Admission requirements
This course is obligatory for students of the master’s programme Industrial Ecology.
Description
In this course an introduction will be given on principles and methodologies of sustainable design with specific attention to Industrial Symbiosis. The students are trained in setting up and solving material and energy balances and developing indicator frameworks. The insights from balance calculations and indicator applications are used for re-designing industrial clusters with the aim to turn those into eco-industrial networks. Analysis and design for eco-industrial parks and industrial symbiosis are the major topics in bringing all various aspects and issues together, students will work on existing cases and have to come with applicable adaptations to those case studies.
Course objectives
basic understanding of concepts, methods, and methodologies necessary for assessing, evaluating, and achieving sustainable technology
design-aspects of industrial products and production processes
basis understanding of eco-design methods
knowledge of principles and methodologies of design for eco-industrial parks
knowledge of drivers and barriers in processes of engineering and design
Timetable
See Brightspace TU Delft.
Mode of instruction
Lectures, interactive discussion with lecturers, instruction on balance calculations, and individual assignments on case studies.
Assessment method
Written exam and Design assignment, the minimum requirement for both assignments is is 5,0. The written exam counts for 40% to the final grade, the design assignment counts for 60%.
Brightspace
The lecturer communicates via Brightspace TU Delft.
Reading list
Articles, book chapters, lecture slides. All are made available during the course via Brightspace TU Delft.
Registration
Because this course is part of a programme of Leiden University and TU Delft, all students have to be enrolled to both universities.
All students have to enroll for course and exam at the start of the course via uSis, Leiden University.
Students who are not enrolled to the master’s programme Industrial Ecology have to ask permission from the studyadvisor of Industrial Ecology at least one month before start of the course by use of this form.
Exchange students can only enroll for this course if their home university has an Exchange agreement with both Leiden University and TU Delft. Exchange students have to ask permission from the studyadvisor of Industrial Ecology as soon as possible, preferably six months before the start of the course.
Contact information
Remarks
More information and the description of the course is published in the e-studyguide of TU Delft.