C-VORR: Complex-Value Optimisation for Resource Recovery

C-VORR：资源回收的复值优化

• 批准号: NE/K015834/1
• 负责人: Phil Purnell
• 金额: $ 9.33万
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FK015834%2F1
• 关键词: VORR; Complex; Value; Optimisation; Resource

Traditionally, we think of industrial manufacturing processes as producing useful output that have economic value - products - and unwanted outputs with disposal costs - wastes. It is often more useful to think in terms of the 'total value' of the process and its products and co-products, for two reasons. First, adjusting the manufacturing process can often make the 'waste' material into a something useful for another product (e.g. iron and steel manufacture can be adapted so that the main waste, blast-furnace slag, can be added to concrete to make it cheaper and more resistant to corrosion). This can increase the total value of the process. Secondly, if we only take in to account the economic value of the products and coproducts, we overlook other important aspects of the total value. For example, adding economic value to the blast-furnace slag has the added benefit of diverting it from landfill; thus, the evnvironmental damage is reduced, or, put another way, the environmental value is also increased. Iron and steel manufacture may also have a social value, by providing jobs for a region. By looking at how all three aspects of total value - economic, environmental and social - vary as the manufacturing process is adjusted, we can move away from a 'product + waste' model to one where we can optimise the total value to society of the whole manufacturing process. To do this, we need to build a completely new model for analysing manufacturing processes. This will combine a number of modelling approaches used in environmental science (life cycle assessment), environmental economics (materials flow analysis), social science (social cost/benefit analysis) and mathematical modelling (stochastic multi-criteria decision analysis). It wil also create a new concept of 'value' - total complex value - that considers and combines the economic, social and environmental impacts of industrial processes. It will strive to optimise value from 'cradle to cradle' and allow us to measure the true value of e.g. designing for dismantling, upstream de-pollution, optimising closed-loop recycling and upvs. down-cycling. Because it will allow us to analyse the effect of interventions in the process on total value, we can then use it to adjust existing processes or design new processes, ensuring they are installed in the right place at the right time to maximise the benefit to society. Ultimately, we want the new model to move us away from old thinking about waste, and help us build a sustainable society with circular materials flow. A very broad range of expertise is required to develop the model. We can bring together experts from the necessary fields (e.g. civil engineering, environmental engineering, economics, mathematics, industrial ecology, social science, materials science, product design, geography, water management, process engineering) because Leeds University is unique in that several interdisciplinary consortia with a range of the necessary expertise already exist (e.g. water@leeds, EPSRC Undermining Infrastructure, FP7 FESSUD - see Track Record). This grant will help these consortia collaborate across projects through research challenge workshops. Initially, we will concentrate within the University of Leeds, leveraging our enormous range of disciplines to extract maximum value from the NERC resource by minimising transport expenditure, communication barriers and lag time. Later, where external expertise is identified as essential, collaborators from outside Leeds or academia will be sought; again, via extensive existing networks.

传统上，我们认为工业制造过程是生产具有经济价值的有用产出-产品-和具有处理成本的不需要的产出-废物。考虑过程及其产品和副产品的“总价值”往往更有用，原因有二。首先，调整制造过程通常可以使“废物”材料变成对另一种产品有用的东西（例如，可以调整钢铁制造，以便将主要废物高炉矿渣添加到混凝土中，使其更便宜，更耐腐蚀）。这可以增加整个过程的价值。其次，如果我们只考虑产品和副产品的经济价值，我们就会忽视总价值的其他重要方面。例如，增加高炉矿渣的经济价值具有将其从填埋场转移的额外好处;因此，减少了对环境的损害，或者换句话说，也增加了环境价值。钢铁制造业也可以通过为一个地区提供就业机会而具有社会价值。通过研究总价值的三个方面--经济、环境和社会--如何随着制造过程的调整而变化，我们可以从“产品+废物”模式转向一个我们可以优化整个制造过程对社会的总价值的模式。为此，我们需要建立一个全新的模型来分析制造过程。这将把环境科学（生命周期评估）、环境经济学（物质流动分析）、社会科学（社会成本/效益分析）和数学建模（随机多标准决策分析）中使用的若干建模方法联合收割机结合起来。它还将创造一个新的“价值”概念-总复合价值-考虑并结合工业过程的经济，社会和环境影响。它将致力于优化从“摇篮到摇篮”的价值，并使我们能够衡量设计的真正价值，例如拆卸，上游去污染，优化闭环回收和upvs。向下循环。因为它将允许我们分析过程中的干预对总价值的影响，然后我们可以用它来调整现有的过程或设计新的过程，确保它们在正确的时间安装在正确的位置，以最大限度地提高社会效益。最终，我们希望新模式能让我们摆脱对废物的旧思维，帮助我们建立一个具有循环物料流的可持续发展社会。开发模型需要非常广泛的专业知识。我们可以召集必要领域的专家（例如土木工程、环境工程、经济学、数学、工业生态学、社会科学、材料科学、产品设计、地理学、水管理、工艺工程），因为利兹大学的独特之处在于，已经存在几个具有一系列必要专业知识的跨学科联盟。（例如，water@利兹、EPSRC Undermining Infrastructure、FP 7 FESSUD -见跟踪记录）。这笔赠款将帮助这些财团通过研究挑战研讨会在项目之间进行合作。最初，我们将集中在利兹大学内，利用我们庞大的学科范围，通过最大限度地减少交通支出，沟通障碍和滞后时间，从NERC资源中提取最大价值。以后，如果外部专门知识被确定为必不可少的，将寻求利兹或学术界以外的合作者;同样，通过广泛的现有网络。

项目成果

Recycling and resource efficiency: it is time for a change from quantity to quality.

回收和资源效率：是时候从数量转向质量了。

• DOI: 10.1177/0734242x13489782
• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
• 作者: Velis CA