Sustainability Engineering - Assume you have to design a completely automated fashion recycling process

Sustainability Engineering

Please follow the guidelines given below:

The document should be prepared using Times New Roman, size 12, double-spaced, and numbered on the top right corner.

You decide what sketches/diagrams/tables that need to be included.

Each question must be answered separately.

The length of the document should be between 3 and 5 pages, excluding cover page and the reference page.

For citation, NOT necessary to follow throughout IEEE and APA etc. It can be books, professional society publications, technical reports, etc. Other sources, such as news outlets, magazines, etc. may be used. NOTE: no Wikipedia and dictionary, etc!!!

Refrigerator recycling

Please note: for this question you need to refer to the USCAR/VRP rating scheme for part (c). Cite the references at end of the each questions.

Many countries have instituted laws for recycling home appliances. For example, Japan has instituted a home appliance recycling Law. A representative refrigerator from Hungary has been taken for further investigation (see table 1).

a) Assume you have to design a completely automated fashion recycling process. How would you separate the refrigerator’s materials in completely automated fashion without human disassembly? Focus on the groups given in the above table only.

b) Discuss the pros and cons of using human manual disassembly in this case.

c) What is the refrigerators current and technical feasible recyclability (by weight) using the USCAR/VRP rating scheme? Assume that it is technically feasible to separate the materials. Explain your assumptions and reasoning?

d) Give 10 general Design for Recycling Guidelines and discuss (what you thinking?) whether they increase or decrease product manufacture cost.

e) Give pros and cons for remanufacturing refrigerators?