A method to evaluate regional material flow for designing recycling society

Author

Fujie, Koichi ; Goto, Naohiro ; Usui, Tomotaka

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ecological Eng., Toyohashi Univ. of Technol., Japan

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

974

Lastpage

979

Abstract

To maintain sustainable development, it is required to establish new society with low environmental load and low resource/energy consumption, i.e. recycling society. A method to design the recycling society is to raise effectiveness of resource/energy utilization and recycle of waste. The effectiveness is evaluated by regional material flows and to maximize the effectiveness the regional material flows should be optimized. The objective of this research is to develop a system to design the optimum regional material flows. The system is composed of four compartments. 1) Database 2) Analysis of current regional material flow 3) Geophysical information analysis 4) Design of industrial network 5) Optimization of regional material flow This system can propose industrial networks that maximize waste disposal and optimum region size for treatment waste

Keywords

environmental science computing; geographic information systems; recycling; database; geophysical information analysis; industrial network; recycling society; regional material flows; sustainable development; waste disposal; Data analysis; Databases; Design methodology; Design optimization; Energy consumption; Information analysis; Recycling; Sustainable development; Waste disposal; Waste materials;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing, 2001. Proceedings EcoDesign 2001: Second International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1266-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/.2001.992504

Filename

992504