Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Engineering
International Edition
Published on 29. October 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-13-814034-2 (ISBN)
Description
The first text available devoted completely to industrial ecology/green engineering, this introduction provides everything instructors need to teach a successful course-including visuals-in one source. The authors use industrial ecology principles and cases to ground the discussion of sustainable engineering, and thus offer practical and reasonable approaches to an otherwise difficult and sometimes otherworldly subject.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 179 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
730 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-814034-2 (9780138140342)
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Content
INTRODUCING THE FIELD
1. TECHNOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY
1.1 An integrated system
1.2 The tragedy of the commons
1.3 The master equation
1.4 Technological evolution
1.5 Addressing the challenge
Further Reading
2. INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING CONCEPTS
2.1 From contemporaneous thinking to forward thinking
2.2 The greening of engineering
2.3 Linking industrial activity with environmental and social sciences
2.4 The challenge of quantification and rigor
2.5 Key questions of industrial ecology and sustainable engineering
2.6 An overview of this book
Further Reading
PART II. FRAMEWORK TOPICS
3. THE RELEVANCE OF BIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY TO TECHNOLOGY
3.1 Considering the analogy
3.2 Biological and industrial organisms
3.3 Biological and industrial ecosystems
3.4 Engineering by biological and industrial organisms
3.5 Evolution
3.6 The utility of the ecological approach
Further Reading
4. METABOLIC ANALYSIS
4.1 The concept of metabolism
4.2 Metabolisms of biological organisms
4.3 Metabolisms of industrial organisms
4.4 The utility of metabolic analysis
Further Reading
5. TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND EVOLVING RISK
5.1 Historical patterns in technological evolution
5.2 Approaches to risk
5.3 Risk assessment
5.4 Risk communication
5.5 Risk management
Further Reading
6. THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
6.1 Framing industrial ecology and sustainable engineering within society
6.2 Cultural constructs and temporal scales
6.3 Social ecology
6.4 Consumption
6.5 Government and governance
6.6 Legal and ethical concerns
6.7 Economics and industrial ecology
Further Reading
7. THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY
7.1 Is humanity's path unsustainable?
7.2 Components of a sustainability transition
7.3 Quantifying sustainability
7.3.1 Example 1: Sustainable supplies of zinc
7.3.2 Example 2: Sustainable supplies of germanium
7.3.3 Example 3: Sustainable production of greenhouse gases
7.3.4 Issues in quantifying sustainability
7.4 Linking industrial ecology activities to sustainability
7.4.1 The Grand Objectives
7.4.2 Linking the grand objectives to environmental science
7.4.3 Targeted activities of technological societies
7.4.4 Actions for an industrialized society
Further Reading
PART III. IMPLEMENTATION
8. SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING
8.1 Engineering and the industrial sequence
8.2 Green chemistry
8.3 Green engineering
8.4 The process design challenge
8.5 Pollution prevention
8.6 The challenge of water availability
8.7 The process life cycle
8.7.1 Resource provisioning
8.7.2 Process implementation
8.7.3 Primary process operation
8.7.4 Complementary process operation
8.7.5 Refurbishment, recycling, and disposal
8.8 Green technology and sustainability
Further Reading
9. INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
9.1 The product development challenge
9.2 Conceptual tools for product designers
9.2.1 The Pugh selection matrix
9.2.2 The house of quality
9.3 Design for X
9.4 Product design teams
9.5 The Product Realization Process
Further Reading
10. DESIGN FOR ENVIRONMENT AND FOR SUSTAINABILITY
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Choosing materials
10.3 Combining materials
10.4 Product delivery
10.5 The product use phase
10.6 Designing for reuse and recycling
10.6.1 The comet diagram
10.6.2 Approaches to design for recycling
10.7 Guidelines for ecodesign
Further Reading
11. AN INTRODUCTION TO LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT
11.1 The concept of the life cycle
11.2 The LCA framework
11.3 Goal setting and scope determination
11.4 Defining boundaries
11.4.1 Level of detail boundaries
11.4.2 The natural ecosystem boundary
11.4.3 Boundaries in space and time
11.4.4 Choosing boundaries
11.5 Approaches to data acquisition
11.6 The life cycle of industrial products
11.7 The utility of life-cycle inventory analysis
Further Reading
12. THE LCA IMPACT AND INTERPRETATION STAGES
12.1 LCA impact analysis
12.2 Interpretation
12.2.1 Identify significant issues in the results
12.2.2 Evaluate the data used in the LCA
12.2.3 Draw conclusions and recommendations
12.3 LCA software
12.4 Prioritizing recommendations
12.4.1 Approaches to prioritization
12.4.2 The action-agent prioritization diagram
12.4.3 The life-stage prioritization diagram
12. 5The limitations of LCA
Further Reading
13. STREAMLINING THE LCA PROCESS
13.1 Needs of the LCA user community
13.2 The assessment continuum
13.3 Preserving perspective while streamlining
13.4 The SLCA matrix
13.5 Target plots
13.6 Assessing generic automobiles of yesterday and today
13.7 Weighting in SLCA
13.8 SLCA assets and liabilities
13.9 The LCA/SLCA family
Further Reading
PART IV. ANALYSIS OF TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
14. SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
14.1 The systems concept
14.2 The adaptive cycle
14.3 Holarchies
14.4 The phenomenon of emergent behavior
14.5 Adaptive management of technological holarchies
Further Reading
15. INDUSTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
15.1 Ecosystems and food chains
15.2 Food webs
15.3 Industrial symbiosis
15.4 Designing and developing symbiotic industrial ecosystems
15.5 Uncovering and stimulating industrial ecosystems
15.6 Island biogeography and island industrogeography
Further Reading
16. MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS
16.1 Budgets and cycles
16.2 Resource analyses in industrial ecology
16.2.1 Elemental substance analyses
16.2.2 Molecular analyses
16.3 The balance between natural and anthropogenic mobilization of resources
16.4 The utility of substance flow analysis
Further Reading
17. NATIONAL MATERIAL ACCOUNTS
17.1 National -level accounting
17.2 Country-level metabolisms
17.3 Embodiments in trade
17.4 Resource productivity
17.5 Input-output tables
17.6 The utility of metabolic and resource analyses
Further Reading
18. ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
18.1 Energy and organisms
18.2 Energy and the product life cycle
18.3 The energy cycle for a substance
18.4 National and global energy analyses
18.5 Energy and mineral resources
18.6 Energy and industrial ecology
Further Reading
19. WATER AND INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
19.1 Water: An introduction
19.2 Water and organisms
19.3 Water and products
19.4 The water footprint
19.5Water quality
19.6 Industrial ecology and water futures
Further Reading
20. URBAN INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
20.1 The city as an organism
20.2 Urban metabolic flows
20.3 Urban metabolic stocks
20.4 Urban metabolic histories
20.5 Urban mining
20.6 Potential benefits of urban metabolic studies
Further Reading
21. MODELING IN INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
21.1 What is an industrial ecology model?
21.2 Building the conceptual model
21.2.1 The Class 1 industrial ecology model
21.2.2 The Class 2 industrial ecology model
21.2.3 The Class 3 industrial ecology model
21.3 Running and evaluating industrial ecology models
21.3.1 Implementing the model
21.3.2 Model validation
21.4 Examples of industrial ecology models
21.5 The status of industrial ecology models
Further Reading
PART V. THINKING AHEAD
22. SCENARIOS FOR INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
22.1 What is an industrial ecology scenario?
22.2 Building the scenario
22.3 Examples of industrial ecology scenarios
22.4 The status of industrial ecology scenarios
Further Reading
23. THE STATUS OF RESOURCES
23.1 Introduction
23.2 Mineral resources scarcity
23.3 Cumulative supply curves
23.4 Energy resources
23.5 Water resources
23.6 Summary
Further Reading
24. INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
24.1 The three groupings
24.2 RDC/SDC dynamics and perspectives
24.3 Thoughts on development in LDCs
Further Reading
25. INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY IN THE CORPORATION
25.1 The manufacturing sector, industrial ecology, and sustainability
25.2 The service sector, industrial ecology, and sustainability
25.3 Environment and sustainability as strategic
25.4 The corporate economic benefits of environment and sustainability
25.5 Implementing industrial ecology in the corporation
Further Reading
26. INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY IN GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY
26.1 Ecological engineering
26.2 Earth systems engineering and management
26.3 Regional scale ESEM: The Florida Everglades
26.4 Global scale ESEM: Stratospheric ozone and CFCs
26.5 Global scale ESEM: Combating global warming
26.6 The principles of ESEM
26.6.1 Theoretical principles of ESEM
26.6.2 Governance principles of ESEM
26.6.3 Design and engineering principles of ESEM
26.7 Facing the ESEM question
Further Reading
27. LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
27.1 A status report
27.2 No simple answers
27.3 Foci for research
27.4 Themes and transitions
Further Reading
APPENDICES
UNITS OF MEASUREMENT IN INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
SLCA GUIDELINES
GLOSSARY
INDEX
1. TECHNOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY
1.1 An integrated system
1.2 The tragedy of the commons
1.3 The master equation
1.4 Technological evolution
1.5 Addressing the challenge
Further Reading
2. INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING CONCEPTS
2.1 From contemporaneous thinking to forward thinking
2.2 The greening of engineering
2.3 Linking industrial activity with environmental and social sciences
2.4 The challenge of quantification and rigor
2.5 Key questions of industrial ecology and sustainable engineering
2.6 An overview of this book
Further Reading
PART II. FRAMEWORK TOPICS
3. THE RELEVANCE OF BIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY TO TECHNOLOGY
3.1 Considering the analogy
3.2 Biological and industrial organisms
3.3 Biological and industrial ecosystems
3.4 Engineering by biological and industrial organisms
3.5 Evolution
3.6 The utility of the ecological approach
Further Reading
4. METABOLIC ANALYSIS
4.1 The concept of metabolism
4.2 Metabolisms of biological organisms
4.3 Metabolisms of industrial organisms
4.4 The utility of metabolic analysis
Further Reading
5. TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND EVOLVING RISK
5.1 Historical patterns in technological evolution
5.2 Approaches to risk
5.3 Risk assessment
5.4 Risk communication
5.5 Risk management
Further Reading
6. THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
6.1 Framing industrial ecology and sustainable engineering within society
6.2 Cultural constructs and temporal scales
6.3 Social ecology
6.4 Consumption
6.5 Government and governance
6.6 Legal and ethical concerns
6.7 Economics and industrial ecology
Further Reading
7. THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY
7.1 Is humanity's path unsustainable?
7.2 Components of a sustainability transition
7.3 Quantifying sustainability
7.3.1 Example 1: Sustainable supplies of zinc
7.3.2 Example 2: Sustainable supplies of germanium
7.3.3 Example 3: Sustainable production of greenhouse gases
7.3.4 Issues in quantifying sustainability
7.4 Linking industrial ecology activities to sustainability
7.4.1 The Grand Objectives
7.4.2 Linking the grand objectives to environmental science
7.4.3 Targeted activities of technological societies
7.4.4 Actions for an industrialized society
Further Reading
PART III. IMPLEMENTATION
8. SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING
8.1 Engineering and the industrial sequence
8.2 Green chemistry
8.3 Green engineering
8.4 The process design challenge
8.5 Pollution prevention
8.6 The challenge of water availability
8.7 The process life cycle
8.7.1 Resource provisioning
8.7.2 Process implementation
8.7.3 Primary process operation
8.7.4 Complementary process operation
8.7.5 Refurbishment, recycling, and disposal
8.8 Green technology and sustainability
Further Reading
9. INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
9.1 The product development challenge
9.2 Conceptual tools for product designers
9.2.1 The Pugh selection matrix
9.2.2 The house of quality
9.3 Design for X
9.4 Product design teams
9.5 The Product Realization Process
Further Reading
10. DESIGN FOR ENVIRONMENT AND FOR SUSTAINABILITY
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Choosing materials
10.3 Combining materials
10.4 Product delivery
10.5 The product use phase
10.6 Designing for reuse and recycling
10.6.1 The comet diagram
10.6.2 Approaches to design for recycling
10.7 Guidelines for ecodesign
Further Reading
11. AN INTRODUCTION TO LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT
11.1 The concept of the life cycle
11.2 The LCA framework
11.3 Goal setting and scope determination
11.4 Defining boundaries
11.4.1 Level of detail boundaries
11.4.2 The natural ecosystem boundary
11.4.3 Boundaries in space and time
11.4.4 Choosing boundaries
11.5 Approaches to data acquisition
11.6 The life cycle of industrial products
11.7 The utility of life-cycle inventory analysis
Further Reading
12. THE LCA IMPACT AND INTERPRETATION STAGES
12.1 LCA impact analysis
12.2 Interpretation
12.2.1 Identify significant issues in the results
12.2.2 Evaluate the data used in the LCA
12.2.3 Draw conclusions and recommendations
12.3 LCA software
12.4 Prioritizing recommendations
12.4.1 Approaches to prioritization
12.4.2 The action-agent prioritization diagram
12.4.3 The life-stage prioritization diagram
12. 5The limitations of LCA
Further Reading
13. STREAMLINING THE LCA PROCESS
13.1 Needs of the LCA user community
13.2 The assessment continuum
13.3 Preserving perspective while streamlining
13.4 The SLCA matrix
13.5 Target plots
13.6 Assessing generic automobiles of yesterday and today
13.7 Weighting in SLCA
13.8 SLCA assets and liabilities
13.9 The LCA/SLCA family
Further Reading
PART IV. ANALYSIS OF TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
14. SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
14.1 The systems concept
14.2 The adaptive cycle
14.3 Holarchies
14.4 The phenomenon of emergent behavior
14.5 Adaptive management of technological holarchies
Further Reading
15. INDUSTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
15.1 Ecosystems and food chains
15.2 Food webs
15.3 Industrial symbiosis
15.4 Designing and developing symbiotic industrial ecosystems
15.5 Uncovering and stimulating industrial ecosystems
15.6 Island biogeography and island industrogeography
Further Reading
16. MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS
16.1 Budgets and cycles
16.2 Resource analyses in industrial ecology
16.2.1 Elemental substance analyses
16.2.2 Molecular analyses
16.3 The balance between natural and anthropogenic mobilization of resources
16.4 The utility of substance flow analysis
Further Reading
17. NATIONAL MATERIAL ACCOUNTS
17.1 National -level accounting
17.2 Country-level metabolisms
17.3 Embodiments in trade
17.4 Resource productivity
17.5 Input-output tables
17.6 The utility of metabolic and resource analyses
Further Reading
18. ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
18.1 Energy and organisms
18.2 Energy and the product life cycle
18.3 The energy cycle for a substance
18.4 National and global energy analyses
18.5 Energy and mineral resources
18.6 Energy and industrial ecology
Further Reading
19. WATER AND INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
19.1 Water: An introduction
19.2 Water and organisms
19.3 Water and products
19.4 The water footprint
19.5Water quality
19.6 Industrial ecology and water futures
Further Reading
20. URBAN INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
20.1 The city as an organism
20.2 Urban metabolic flows
20.3 Urban metabolic stocks
20.4 Urban metabolic histories
20.5 Urban mining
20.6 Potential benefits of urban metabolic studies
Further Reading
21. MODELING IN INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
21.1 What is an industrial ecology model?
21.2 Building the conceptual model
21.2.1 The Class 1 industrial ecology model
21.2.2 The Class 2 industrial ecology model
21.2.3 The Class 3 industrial ecology model
21.3 Running and evaluating industrial ecology models
21.3.1 Implementing the model
21.3.2 Model validation
21.4 Examples of industrial ecology models
21.5 The status of industrial ecology models
Further Reading
PART V. THINKING AHEAD
22. SCENARIOS FOR INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
22.1 What is an industrial ecology scenario?
22.2 Building the scenario
22.3 Examples of industrial ecology scenarios
22.4 The status of industrial ecology scenarios
Further Reading
23. THE STATUS OF RESOURCES
23.1 Introduction
23.2 Mineral resources scarcity
23.3 Cumulative supply curves
23.4 Energy resources
23.5 Water resources
23.6 Summary
Further Reading
24. INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
24.1 The three groupings
24.2 RDC/SDC dynamics and perspectives
24.3 Thoughts on development in LDCs
Further Reading
25. INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY IN THE CORPORATION
25.1 The manufacturing sector, industrial ecology, and sustainability
25.2 The service sector, industrial ecology, and sustainability
25.3 Environment and sustainability as strategic
25.4 The corporate economic benefits of environment and sustainability
25.5 Implementing industrial ecology in the corporation
Further Reading
26. INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY IN GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY
26.1 Ecological engineering
26.2 Earth systems engineering and management
26.3 Regional scale ESEM: The Florida Everglades
26.4 Global scale ESEM: Stratospheric ozone and CFCs
26.5 Global scale ESEM: Combating global warming
26.6 The principles of ESEM
26.6.1 Theoretical principles of ESEM
26.6.2 Governance principles of ESEM
26.6.3 Design and engineering principles of ESEM
26.7 Facing the ESEM question
Further Reading
27. LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
27.1 A status report
27.2 No simple answers
27.3 Foci for research
27.4 Themes and transitions
Further Reading
APPENDICES
UNITS OF MEASUREMENT IN INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY
SLCA GUIDELINES
GLOSSARY
INDEX