The Delft Circularity Lab (DCL) is a TPM faculty-wide initiative that connects staff members, researchers, and students that work on circularity and circular economy. The DCL is also part of a TU-wide group of colleagues and students in other faculties of the TU Delft. During the Sustainability Day, the Delft Circularity Lab (DCL) will present how to focus on resource efficiency and energy transition in an industrial context. The circularity or sustainability of a single industrial operation is often difficult to define because of the embeddedness of single operations in a larger value chain of actors and consumers that goes beyond the responsibilities of the individual plant management. A larger system perspective places the engineering aspects besides non-engineering issues and offers a structural insight into the allocation and problem decomposition of those various issues. The presentation will talk specifically about three research ambitions of 1) circular business model experimentation, 2) potential mapping of industrial exchange, and 3) modelling the behaviour of network actors.

Event Timing: March 23, 2022; 14:45-15:45 in Hall A of TPM