Industrial Heritage Rethinking: Flexibility Design for Eco-Friendly Environments

On the flexibility of an eco-industrial park (EIP) for managing industrial water

In a recent paper, a generic model, based on a multiobjective optimization procedure, for water supply system for a single company and for an eco-industrial park was proposed and illustrated by a park involving three companies A, B and C. The best configuration was identified by simultaneously minimizing the fresh water flow rate, the regenerated water flow rate and the number of connections in...

Eco-friendly Dentistry

Eco-Apps: Design to Influence Environmentally Friendly Behavior

The search for mechanisms to encourage pro-environmental behavior has ranged from marketing to community events. This study continues the search by exploring how the language and features programmed into mobile social networking applications influence users to experience nature and share those experiences. To guide data analysis, the study uses the social influence network theory and adapts com...

Rethinking Dissolved Air Flotation (daf) Design for Industrial Pretreatment

Dissolved air flotation (DAF) has been used with increasing frequency in recent decades for the treatment of industrial wastewater. Advances in the technology have expanded the range of applications for DAF; however, engineers and designers frequently use outdated and insufficient design data to design and specify DAF systems for industrial pretreatment. Discussions of advances in DAF design ar...

Rethinking the Design of Enriched Environments

Most advances in pervasive computing focus strongly on technological issues (e.g. connectivity, portability, etc.); as technology becomes more complex and pervasive, design achieves a greater relevance. Inadequate design leads to unnatural interaction that may overload users, hampering the old aspiration of creating transparent artifacts. Transparency is a concept that describes technology that...