BE/MUSES Collaborative Research: Materials Flow Modeling For Sustainable Industrial Systems for Urban Regions

BE/MUSES 合作研究：城市地区可持续工业系统的物质流建模

• 批准号: 0628139
• 负责人: Randall Jackson
• 金额: $ 9.88万
• 依托单位: West Virginia University Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-15 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0628139&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MUSES; Collaborative; Research; Materials; Flow

MATERIAL FLOWS FOR SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS FOR URBAN REGIONSThis award is part of the FY06 Materials Use: Science, Engineering and Society competition. Urban centers contain a significant and growing fraction of population and material and energy flows associated with the use and disposal of products. Re-engineering the flows of materials particularly the patterns of their disposal is critical to achieving sustainable systems within national boundaries, across international boundaries, and across generations. Yet, the urban landscape and population, and their associated material flows, have been underrepresented in models of sustainable industrial system growth. In developing models and tools to shape the next generation of industrial systems for materials mined from urban centers, the spatial distribution of these material resources must be integrated because successful design of sustainable systems cannot occur in a geographical vacuum. In recognition of the symbiotic material flow relationship between manufacturing companies and urban regions, this multi-disciplinary collaborative research effort will develop a framework for modeling and assessing the impact of redesigning urban materials flows to advance the mutual goals of sustainable industrial and urban systems. Our common focus is on mining specific products and associated materials from urban centers through new recycling networks and facilities for the Atlanta and Seattle metropolitan regions, and on modeling the economic development and environmental effects of different material flow scenarios on these regions. In our work, we will connect Geographic Information Systems data to demographic data, to consumer behavior models, to product models with material information, to industrial recycling process models, to Input-Output and Social Accounting Matrix models, and to transportation and environmental impact assessment models. The resulting framework and models will be applied to evaluate specific techno-economic- policy scenarios of interest to the Cities of Atlanta and Seattle in carpet and electronics recycling in terms of material flows, transportation, economic development, and environmental impact. Recognizing the global need for such models and analysis systems, our work includes a problem-based international educational component focused on the dumping of electronic waste in Africa.We expect the research insights generated by this project will help in closing the significant gap in thinking on sustainability that has resulted from treating industrial systems separately from urban systems. Closing this gap is a necessary condition for fully mitigating the environmental impacts of industry. Outcomes will include improved modeling of material flows for the urban scale that will help in developing market-based collection and recycling systems which take into account the impacts of consuming greenfields, inner city economic revitalization, and landfill reduction. Thus, this research is intended to encourage new manufacturing activity via waste diversion in distressed areas -- a promising economic development strategy that promotes urban sustainability. This award is co-managed by the Divisions of Civil & Mechanical Systems and Bioengineering & Environmental Systems in the Engineering Directorate.

城市区域可持续工业系统的物质流该奖项是06财年材料使用：科学、工程和社会竞赛的一部分。城市中心包含了与产品的使用和处置相关的相当大比例的人口以及与使用和处置相关的物质和能量流。重新设计材料流动，特别是其处置模式，对于在国家边界内、跨越国际边界和跨越几代人实现可持续系统至关重要。然而，在可持续工业体系增长的模型中，城市景观和人口及其相关的物质流动一直被低估。在开发模型和工具以塑造从城市中心开采的材料的下一代工业体系时，必须整合这些物质资源的空间分布，因为成功的可持续系统设计不可能在地理真空中发生。考虑到制造企业和城市地区之间的共生物流关系，这项多学科的合作研究工作将开发一个框架，用于建模和评估重新设计城市物流的影响，以推进可持续工业和城市系统的共同目标。我们的共同重点是通过亚特兰大和西雅图大都市区的新回收网络和设施从城市中心开采特定产品和相关材料，并模拟不同物流情景对这些地区的经济发展和环境影响。在我们的工作中，我们将地理信息系统数据与人口统计数据、消费者行为模型、具有材料信息的产品模型、工业回收过程模型、投入产出和社会核算矩阵模型以及交通和环境影响评估模型联系起来。由此产生的框架和模型将被应用于评估亚特兰大和西雅图两个城市在地毯和电子产品回收方面从物流、交通、经济发展和环境影响方面感兴趣的特定技术经济政策情景。认识到全球对此类模型和分析系统的需求，我们的工作包括一个以问题为基础的国际教育部分，重点是在非洲倾倒电子废物。我们预计，该项目产生的研究见解将有助于缩小因将工业系统与城市系统分开对待而导致的可持续发展思维方面的重大差距。缩小这一差距是充分减轻工业对环境影响的必要条件。结果将包括改进城市规模的物质流动模型，这将有助于发展基于市场的收集和回收系统，其中考虑到消耗绿地、市中心经济振兴和减少垃圾填埋场的影响。因此，这项研究旨在通过在贫困地区转移废物来鼓励新的制造业活动--这是一种有希望的经济发展战略，可以促进城市的可持续发展。该奖项由工程局的土木与机械系统和生物工程与环境系统部门共同管理。