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Industrial Ecology, 6 ECTS credits.
/Industriell ekologi för ökad resurseffektivitet/
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Ii
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Prel. scheduled
hours: 48
Rec. self-study hours: 112
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Area of Education: Technology
Main field of studies: Energy and Environmental Engineering
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Advancement level
(G1, G2, A): G2
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Aim:
The course aims at developing the participants�?T understanding of a proactive approach to the prevention of environmental impact from products, organisations and technical systems. This will be accomplished since the participant will be able to;
- evaluate environmental impact from material and energy flows in a life cycle perspective based on thermodynamics and suggest improvements with the awareness of the risk for problem shifting
- apply material strategies such as dematerialisation, substitution and waste hierarchies regarding different products
- describe the usability of different tools and strategies for optimising material and energy flows in a life cycle perspective
- describe and use life cycle assessment to quantify environmental impacts from a system,
- search and analyse information regarding a societal environmental problem, propose realistic system approaches for increased resource efficiency and present the results both orally and in written form.
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Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Environmental Technology
Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.
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Organisation:
Lectures, guest lectures, literature seminars and different forms of group exercises
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Course contents:
- Material strategies with special emphasis on waste and recycling: Waste management in practice, Waste hierarchy, Reuse, Material and Energy recycling, Land-fills, Urban and Land-fill mining, Resource dissipation, Exergy and entropy, Dematerialisation, Transmaterialisation, Material and substance selection, Service-life, Use of by-products, Producers�?T responsibility
- Tools and concepts for environmental systems analysis with special emphasis on material flow analyses: Problem shifting �?" tool selection, Material flow analyses, Total material requirement, Direct material input, Material intensity per service, Ecological rucksacks, Ecological footprint, Substance flow analyses, Life-cycle assessments
- Urban and landfill mining, waste hierarcies, exergy and entrophy
- Business dimensions and insights into the conditions for a company in the recycling business
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Course literature:
Scientific articles and reports
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Examination: |
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Written examination
Hand-in assignments
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4 ECTS
2 ECTS
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Active involvement in group exercises |
Course language is Swedish.
Department offering the course: IEI.
Director of Studies: Carina Sundberg
Examiner: Niclas Svensson
Link to the course homepage at the department
Course Syllabus in Swedish
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