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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Industrial ecology"”.
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The industrial ecology of the iron casting industry
Metal casting is an energy and materials intensive manufacturing process, which is an important U.S. industry. This study analyzes iron casting, in particular, for possible improvements that will result in greater efficiencies and therefore greater global competitiveness. The quantity and types of …
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Applications of industrial ecology : manufacturing, recycling, and efficiency
This work applies concepts from industrial ecology to analyses of manufacturing, recycling, and efficiency. The first part focuses on an environmental analysis of machining, with a specific emphasis on energy consumption. Energy analyses of machining show that in many cases, the energy of actual …
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Sustainable economic development : the case of implementing industrial ecology
Industrial ecology (IE) is an emerging paradigm for environmental control. IE offers a framework for altering industrial activities so that they more closely reflect a closed loop cycle, rather than a linear flow of extraction and disposal. Implementation of IE is occurring through the …
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Industrial ecology of metals : barriers and incentives to closing loops
… Aluminum Intensive Vehicles (AIVs) through an industrial ecology framework. Case studies were chosen to examine the general characteristics of the industrial ecology of metals, barriers and incentives to closing material loops, and policy interventions associated with loop closing. The NiCd …
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'Not Infinite Enough': Experimental British Poetics, Industrial Ecology and Scarcity, 1969-Present
… however, it is these less obvious sites of ‘industrial ecology’ (Tsing) which have compelled British ecopoetic attention in persistently fraught and generative ways over the last five decades. Mimicking the organic environments to which they refer, these sites are what Larkin calls …
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An industrial ecology approach to salt-related environmental sustainability issues in a large industrial complex
… thesis aims to demonstrate the application of industrial ecology (IE) theory to understand environmental sustainability problems relating to the accumulation of saline wastes and to study the potential for integrated technology interventions which take multi-party engagements and effects into …
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Strategic sustainability and industrial ecology in an island context, with considerations for a green economy roadmap: a study in the tourist accommodation sector, Grenada.
The purpose of this research is to show how business and enterprise can align sustainability and sustainable development to create strategic sustainability (SS) procedures, which can be used for planning towards sustainability in an island context. Even with the 3Ps depiction of sustainable …
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Toward the design and testing of a model-sharing collaboratory
… The community based around the Journal of Industrial Ecology, a quarterly academic publication in the field of industrial ecology, is analyzed. Its members' interests, professional goals, computer use habits, and collaboration patterns are all examined; it is concluded that the community …
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Desalination and its potential for harnessing brine and solar energy in the US Virgin Islands
… the US Virgin Islands. Thermodynamic efficiency, industrial ecology, and renewable energy were assessed for their application in desalination and contextual relevance to specific desalination processes. Renewable energy was determined to provide the greatest near-term potential for moving towards …
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Industrial symbiosis and the successional city : adapting exchange networks to energy constraints
Industrial ecology offers models for hybridizing technology and natural processes, human desires and the capacities of ecosystems in an effort to reconcile the expanding conflicts among them. Industrial symbiosis applies this thinking to the scale of the city and its supporting industrial …
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An integrated design process for durable concrete structures at the minimum environmental cost : application with the incorporation of rice husk ash
… sustainable way of thinking and the concept of industrial ecology on the preliminary design stages of a structure, on the material selection process and on the service life estimation stage, in achieving a robust durable reinforced concrete (RC) structure (for a given service life) with the …
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Mountain top eco-industrial park: An eco-industrial, renewable energy approach for industrial park development
This project applies the concepts of industrial ecology and recreational gateway development to the redesign of an existing industrial park - Mountain Top Industrial Park in Grant County, West Virginia. The location of the existing industrial park, in close proximity to the CSX railroad and the …
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Essays on Moral-Psychological Rebound Effects and Feedback Interventions for Sustainable Consumer Behavior
… integrating insights from energy economics, industrial ecology, psychology, and consumer research, this dissertation focuses on moral-psychological rebound effects at the consumer level, based on mechanisms such as moral licensing and behavioral spillover. The dissertation comprises six …
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An EcoIndustrial assessment of Roxbury
Industrial Ecology (IE) is a growing body of knowledge and theories regarding the environmental impacts of human activities. It is intended to bring some lessons from the natural ecology to bear on the functioning of our industrial and economic systems. Materials exchange is a specific kind of IE …
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An integrated approach to environmentally conscious design and manufacturing
… of ECDM, we specified a clear ECDM domain within Industrial Ecology. Then. we proposed various state-of-the-art techniques that were used to implement ECDM in the literature. After we defined the IECDM problem. we developed an integrated approach that led to a generic QFD-IECDM methodology for …
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Laser-finishing: a new process for designing recyclability in synthetic textiles
… 2003). This can be explained as a mechanism of industrial ecology where all waste can be reused in a perpetual material metabolism or system. Of the total textile fibre produced globally, up to 65% is lost, post-consumer, to landfill, incineration or composting. Of this, at least 50% is said to …
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The mayinje house : an architecture of activism
… - an interest spawned through the concept of industrial ecology, and my background in the biological sciences. A coinciding potential seemed ripe. It has been said that necessity is the mother of invention. Nowhere is this perhaps truer than in South Africa. The informal settlements of South …
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A life cycle-based investigation into the potential of a circular and low-carbon plastics economy in South Africa
… of implementing these strategies in concert. The industrial ecology tools Material Flow Analysis (MFA) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) are utilised to determine the degree of circularity and assess the impacts of these strategies along the plastics life cycle. The results are presented in terms of …
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