Thermodynamics and recycling, A review

IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Gutowski, Timothy G ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Materials separations; Recycling; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

RECYCLING; SEPARATION; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; THERMODYNAMICS;

BRIEF DEVELOPMENT; IDEAL MIXTURE; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; MATERIALS SEPARATIONS; MINIMUM WORK; RECYCLING SYSTEMS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 51849085748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISEE.2008.4562912     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (27)

1. Y.A. Cengel, and M. A. Boles, Thermodynamics An Engineering Approach, Fifth Edition, McGraw Hill, 2006.
2. E. Gyftopoulos, and G. Beretta, Thermodnamics - Foundations and Applications, Dover, 2005.
3. N. Krishnan, E. Williams, and S. Boyd, Case Studies in Energy Use to Realize Ultra-High Purities in Semiconductor Manufacturing, IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, San Francisco USA, May 19-21, 2008.
4. T.K. Sherwood, Mass Transfer Between Phases. Phi Lambda Upsilon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA., 1959.
5. P.F. Chapman, and F. Roberts, Metal Resources and Energy, Butterworth and Co. Ltd., London, 1983.
6. H.D. Holland, and U. Petersen, Living Dangerously: The Earth, Its Resources,_and the Environment, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1995.
7. C.J. King, Separation and Purification: Critical Needs and Opportunities; National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington D.C., 1987.
8. W.G.B. Phillips, and D.P. Edwards, "Metal prices as a function of ore grade", Resour. Policy, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1976, pp 167-178.
9. R.U. Ayres, Information, Entropy, and Progress - A New Evolutionary Paradigm. American Institute of Physics Press, 1994.
10. A. Grubler, Technology and Global Change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998.
11. J.B. Dahmus, and Timothy G. Gutowski, "What Gets Recycled: An Information Theory Based Model for Product Recycling", Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 41, No. 21, 2007, pp. 7543-7550.
12. Arons, Jakob de Swaan, Hedzer van der Kooi and K. Sankaranarayanan, Efficiency and Sustainability in the Energy and Chemical Industries, Marcel Dekker Inc., 2004.
13. T.G. Gutowski, N.P. Suh, C. Cangialose and G.M. Berube, "A Low-Energy Solvent Separation Method", Polymer Engineering and Science, Vol. 23, No. 4, 1983.
14. Malima Wolf, Personal communication 2007 The given efficiency is for an adsorption system where cooled coal flue gases are combined with the lean amine solution, which binds to the carbon dioxide in the gases. The rich amine solution is then heated to strip out the carbon dioxide for capture. This upper bound on the efficiency compares the energy required to heat the rich amine solution to the theoretical work of separation, without considering energy used in auxiliary components of the process such as cooling the flue gases or compressing and/or liquefying the output carbon dioxide stream.
15. F. Ackerman, 1997, Why Do We Recycle?, 1997. Island Press.
16. R. Porter, The Economics of Waste, RFF Press, 2002.
17. A.L. Craighill, and J. C. Powell. "Lifecycle Assessment and Economic Valuation of Recycling: A Case Study." Resources, Conservation and Recycling. 17:75-96, 1996.
18. Jo P. DeWulf, and Herman R. Van Langenhove, "Quantitative Assessment of Solid Waste Treatment Systems in the Industrial Ecology Perspective by Exergy Analysis", Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 36, No. 5, 2002, pp. 1230-1135.
19. L. Connelly, and C. P. Koshland, "Two aspects of consumption: using an exergy-based measure of degradation to advance the theory and implementation of industrial ecology", Resources, Conservation and Recycling, No. 19, 1997, pp. 199-217.
20. Paul P. Craig, "Methods Energy Limits on Recycling", Ecological Economics, 36, 2001, pp. 373-384.
21. S.H. Amini, J.A.M.Remmerswaal, M.B. Castro, and M.A. Reuter, "Quantifying the quality loss and resource efficiency of recycling by means of exergy analysis", Journal of Cleaner Production, No. 15, 2007, pp. 907-913.
22. S. Goßling-Reisemann, 2007, "Thermodynamics and Resource Consumption - the case of copper production and recycling" Working Paper.
23. H. Rechberger, and Paul H. Brunner, "A New Entropy Based Method to Support Waste and Resource Management Decisions", Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 36, No. 4, 2002, pp. 809-816.
24. T.G. Gutowski, J. Dahmus, D. Albino, and M. Branham, "Bayesian Material Separation Model With Applications to Recycling," IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, Orlando, Florida, USA, May 7-10, 2007.
25. A. Bejan, G. Tsatsaronis and M. Moran. Thermal Design and Optimization, John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
26. G. Tsatsaronis, George, Design optimization using exergoeconomics. In Thermodynamic Optimization of Complex Energy Systems, ed. A. Bejan and E. Mamut (Kluwer Academic Publishers,), 1999, pp. 101-15.
27. A Valero, M. Lozano, and C. Torres. "A general theory of exergy savings"- Parts I- III, in R.A. Gaggioli, ed. Computer-Aided Engineering of Energy Systems, AES-Vol. 2-3, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York, 1986, pp. 1-121.