@article{4eecb6d9626546ac917389b4da3634d9,
title = "Robust eco-design: A new application for air quality engineering",
abstract = "The method of robust design has long been used for the design of systems that are insensitive to noises. In this paper it is demonstrated how this approach can be used to obtain a robust eco-design (ecological design). In a case study, robust design principles are applied to the design of a factory smokestack, using the Gaussian Plume Model (GPM). The GPM is a well-known model for describing pollutant dispersal from a point source, subject to various atmospheric conditions. In this research, the mean-square-error (MSE) of the accumulated and the maximum pollution values around a given target are defined as the performance measures and used to adjust the design parameters. Both analytical and numerical approaches are used to evaluate the MSE measures over the design space. It is demonstrated how to use the non-linearity in the GPM to reach a low MSE value that produces a cheaper design configuration. The differences between the manufacturer viewpoint and the environmentalist viewpoint with respect to the considered eco-design problem are discussed and analyzed.",
keywords = "Air pollution, Clean production, Ecological design, Green manufacturing",
author = "Irad Ben-Gal and Roni Katz and Yossi Bukchin",
note = "Funding Information: Irad Ben-Gal is a faculty member in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Tel Aviv University. He holds a B.Sc. (1992) degree from Tel-Aviv University, and M.Sc. (1996) and Ph.D. (1998) degrees from Boston University. He is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), The European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (EN-BIS) and an elected member in the International Statistical Institute (ISI). He is a Department Editor for IIE Transactions on Quality and Reliability and serves on the Editorial Boards of Trends in Applied Sciences Research and The Open Applied Informatics Journal. He has published more than 60 scientific papers and received several best papers awards. His papers have been published in IIE Transactions, International Journal of Production Research, Technometrics, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, as well as Bioinformatics and BMC Bioinformatics. He has received several research grants, from organizations such as General Motors, IEEE, the Israeli Ministry of Science, and the European Community. He has worked for several years in industrial organizations. His research interests include statistical methods for control and analysis of stochastic processes; applications of information theory to industrial problems; machine learning and automation and computer integrated manufacturing systems.",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1080/07408170701775094",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "40",
pages = "907--918",
journal = "IISE Transactions",
issn = "2472-5854",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "10",
}