Transcript Osric Tening Forton - University of Brighton

Who are we and what do we do?
Mari Harder
Ryan Woodard
Firooz Firoozmand
Poppy Villiers-Stuart
Rob Swabey
School of Environment and Technology (SoET)
(Head)
(Research Fellow)
(Business Dev. Off)
(Research Off., SD)
(Research Off., Waste)
‘Away Day’ July 12th 2007
PRIMARY DIRECTIVE:
3rd-stream activities
i.e. applied R&D / consultancy which bring in
•Profits
•Esteem for the University
•Links for teaching and research
•Interactions with wider community
‘Standard’
Teaching
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3rd- Stream Activities………….with R&D aspects:
(Around £1,500,000 in last 6 years; self-funding Group)
•Automotive waste
•Developing new products from waste
(biomass, carpets, glass, plastic, wood, textiles)
•Development of XRF spectrometer for contamination
detection
•Kerbside recycling scheme development
•Waste diversion development – Green Cones
•Household incentives // Behaviour change
•Truly SD… Values Based Indicators (project level): EU
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PRIMARY DIRECTIVE:
3rd-stream activities
i.e. applied R&D / consultancy which bring in
•Profits
•Esteem for the University
•Links for teaching and research
•Interactions with wider community
‘Standard’
Teaching
Consultancy
Public Education
&
Non-standard
teaching
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Published Research
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Sustainable Development… 3 uneven shares…
Environmental
Financial
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Automotive Waste:
Separation & classification
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>130 mm ‘oversize’
Automotive Waste
trommel
~5% non-ferrous
+ ferrous products
15 -130 mm ‘middles’
metals
separator
<15 mm ‘fines’
air classifier
shredder
magnetic
separator
~25%
waste SR:
Shredder
Residue
(or ‘fluff’)
to landfill
=‘light’ ASR
dense media
plant
~5% non-ferrous
product + waste = ‘heavy’ ASR
~62% ferrous product
Feedstock in
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Automotive Waste
‘Light’ SR Composition
Harder et al 2004
Fines (50%±5%)
Middle Fraction (50%±5%)
Polypropylene
Too small
sized to
separate
easily
Other Plastic
2.5%
13.5%
Miscellaneous
9.0%
Foam
7.0%
Metal
2.3%
Textiles
1.4%
Tyre
0.5%
Wood
3.5%
Rubber
6.0%
Wire
2.7%
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Automotive Waste: new products
Recover more metals?
Use as a fuel?
…develop a thermal process….
PYROLYSIS
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Automotive Waste
Ebara Twinrec
Plant
•ASR +
Sewerage
Sludge: 70/30
•~100,000 t/pa
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Figure taken from Ando et al, 2002
Automotive Waste:
new products
ASH or CHAR
Brick Material?
Cement Material?
Cement fuel?
…only if lead contamination is not too high….
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XRF spectrometer – Heavy Metal Contamination
Excellent for on-site investigation!
Or for heterogeneous samples!
Or for multiple samples for statistical analysis!
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Automotive Waste
Taken from Schwager & Whiting, 2003
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New products
Propert Avera Typica Specificat
ies
ion
ge
l
Value Range
Melt
Flow
Rate
2.59
Density
0.95
0.41
0.945–
0.97
0.946–
0.951
37.7
Tensile
Strength
29–38
22
15.6
12–16
5.8
6–20
7.6
Elongati
on
12.5
Impact
Strength
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New products:
Wood fuel…without arsenic
Glass…for water filtration
Carpets…for insulation
Mattresses???
Textiles???
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Kerbside recycling scheme
development
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Kerbside recycling scheme development
3A
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Kerbside recycling scheme development
3E
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Kerbside recycling scheme development
Calculating ‘goodness’ of service: Best Value Indicators
2003/4
Paper &
card
% Material Present in
waste
32
% Fit to Recycle
Plastics
Metals
Textiles
8
6
4
3
53
65
90
33
95
95
37
% hh covered
59
44
32
42
32
19
% participation
85
85
85
85
85
85
% separation efficiency
65
65
65
65
65
65
6.8
1.8
0.4
0.9
0.5
10.3%
TOTAL
waste
Glass
Total
% of
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Waste arriving at Civic Amenity sites... (and/or landfill sites...)
Household
bagged
3%
Other
16%
Timber
24%
Plastic dense
3%
Brown goods
4%
Metals
4%
Fines
17%
Textiles
4%
Green garden
waste
5%
Carpet
5%
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Paper
6%
Hardcore inert
9%
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Waste diversion – Green Cones
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Waste diversion – Green Cones
3.50
3.00
3.06
3.04
2.50
2.00
1.79
1.50
1.00
0.50
0.00
Pre Green Cone Pilot
Green Cone Installed
Green Cone Not Installed
Green Cone User Groups
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Household incentives // Behaviour change
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Household incentives // Behaviour change
Variations of kerbside tonnages in some Lewes rounds affiliated
with specific schools
5000
Incentives start
kg collected
4000
3000
2000
1000
0
July
Aug
Wallands
Sept
Oct
Landport
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Dec
Jan
Landport S
Feb
Southover
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Household incentives // Behaviour change
Variation of the change in set-out rates – with the Index of
Multiple Deprivation (IMD)
45
40
35
Change in set out
30
25
y = 0.0392x + 11.008
R2 = 0.0012
20
15
10
5
0
-5
0
5
10
15
20
30
25
35
40
45
-10
IMD
change in average setout
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Linear (change in average setout)
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50
Public Education combined with research!
•House-to-house ‘tutorials’
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Public Education combined with research!
•Waste Awareness Campaigns
•Focus groups
•6000 interviews
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Public Education combined with research!
•Training Waste Advisors (volunteers for the Council)
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Published research:
•12 refereed journal articles since 2001 (3 pending)
•13 conference proceedings since 2001
•One joint publication report with Resource Recovery
Forum
•One commisioned report to DEFRA for input into national
strategy policy
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Where to now?
Will now move to…
School of Environment and Technology
(SoET)
But will be working across the School…
More and more Sustainable Development (SD)…
Working across the University in SD areas....
e.g. EU indicators project
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‘Away Day’ July 12th 2007