• Material flow analysis (MFA), also referred to as substance flow analysis (SFA), is an analytical method to quantify flows and stocks of materials or substances...
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    Material flow management (MFM) is an economic focused method of analysis and reformation of goods production and subsequent waste through the lens of material...
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  • the description and analysis of the flows of the materials and energy within cities, such as undertaken in a material flow analysis of a city. It provides...
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  • regional, national or economy-wide material flow analysis. Material flow accounting provides economy-wide data on material use. Through international standardization...
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  • Data-flow analysis is a technique for gathering information about the possible set of values calculated at various points in a computer program. It forms...
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  • also called a material balance, is an application of conservation of mass to the analysis of physical systems. By accounting for material entering and...
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    accounts, material flow accounts on a regional or national level, and cost breakdowns. The diagrams are often used in the visualization of material flow analysis...
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  • is a term used in industrial ecology, material flow analysis, and waste management to describe the material and energy turnover of human society. It...
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  • several economies. As such, it is becoming an important addition to material flow accounting. In recognition of the increasing importance of global resource...
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  • Flow injection analysis (FIA) is an approach to chemical analysis. It is accomplished by injecting a plug of sample into a flowing carrier stream. The...
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  • In theoretical physics, an analysis of flows is the study of "gauge" or "gaugelike" "symmetries" (i.e. flows the formulation of a theory is invariant...
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    Approach to Characterize Data Uncertainty in Material Flow Analysis and its Application to Plastics Flows in Austria: Characterization of Uncertainty of...
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  • displaying data-flow diagrams. The notation presented above was described in 1979 by Tom DeMarco as part of structured analysis. For each data flow, at least...
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  • Paul H. Brunner (* 1946) is a material flow analysis methodology and urban metabolism specialist. He is a professor emeritus of the Institute for Water...
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    Waste collection also includes the curbside collection of recyclable materials that technically are not waste, as part of a municipal landfill diversion...
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  • systems analysis encompasses a family of environmental assessment tools and methods, including life cycle assessment (LCA), material flow analysis (MFA)...
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  • Industrial organization IPO model Material balance planning Material flow analysis Net output Shift-share analysis Social metabolism Socialist economics...
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  • raw materials. Recycling is an important part of creating more sustainable economies, reducing the cost and environmental impact of raw materials. Not...
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  • filtering agent Material flow accounting Material flow analysis Medium-functioning autism, a classification of autism Metabolic flux analysis Methylfluoroalkoxy...
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    A materials recovery facility, materials reclamation facility, materials recycling facility or multi re-use facility (MRF, pronounced "murf") is a specialized...
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  • L'OBSERVATION ET DES STATISTIQUES. Orléans. "SAFER-Data: Economy wide material flow analysis and ecological footprint of Ireland". erc.epa.ie. Archived from...
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    system aggregation, see material flow analysis. In material flow accounting, for example, the inputs and outputs of materials and energy of a particular...
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  • Industrial ecology (IE) is the study of material and energy flows through industrial systems. The global industrial economy can be modelled as a network...
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  • Dematerialization (economics) Energy accounting Industrial ecology Material flow accounting Material flow analysis Information metabolism Social metabolism Urban metabolism...
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  • in regional and industrial park areas, including material flow analysis (MFA), life cycle analysis (LCA), CO2 emissions and economic returns. These performance...
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    Recycling codes are used to identify the materials out of which the item is made, to facilitate easier recycling process. The presence on an item of a...
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    plastic material used in the manufacture of the product or packaging. Their purpose is to assist recyclers with sorting the collected materials, but they...
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  • automated analyzer using a flow technique called continuous flow analysis (CFA), or more correctly segmented flow analysis (SFA) first made by the Technicon...
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    which materials and products are designed more sustainably for durability, reuse, repairability, remanufacturing and recycling. Life-cycle analysis (LCA)...
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  • incompressible flow is a flow in which the material density does not vary over time. Equivalently, the divergence of an incompressible flow velocity is zero...
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