Development of Materials-Cycle Simulator Based on Zero-Emission Database

Abstract

Construction of database based on analysis of materials and energy on industries and processes can be expected to provide heuristic information regarding the possibility of materials and energy circulation through data combination in the database. Thus, in this study, we have developed software called "Materials Cycle Simulator", to suggest the technologies reducing the environmental load. The software can simulate the flow of the raw materials and scrapped material in a local community. The software uses unit information on input and output of materials and energy in each production process and material conversion process, which is derived from individual facts in material-cycle database. The simulator proposes all possible combinations of unit information, i, e., zero-emission networking based on the database.