Industrial Resource Management and Cleaner Production
Section outline
General Information
Introduction
This open courseware course is an abstract of the Online Course on Industrial Resource Management and Cleaner Production.
Welcome to the Open Course Ware on INDUSTRIAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND CLEANER PRODUCTION (IRM & CP) organized by UNESCO-IHE. In this course, you will immerse yourself in a topic of increasing local, regional, national and international importance: WATER and RESOURCE RECOVERY. Water is considered to become increasingly scarce because of increasing usage and increasing levels of pollution of the used water. Resources are important because these are materials, we humans deal with everyday; essentially, these also include services, staff, assets, among others, that are transformed to produce benefit(s) to the society.
This course deals on one hand with methodologies that assist in assessing and quantifying environmental impacts and in bringing about environmental improvement. On the other hand the course discusses reasons for water quality deterioration and remediation opportunities. IRM & CP brings about a different way of thinking, focusing on conservation in general and on dealing with water intelligently in particular. This way of thinking will benefit you for the rest of your life. We hope that this course may turn out to be a rewarding one that provides you with insight, knowledge and interest in the field.
For whom?
The course on Cleaner Production and the Water Cycle is directed at engineers and scientists working in the urban or industrial water field and wanting to have a better grasp at the efficient dealing with water. As such the module is of interest to engineers and scientists in the fields of urban, municipal and industrial sanitation, water-related chemistry, biologists, water resources, process design and implementation.
Learning Objectives
After this course you will be able to:
define the concept of Cleaner Production (CP) and the consequences thereof for various (industrial) production processes
suggest options for preventing pollution within urban and industrial water management settings;
assess the environmental impact of products and processes and indicate how the sustainable use of resources can be beneficial for reducing environmental burden(s);
suggest treatment/disposal methods for industrial wastewater from which the value has been taken out;
understand the importance of environmental management systems in the industrial context; •
analyze the different system tools that support industrial ecology and make basic calculations related to life cycle analysis.
References
Books The following books are suggested to support the course:
Research articles and power points
Reading materials provided by the staff members
Case studies from developed and developing countries
Lecturer
Course materials were organized by Eldon R. Rene, Senior Lecturer in Resource Recovery Technology, Department of Environmental Engineering and Water Technology, UNESCO-IHE.
Acknowledgements
Don Huisingh, University of Tennessee, USA
Marcel Grashof - Royal Haskoning, The Netherlands Leon Dijk, Sustainability Consultant, The Netherlands Vera Susanne Rotter, TUBerlin, Germany Elfrieke van Galen, The RockGroup, The Netherlands Ashok Chapagain, UTWENTE, The Netherlands Maarten Siebel, UNESCO-IHE, The Netherlands Eldon R. Rene, UNESCO-IHE, The Netherlands Carlos Manuel Lopez Vazquez, UNESCO-IHE, The Netherlands Hector Garcia Hernandez, UNESCO-IHE, The Netherlands
Short courses
This course material is provided as Open Courseware without support and interaction with lecturers. Only exercises are provided. For full lectures and support from lecturers, please register online for the related short course:
Welcome to the OpenCourseWare (OCW) on INDUSTRIAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND CLEANER PRODUCTION (IRM&CP) organized by UNESCO-IHE. In this course, you will immerge yourself in a topic of increasing local, regional, national and international importance: WATER and RESOURCES. Water is considered to become increasingly scarce because of increasing usage and increasing levels of pollution of the used water. Resources are important because these are materials, we humans deal with everyday; essentially, these also include services, staff, assets, among others, that are transformed to produce benefit(s) to the society.
This OCW deals: (i) one hand with methodologies that assist in assessing and quantifying environmental impacts and in bringing about environmental improvement and (ii) on the other hand the course discusses reasons for water quality deterioration and remediation opportunities.
This OCW is to bring about a different way of thinking, focusing on conservation in general and on dealing with water intelligently in particular. This way of thinking will benefit you for the rest of your life.
Units and forum discussion(s)
The Industrial Resource Management and Cleaner Production course consists of a number of units and sub-units (~15). Each unit consists of a combination of reading, viewing and study materials. Moreover, in most units you will be challenged to engage yourself in a forum discussion and provide your feedback on the topic to other participants following this course (included only after enrollment in the paid/regular version of this online course)
Your course mentor
In the regular version of this OLC, you will be guided through by a course coordinator. The general coordination and responsibility for this OCW is with Eldon R. Rene, (e.raj@unesco-ihe.org), staff member of UNESCO-IHE. He has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from IIT Madras, India. He has 7 years of post-doctoral research experience on topics pertaining to air pollution control, eco-industrial parks and wastewater treatment systems. Eldon will regularly check the course activities and requirements of this open course.
Last but not least, your mentors wish you a successful, pleasant and rewarding study time with us through this open course on IRM&CP.
Eldon R. Rene, PhD UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education Department of Environmental Engineering and Water Technology PO Box 3015 2601 DA Delft The Netherlands