Pre-requisite: Progression rule or pre-requisite (depending on each department)
Lecturing Strategy: Lectures, demonstrations, assignments, case studies, seminars, industrial trips
Assessment: Mini Tests, Reports, Examinations, Practical & presentations (100%CE)
Duration: 4 hour(s) per week (15 weeks)
Self Study Time: 60 hrs
Notional hours: 120 hrs
Recommended Sequence: Semester 5/ 6 within NQF level 7
Professional Role: The students to master environmental and resource management concepts for enhancing their professional practices.
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
- describe the non-monetary and economical drivers of CP
- describe the advantages of CP concepts and techniques in a broader environmental and business context
- describe the synergic concept of CP, Lean and other sustainability concepts
- apply the CP process to solving business problems relating to waste, environmentand resources man agement
- evaluate and recommend CP options for different business case studies
- synthesis CP concepts into business objectives
Content:
1. Introduction to Cleaner Production (CP) and sustainability.
- Definitions of CP terminologies
- The CP concept
- Concept of Lea n, industrial ecology, environmental accounting
- CP Barriers & Drivers
- CP approach – the five concepts; re-use/recycling, house keeping, technology modification, material substitution and product modification
- New methods in CP
2. CP in a broader environmental context
- Safety, Health and Environment
- Waste management (water, energy solid waste etc)
- Life cycle analysis (from cradle to the grave)
3. CP in Business and social context
- Environmental accounting
- Operational efficiency and competitiveness
- Environmental liabilities and compliance
- Corporate image
4. The CP cycle
- Planning and organisation
- Basic CP tools for the identification of opportunities
- Prioritization and evaluation
- Implementation
- Measurement and review
5. Application of CP concepts and techniques in Case studies
- Evaluating walk-through reports
- Scoping studies
- CP projects
Reading List
1. Towards cleaner production methods
Dana Silk, 1992
ISSN 0028-0844.
2. Cleaner production and consumption : challenges and opportunities in East and Southern
Africa
Nonita T Yab, c1999
ISBN 0797420185.
3. Industrial Ecology
T.E Graedel and B.R Allenby: Printice hall ©1995
ISBN 013-125238
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