Food webs: Realizing biological inspiration for sustainable industrial resource networks

This thesis considers the problem of how to design an industrial network to reduce cost, increase efficiency, and reduce environmental burdens. A recent approach is further developed that uses analogies with biological food webs to guide industry design. Studying ecological food webs shows that amon...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Layton, Astrid C.
Other Authors: Bras, Bert
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/54307