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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Material Flow Analysis"”.
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Material flow analysis of concrete in the United States
Concrete is the second most consumed material in the world after water. Due to the sheer mass of concrete consumed annually and its associated resource and environmental impacts, improving the materials management of concrete consumption is a critical problem in the United States. It is …
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Material flow analysis of plastic in Iceland : moving towards a circular economy
This research thesis analyzes the flow of plastic materials in Iceland and highlights changes needed to move the current system towards a more circular economy. A circular economy is an economic system that seeks to use materials to their fullest without needing to send them to a landfill and helps …
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Urban-scale material flow analysis in a South African context: a Cape Town feasibility study
Urban-scale Material Flow Analyses (MFAs) in the global south provide unique challenges compared to national MFAs and to urban MFAs in the north. In order to determine the feasibility of undertaking an urban-scale MFA in the global south, this dissertation sets out to undertake an MFA on Cape Town, …
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Analysing sustainability of solid waste management in Malaysia using ecological modernisation perspective
… waste quantities and composition but also of the flow of resources and waste through the joint economic and environment systems. To this end, the thesis applies Material Flow Analysis to the Malaysian context seeking to identify more precise understandings of the processes that give rise to waste …
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Making Sense of Extended Producer Responsibility: Towards a framework for policy transfer
… equipment (WEEE) in the developed world with the analysis of the contexts in developing countries. The political areas include the United Kingdom, Sweden, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, India, Argentina, and Thailand. The evaluation research applied theory-based evaluation (TBE) to archival …
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An integrated decision support tool for more sustainable management of biomass resources in agricultural regions
… research employed a combination of the tools of Material Flow Analysis (MFA), Geographic Information System (GIS) and Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA). MFA is used as the primary tool for this research. GIS and CBA are combined with MFA in later stages of the overall procedure to develop an integrated …
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Pairing Quality and Quantity in a Mass Balance of Water in California
… a water budget, in the form of a modified mass flow diagram, that depicts the quality of each quantity of water. The method involves: delineating the system boundary for the water balance: selecting the water budget time period to be used for analysis; collecting water quantity data applicable …
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Towards sustainable material usage : time-dependent evaluation of upgrading technologies for recycling
… the US grows, so does concern about sustainable materials usage. Increasing recycling is a key component within a broad arsenal of strategies for moving towards sustainable materials usage. There are many barriers to increasing recycling; one that is problematic is compositional uncertainty in …
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Material Recovery Potential from Solar Photovoltaics: Predictive Modeling and Characterization to Advance the Circular Economy
… capacity will increase the value of key raw materials, underscoring the importance of recycling and movement toward a “circular economy”. However, uncertainties over the quantity and the exact material composition of solar panel waste hamper investments by recyclers, manufacturers, and …
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Energy Transition Challenges: Solar PV Module and Wind Turbine Waste in South Africa to 2050
… 2 involved quantitative scenario modelling using material flow analysis and Weibull distributions derived from empirical data and industry insights. Phases 3 and 4 integrated the methods through thematic analysis to explore the key levers pivotal to RE equipment waste management in South Africa. …
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Structural Steel Reuse as a Cost-Effective Carbon Mitigation Strategy
… of the steel value-chain. Next, a high-level material flow analysis is conducted for the U.S. structural steel market, indicating that the quantity of the existing steel heavy section scrap covers 140% of the demand for imports of steel. An LCA utilizing a comparative cut-off method is then …
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Hot embossing of polymeric tubular micro-components
… by: 1) FE simulations using data obtained from material characterisation tests and 2) forming experiments and quality assessment of the formed components. Formability of more than ten types of polymeric micro-tubes were determined and their failure forms discussed. Furthermore, three forming …
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Tracing Pathways of Resource Use in the World Economy: An Analysis of National and Sectoral Influence across the Global Water-Energy-Land System
… way, data and time constraints involved in using Material Flow Analysis (MFA) data make global assessment of water, energy and land use pathways across different production and consumption systems challenging. However, Multi-Regional Input-Output Analysis (MRIOA) is found to offer a practical …
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The blue city: Urban metabolism and the energy-water nexus
… of the food-energy-water nexus, urban water, material flow analysis/urban metabolism, and urban water governance to discuss the magnitude and importance of water resources in the urban environment. Open data and data availability played an integral role throughout the analysis. First, the …
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The role of end-use energy conversion efficiency as a climate mitigation tool
… of policy action among these devices. The analysis is divided into three main chapters. First, issues with data quality were identified a cause for the marginalisation of end-use efficiency measures compared to supply-side ones. For the first time, the uncertainty of end-use statistics is …
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Resource efficiency and chemicals: energy, emissions and material flows
… energy inputs as feedstock; fuels used as raw material inputs. This factor, combined with the sector’s overall complexity, makes it a challenging area in which to mitigate emissions, especially given the increases in demand projected for many of its products. The core aims of this research are …
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Dissecting the metabolism of South Africa's power house: Mpumalanga
… this study collates and analyses the province's material, energy and water flows, which are foundational to its economic structure. The primary objective is to present a baseline metabolic assessment of Mpumalanga for the year 2017, as defined by its provincial boundaries. This involves …
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Investigating Environmentally Sustainable Pathways for Passenger Vehicle Fleet in the UK
… of resources, could reduce the wastage of raw materials and associated environmental and energy impacts. Given that lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) play a vital role in both the energy transition of transportation and energy storage for the electricity sector, respectively by enabling the …
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