Using digital design tools as part of a sustainable construction strategy enables exact material quantities to be determined, down to the number of screws and bolts required for a building.
Forming new connections across a broad sweep of the whole ecosystems of solvent use in Pharmaceutical and Agrochemical manufacture seemed to create some new insights, clarity and catalyse future collaborations.. What is the solvent dilemma?.Solvents are used in large quantities in chemistry-based processing, their release to the atmosphere is climatically impactful, their waste streams are environmentally toxic, they represent a significant cost and risk in terms of treatment and regulation.
There is a significant problem and no clear single path to addressing it.Some progress can be made intra-company, other parts require innovation in the supply and waste chains.Technological solutions need regulatory change, and other parts will need cross-sector collaboration.. To address the problem requires significant investment in capital and resources.
In short, a complex problem and therefore there are dilemmas.Feedback from the participants demonstrated that the problem is seen as a priority within their business/sector.
This is not ubiquitous, and, in some sectors, there is a lack of market demand and economic momentum..
Some parts of the industry are well advanced in their thinking and understanding of this emerging problem, while others are at the early stages.. What defines the dilemma, as much as any measure, are the multiple avenues being investigated to improve the situation.. What defines the dilemma, as much as any measure, are the multiple avenues being investigated to improve the situation.. Reducing usage through changing chemical pathways and process efficiency/intensification, combined with local, in-house recycling demonstrate how companies are looking within to solve most of the problem.To some people the term ‘digital twin’ implies a highly advanced, digital replication of an aircraft engine, while others imagine a real time digital model of an entire city.
But that latter level of sophistication isn’t required, or even necessarily advisable.A digital twin of a city would be too expensive to store and use, and it would also be immediately out-of-date.
We need to keep things simple as we work out how to achieve our goals, and the meaning of digital twin is simply a digital representation of a real thing.. Now, by real, we don’t necessarily mean physical.Sharp explains that the digital representation of a train timetable is just as important as the digital representation of a train itself, each providing important, but different, information.. Further, when we use digital twin technology there should always be a two-way interaction between the digital twin and the real thing.