analysis and effects on the circular economy

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In this work, the environmental impacts caused by an innovative upcycling process of printed plastic scrap have been assessed through Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) methodology for the first time. The process consists of removing the inks from the plastic surfa ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

A holistic production planning approach in a reconfigurable manufacturing system with energy consumption and environmental effects

Paul Xirouchakis, Yong Chan Choi

Consideration for the energy consumption and environmental impacts is required depending on the changed capacity under a flexible and reconfigurable manufacturing environment. This article focuses on a holistic production planning approach in a reconfigura ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2015

Environomic multi-objective optimization of an eco-industrial park

François Maréchal, Maziar Kermani, Lindsay Dianne Lessard

A circular economy refers to an industrial economy with a cradle to cradle vision, shifting from the use of fossil fuels towards renewable energy, minimizing the use of toxic chemicals and reducing waste by recycling through careful system design. The conc ...

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Holistic life cycle approach for lightweight automotive components

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Since sustainability and environmental issues rose lately, lightweighting has been the point of interest for automotive and aerospace sectors. Lightweighting reduces the fuel consumption of the vehicles and as a result of this reduces emissions. Aluminum, ...

Edp Sciences S A2014

A production planning in highly automated manufacturing system considering multiple process plans with different energy requirements

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This paper focuses on a production planning problem in a highly automated manufacturing system considering multiple process plans with different energy requirements. The system consists of several closely interconnected sub-systems such as the processing s ...

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Decision aid model for asphalt mixture choice

André-Gilles Dumont, Nicolas Bueche

Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA) represents widely used alternative to hot mix asphalt (HMA), this in order to decrease the energy consumption and environmental load. Numerous WMA products can be found and the choice of the most favourable mixture is not necessarily ...

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A systematic methodology for the synthesis of unit process chains using Life Cycle Assessment and Industrial Ecology Principles

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The integration of environmental impacts in the conceptual process design procedure can be achieved by combining Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tools with flowsheeting software and process integration techniques. However, current LCI databases assume a given ...

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Towards comprehensive simulation and optimisation for more sustainable urban design

Jérôme Henri Kämpf, André Gabriel Kostro, Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi

In this paper we discuss progress that has been made in modelling of urban resource flows to support urban designers to optimise the sustainability of their design and planning proposals. In particular we consider models of (i) resource availability, (ii)e ...

2008

Towards comprehensive simulation and optimisation for more sustainable urban design

André Gabriel Kostro, Darren Robinson, Frédéric Haldi

In this paper we discuss progress that has been made in modelling of urban resource flows to support urban designers to optimise the sustainability of their design and planning proposals, In particular we consider models of urban energy demand and more gen ...

BRENET2008

Urban District Energy Futures: A Dynamic Material Flow Analysis (MFA) Model

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Darren Robinson, Nataliya Filchakova

With more than half the world population now urbanised, urban metabolism – defined as the throughput and transformation of material and energy flows to sustain human life in urban settlements – is responsible for consuming the majority of global resources ...

EPFL2007