Sustainable tools

Elter, J., J.S. Cooper (2007) Sustainability tools Applying life cycle assessment A fuel cell case study, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Sustainable Engineering Series, 5th Session. 

Although there are only two basic requirements in ISO/TS 16949 for the establishment and maintenance of a quality system, they are perhaps the most important requirements of all. The quality system is a tool to enable you to achieve, sustain, and improve quality. It implements your quality policy and enables you to achieve your quality objectives either for control or for improvement. Quality systems, like any other system, need to be managed and so quality system management is a function of the business. This function consists of four principal processes ... 

Pyramids are useful tools for wildlife conservationists in determining the sustainable populations of particular species in any given ecosystem. 

The capability of advanced technologies in the production of regenerated water for industrial reuse has been illustrated in this chapter. The reuse of regenerated water in industrial activities has been demonstrated as an effective tool for sustainable industrial development under water scarcity conditions as it can provide a big deal of the large amounts of water needed in those activities and moreover it can customize the regenerated water characteristics to the water standards required in different industrial activities by means of adequate combination of available advanced technologies. 

MEDAWARE (2005) Technical guidelines on wastewater utilisation (task 5). Development of tools and guidelines for the promotion of the sustainable urban wastewater treatment and reuse in the agricultural production in the mediterranean countries. MEDAWARE ME8/ AIDCO/2001/0515/59341-P033... 

Giupponi C, Mysiak J, Fassio A, Cogan V (2004) MULINO-DSS A computer tool for sustainable use of water resources at the catchment scale. Math Comput Simul 64(l) 13-24... 

A useful example of sustainable design comes from BASF, and their development of the eco-efficiency tool. This tool seeks to integrate the combined aspects of each of the three pillars in an attempt to quantify the most sustainable products and illustrates some of the concerns associated with evaluating sustainable products. For example, the economic analysis includes a total cost of ownership that goes beyond the purchase price of a product to incorporate the cost of operation, the cost of environmental health and safety, and the cost of labour. Thus, even though a product may have a lower purchase price, it may be more expensive to use and thus costlier over the total life cycle of the product. 

Robert, K.-H., Schmidt-Bleek, B., Alois de Larderel, J. et al. (2002) Strategic Sustainable Development - Selection, Design and Synergies of Applied Tools. Journal of Cleaner Production, 10, 197. 

Liroff R. (2005). Benchmarking Corporate Management of Safer Chemicals in Consumer Products - A Tool for Investors and Senior Executives. Corporate Environmental Strategy International Journal for Sustainable Business. [Online - accessed 24 April 2007] Available from URL http //www.iehn.org/files/CES%20Benchmarking%20artide.pdf. 

Tomasula, P. M., Nutter, D. W., Yee, W. C. F., and Me Aloon, A. (2009). Simulation tools for design of the next generation of milk processing plants. Presented at the American Institute of Chemical lingineers 1st International Congress of Sustainability Science and Engineering. 

We gratefully acknowledge the support provided by the E.U. GROWTH programme (GRD-2000-25053) Catalytic Oxidation as a Tool for Sustainable Fine Chemicals Manufacture (SUSTOX). We thank Andy Smith (Johnson Matthey, Royston) for his assistance with the analytical experiments. 

Herrmann, C., Zein, A., Thiede, S., Bergmann, L., and Bock, R., 2008. Bringing sustainable manufacturing into practice - The machine tool case, Sustainable Manufacturing VI Global Conference on Sustainable Product Development and LCE, Pusan, Korea. 

Preiss P, Klotz V (2007) Technical Paper No 7.4 - RS lb Description of up-dated and extended draft tools for the detailed site-dependant assessment of ex-temal costs. New Energy Externalities Developments for Sustainability (NEEDS) project, Sixth Framework Programme... 

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