The Proceedings of Design & Systems Conference
Online ISSN : 2424-3078
2009.19
Session ID : 2507
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2507 A Research on Technological Issues toward Environmental Excellence of Module-based Exchangeable Systems for Socially Fluctuating Distributed Demands
Kikuo FUJITAYutaka KURIYAMAAkira FUKUYAMA
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This paper discusses the possibility of the integrated environmental optimality of a series of artifacts that are reconfigurable for gradually fluctuating demands by mutually replacing their subsystems. Following general discussion, leading design of home-use cogeneration systems is explored with the optimal design techniques as an example case study. While a home-use cogeneration system is expected to efficiently provide electricity and head simultaneously, their demand levels depend on the family structure, which is systematically variable. On the other hand, since a system is composed of a generator, a heat accumulator, a boiler, etc., it can be reconfigurable by partially replacing its subsystems. In the paper, a representative situation of socially exchangeable artifacts is illustrated under several scenarios, and then some prerequisites are discussed toward their environmental optimality.
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© 2009 The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
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