
Engineering for Sustainability
A Practical Guide for Sustainable Design
Elsevier (Publisher)
Published on 1. May 2012
Book
Hardback
122 pages
978-0-444-53846-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides engineers with the necessary information to design sustainable processes, products and value chains. It describes the current consensus on sustainable development for four context levels: Planet, Society, Business, and Engineers. It also presents all required design steps: from problem definition, via synthesis of potential solutions, analysis of solutions, improvements to the final solution evaluation. For each design step, methods and guidelines are provided in relation to the goal of obtaining a sustainable solution; a solution that meets both the needs of people and all specific context constraints with regard to the planet and prosperity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Engineering students in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, aerospace engineering, industrial engineering, and product engineering
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Illustrations
Illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
356 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-444-53846-8 (9780444538468)
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E-Book
05/2012
Elsevier
€63.95
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Persons
Dr. Jan Harmsen is currently Director of Harmsen Consultancy B.V. From 1996 to 2010 he was Principal Process Developer, Shell Technology Center Amsterdam. After thirty-three years of industrial experience in exploratory research, development, process design, and chemicals manufacturing, ir. Harmsen now successfully works as an independent consultant on innovation with sustainable development in view. He has published three books with Elsevier.
Author
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Harmsen Consultancy B.V., The Netherlands
Content
1. Introduction2. Setting up a design assignment3. Structuring the sustainability context 4. Creating design solutions5. Acquiring sustainable design competences