scholarly journals Anticipatory Non-Green-Phenomena Determination for Designing Eco-Design Products

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 621
Author(s):  
Hsin Rau ◽  
Mary Deanne M. Lagapa ◽  
Po-Hsun Chen
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Determination Method ◽  
Washing Machine ◽  
Product Failure ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
The World ◽  
World Business Council

The number of consumers with green awareness have grown these days and as a result they have turned to purchase eco-friendly products. For this reason, this study aims to propose a method for eco-design based on the anticipatory failure determination method to develop eco-design products. By using eco-design concepts adopted from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the process will limit the failures and issues related to environmental impact in product design. The proposed method for eco-design product in this study follows the following procedure. First, we analyze product failure. Second, we propose the determination of the non-green phenomenon of the failure. Thirdly, we integrate the intensified non-green phenomenon to generate non-green hypotheses and fourthly, we eliminate each non-green phenomenon hypothesis by introducing the contradiction matrix of TRIZ for obtaining solutions. Finally, we assess alternative eco-design solutions by evaluation. To verify the practicality of the new procedure, a washing machine is used as an example for illustration.

scholarly journals Study on vibration and noise influence for optimization of garden mower

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 428-435
Author(s):  
Yimin Chen ◽  
Wenzhuo Zhang ◽  
Lu Dong ◽  
Korhan Cengiz ◽  
Amit Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Frequency Level ◽  
Quality Life ◽  
Load Carrying ◽  
The World ◽  
Product Design Process ◽  
Safety And Environment

Abstract Advancement in engineering provides various improvement in quality life while taking consideration of important factors for safety and environment. The use of mower food maintenance of land it is very common across several parts of the world with some frequent noise generated through its operation. This article is an attempt to study the noise and frequency generated through the vibrations of mower blade. In this study, an integrated design for designing, testing and developing mower blade that generates less noise is presented. For designing efficient blade that produces less noise, we have implemented various engineering approaches such as rapid product design, process of re-engineering and reverse engineering. The simulation of the designed blade is carried out through CAD software where the design prototype is analysed for its performance. The outcomes of the prototype are tested through simulation and its performance is compared for the determination of success of proposed design at different variations in frequency level. It is observed through the experimentation that the noise and vibration differences are generated through load carrying vehicles, mowers with riding capacity and simple mowers. From the analysis, mower with riding capacity is observed as safest among all other types of machines.

Rice in an Interdependent World

1991 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Vilma T Falck
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Mutual Dependency ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
The World ◽  
Rice Yields ◽  
Nutritional Needs ◽  
Essential Food ◽  
Made In ◽  
Policies And Practices

The purpose of this paper is to examine the outcome of the increasing need and dependence on rice as an essential food, and the potential hazards of this trajectory in an interdependent world, and to propose the need for a supranational system to guide decisions made in areas of mutual dependency among nations. All rice producing countries of the world should be responsible for assuring sufficient quantities and qualities of rice for the world's population. However, there are hazards related to emphasis on rice yields associated with the neglect of overall nutritional needs and also the potential for environmental impact given the need for sustainable development. Scientific measurement and data analyses of interdependent supranational variables are needed to guide policies and practices to insure conditions for life will be favorable for people everywhere.

Paint Waste Management in Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
Ainul Haezah Noruzman ◽  
Nazirah Mohd Apandi
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Large Volume ◽  
Surface Coating ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Treatment Processes ◽  
The World ◽  
Paint Industry ◽  
Negative Environmental Impact

Surface coating, paint and allied products industry is one of the major productions in the world due to the increase of urbanization and rapid development. Paint industry offers a variety of colours and types of paint to serve as needed. However, global production of paint consumption may lead to large volume of waste generated which affects people’s health and creating environmental surroundings such as landfill area, stormwater drainage and natural waterways. Therefore, this paper highlights the application of paint generally in terms of productions, treatment processes and waste management, as well as finding out the necessary steps to be taken to minimise wastes caused by productions. Furthermore, the understanding of these wastes may contribute to reduce the negative environmental impact and provide sustainable development by utilizing and promoting the paint waste as building material.

Green Building and Sustainable Development

2012 ◽  
Vol 575 ◽  
pp. 55-58
Author(s):  
Hong Jun Jia ◽  
Hui Wang
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Continuous Development ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Sustainable Human Development ◽  
New Development ◽  
The World

In order to achieve sustainable human development and solve the energy and environmental issues of common concern in the world, green building has become a necessary form of the future building development. Green building is the topic of this paper; it simply elaborates the definition and characteristics of the green building, puts forward four design concepts of green building, and simply introduces to the possible problems in the development of green building. The theory of sustainable development and green building theory is in the process of continuous development and improvement, which requires construction workers to constantly learn, update their own ideas, and meet new development needs of the green building.

scholarly journals Discourses and Educational Initiatives for Developing Sustainability Competences of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (99) ◽  
pp. 917-943
Author(s):  
Robson Malacarne ◽  
Janette Brunstein
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Educational Initiatives ◽  
The World ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
World Business Council ◽  
The Way

Abstract The adoption of the logic of developing sustainable development (SD) competences in the business environment has grown both in the literature in the area and in business initiative programs. One player that emerges with the aim of assuming leadership in this process is the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). This article aims to answer the following research question: Are the WBCSD’s discourses and initiatives for developing sustainability competences spaces of various translations of corporate sustainability or a place for reaffirming logocentric and definitive discourses on the theme? For this, we analyzed the institutional documents (Vision 2050 and Action 2020) and carried out a series of on-site visits at the Brazilian and Portuguese BCSDs. In addition, we conducted a set of in-depth interviews with the managers and participants in the initiatives for developing sustainability competences (DSC). The data were analyzed according to the categories of Derrida’s deconstruction process. The analysis of the educational initiatives of the Brazilian and Portuguese BCSDs showed that they include the various discourses on corporate sustainability in their formative approach; however, logocentric and definitive thinking about the theme is reaffirmed in that the way the Vision 2050 guidelines are carried out is limited to the application of management tools.

Application of leaching tests on phosphogypsum by infiltration-percolation

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (7) ◽  
pp. 1844-1851 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Hassoune ◽  
M. Lahhit ◽  
A. Khalid ◽  
A. Lachehab
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Trace Elements ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Phosphoric Acid ◽  
Phosphate Rock ◽  
Sandy Soils ◽  
Leaching Tests ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Potential Use

The phosphoric acid production obtained by attacking phosphate rock by sulphuric acid cogenerates considerable quantities of phosphogypsum. The world cogeneration is estimated about 100–280 Mt per year. In another context of sustainable development, the phosphate chemical industry develops different ways of phosphogypsum valorization, which makes its storage stack in a suitable way for its potential use as an industrial by-product. Although, this storage can cause an environmental impact largely due to the transfer of trace elements (TEs) to groundwater by leaching. It is therefore important to evaluate the impact linked to the storage in order to limit this transfer. The evaluation is usually performed through leaching tests in columns or reactor. In this work, leaching tests were performed in columns by infiltration-percolation on two filter mediums: phosphogypsum and synthetic sandy soils. The results showed that the phosphogypsum is acting as a filter, which retains and releases the TEs. Most of these TEs (Pb, Se, Ag, Zn and Cu) were highly retained in the synthetic soils surfaces and their contents in waters were considerably lower than the maximum contaminant levels (MCLs). Although As, Cd, Cr and Ni were strongly transferred to groundwater, their respective contents were higher than the MCLs.

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