scholarly journals Organizational enablers for sustainable manufacturing and industrial ecology

2021 ◽  
pp. 100375
Author(s):  
Dharmendra Hariyani ◽  
Sanjeev Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Ecology ◽  
Sustainable Manufacturing

The Systems Science of Industrial Ecology

2020 ◽  
pp. 148-173
Author(s):  
Marian R. Chertow ◽  
Koichi S. Kanaoka ◽  
T. Reed Miller ◽  
Peter Berrill ◽  
Paul Wolfram ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Science ◽  
Industrial Ecology ◽  
Sustainable Manufacturing ◽  
Flow Analysis ◽  
Systems Science ◽  
Output Analysis ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Consumption Decisions ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Climate Action

This chapter explores how the interdisciplinary field of industrial ecology, a blend of environmental science, social science, engineering, and management, can help deliver sustainable development goals (SDGs). As a systems science, industrial ecology provides a source of knowledge that can guide sustainable manufacturing, waste and pollution reduction, and offer a framework for extending the life of physical goods in a circular economy. The chapter focuses on four industrial ecology approaches: material stock and flow analysis, life-cycle assessment, input-output analysis, and industrial symbiosis, offering descriptions and case examples that relate to specific SDGs and targets. Although these approaches are relevant to a broad range of SDG targets, the authors focus on those pertaining to responsible and efficient use of water and energy (SDG6 and target 7.3), economic growth (SDG8), reducing inequalities (SDG10), transportation (target 11.2), production and consumption systems (SDG12 and targets 2.4 and 9.4), and climate action (SDG13). Industrial ecology approaches are also beneficial to rapidly industrializing countries, where improvements in economic performance and the environment must be carefully balanced. Finally, by tracking flows of material and energy, industrial ecology promotes resource efficiency and provides a strong basis for making sustainable production and consumption decisions.

scholarly journals Multi-Objective Optimization for Industrial Ecology: Design and Optimize Exchange Flows in an Industrial Park

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Chao Gu ◽  
Lionel Estel ◽  
Adnan Yassine ◽  
Sebastien Leveneur
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Ecology ◽  
Sustainable Manufacturing ◽  
Industrial Park ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Energy Flows ◽  
System Method ◽  
General Mathematical Model ◽  
Exchange Material ◽  
Resource Networks ◽  
Material Energy

The aim of this project is to find an appropriate mode for green sustainable manufacturing and production. Thus, the concept of this model encourages the development of synergy and leverage of resource networks in order to reduce waste and pollution, and to share resource efficiently. To the best of our knowledge, there is currently no other general mathematical model for designing and optimizing exchange material/energy flows in an industrial park. The purpose of this work is to propose a relative advanced dynamic multi-objective model. Simulations have been performed by using the NIMBUS (Nondifferentiable Interactive Multi-objective Bundle-based optimization System) method. This model can assure a win-win situation for industries and environment.

Development of Sustainable Society Scenario Simulator toward Sustainable Manufacturing (3rd Report)

2012 ◽  
Vol 78 (9) ◽  
pp. 798-804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuji MIZUNO ◽  
Yusuke KISHITA ◽  
Haruna WADA ◽  
Shinichi FUKUSHIGE ◽  
Yasushi UMEDA
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Manufacturing ◽  
Sustainable Society

Industrial Ecology of the Paper Industry

1999 ◽  
Vol 40 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 21-24
Author(s):  
Tapio Pento
Keyword(s):  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Industrial Ecology ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Paper Industry ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Optimal Recovery ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Earth Systems ◽  
Controversial Area ◽  
Recycling Systems

Industrial ecology (IE) is a biological concept applied to industrial structures. The basic concepts of IE include regional, intra-firm and product-based waste recycling systems as well as the principle of upward and downward cascading. In best current examples of regional systems, several parties are in an industrial waste re-use symbiosis. Paper industry has learned to arrange the recovery and re-use of its products on distant markets, even up to a level where indications of exceeding optimal recovery and re-use rates already exist through deteriorated fibre and product quality. Such occurrences will take place in certain legislative-economic situations. Paper industry has many cascade levels, each with their internal recovery and recycling, as well as many intra-firm, regional, and life cycle ecology structures. As an example of prospects for individual cascading routes, sludges may continue to be incinerated, but the route to landfills will be closed. The main obstacles of legislative drive toward better IE systems are in many cases existing laws and political considerations rather than economic or technical aspects. The study and practice of engineering human technology systems and related elements of natural systems should develop in such a way that they provide quality of life by actively managing the dynamics of relevant systems to reduce the risk and scale of undesirable behavior and outcomes. For the paper industry, earth systems engineering offers several development routes. One of them is the further recognition of and research on the fact that the products of the industry are returned back to the carbon cycle of the natural environment. Opportunities for modifying current earth systems may also be available for the industry, e.g. genetically modified plants for raw materials or organisms for making good quality pulp out of current raw materials. It is to be recognized that earth systems engineering may become a very controversial area, and that very diverse political pressures may determine its future usefulness to the paper industry.

A Landscape Transformed

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Industrial Ecology ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Gradual Transition ◽  
Industrial Landscape

This book examines the industrial ecology of 200 years of ironmaking with renewal energy resources in northwestern Connecticut. It focuses on the cultural context of people's decisions about technology and the environment, and the gradual transition they effected in their land from industrial landscape to pastoral countryside.

scholarly journals A mathematical model for designing a reliable cellular hybrid manufacturing-remanufacturing system considering alternative and contingency process routings

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amirreza Hooshyar Telegraphi ◽  
Akif Asil Bulgak
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Manufacturing Systems ◽  
Closed Loop ◽  
Sustainable Manufacturing ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Mixed Integer ◽  
Hybrid Manufacturing ◽  
Closed Loop Supply Chain

AbstractDue to the stringent awareness toward the preservation and resuscitation of natural resources and the potential economic benefits, designing sustainable manufacturing enterprises has become a critical issue in recent years. This presents different challenges in coordinating the activities inside the manufacturing systems with the entire closed-loop supply chain. In this paper, a mixed-integer mathematical model for designing a hybrid-manufacturing-remanufacturing system in a closed-loop supply chain is presented. Noteworthy, the operational planning of a cellular hybrid manufacturing-remanufacturing system is coordinated with the tactical planning of a closed-loop supply chain. To improve the flexibility and reliability in the cellular hybrid manufacturing-remanufacturing system, alternative process routings and contingency process routings are considered. The mathematical model in this paper, to the best of our knowledge, is the first integrated model in the design of hybrid cellular manufacturing systems which considers main and contingency process routings as well as reliability of the manufacturing system.

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