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Industrial Ecology Assignment -

Unit Learning Outcomes - On successful completion of this unit students can:

1. Explain the concept of Industrial Ecology, its application to production and consumption systems, its implications for corporate environmental management and its contribution to sustainable development.

2. Assess and evaluate environmental impacts from a production system by using MFA and LCA.

3. Locate and select appropriate data to construct a flow diagram for a simple production system.

4. Describe commonly used guiding principles derived from Industrial Ecology (such as The Natural Step, Factor X, and Natural Capitalism).

5. Analyse the principles and tools used in key areas of the current application of the Industrial Ecology (in particular industrial metabolism, eco-industrial parks and by-product synergy).

Assignment - Essay on Eco Industrial Parks

1. Local Councils are becoming interested in demonstrating their sustainability performance to the local community. The council of which you are employed as an Environmental Consultant, has planned to allocate some portion of land to develop small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) following the concept of eco-industrial parks (EIP). Being a consultant of the Council, you may have received a request from your Mayor to develop a plan for an EIP. The EIP will be consisting of SMEs in a way that they are capable of exchanging products and by-product with each other to reduce industrial wastes and the importation of raw materials for industrial operation.

You are required to conduct the following tasks in order to develop a plan for your Mayor.

i. Prepare a list of SMEs so that they can exchange wastes, by-products and products with each other in a technically feasible way. In order to draw up this list, please conduct a literature review on material flow analysis of products produced at the small and medium sized enterprises. You will need to select at least five SMEs to develop this EIP and provide justification for selecting these industries.

ii. Draw up a flow diagram of industrial symbiosis showing how these SMEs are linked with each other and how material, energy, wastes and by-product flow between SMEs. You may also want to include decomposer firms ('scavenger' niche) within these SMEs to convert one SME's waste or by-product to usable product/input for the neighbouring industry.

iii. Calculate the amount of materials in the form waste, by-product and product that can be exchanged between these SMEs and then discuss these results briefly from the industrial metabolism perspective. You can gather this quantitative data through literature search or any document published online. The quality of data is not a priority as long as they are reasonably acceptable for use.

iv. Roughly work out the amount of landfill area and virgin materials that can be conserved due to use of the concept of EIP and then discuss these results from ecological footprint perspective.

v. Finally discuss some potential barriers that may arise in the development of this EIP. Also discuss some 'Park Design and Management' aspects you would like to consider in this development process.

2. Select a service (e.g. electricity, water supply, transportation) and assess the total material consumption and material flows associated with providing this service.

1. Draft a simplified process flow chart for providing this service, clearly indicating the flows of key material and energy (in terms of materials, i.e. 100 kg coal equivalent electricity), transport requirements and land use. Exclude production equipment, but include transport to a seaport.

2. Quantify and sum up the materials flows on the basis of information available from statistical sources, public environmental reports, etc. Where possible, quantify the use of materials for production of the major inputs to the processes involved in the delivery of your chosen service (i.e. use of phosphate rock to produce superphosphate fertiliser for food production).

i. What is Material Intensity Per Unit of Service (MIPS) of your chosen service?

ii. What is an Appropriated Carrying Capacity of your chosen service?

3. Using these results,

i. Discuss how the use of 6Rs, industrial symbiosis, and material selection can reduce the MIPS and ecological footprint.

ii. What would be priorities for dematerialisation in the delivery of your chosen service?

3. Explain how you can use the Factor 10 Manifesto and the concept of the next industrial revolution to increase the resource efficiency of one of the following industries

Infrastructure
Agriculture
Energy
Water

Problem identification.

Application of Factor 10 Manifesto.

Application of the concept of the next industrial revolution.

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You need to explain each of them not just one - 3000 words. Explain how you can use the Factor 10 Manifesto and the concept of the next industrial revolution to increase the resource efficiency of one of the following industries – Infrastructure, Agriculture, Energy and Water. Problem identification 10 Marks, Application of Factor 10 Manifesto 10 Marks and Application of the concept of the next industrial revolution 10 Marks. Referencing style - The referencing style for this unit is Chicago.

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