CHEM-E2205 - Materials for a World in Transition D, 11.01.2021-18.02.2021
This course space end date is set to 18.02.2021 Search Courses: CHEM-E2205
Topic outline
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Session 1: Living in a Material World FilePDF document
- Our material world
- The course
- Materials and their attributes
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Session 2: Materials and their properties FilePDF documentIn this session, we will cover the following topics:
- What is a material?
- Classes of materials
- Material properties
- Characteristics of materials
- Material selection
- Materials and resource efficiency
- Tasks
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Session 3: Materials, flows and system FilePDF document
- A little more on materials and their properties
- Raw materials to products: how products are manufactured and the ‘ecosystem’ of stakeholders and associated impacts
- Case study: wood products manufacture
- Where do impacts accrue
- Embodied energy
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"An Introduction to Sustainable Resource Use" Book
An Introduction to Sustainable Resource Use by Callum Hill, can be downloaded from here:
http://libproxy.aalto.fi/login?url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781849775304
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Session 4: Impacts and Strategies FilePDF document
In this session, the topics included:
•Check-in and revisit the project work•Impacts•Strategies•….. Meanwhile…. -
Session 5: Resource efficiency and the Circular Economy FilePDF document
In this session, the topics included:
•Materials efficiency•Cascading•Limitations•Case study: building construction -
Session 6: Materials and the bioeconomy FilePDF document
In this session, the topics included:
- What is the bioeconomy?
- What are biological resources?
- How can they be utilized for materials production?
- What are the important advantages and drawbacks?
- …..and in the
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Session 7: LCA I FilePDF document
- Life Cycle Assessment& its history
- Standards for LCA
- Inventory and supply chain (example & discussion)
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Session 8: LCA II FilePDF document
- Impact assessment & interpretation
- Examples and challenges in LCA
- Environmental Product Declaration (EPD)
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Session 9: The "S" word FilePDF document
- What is sustainability?
- Materials flows - linear and cyclic
- Recycling
- Recycling and finite resources
- Economic growth and consumption
- Industrial ecology
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Session 10: Thermodynamics FilePDF document•What is energy?•Processing materials•Embodied energy•Some examples
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Session 11: Systems modeling I FilePDF document
Slides from Deniz Koca's first lecture on 15th February.
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Session 12: Systems modeling II FilePDF document
Slides from Deniz Koca's second lecture on 18th February.
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