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Sustainable Industrial Ecology: Infrastructure Needs and Alternatives, Slides of Business Management and Analysis
The infrastructure needs of industries in the context of sustainable development, focusing on physical and social infrastructures. It discusses the environmental impacts of centralized infrastructures and the benefits of alternative, distributed infrastructures. Topics include energy, water and sewage, telecommunications, solid waste, transportation, and fuel cells. The document also covers regulatory reform, cooperation, and institution building.
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Technology
Focus on Physical Infrastructures
Sustainable Development as Integration
Industrial
Ecology
Technology
Politics
Society
Environment Environment
Industrial
Ecology
Industrial
Ecology
Economy
Business
Environmental
Management
Product System Hierarchy
- Materials, parts and components
- End-product
- Physical infrastructure
- Land-use patterns
Environmental Impacts of Centralized
Infrastructures
- pollution and energy loss involved with the transportation of
fuels, materials, solid waste, and sewage;
- the landscape and habitat damage resulting from more roads,
pipelines, power lines, canals, ports, bridges etc.;
- the materials, energy, and pollution costs of building
infrastructure;
- the energy and pollution costs resulting from
demolition,remediation, and disposal.
Distributed Infrastructures
- Efficient end-use
- Small-scaled fueled (co) generations
- Cheap kilo-watt-scale fuel cells
- New fuels
- Cheap, easy to use renewable sources
- Distributed energy storage
- Electricity grid improvements
- Pervasive information
- Competition
- Shifts in electricity providers’ mission, structure, and culture
- Over 200 economic benefits
Fuel Cells
as
promising
technology
Fuel Cells
as
subsystem
within a
product
system
Living
Machines
- treat waste water by replicating ecosystem processes
- accelerates nature's own water purification process, without using chemicals, by incorporating helpful bacteria, plants, snails and fish that thrive by breaking down and digesting organic pollutants.
- costs of wastewater surcharges, water purchases, sludge disposal, chemical treatment; storage costs can be reduced below conventional systems; is expandable.
- Enables owners and communities to embrace a natural model and enjoy a beautiful garden that can grow cut flowers, house plants and in some cases vegetables
Open Aerobic Reactor