The N2 gateway project in Cape Town: Relocation or forced removal?

Chemical Leasing of solvents – a sustainable approach for metal cleaning

High quality solvent cleaning is indispensable for human progress especially in applications for peoples’ safety and security. Effective Risk Management enables the sustainable use of chlorinated solvents. SAFECHEM has implemented innovative business models like Chemical Leasing which enable industry to maintain the required surface cleaning...

The mechanics of sustainable urban development: The Case of Lanxmeer, Culemborg, NL

Sustainable urban development projects are initiated almost every day. They are the results of very dynamic processes during which a number of decisions have to be taken according to the local conditions. Eventually each project follows its own path. The aim of this paper is to gain insight in the mechanics of sustainable urban development in...

The CO2PE!-initiative (cooperative effort on process emissions in manufacturing): International framwork for sustainable production

Manufacturing processes are responsible for a substantial part of the environmental impact of products but are still poorly documented in terms of their environmental footprint. The lack of thorough analysis of manufacturing processes has as consequence that optimization opportunities are often not recognized and that improved machine tool...

Shaping decisions and processes for more sustainable urban environments

To know whether eco-cities or, indeed, any so-called sustainable urban environment, will be successful, an understanding is needed about how such places 'come into being'. Understanding how decisions have been made, who makes them and when and how they are made is crucial to ensuring that the 'right' people have been involved at 'right' time. In...

The role of human factors in the adoption of sustainable design criteria in business

Implementing sustainability in business is steadily gaining more attention. A growing number of companies currently work on the implementation of sustainable criteria in the design related departments and their design processes. Although theory and methods are available, practice shows that this integration process of sustainability criteria is...

Low carbon solutions for the food industry

Globally seen, the agro-food sector is one of the great emitters of GreenHouseGases. Starting with agriculture, considering the transport, the processing and the retail, there are hundreds of options to reduce emissions to air, water and soil. Most processes in food industry take place at a rather low temperature below 100°C and at moderate...

Personality factors at the base of sustainable behavior: A first approach across two universities

The theoretical framework on the cognitive information processing holds that mental processes such as formation of beliefs, attitudes, or perceptions are impossible to directly observe and measure. This condition is resolved by implementing questionnaires integrated with hypothetical variables which can measure individual responses as real...

Remanufactured fashions: A pathway to sustainability

There has been a significant increase in volume of new clothing sales over the last ten years; indeed it is the fastest growing waste in household waste stream, raising the potential for a similar increase in volume of textile waste dispose in landfill sites and the resultant harm to the environment. As volume of throwaway fashion increases and...

Shape Optimization of Axisymmetric Ejector

This contribution deals with aerodynamic optimization using dynamic mesh method provided by Fluent software. A method of transformation of coordinates and an optimization procedure enabling to obtain arbitrary shape of computing mesh are described. This method was developed for shape optimization of axisymmetric ejector in order to obtain the...