Sustainable Industrial Systems for Urban Regions
Our objective is to encourage new manufacturing activity through recycling materials and remanufacturing products in urban areas. We hypothesize this is a promising economic development strategy that simultaneously advances urban and industrial sustainability. We develop a framework for modeling and assessing the impact of redesigning urban materials flows to advance the mutual goals of sustainable industrial and urban systems.
Our SISFUR research is the collaboration between City and Regional Planning, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering programs at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Economic Geography at West Virginia University, and Mechanical Engineering at University of Washington at Seattle. The faculty research teams are leading experts in carpet recycling, material flow analysis, inventory techniques, and IO and SAM modeling.
| Material Source and Flow
Developing the framework for generating product inventory estimates (PIEs) of a select set of products and materials in urban center. |
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| Industrial Process of Recycling
Investigating how new technological advances in product and process technology will affect material inventories, recycling infrastructure, and economic development . | ||
| Assessing Socio-Economic Impact
Developing input-output models and social accounting matrices for socio-economic impact of the new recycling and remanufacturing industry. | ||
| Environmental Impact
Assessing the environmental loading by new recycling activities through the transportation modeling and life cycle assessment |
