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SESSION: ManufacturingMonAM-R4 Advanced Manufacturing and Industrial Sustainability	Mamalis International Symposium on Advanced Manufacturing of Advanced Materials and Structures with Sustainable Industrial Applications
Mon Nov, 5 2018 / Room: Sao Conrado (50/2nd)
Session Chairs: Dimitris C. Lagoudas; Session Monitor: TBA

11:45: [ManufacturingMonAM02] Keynote
The Ethics of Sustainability
Jeremy Ramsden¹ ; Athanasios G. Mamalis² ; Nikolaos T. Athanassoulis³ ; ¹University of Buckingham, Buckingham, United Kingdom; ²PC-NAE, Demokritos National Center for Scientific Research, Athens, Greece; ³Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics, NTUA, Athens, Greece;
Paper Id: 95 [Abstract]

As crowding on our planet increases, sustainability has become a major preoccupation at many levels: national and supranational (for example, the European Union is strongly promoting the "circular economy", essentially a waste management strategy), but also local and even individual. A considerable body of academic work has arisen around the "circular economy", mostly of recent origin, even though the roots of the concept go back decades and even centuries. On the whole the field seems to suffer from a dearth of analytical thinking, and much of the literature is little more than polemics between supporters and detractors, along with the loose injection of words like "entropy". On the material plane, at the atomic level everything is recycled, except hydrogen and helium; at higher levels involving sophisticated superatomic structures, an illusion of recycling may depend on inadequate definitions of materials that fail to capture all their essential features (for example, paper cannot be endlessly recycled because the cellulose fibres are progressively shortened). This paper seeks to establish what precisely sustainability and the circular economy mean, what the intentions of their protagonists are, and how they fit in with alternative moral schemata, notably the individual versus the social. The goal of our investigation is to establish whether the circular economy can make any claim on our attention as a worthwhile pursuit.

References:
[1] Ramsden, J.J. The impacts of nanotechnology. Nanotechnol. Perceptions 7 (2011) 28-66.

[2] Ramsden, J.J. The sustainability of "postmodern" university research. In: Philosophy and Synergy of Information: Sustainability and Security (eds P.J. Kervalishvili & S.A. Michailidis), pp. 74-87. Amsterdam: IOS Press (2012).

[3] Ramsden, J.J. and Kiss-Haypál, G. On a possible limit to economic progress. Nanotechnol. Perceptions 9 (2013) 71-81.

[4] Ramsden, J.J. Applied Nanotechnology (3rd edn). Amsterdam: Elsevier (2018).

SESSION: ManufacturingMonAM-R4 Advanced Manufacturing and Industrial Sustainability	Mamalis International Symposium on Advanced Manufacturing of Advanced Materials and Structures with Sustainable Industrial Applications
Mon Nov, 5 2018 / Room: Sao Conrado (50/2nd)
Session Chairs: Dimitris C. Lagoudas; Session Monitor: TBA

12:10: [ManufacturingMonAM03] Keynote
Nanotechnology and Sustainability
Jeremy Ramsden¹ ; Alexandra Mamali² ; Athanasios G. Mamalis³ ; Nikolaos T. Athanassoulis⁴ ; ¹University of Buckingham, Buckingham, United Kingdom; ²Maersk Broker Hellas, Athens, Greece; ³PC-NAE, Demokritos National Center for Scientific Research, Athens, Greece; ⁴Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics, NTUA, Athens, Greece;
Paper Id: 94 [Abstract]

The sustainability of our present civilization and, ultimately, of human life itself is challenged on many fronts. The most prominent of the challenges are climate change, extreme food and water shortages, rising chronic diseases, and rampant obesity. They are all of great significance in terms of death and morbidity, and at the same time seemingly intractable. This paper looks at the technical dimension of overcoming these challenges, contrasting the apparent impotence of conventional technologies with the potential of nanotechnology. Particular attention is paid to the scalability of any proposed nanotechnology-based solutions (bearing in mind the vast scale required for meaningful implementation), as well as the related aspect of realizable timescales. Where alternative solutions exist, a criterion of choice based on the life quality index is proposed. The paper concludes by examining the practical problems of implementing solutions projected to be successful.

References:
[1] Ramsden, J.J. What is sustainability? Nanotechnol. Perceptions 6 (2010) 179-195.

[2] Ramsden, J.J. The nanotechnology industry. Nanotechnol. Perceptions 9 (2013) 102-118.

[3] Mamalis, A.G., Ramsden, J.J., Holt, G.C., Vortselas, A.K. and Mamali, A.A. The effect of nanotechnology on mitigation and adaptation strategies in response to climate change. Nanotechnol. Perceptions 7 (2011) 159-179.

[4] Ramsden, J.J. Nanotechnology and Gaia. Nanotechnol. Perceptions 10 (2014) 173-189.

[5] Ramsden, J.J. Doomsday scenarios: an appraisal. Nanotechnol. Perceptions 12 (2016) 35-46.

[6] Ramsden, J.J. Applied Nanotechnology (3rd edn). Amsterdam: Elsevier (2018).

SESSION: ManufacturingWedPM1-R4 Energy	Mamalis International Symposium on Advanced Manufacturing of Advanced Materials and Structures with Sustainable Industrial Applications
Wed Nov, 7 2018 / Room: Sao Conrado (50/2nd)
Session Chairs: Nikoloz Chikhradze; Session Monitor: TBA

14:50: [ManufacturingWedPM107]
ENERGY CLOUD Service and TOMONI - Holistic Solutions for Energy Intensive Industries
Emmanuel Kakaras¹ ; Michalis Agraniotis¹ ; Christian Bergins¹ ; Torsten Buddenberg¹ ; Nikolaos T. Athanassoulis² ; ¹Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe GmbH, Duisburg, Germany; ²Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics, NTUA, Athens, Greece;
Paper Id: 80 [Abstract]

European energy intensive industries are considerably affected by today's changing energy market landscape. Securing quality, competitiveness, and low environmental impact of final industrial products by changing conditions in the energy market requires extended efforts from the industry side. More specifically, the ongoing increase of RES' share in energy mix and the European targets on energy efficiency in industry have several implications, as well on technical aspects (additional requirements on flexibility, control reserve, dispatchable power generation, demand side management, energy storage), as also on economic aspects (decrease of whole sale electricity price, increase of taxes and surcharges, disruptive business models). In this changing landscape the task of matching energy supply with energy use following a continuous optimization process becomes of prime importance. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has developed ENERGY CLOUD Service, an integrated toolbox of solutions assisting large energy users to overcome these challenges. It may support customer's needs in different operating levels, from a) performance monitoring, visualization and O&M optimization, to b) data analysis and evaluation for plant engineering level to c) providing information to management to supporting strategic decisions. Additionally, TOMONI is MHPS's state of the art condition monitoring and maintenance optimization tool, which utilizes advances AI techniques. ENERGY CLOUD Service and TOMONI utilize MHI's and MHPS's vast industrial know how and own developed AI technology, in order to use operating data towards optimization of operation and maintenance of assets and overall plants. In the present paper additional information about successful implementation cases of ENERGY CLOUD Service and TOMONI are reported.

SESSION: ManufacturingWedPM2-R4 Environmental Aspects / Impact on Climate Change	Mamalis International Symposium on Advanced Manufacturing of Advanced Materials and Structures with Sustainable Industrial Applications
Wed Nov, 7 2018 / Room: Sao Conrado (50/2nd)
Session Chairs: Sesh Commuri; Session Monitor: TBA

15:55: [ManufacturingWedPM209] Invited
Smart Cities Under Electric Energy Trends: From Autonomous Building Directive to Prosumer Target
Nikolaos T. Athanassoulis¹ ; Aggelos Tsakanikas¹ ; Antonios G. Kladas² ; ¹Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics, NTUA, Athens, Greece; ²NTUA, Athens, Greece;
Paper Id: 51 [Abstract]

The liberalization of the electricity market, in conjunction with actual environmental constraints and provisions, led to considerations for combined urban and electricity market developments promoting buildings' energy autonomy, from the perspective of transforming regional and individual electricity consumers to producer-consumer (prosumer) actors. Such a development favors renewable energy sources, penetration growth, as well as combined electric-thermal production applications with important beneficial environmental issues [1]. The existing incentives for renewable energy exploitation and carbon leakage regulations are expected to be attenuated through the large introduction of prosumers enabling energy and ancillary services optimization by extended combined load management-unit commitment operation based on bid procedures [2]. In this context, energy storage devices are expected to play an important role in increasing the impact of emerging fuels such as natural gas and hydrogen. Such a trend will be facilitated by the spreading of electric traction in all the expected transportation mediums, in order to meet the environmental requirements foreseen. To that respect, battery and fuel cell technologies involved in hybrid/electric vehicles may equally serve the network load leveling issues [3]. Moreover, the transmission and distribution electric network activities will transit to a commonly available commodity, while the necessary extensions and reinforcements will be guided by local marginal price differences. The variety of interacting resources, as well as globalization of tasks and procedures will enable large scale economies and reliability enhancements. The extended distributed regulation necessary will be in close interaction with the centrally controlled large production units through smart grid technologies accommodating the important communication exchanges by convenient internet applications of smart buildings and smart cities underway [4]. The paper undertakes an overview of existing environmental constraints as well as current energy resources developments in the electric energy production sector. Furthermore, technological aspects of available devices involved in small hybrid production units are reported and discussed. Finally, the case study of a typical small autonomous hybrid production plant, convenient for a building prosumer activity, is presented.

References:
[1] S. Choi, S.W. Min, "Optimal scheduling and operation of the ESS for prosumer market environment in grid-connected industrial complex", IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, (2018), doi: 10.1109/TIA.2018.2794330.
[2] A. Papalexopoulos, "Supplying the generation to meet the demand", IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, (2004) Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 66-73.
[3] T. Graber, C. Romeis, E. Petrossian, J. Jaeger, "Intelligent prosumer coupling by two galvanically isolated battery storage systems", CIRED - Open Access Proceedings Journal IET, (2017) Vol. 2017, No. 1, pp. 1853-1857.
[4] D. Papaioannou, A. Gakis, N.T. Athanassoulis, A. Rigos and A.A. Mamali, "A review of urban sustainability criteria under global warming stress", Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, (2015) Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 17-45.