MUSE: Industrial Solvents and Working Fluids-Industrial Ecology of Organic Materials

这项为期一年的MUSES工业生态学试点研究旨在定义一个可行的框架，用于分析新的或对环境有益的溶剂，考虑到工业溶剂和工作流体的生命周期、供应链影响以及影响组织决定采用改善环境的新溶剂技术的因素。与许多在制造过程中反应、形成或消耗的有机物不同，工业溶剂和工作流体通常在一个过程中回收，因此具有明确的、延长的生命周期。在这一生命周期中，化学损失和能源排放对人类和生态系统的影响既有地方性的，也有全球性的。经济影响也体现在整个生命周期的供应链中，并影响有关特定溶剂和工作流体的决策。该规划项目将1)评估可用或需要开发的特定工具，以确定制造业工业生态系统的五个子系统的环境排放和能源需求，2)建立一套对案例工厂产品具有环境效益的化学，材料或技术替代方案，3)确定影响组织决策的关键因素，涉及使用环境友好型投入。关于这些组织决策，我们将考虑各种因素如何影响组织绿色供应链和改善人类和生态环境，评估如何在供应链上使用环境信息来实现经济改善。教育规划包括学生在这个跨学科课题上的交叉训练。

This one-year MUSES pilot study of industrial ecology is designed to define a workable framework for the analysis of new or environmentally beneficial solvents, considering the life cycle of industrial solvents and working fluids, the supply chain implications, and the factors that influence organizations' decisions to adopt new solvent technologies that improve the environment. In contrast to many organics, which are reacted, formed, or consumed in manufacturing, industrial solvents and working fluids are generally recycled within a process, and therefore have a clear, extended life cycle. Over this life cycle, the influences on human and ecological systems occur from chemical losses and from energy emissions, and are both local and global. Economic influences are also manifested over the entire life cycle supply chain and affect decisions regarding particular solvents and working fluids. This planning project will 1) evaluate specific tools that are available or need to be developed in order to determine the environmental emissions and energy requirements for the five subsystems of the manufacturing industrial ecology system, 2) establish a set of chemical, material, or technology alternatives that have environmental benefits for a case facility's product, 3) identify pivotal factors that influence organizational decisions regarding the use of environmentally friendly inputs. With respect to these organizational decisions, we will consider how various factors influence organizations to green their supply chains and improve human and ecological environment, assessing how environmental information is used over the supply chain to achieve economic improvement. Educational planning includes cross-training of students in this interdisciplinary topic.