Industrial Ecology - Science topic

Have anybody got involved in research with ERP (Enterprise Resources Planning) in Construction Project Management that useful in:

A) oil and gas fabrication

B) Marine Port

C) Refurbishment 

D) Housing development

My Question:

1) How about performance using ERP especially in Material Management Supply Chain?

2) Can ERP Integrate with e-commerce?

The de facto slogan of modern industrial man is "Heat, beat and treat" or "take, make and throw". But Mother Nature do everything in the other way, following the sustainability principles. We can borrow the ideas, be inspired and emulated by her, can collect the pearls of wisdom and reflect them in our life - in all spheres, personal, social, industrial.

Please elucidate the master principles of Nature and her "trade secrets" and discuss how we can adopt and adapt them in our sustainability journey.

Tires are an important part of solid waste in Peru's small-scale ports and fishing villages. I need to make a report about them. But in some years of garbage was not weighed, only images are available. If the tire density (typical) is achieved, it is possible to estimate the weight of the tires of the waste. I have searched in scientific journals without success. I did a test to measure density but I need a published source.

Some have suggested correlation analysis, however, how specifically can one measure the amount of adjustment necessary to address the "double dipping" of one or several sub-index dimensions. How would the adjustment be calculated and applied. To what extent could weights play a part as coefficients. Please provide citations for your response. The field of research is Industrial Ecology taking a strong sustainability approach. Thanks.

When talking about waste reduction, various terms came under discuss. Such as:

Low waste no waste

Cleaner production

Zero waste

These terms are discussed under the concept of preventive mitigation measures with the idea to discourage end-of-pip treatment. There exist any such example where zero waste has been acheived?

I think they are very similar. Thank you

Sure, the use of ERP systems helps to facilitate manufacturing operations, supply chain management and enterprise solutions in general. And sure, streamlining supply chains could reflect in environmental benefits.

But what about the continuous development of new technologies for electronic devices such as digital cameras, HD recorders, sound systems, etc., yielding increasingly bigger data files? Digitization requires a certain degree of ‘data mirroring’ to decrease the risk of data losses which, in turn, implies a higher storage capacity. Obviously, you don't want your life memories to get lost due to a HDD that crashes? For sure, it will happen, since it’s lifetime is smaller than yours. The business of storage capacity production (USB Drives, Hard Disks, Network Attached Storage, Data Servers, etc.) is highly influenced by the developments of new technologies for these electronic devices. You can make use of ‘Cloud Services’ (read: storage capacity somewhere else in a huge datacentre)… You can install your own home server…

I am just wondering how we will end up… Will we keep on building new power consuming datacentres with gigantic energy demanding cooling systems? Is this sustainable? The original idea of digitization from a sustainability point of view to save paper consumption in order to save biomass resources; is it relevant?

Any comment/remark/discussion is appreciated.

Looking to find any methods and/or publications which review the social sustainability and economic value created for firms (and as a whole) of industrial symbiosis networks. These can be both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Please let me know for example if you have published an example, approach, etc.

I have worked extensively with the "other" pillar sustainability, i.e. applying LCA to review environmental implications of IS (see my publications and methods). For some new projects I'm trying to review and connect the other pillars and understand what can/cannot be done given current methodologies.

I am doing research on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) and its potential for socio-economic development. Over and above assessing the contribution of ASM is to socio-economic development e.g. job creation, poverty alleviation etc. I would like to get a sense of the impact of ASM as a livelihood option to the wellbeing of the miners (their families and communities). I have been looking at frameworks for assessing well-being e.g. OECD but still struggle as to what questions or how should I structure the questionnaires in order to make sure I get the right data that would allow me to paint the right picture.

Car panel are usually made from steel which can be recycle after the car being scrap. But if we want to use composite as the material for future car body or in most racing and high performance car, can will recycle the composite back to it basic material when the car is scraped like steel component in cars today's?

what is the pros and cons of farming of fishes and why is prefered over wild fishery practices

I cant seem to put my own data in the software openLCA. can anyone walk me through the process?

I need to make a presentation on green factories and the cutting edge role of this concept in current and future automotive industry  . If someone has any useful informative resource kindly refer me. 

Best Regards 

I could find out only a handful of city-specific studies on electronic waste (E-waste). Considering that E-waste is a major urban problem in Indian context, I am interested in finding out more studies on the topic. 

Community usually has a perception of crime, dangerous, fear of contaminated soil or horrible feel towards abandoned brownfield site. How uses of technology can improve the community perception and encourage uses of the abandoned space?

‘Zero Waste’ means designing and managing products and processes to systematically avoid and eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste and materials, conserve and recover all resources (ZWIA, 2004). In your opinion, what key steps are required to implement in order to achieve zero waste goals?

I want to understand the similarities between ecoindicator 99, ced and gwp. I analyzed the impact of some organic solvent during the solvent production. All the indicators gave me the same trend of impact. What is the relation? What I should look for? Instead UBP-97, give different results. 

Industrial ecology

I am planning to undertake an LCA of a metal mine site in Australia. Does Ecoinvent provide a good data set for this country or is there a more appropriate database? which software would be the best for such a study? I heard that OpenLCA could be more flexible to manipulate foreground data, or is Simapro more reliable?

Thanks for your help

I am looking for a source that describes the definition and methods of defining the value in modern economics or in the context of sustainable development. 

I would appreciate your help to introduce me a practical source!

Kind regards,

Dear Experts in Research Gate,  I need to measure the industrial symbiosis potential of my country Ethiopia or Uganda: especially in the capital cites where we have a lot industries. Which methods or techniques are the best to numerically or quantitatively help me to accomplish my research ?

On top of that,  what are the major raw material to be focused as influential in the processes of industrial symbiosis?

Kind Regards

Abdulaziz Mohammed

PhD Student at Addis Ababa and Makerere University  

 Could anyone suggest me the source and best site for the information?

Location-north sea

Particularly Voordelta sea

Any green collaboration opportunity that may be found in all sizes and types of operations, physical and virtual, in which information, materials, water, energy and/or infrastructures are utilised and/or transformed.

I want to design a research project on industrial symbiosis but very little work has been done before in this region so I have to start it from identification of synergies. In this case what should be my strategy?

I am setting up an LCA of a medical waste system in India, and was wondering what LCI databases and LCIA methods are used.  In the past, I have typically used USLCI or Ecoinvent and TRACI, but those were all LCAs set in the US.

Life cycle analysis is a tool which estimates environmental indices (Eutrophication potential, acidification, global warming potential) of any input added to ecosystem.

I want to explore how to make strategic management to manage solid wastes in an industrial area in a developing country. What is the proper method for this? SWOT analysis and/or any other recent methods?

The factors that would cause industry to adopt CP at higher rates (>50% of target population) than currently practiced worldwide. The types of interventions and at what levels (country, network, company).

Does phytoremediation treatment save the 4/5 of the cost of more conventional technology in cleaning up the contaminated soil on a post-industrial site and how?

I specifically want to find/be informed of a model/technology that can minimize waste pollution in surrounding rivers

Dyeing is the process of adding colour to textile products like fibres, yarns, and fabrics. Dyeing is normally done in a special solution containing dyes and particular chemical material. After dyeing, dye molecules have uncut chemical bond with fiber molecules. The temperature and time controlling are two key factors in dyeing.

source:wikipedia

**EDIT:

Regionally for Greece and for an industrial town, cost is as high as a factor, as there are many others, that dont treat waste water as supposed due to long-term monopoly on the waste-treatment subject by the others in their region ..

So accordingly ..

Is there a an effective way to treat wastewater from a dyehouse affecting positively the other industries that use the same ''river''?