Remanufacturing, refurbishing and reuse by Diego and Luca
Remanufacturing
Remanufacturing is the rebuilding of a product to specifications of the original manufactured product using a combination of reused, repaired and new parts. Remanufacturing is not the same as "recycling" or "repairing".
Some of the most commonly remanufactured product categories are aircraft components and automotive parts.
Link: Remanufacturing
Refurbishing
Refurbishing, also called renovation of older or damaged equipment to bring it to a workable or better looking condition. We can also call it renovate something, or clean up something.
Link: Refurbishing
Reuse
If you reuse something, you use it again or more than once. It’s very common in our population, because a lot of people want to save money and material. You can reuse a lot things without help of special companies, which would charge you a lot of money.
Link: Reuse
Quiz:
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Several products can be re-used. To simplify this whole process, it is important to collect these products separately. For example: aluminium cans have to be apart from glass. And even the colours of the glass bottles have to be separated in some countries. We want to show you how different countries manage the recycling system and what it needs to recycle successful.
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W10: 4/29 Wednesday * 2020
Special - Distance learning experiment V
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This is a deepening post for our original post about oil.
Switzerland and its oil usage
Even though the Swiss are very eco-friendly and, accorind to a survey in 2018, about half of our population wants to become an oil-free county in the next 20 years. But, in Switzerland about half of the energy is produced by oil. So getting completely rid of it wouldn't be easy. 30% of this half is made up of the usage of petroleum fuels like heating oil, and the other 70% are regular fuels like petrol or diesel.
Switzerland imports about 80% of the oil from foreign countries, we are extremely dependent on our suppliers. In 2018 we imported approximitely three tons of oil. The three main suppliers are Nigeria, Lybia and Kazakhstan. More...
Current Situation in Switzerland:
The current situatio in Switzerland regarding corona virus also affects the timber market. Loss of sales markets, bottlenecks in transport and storage capacities and uncertain development of the construction industry represents challenges for the industry and lower demand. In Italy and France, the processing companies have been partially or completely shut down. It must be expected that a large part of the amount of wood must now be sold and processed domestically. It must be assumed that these bottlenecks will increase because of construction site closures, illness-caused failures of chauffeurs or failures of trucks and machines that may not be repaired in the near future. More...
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Note: The randomly indicated feedback plan is the minimum task - if you have additional ideas/feedback/double check calculations for other teams it will be appreciated by getting extra points!
W9: 4/08 Wednesday * 2020
Special - Distance learning experiment IV
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W8: 4/01 Wednesday * 2020
Special - Distance learning experiment III
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Knowledge deepening
Task 9 (Team work) - Homework: From speedy posts to deepened energy posts! Deepen your Energy knowledge. You can add it directly in your Speedy post or even better create one (or two) new posts and set internal links to yor new "deepended knowledge post(s)" (Categories: your class, Energy knowledge; Tag: knowledge deepening Check out the teacher's note here >
Reminder
>Keep your class OneNote VZ19A (private section "Tasks") up to date (e.g. direct links to your single or team tasks on The Horse)
>Don't forget to check out the following website for your energy carrier: https://dontwastemy.energy/
>Don't take your info from one single material (könnte einseitig sein!)
>Mind the categories!
>Put challenging/interesting questions
>On The Horse =>for smaller line spacing =>Shift + Enter
To learn more about the use of hydro energy in Switzerland we've put up a link from the official website of the governement.
- about 57 % of the domestic electricity production comes from hyrdo energy
- it is the most important domestic source of renewable energy
- there are about 660 hydropower plants in Switzerland
- the hydropower market is worth 1.8 Billion Swiss Francs
- the federal governement is promoting the future use of hydro energy
Hydro energy usage (bfe.admin.ch)
Jan Tall, Luca Napolitano
The energy carrier wood is a renewable energy source. The wood for producing energy can be taken from the waste of carpenter works or trees that have disease or fall down from storms. How can you win energy from wood? The wood sticks or pallets that are burned, generate heath and this is were the energy comes from. Also something that is associated with wood a lot is charcoal. Charcoal is a solid fuel and is produced when air-dry wood is heated to 275 ° C without air and without oxygen. Charcoal is made by heating wood with the exclusion of air. In 2018, 141'000 tons of charcoal were used.
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