International Industrial Ecology Day 2021
Designing, Demonstrating, Evaluating Climate Change interventions – the ViTAL principles to achieve Net Zero
This presentation will demonstrate how to enhance knowledge and innovation considering symbiotic systems for a military site by presenting the ViTAL Living Lab which is supporting the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to achieve its carbon reduction targets. The UK’s commitment to achieve Net Zero carbon by 2050 (AoP, 2019) presents significant challenges as the MoD contributes around 50% of all departmental emissions (TEAM Defence, 2020) and effective planning, decisive efforts and investments are needed to decrease the significant amount of carbon emissions. This requires a strategic and determined effort to reduce carbon emissions and energy consumptions and also to reduce costs by increasing energy efficiency and environmental resilience.
Building on Industrial Symbiosis and Eco parks principles of connecting, collaboration and innovate our solution is to create ViTAL Living Lab experimentations at a Royal Air Force base that is a Defence Centre of Excellence for innovation and experimentation. ViTAL is a unique collaboration between RAFX, Newcastle University, its industrial and academic partners. The experiments will provide quantitative information to Defence, Central Government decision makers. It provides strategic direction, embeds innovation, and enables the acceleration of adoption and integration of emerging technologies, behavioural interventions, and skillsets.
The presentation will describe how Living Labs can serve Industrial Symbiosis and Eco Industrial Developments. It will show the six experiments (1) carbon footprint reduction; (2) decarbonise power and heat using integrated solar technology; (3) reduce carbon through carbon capture; (4) decarbonise heating and cooling using a geothermal system; (5) test the hydrogen economy and sustainable transport; and (6) assess technologies using Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing. Finally, the presentation will discuss the Conceptual Framework of ViTAL Living Lab and Experimentations to show how a military site can serve as a great demonstrator for symbiotic systems, Eco industrial and networks.
Building on Industrial Symbiosis and Eco parks principles of connecting, collaboration and innovate our solution is to create ViTAL Living Lab experimentations at a Royal Air Force base that is a Defence Centre of Excellence for innovation and experimentation. ViTAL is a unique collaboration between RAFX, Newcastle University, its industrial and academic partners. The experiments will provide quantitative information to Defence, Central Government decision makers. It provides strategic direction, embeds innovation, and enables the acceleration of adoption and integration of emerging technologies, behavioural interventions, and skillsets.
The presentation will describe how Living Labs can serve Industrial Symbiosis and Eco Industrial Developments. It will show the six experiments (1) carbon footprint reduction; (2) decarbonise power and heat using integrated solar technology; (3) reduce carbon through carbon capture; (4) decarbonise heating and cooling using a geothermal system; (5) test the hydrogen economy and sustainable transport; and (6) assess technologies using Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing. Finally, the presentation will discuss the Conceptual Framework of ViTAL Living Lab and Experimentations to show how a military site can serve as a great demonstrator for symbiotic systems, Eco industrial and networks.
Author(s)
| Name | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Oliver Heidrich | School of Engineering; Newcastle University |
| Mohammad Ali Rajaeifar | Newcastle University |
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