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The Zero Waste approach to resource management

A Zero Waste system is a resource management system. The process of wasting resources is against nature. In a zero waste system everything has a place before, during and after use. There is no away. In the best-designed system, the dismantling or demanufac ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Waste heat valorisation at multiple scales

Alexandre Suzanne Jean-Marie Bertrand

Considering current environmental issues (e.g. climate change, air pollution) related to energy consumption, this thesis focuses on data characterisation and integrated optimisation methods for waste heat valorisation at the building, city and regional sca ...

EPFL2017

Business plan calculation tool for manual dismantling facilities

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), or e-waste, is the fastest growing waste stream and can cause harm to human health and the environment when not treated properly. Especially in developing countries e-waste is often treated under critical h ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

RECOVERY OF PRECIOUS METALS FROM INCINERATION BOTTOM ASH

Incineration bottom ash (IBA), the final solid residues from Energy of Waste Facilities (EfW), holds a huge potential for recovery of valuable metals and a complete reuse of the residual mineral matter. Modern treatment technologies allow for a recovery of ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Energy integration on a gasoline engine for a vehicular application

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

The internal combustion engines are the most applied energy converters in the passenger cars. In order to increase their efficiency, energy integration techniques are used to recover the waste heat. An adapted methodology is required to design the ORC as a ...

2017

A general framework for routing problems with stochastic demands

Michel Bierlaire, Sacha Varone, Mohammad Yousef Maknoon, Iliya Dimitrov Markov

We introduce a unified modeling and solution framework for various classes of rich vehicle and inventory routing problems as well as other probability-based routing problems with a time-horizon dimension. Demand is assumed to be stochastic and non-stationa ...

2017

Energy Integration on a Gasoline Engine for Efficiency Improvement

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

2017

Energy Integration On Multi-Periods For Vehicle Thermal Powertrains

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

Internal combustion engines are the most applied energy converters in passenger cars. In order to increase their efficiency, energy integration techniques are used to recover waste heat. An adapted methodology is required to design the organic Rankine cycl ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

A Computer Vision System to Localize and Classify Wastes on the Streets

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Mohammad Saeed Rad, Andreas von Kaenel, André Droux

Littering quantification is an important step for improving cleanliness of cities. When human interpretation is too cumbersome or in some cases impossible, an objective index of cleanliness could reduce the littering by awareness actions. In this paper, we ...

Springer International Publishing2017

CRADLE TO CRADLE® - PARQUET FOR GENERATIONS RESPECT FOR RESOURCES AND PRESERVATION FOR FUTURE

Working with wood means assuming a responsibility. Wood is the most important naturally re- growing raw material and it is considered to be the construction material of the future. However, treated with chemicals (adhesives, lacquers) the resource wood bec ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017