Computational modeling of material flow networks
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ICT Innovations for Sustainability. ed. / Lorenz M. Hilty; Bernard Aebischer. Vol. 310 Springer International Publishing, 2015. p. 301-311 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 310).
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T1 - Computational modeling of material flow networks
AU - Moeller, Andreas
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Material Flow Networks (MFN) are a modeling instrument in the field of material flow analysis (MFA) that helps to characterize current or future material and energy flows and stocks. Often, efficiency analyses such as life cycle assessments and cost accounting use such models to calculate the relationship between positive outcomes and negative impacts. The systematic integration of stocks makes it possible to analyze infrastructures that provide services, which is necessary in order to assess the effects of replacing material goods by services. The first part of this paper outlines Material Flow Networks as a period-oriented accounting system that systematically integrates stock and flow accounting. The second part is concerned with the question of how to construct the models and calculate data. From this perspective, the instrument becomes a modeling framework.
AB - Material Flow Networks (MFN) are a modeling instrument in the field of material flow analysis (MFA) that helps to characterize current or future material and energy flows and stocks. Often, efficiency analyses such as life cycle assessments and cost accounting use such models to calculate the relationship between positive outcomes and negative impacts. The systematic integration of stocks makes it possible to analyze infrastructures that provide services, which is necessary in order to assess the effects of replacing material goods by services. The first part of this paper outlines Material Flow Networks as a period-oriented accounting system that systematically integrates stock and flow accounting. The second part is concerned with the question of how to construct the models and calculate data. From this perspective, the instrument becomes a modeling framework.
KW - Accounting
KW - Dynamic material flow analysis
KW - M Steady-state modeling
KW - Material flow network
KW - Process flowsheeting
KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84927621774&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-09228-7_18
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-09228-7_18
M3 - Article in conference proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:84927621774
SN - 978-3-319-09227-0
VL - 310
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 301
EP - 311
BT - ICT Innovations for Sustainability
A2 - Hilty, Lorenz M.
A2 - Aebischer, Bernard
PB - Springer International Publishing
ER -