C-VORR: Complex-Value Optimisation for Resource Recovery

C-VORR：资源回收的复值优化

• 批准号: NE/K015834/1
• 负责人: Phil Purnell
• 金额: $ 9.33万
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FK015834%2F1
• 关键词: VORR; Complex; Value; Optimisation; Resource

Traditionally, we think of industrial manufacturing processes as producing useful output that have economic value - products - and unwanted outputs with disposal costs - wastes. It is often more useful to think in terms of the 'total value' of the process and its products and co-products, for two reasons. First, adjusting the manufacturing process can often make the 'waste' material into a something useful for another product (e.g. iron and steel manufacture can be adapted so that the main waste, blast-furnace slag, can be added to concrete to make it cheaper and more resistant to corrosion). This can increase the total value of the process. Secondly, if we only take in to account the economic value of the products and coproducts, we overlook other important aspects of the total value. For example, adding economic value to the blast-furnace slag has the added benefit of diverting it from landfill; thus, the evnvironmental damage is reduced, or, put another way, the environmental value is also increased. Iron and steel manufacture may also have a social value, by providing jobs for a region. By looking at how all three aspects of total value - economic, environmental and social - vary as the manufacturing process is adjusted, we can move away from a 'product + waste' model to one where we can optimise the total value to society of the whole manufacturing process. To do this, we need to build a completely new model for analysing manufacturing processes. This will combine a number of modelling approaches used in environmental science (life cycle assessment), environmental economics (materials flow analysis), social science (social cost/benefit analysis) and mathematical modelling (stochastic multi-criteria decision analysis). It wil also create a new concept of 'value' - total complex value - that considers and combines the economic, social and environmental impacts of industrial processes. It will strive to optimise value from 'cradle to cradle' and allow us to measure the true value of e.g. designing for dismantling, upstream de-pollution, optimising closed-loop recycling and upvs. down-cycling. Because it will allow us to analyse the effect of interventions in the process on total value, we can then use it to adjust existing processes or design new processes, ensuring they are installed in the right place at the right time to maximise the benefit to society. Ultimately, we want the new model to move us away from old thinking about waste, and help us build a sustainable society with circular materials flow. A very broad range of expertise is required to develop the model. We can bring together experts from the necessary fields (e.g. civil engineering, environmental engineering, economics, mathematics, industrial ecology, social science, materials science, product design, geography, water management, process engineering) because Leeds University is unique in that several interdisciplinary consortia with a range of the necessary expertise already exist (e.g. water@leeds, EPSRC Undermining Infrastructure, FP7 FESSUD - see Track Record). This grant will help these consortia collaborate across projects through research challenge workshops. Initially, we will concentrate within the University of Leeds, leveraging our enormous range of disciplines to extract maximum value from the NERC resource by minimising transport expenditure, communication barriers and lag time. Later, where external expertise is identified as essential, collaborators from outside Leeds or academia will be sought; again, via extensive existing networks.

传统上，我们认为工业制造过程是生产有用的产出，具有经济价值 - 产品 - 不必要的产量并具有处置成本 - 废物。出于两个原因，从该过程及其产品和副产品的“总价值”来思考通常更有用。首先，调整制造过程通常可以使“废物”材料成为一种对另一种产品有用的东西（例如，可以对铁和钢制造商进行调整，以便可以将主要废物（爆炸式炉渣）添加到混凝土中，以使其更便宜且对腐蚀更具抵抗力）。这可以增加过程的总价值。其次，如果我们仅考虑考虑产品和副产品的经济价值，我们忽略了总价值的其他重要方面。例如，在爆炸式矿渣中增加经济价值是将其从垃圾填埋场转移的额外好处。因此，降低了环境破坏，或者换句话说，环境价值也会增加。铁和钢制造商也可以通过为一个地区提供工作来具有社会价值。通过查看总价值的所有三个方面（经济，环境和社会）如何随着制造过程的调整而有所不同，我们可以从“产品 +废物”模型转移到一个模型中，我们可以在其中优化整个制造过程的社会的总价值。为此，我们需要建立一个全新的模型来分析制造过程。这将结合环境科学（生命周期评估），环境经济学（材料流量分析），社会科学（社会成本/收益分析）和数学建模（随机多准则决策分析）中使用的许多建模方法。它将创建一个新的“价值”概念 - 总复杂价值 - 考虑并结合了工业过程的经济，社会和环境影响。它将努力优化从“摇篮到摇篮”的价值，并允许我们测量例如设计用于拆卸，上游去污染，优化闭环回收和UPV。下循环。因为这将使我们能够分析流程中干预措施对总价值的影响，因此我们可以使用它来调整现有过程或设计新的过程，以确保它们在正确的时间安装在正确的地方，以最大程度地提高社会利益。最终，我们希望新模型使我们远离对废物的古老思考，并帮助我们通过循环材料流动建立一个可持续的社会。开发模型需要非常广泛的专业知识。 We can bring together experts from the necessary fields (e.g. civil engineering, environmental engineering, economics, mathematics, industrial ecology, social science, materials science, product design, geography, water management, process engineering) because Leeds University is unique in that several interdisciplinary consortia with a range of the necessary expertise already exist (e.g. water@leeds, EPSRC Undermining Infrastructure, FP7 FESSUD - see Track 记录）。该赠款将通过研究挑战研讨会帮助这些联盟在各个项目中进行合作。最初，我们将集中精力在利兹大学，利用我们的大量学科来通过最大程度地减少运输支出，通信障碍和滞后时间来从NERC资源中提取最大价值。后来，在将外部专业知识确定为必不可少的地方，将寻求来自利兹或学术界外部的合作者；同样，通过广泛的现有网络。

项目成果

Recycling and resource efficiency: it is time for a change from quantity to quality.

回收和资源效率：是时候从数量转向质量了。

• DOI: 10.1177/0734242x13489782
• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
• 作者: Velis CA