Energy Sustainability Sensing in Manufacturing SMEs: Overview, Perspectives and Assessment Approaches

Energy Sustainability Sensing in Manufacturing SMEs: Overview, Perspectives and Assessment Approaches

rok wydania: 2019
ilość stron: 166
ISBN: 978-83-7814-879-1
oprawa: miękka

Opis

The work gives an overview of sustainability and energy issues integrated in sustainable manufacturing providing a comprehensive insight into emerging perspective of energy sustainability and actions for achieving sustainable energy. Therefore, the relevant concepts on energy efficiency, sustainability and their assessment based on indicators are highlighted.

This monograph focuses on the evaluation of technologies and manufacturing processes using various assessment methods that maximize economic returns, minimize environment impacts and meet social expectations. It brings together the expertise of respected academics in the field of sustainable manufacturing over the last decade, offering an overview of sustainability assessment methodologies and associated indicators used in this field which were combined in the development of a comprehensive method to cover the major sustainable aspects and issues of assessing and measuring the energy sustainability in manufacturing while considering numerous dimensions such as economic, environmental and social. All these factors together could be useful and applicable in a new way. This is the topic of the current work which is based on the results of researching energy pattern, efficient production systems for sustainability, and policy providing multidimensional perspectives and knowledge necessary to achieve sustainable energy.

Spis treści

1. Introduction / 15

1.1. Context of the study / 15
1.2. Main challenges identified in the studies / 18
1.3. Study aim and objectives / 21
1.4. Methods and approach / 24
1.5. Scope of the current research / 27
1.6. Data collection / 28
1.7. Structure of the report / 29

2. Background for energy and sustainability studies in manufacturing / 30
2.1. Energy foundation / 36
2.2. Energy efficiency for sustainability within manufacturing systems / 40

3. Sustainability and its importance / 42
3.1. Design for energy sustainability / 45
3.2. Actors in energy sustainability in manufacturing / 47
3.3 The drivers for energy sustainability in manufacturing / 48

4. Balancing energy environment and sustainability: the effect and perspective of energy policy instruments / 53
4.1. The legislative basis for energy efficiency andsustainability in the industrial sector / 53
4.2. Current energy trends in Poland compared to IEA average / 57
4.3. The main instruments employed worldwide to foster energy efficiency and reduce CO2(decarobonising) in the industrial sector in Poland / 59
4.4. Industrial energy efficiency programs, incentives or projects fostering sustainability / 62
4.5. Energy auditing as the energy efficiency measurement tool / 64
4.6. Focus on industrial multiple benefits of energy efficiency / 64

5. State of the art in sustainability assessment methodologies: interdisciplinary perspectives / 70
5.1. Sustainability based assessment approaches / 70
5.2. Sustainability indicators and measures used for manufacturing / 91

6. Resumé of the author’s achievements in the field of production engineering from 2013-2018 / 106
6.1. 2013-14 Dekaban Fellowships / 106
6.2. An overview of appended paper / 116

7. Conclusions and further research / 129
7.1. Academic contribution / 129
7.2. Industrial contribution / 141
7.3. Suggestions for future works / 142
7.3. Conclusions / 144
References / 148