Browsing Institutt for industriell økonomi og teknologiledelse by Document Types "Chapter"
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A Combined Liquefied Natural Gas Routing and Deteriorating Inventory Management Problem
(Chapter, 2015)Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is becoming a more crucial source of energy due to its increased price competitiveness and environmental friendliness. We consider an inventory routing problem for inland distribution of LNG ... -
A Decision Support Model for Routing and Scheduling a Fleet of Fuel Supply Vessels
(Chapter, 2015)We consider a real fuel supply vessel routing and scheduling problem faced by a Hellenic oil company with a given fleet of fuel supply vessels used to supply customer ships outside Piraeus Port. The supply vessels are ... -
A Framework to Conceptualize Sustainable Development Goals for Fishing Gear Resource Management
(Chapter, 2017)In response to the growing concerns of global environmental damage and resource depletion, UN launched the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. Using SDGs to develop sustainable systems and practices requires tools ... -
A Review of Repurposing Lithium-ion Batteries for Household Applications
(Chapter, 2023)As global sales of electric vehicles are rising rapidly; vast amounts of end-of-life batteries are expected to need treatment in foreseeable future. Using second life batteries in lower demanding applications, could prolong ... -
Accident and disease prevention in working life: Common grounds and areas for mutual learning
(Chapter, 2018)Globally, there are more than six times more fatalities caused by a poor working environment than due to occupational accidents. In this paper we compare the basic strategies involved in accident and disease prevention. ... -
Ageing@home: A secure 5G welfare technology solution for elderlies
(Chapter, 2021)The world population is ageing at a fast pace and to enable elderly to age at home can become a viable solution both economically and socially speaking, leading also to the overall improvement of the elderly’s well-being ... -
Agile autonomous teams in complex organizations
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)In complex organizations, the effective functioning of autonomous teams is challenged by the need to coordinate and align work with multiple experts and other units in the organization. We report on the challenges experienced ... -
Application of Material Flow Analysis: Mapping Plastics Within the Fishing Sector in Norway
(Chapter, 2023)Plastic in our marine environment is now ubiquitous. Abandoned lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) is of particular concern due to its ability to continue to function as a trap for marine organisms. In order ... -
Applying Copulas Functions for Wind and Hydro Complementarity Evaluation: a Brazilian Case
(Chapter, 2015)Wind energy has been expanding in many countries typically hydro electricity producers in the last decades and some investments take advantage from the complementarity among hydro and wind productions as a strategy to ... -
Business Models for Sustainability
(Chapter, 2023)The concept of business models for sustainability (BMfS) has attracted research attention in the fields of corporate sustainability, entrepreneurship and management. BMfS are a way of linking sustainable innovation to an ... -
Capturing lessons learnt from an accident investigation to improve the management of geological hazards in construction
(Chapter, 2017)The paper presents a case study of the capturing of experience from an accident involving rock slide during the rehabilitation of a 22-km road segment. It builds on results from the accident investigation and a follow-up ... -
Case-based entrepreneurship education in and for the Nordic region
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Case-Based Learning in Collaboration Across Universities to Enhance Students’ Understanding of Sustainability
(Chapter, 2023)ABSTRACT Focus on sustainability is increasing in engineering and management education, businesses, and the larger society. In order to cope with sustainability challenges, more holistic pedagogies and practices that foster ... -
Changes in Framework Conditions in the Norwegian Petroleum Industry: What Are Their Relations to Safety?
(Chapter, 2022)Framework conditions are important for safety, as they affect the possibilities for keeping risk under control. In this literature study, which is a follow-up of a similar study from 2011 (Rosness et al., 2011), 119 articles ... -
The circular economy, openness, and dispersed access to research results
(Chapter, 2021)Many initiatives aimed at achieving a circular economy are based on collaborations between industry and universities. However, these partners often engage in collaborative research without a clear understanding of who will ... -
Closing the Loop: Industrial Ecology, Circular Economy and Material Flow Analysis
(Chapter, 2023)This chapter explores the principles supporting industrial ecology (IE), circular economy (CE) and material flow analysis (MFA). IE concerns constructing industrial and societal processes according to ecological principles. ... -
Communicating Product Life Cycle Performance through Labels and Declarations
(Chapter, 2023)This chapter gives an overview of the development of different eco-labelling schemes over a timeline of about 50 years. The main focus is, however, the standards for product declarations developed under the ISO 14000-family. ... -
Compression and Expansion at the Right Pinch Temperature
(Chapter, 2017)Heat Integration is extended to the topic of Heat and Work Integration when pressure changing equipment such as compressors and expanders are included in heat exchanger network design. The latter topic is much more complex ... -
A Conceptual Framework for Determining the Economically Optimal Level of Microgrid Resilience
(Chapter, 2022)Microgrids are considered to be an effective measure for resilience due to their ability to operate in island mode during a power outage and to ensure continuity of supply. Current standard frameworks for microgrid resilience ...