Fuels from Biomass
Fuels
- Petroleum
- Oil sands / heavy oil
- Coal
- Biomass
Ethanol from corn via fermentation
- Currently practiced
- Ethanol blended in gasoline up to 10%
- Expensive
- Fuel ethanol competes with food crop
Advanced/Second Generation fuels from biomass
- Corn stover
- Dedicated fuel crops
- Woody biomass
- Municipal solid waste
System lens
1.Multidisciplinary
- biochemists
- plant biologist
- genetics
- cell biologists
- environmental engineers
- fuels engineering
2.SOS
- Politicians – policy / budgeting / financial support
- Logistics
- Community – jobs,facility siting
- Established fuels markets infrastructure
- Environmental engineers
3.Status
- R&D interest
- Conceptual studies
- Start-ups / Venture Capital money
Security Engineering
- Protecting Large Physical Assets
- Protecting data
- Internet access
- External security alarms
- Condition based monitoring
- Built in capability to prevent chain reaction of failures(isolation)
Manufacturing and Production Engineering
- Quantity / variety of components should be held to a minimun
- Materials should be standard / Designs should be similar
- Easy assembly
- Design configuration should be able to be produced by more than one supplier and amenable to common technologies.
Lean production
- Eliminate waste of all forms (time, motion, materials)
- Emphasis on supply chain and working with suppliers / customers
Logistics and Supportability Engineering
Integrated Logistics Support Plan
- Cover all planning activities
- Cover all design activities
- Procurement and acquisition activities
- Sustaining support activities
Selected Team for support infrastructure.
Disposability Engineering
Design for Disposability -> Environmental concerns.(Externalities)
Quality Engineering
Quality = meet or exceed customer expections
Drive for quality
- Increased business competition(global)
- Offer:quality and price
- Matter of business survival
who wins? The customer.
History of quality Programs
- Quality control
- Statistical process control
- Quality assurance
- Six Sigma
- Baldridge criteria
- ISO standards(9000/140001)
Recently: Total Quality Management
Address quality at all steps
TQM
- unification mechanism
- Links human capabilities to engineering, production and support systems
- Balances technical system and social system
Characteristics of TQM
- Total customer satisfaction
- Continuous improvement
- Individual understanding
- Minimize variability
- Total organization involvement
Design for quality
- Total quality Management
- Robust design
Environment Engineering
System engineering leading to design / operation must deal with
- Technical factors
- Economic factors
- Ecolugy
- Politics
- Social
