Designing for Sustainability

Tanzil, Dicksen; Beaver, Earl; Heine, Lauren; Abraham, Martín

doi:10.1002/047175613x.ch5

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“…They provide both quantitative and qualitative measures of sustainability. The main difference concerns the fact that a metric gives a quantitative characterization [9] or an index value, whereas indicators provide a narrative description in addition to the qualitative characterization [47] and may include one or more metrics [12]. Similar to frameworks and indicators, the process of measurement selected sustainability aspects is considered in terms of three groups of metrics corresponding to the three main aspects of sustainability: environmental metrics, economic metrics and sociological metrics [11].…”

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An Ontology-Based Knowledge Modelling for a Sustainability Assessment Domain

Konys

2018

Sustainability

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Sustainability assessment has received more and more attention from researchers and it offers a large number of opportunities to measure and evaluate the level of its accomplishment. However, proper selection of a particular sustainability assessment approach, reflecting problem properties and the evaluator's preferences, is a complex and important issue. Due to an existing number of different approaches dedicated to assessing, supporting, or measuring the level of sustainability and their structure oriented on the particular domain usage, problems with accurate matching frequently occur. On the other hand, the efficiency of sustainability assessment depends on the available knowledge of the ongoing capabilities. Additionally, actual research trends confirm that knowledge engineering gives a method to handle domain knowledge practically and effectively. Unfortunately, literature studies confirm that there is a lack of knowledge systematization in the sustainability assessment domain, however. The practical application of knowledge-based mechanisms may cover this gap. In this paper, we provide formal, practical and technological guidance to a knowledge management-based approach to sustainability assessment. We propose ontology as a form of knowledge conceptualization and using knowledge engineering, we make gathered knowledge publicly available and reusable, especially in terms of interoperability of collected knowledge.

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Section: Measures and Metricsmentioning

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An Ontology-Based Knowledge Modelling for a Sustainability Assessment Domain

Konys

2018

Sustainability

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“…The aim of the measures and metrics is to provide a comprehensive and complete evaluation of the selected aspects and activities. This group allows for quantitative assessment [31], and, contrary to indicators (indexes), is offering a narrative description in addition to the qualitative characterization [47]. Indicators are simple measures, most often quantitative that represent a state of sustainability dimension development.…”

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“…The results of the analysis are presented in Table 5b. The AHP and PROMETHEE methods assigned the highest AdjSI values to the A2 group, the households with average members' age in the range 21-35, followed by the A1 group (under 21), A3 (36)(37)(38)(39)(40)(41)(42)(43)(44)(45)(46)(47)(48)(49)(50) and A4 (over 51). In case of the TOPSIS method, the ranks of groups A1 and A2 were swapped.…”

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An Index to Measure the Sustainable Information Society: The Polish Households Case

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Since the 1960s, a turning point for civilization related to the increasing role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in creating the modern society can be observed. The sustainable information society (SIS) entails a new phase of information society development, in which the ICT adoption by the society stakeholders is the key enabler of sustainability. One of the most important issues in the debate about the SIS is the means to measure it. In this paper, a methodological framework for creating SIS evaluation indexes is presented. In practical terms, an exemplary adjustable index for evaluating SIS in households is created based on the presented approach. During the empirical research, the presented index is used to evaluate SIS in Polish households. The study showed the usefulness of the proposed approach and confirmed the fact that it can be used to build other SIS indices.

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“…Meanwhile, the value of sustainable development has been well recognized by the industries and societies. The chemical industry has been striving for sustainability through inventing, and implementing cleaner technologies, recycling and reuse, eliminating waste products, reducing emission of greenhouse gases, avoiding the use of toxic substances, and reducing energy intensity of processes . Over the past decades, many methodologies and indicators have been proposed to assess sustainability issue in chemical process design. − These methodologies include sustainability aspects as an integral part of process design and have paved a way for systematic sustainable design method.…”

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Incorporating Sustainability into the Conceptual Design of Chemical Process-Reaction Routes Selection

Zheng

Lou

Gangadharan

et al. 2012

Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.

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Limited availability of natural resources and rising raw material cost, accompanied by growing societal and environmental concerns, urge the engineers to incorporate sustainability issues into the design of new chemical process and the retrofit of traditional process. Yet due to the multidimensional nature of sustainability, as economic, societal, and environmental issues need to be considered together, a structured sustainability assessment tool is needed to serve as the basis for any process design, analysis, improvement, and decision making. This paper presents a methodology to assist reaction pathway selection in light of sustainability. At this conceptual design stage, the sustainability performance of different potential reaction pathways is evaluated, which can not only help the designers improve the screening efficiency by eliminating inferior reaction alternatives systematically, but also identify the key areas for further improvement in future design, thus reducing the complexity and labor in the following basic engineering design stage. The sustainability of each reaction pathway is assessed in terms of profit potential, driving force of the pathway (Gibbs free energy), inherent safety index, potential environmental index, and atom economy. The efficacy of this approach is demonstrated by several case studies of reaction routes selection, including the propylene oxide (PO) production process, carbon dioxide reduction technology, and cellulosic ethanol production technology.

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Designing for Sustainability

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An Ontology-Based Knowledge Modelling for a Sustainability Assessment Domain

An Ontology-Based Knowledge Modelling for a Sustainability Assessment Domain

An Index to Measure the Sustainable Information Society: The Polish Households Case

Incorporating Sustainability into the Conceptual Design of Chemical Process-Reaction Routes Selection

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