Sustainable Design in Engineering

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Sustainable Design in Engineering

• ECE 0909.403 / 0909.502 - Lecture 10a
• Life Cycle Assessment Tools
• Introduction to SimaPro5 and EDIP
• 2 April 2002
• Peter Mark Jansson PP PE MScEng

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Aims

• Review Final Project Proposals QA
• Review SimaPro5 Tutorial/Demo
• Procedure for EDIP
• Sample Screens from EDIP

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Project Proposal Summary

• Project description
• What your investigation will deliver
• 3 min. max
• QA focused on
• What is Key Value?
• Will this make any difference? (energy, material,
  etc.)

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Final Project Proposal

• Hydrogen A Sustainable Fuel
• Business Proposal
• TEAM Cleary, Foster Foster, Inc.

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Final Project Proposal

• Sustainable Home Appliances
• Case Studies and Environmental Analysis
• TEAM Chaubal, Rotter and Shah

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Final Project Proposal

• Goodyear Sustainable Tire Manufacture
• Case Study
• TEAM Molnar, Roames and Vyas

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Final Project Proposal

• Passive Solar Energy for Lighting and Heating
• Market Study and Case Study Examples
• TEAM Sonntag, Morrison and McCarthy

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Final Project Proposal

• Interface Maintaining Carpet Fibers
• Case Study
• TEAM Guest, Lewitt and McCorkle

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Final Project Proposal

• Carpet Rental Service -
• Case Study or Business Plan
• TEAM Miles, Welch and White

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Final Project Proposal

• An LCA of a Battlebot -
• LCA
• TEAM Wollenberg and McDermott

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Introduction to SimaPro5

• Guided Tour of LCA of an Automatic Coffee Machine
• Creators Pre Consultants, Amersfoort, NL

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Intro to EDIP

• Overview of model structure and sample input and
  results of a Wooden Pallet
• Creators Danish Technical University,
  Copenhagen, DK