FEW: Food-Energy-Water Nexus Workshop to Develop System Approaches and Sustainability Metrics for Evaluation

1541883(舒斯特)。该讲习班将制定系统框架和相关指标，以评估粮食供应链关键加工领域的粮食、能源和水(少数)之间的关系。这艘工作船是由ENG局的CBET司和NSF的MPS局的CHE司共同资助的。为了更好地理解食品、能源和水之间的相关权衡，研讨会将汇集系统分析和计量专家，目的是为评估粮食-能源-水之间的关系制定必要的研究、教育和应用可持续性指标和系统思维的路线图。研讨会将帮助定义专业协会的角色，以及它们如何促进政府、行业和学术界之间的合作。研讨会将讨论复杂系统分析与可持续发展指标框架相结合的困难研究方面。将总结对目前衡量复杂系统中权衡取舍的方法的评估，并在研究沿食品供应链的各个关键加工领域的食品、能源和水的关系时确定额外的研究需求。如何确定和量化能源和水对食品供应链的复杂影响和相互作用，将产生研究和教育影响，应由一个强有力的协调研究计划加以解决。这项工作将开始为继续开展必要的工作奠定基础，希望找出分析这类系统的共同框架。将讨论生命周期、可持续ROI、P图、生态效率和粮农组织最近使用的多指标评估方法，并将确定共同点和差异以及应用于关联分析的必要改进。研讨会的成果将是对衡量这类系统的各种方法的评价和总结。将讨论生命周期、可持续ROI、P图、生态效率和粮农组织最近使用的多指标评估方法，并将确定共同点和差异以及应用于关联分析的必要改进。重点将放在与粮食生产有关的粮食供应链上：从农业、加工、运输到最终用途。还将特别注意食物浪费问题及其对能源和水的相关影响。来自私营部门的工程师将从化学、土木、电气、环境和机械角度以及研究食品系统的社会学家参与进来，AIChE将维持一个虚拟网络，以实现持续的合作。

1541883 (Schuster). This workshop will develop the systems framework and associated metrics for evaluation of the nexus of food, energy and water (FEW) along key processing areas of the food supply chain. The workship is being jointly funded by the CBET Division in the ENG Directorate and the CHE Division in the MPS Directorate at NSF. In order for the FEW nexus to be understood along with the associated tradeoffs among food, energy, and water, the workshop will bring together experts in systems analysis and metrics with the aim of developing a roadmap of needed research, education, and application of sustainability metrics and systems thinking for the assessment of the food-energy-water nexus. The workshop will help to define the roles of professional societies and how they can foster collaborations between government, industry, and academia.The workshop will address the difficult research aspects of complex systems analysis coupled with sustainability metrics frameworks. Assessment of current approaches to measure tradeoffs in complex systems will be summarized along with identification of the additional research needs when studying the nexus of food, energy and water along the various key processing areas along the food supply chain. How to qualify and quantify the complex impacts and interplay of energy and water on the food supply chain will have research as well as educational ramifications that should be addressed by a robust and coordinated research program. This work will begin to set the stage for continued needed work hoping to identify a common framework for analysis of such systems. Lifecycle, Sustainability ROI, P-Graphs, Eco-efficiency, and the more recently used FAO approach for multiple metric assessments will be addressed and commonalities and differences and needed enhancements for application to the nexus analysis will be identified. The outcome of the workshop will be both the evaluation and summary of various ways to measure such systems. Lifecycle, Sustainability ROI, P-Graphs, Eco-efficiency, and the more recently used FAO approach for multiple metric assessments will be addressed and commonalities and differences and needed enhancements for application to the nexus analysis will be identified. A focus will be on the food supply chains dealing with food production: from agriculture, to processing, to transportation, and to end use. Special attention will also be paid to the issue of food waste and its associated impacts on energy and water. Engineers from the private sector from chemical, civil, electrical, environmental and mechanical perspectives along with sociologists studying food systems will be engaged and a virtual network will be sustained by AIChE to enable continued collaboration.