Industrial ecology at factory level: a prototype methodology
Industrial ecology at factory level: a prototype methodology
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DOI：
10.1177/0954405412449937
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发表时间：
2012-10-01
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影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Levers, Andy
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作者：
Despeisse, Melanie;Ball, Peter D.;Levers, Andy
可持续制造的概念是一种预防污染的形式，将环境因素整合在商品的生产中，同时着眼于有效的资源使用。从工业生态学角度来看，这种效率来自改善资源流量管理。因此，对材料，能源和废物资源流的评估为使用工业生态生物学类比，为查看和分析制造系统作为生态系统提供了一条途径，进而支持识别材料，能源和浪费的改进机会流。文献中不存在这种工业生态在工厂层面的应用。本文提供了一种原型方法，以使用材料，能源和废物过程流动来应用工业生态的概念，以解决文献中的这一差距。审查了各种建模技术，并选择了候选人在工业案例中测试原型方法。原型方法的应用表明，有可能使用工厂的材料，能源和废物资源流动来链接制造运营和支持设施，并确定资源使用的潜在改进。工作的结果为建立建模工具的规格提供了基础，该工具可以支持那些分析其制造系统以改善其环境绩效并朝着可持续制造迈进的人。
The concept of sustainable manufacturing is a form of pollution prevention that integrates environmental considerations in the production of goods while focusing on efficient resource use. Taking the industrial ecology perspective, this efficiency comes from improved resource flow management. The assessment of material, energy and waste resource flows, therefore, offers a route to viewing and analysing a manufacturing system as an ecosystem using industrial ecology biological analogy and can, in turn, support the identification of improvement opportunities in the material, energy and waste flows. This application of industrial ecology at factory level is absent from the literature. This article provides a prototype methodology to apply the concepts of industrial ecology using material, energy and waste process flows to address this gap in the literature. Various modelling techniques were reviewed and candidates selected to test the prototype methodology in an industrial case. The application of the prototype methodology showed the possibility of using the material, energy and waste resource flows through the factory to link manufacturing operations and supporting facilities, and to identify potential improvements in resource use. The outcomes of the work provide a basis to build the specifications for a modelling tool that can support those analysing their manufacturing system to improve their environmental performance and move towards sustainable manufacturing.