WIAS Visiting Researcher Seminar:
Professor HALOG, Anthony “Advancing (EnviroCycle Analysis for Green/Sustainable Manufacturing” (5/19)
Abstract
To facilitate the greening of all industries and the upscaling of emerging innovative green technologies, it is now critically urgent and important that we design ecologically friendly products and processes at the source while effectively eliminating hazardous compounds and minimising their potential environmental impacts (e.g. climate change, toxic pollution, and plastic waste) as well as reducing resource consumptions over their life cycles from cradle (material extraction) to grave/cradle (end-of-life). In conjunction with maximising desired products, environmental Life Cycle Analysis/Assessment (LCA) endeavours to identify, quantify the environmental emissions, and resource consumptions of any chemical product/process to eliminate its toxicity and hazards to human and planetary health. In line with supporting the transformation in manufacturing industry and other economic sectors, the aim of this seminar is to explain the basic notion and principles of LCA, its 4 major steps in accordance with ISO 14040, the available modelling tools/software packages that we can use and how it can be applied to assess/evaluate products and process across industrial sectors to make our industries and economies more sustainable, decarbonised, and circular.
Speaker
HALOG, Anthony (Lecturer and Head of Research Group for Industrial Ecology and Circular Economy, The University of Queensland, Australia)
Date & Time
Friday, May 19th 13:00~14:30
Venue
Building 55S 1F Conference Room (1-02), Nishiwaseda Campus, Waseda University
＊No prior registration required.
Language
English
Prospected Audience
Students, Faculty Members, General Participants
Organizer
Life Cycle Engineering Design for Sustainability (Fukushige Lab), Department of Business Design and Management, Waseda University
Co-Organizers
Waseda Institue for Advanced Study (WIAS)
