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Industrial Ecology and LCA, Instructor Iddo Wernick
Fall 2012 Syllabus (subject to refinement/updating)
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SUS 7300C — Industrial Ecology and Life Cycle Analysis (Fall 2012)
Description: Students will be introduced to the purpose, philosophy, and applications of
Industrial Ecology as well as the status of environmental and urban resources. The basis and use
of tools to assess Industrial Ecology will be reviewed, focusing on Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)and Carbon Footprinting. Several case studies that use the philosophy of Industrial Ecology tomanage resources in the built environment will be presented and discussed: energy, agriculture,
commerce, transportation systems, manufacturing, and waste management. 3hr/wk.; 3cr.
Instructor Dr. Iddo Wernick.
Pre-req: Math 190 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Textbook : T. E. Graedel and Braden R. Allenby, Industrial Ecology and Sustainable
Engineering, 2010, Prentice Hall and Selected Readings.
Room: Shepard 209.
Time: Monday 4:50-7:20pm
Office Hours: Mondays 3-4 PM Shepard Hall Room 307B.
Objectives: By the end of the course, students should be able to: determine the correct
framework for assessing environmental problems using Industrial Ecology; quantitatively
analyze environmental problems; and have an improved ability to effectively communicatetechnical information to a broad audience.
Homework assignments – 30%Midterm – 30%
Term Project – 40%
A term paper is due at the end of the semester. Students must submit a one-page outline of their term paper at mid-semester and present a five-minute talk describing their proposed project.
The instructor will provide a list of suggested topics. Students may suggest their own topic of
interest.
Topics Covered (on an approximately weekly basis):
Human Attitudes to the Natural Environment
Driver -State-Response model
Optimists and Pessimists
Tragedy of the Commons – Malthus
Ehrlich/Simon wager Master Equations IPAT, IMPACT
Readings:Graedel & Allenby Chapter 1, 2.
New York Times editorial, December 15, 2009, Four Sides to Every Story, Stewart
Brand.
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Defining Industrial Ecology
Biological
o Industrial Metabolism
o Cycling materials and energy – efficiency/resilience
o Ecology as a science
Physicalo Materials Flow Analysis
o Dematerialization - less resource for same bang
o Waste Utilization
Business
o Market-based policies
o Industrial EcoparksReadings:
Graedel & Allenby Chaps 3, 4, 5.
Frosch R, 1997, Toward the End of Waste: Reflections on a New Ecology of Industry
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4767&page=157.
Resources (Production & Consumption)
Land
Energy
Food
Water
MaterialsReadings:
Graedel & Allenby Chapter 24.
On Borrowed Time? Assessing the Threat of Mineral Depletion, 2003, John E. Tilton,Resources for the Future (RFF Press), Washington, DC.
http://facultysenate.mines.edu/dist_lecture/tilton_text.pdf With Both Eyes Open chapter TBD.
Land Food paper
Indicators
Environmental currency
Cataloging
Ratios
IndicesReadings:
Wernick IK, Ausubel JH, 1995, National Material Metrics for Industrial Ecology,
Resources Policy 21(3):189-98.Thomas P. Seager and Thomas L. Theis, 2004, A taxonomy of metrics for testing the
industrial ecology hypotheses and application to design of freezer insulation, Journal of
Cleaner Production 12 (2004) 865 – 875.
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Building TechnologiesLook at science/engineering principles for:
HVAC
Windows
Water
Building materials/Embodied energyLEED
Readings:
Graedel & Allenby Chapter 11.http://continuingeducation.construction.com/index.php.
Industrial Ecology of Architecture
Metabolism and Foot print
Ecological Design- Mimic natural systems - Use natural systems
Wind-Sun Orientation
Design for multiple functions
Readings:Chapter from Kibert, CJ, 2008, Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and
Delivery. 2nd Edition , Wiley, John & Sons.Van der Ryn S, Pena R. 2002. Ecologic analogues and architecture. In: Kibert CJ,
Sendzimir J, Guy GB (eds). Construction Ecology. London: Spon Press.
Design For Environment
DFX concept where X is:
o Environment
Producer objectives Extended Producer Responsibility
o Reuseo Disposabilityo Energy recovery
o Use Phase
DF Manufacturing
o Process design
o Green Chemistry
o Decision Matrices
Readings:
Graedel & Allenby Chapters 8-10Industrial Ecology by David T. Allen, Chapter 14 in EPA's Green Engineering Textbook,
Green Engineering: Environmentally Conscious Design of Chemical Processes.www.epa.gov/opptintr/greenengineering/pubs/ch14intro.pdf.
Life Cycle Analysis
Carbon footprinting as special case
Formal LCA - Life Cycle Stages
Exampleso Drinking Cup example
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o Diaper example
o Silicon solar panels example
Data Sources
Risk ranking
LCA impact
o Traditional midpoint, end point, Distance-to-Target (policy)o TRACI
o Process-based and Economic Input Output LCA
o EU examples - Software, Databases, Consulting
o SLCA
Readings:
Graedel & Allenby Chapter 12-14.Emissions from Photovoltaic Life Cycles, 2008, Vasilis M. Fthenakis, Hyung Chul Kim,
and Erik Alsema Environ. Sci. Technol., 42 (6), 2168-2174.
Bare, J. C. (2002), TRACI. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 6: 49 – 78.
CitiesLocal Impact and Distant Impact
IE Built Environment - use resource more efficiently, reduce waste, disrupt leasto Urban density
o Surface area
o Transport
o Water and wastewater
o MSW
Readings:
Graedel & Allenby Chapters 20.
Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities, PNAS _ April 24, 2007 _ vol.
104 _ no. 17 _ 7301 –
7306, Luís M. A. Bettencourt, et al.
Water
Water Supplyo Surface/Ground
o Cross basin transfers
o Desalination
o Recycling
Water Pollution
o Point/Non-point
o Municipal/Industrial/Households
Wastewater Treatmento Collection
o Treatment
o Discharge
Readings:Graedel & Allenby Chapters 21.
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USGS, 2002, Pharmaceuticals, hormones, and other organic wastewater contaminants in
U.S. streams, 1999-2000: A national reconnaissance, Environmental Science &
Technology, v. 36, no. 6, pp. 1202-1211.Rhine/Hudson papers.
Municipal Solid WasteMaterial sorting and recovery technologies
Markets for recyclables
Recycling policy
Landfill - Pollution and Resource
Special topics
o Scrap Tires
o Construction & Demolition Waste
o Electronic waste
o Carpet
o Batteries
Readings:T Amari, NJ Themelis, and IK Wernick, 1999, Resource Recovery from Used Rubber
Tires, Resources Policy 25(3):179-188.
Recent Paper on Plastic recycli ng
Energy
1st Law of Thermodynamics
2nd
law entropy
Primary energy and end-use energy
Energy Life cycle
Alternative energies
Climateo Geoengineering
o WedgesReadings:
Graedel & Allenby, Chapter 19.
Curing climate backlash, Daniel Sarewitz, Nature vol. 464|4 March 2010.
Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with CurrentTechnologies S. Pacala1 and R. Socolow 13 August 2004 vol. 305 Science.
Economics and Government
Rich enough to care?
Forms of governmentEconomic Valuation
Blue SkyReadings:
Graedel & Allenby Chapter 7, 26, 28.
Kline JD, Mazzotta MJ, Patterson TM, 2009, Toward a Rational Exuberance for Ecosystem Services Markets, Journal of Forestry, June 2009 pp. 204-212.