Transferring best practice – applying “Gentani”
Across the FIs there are many processes that are similar, e.g. comminution, granulation, drying, cooling, heat exchange, materials transportation and handling. Using the Gentani philosophy (calculating the minimum resource needed to carry out a process), this research will benchmark and identify best practices considering resource efficiencies (energy, water etc.) and environmental impacts (dust, emissions etc.) across sectors and share information horizontally.
Aims for Work Stream 1
- Identify and model processes common across sectors, including flows of energy, materials, phase changes and associated non-product flows such as process and cooling water, compressed and blown air, waste materials, emissions and by-products
- Develop and assess targets for lowest resource usage (LRU) for each identified process (Gentani) and use these to benchmark common processes across the six Foundation Industries. Identify how far away from this target each sector is; and identify best practice for achieving LRU across all the sectors for common processes
- Identify the pathways to achieving the targets in 2 and transfer knowledge across the sectors which help overcome any identified barriers.
Research Highlights
What to do about plastics? Lessons from a study of UK plastics flows – Transfire (transfire-hub.org)
Mapping material use and embodied carbon in UK construction – Transfire (transfire-hub.org)
TransFIRe partner collaboration on the tiles – Transfire (transfire-hub.org)
Mapping energy and material flows for the foundation industries – Transfire (transfire-hub.org)
