TY  - CHAP
A1  - Schulze-Buxloh, Lina
A1  - Groß, Rolf Fritz
T1  - Miniature urban farming plant: a complex educational “Toy” for engineering students
T2  - The Future of Education 11th Edition 2021
N2  - Urban farming is an innovative and sustainable way of food production and is becoming more and more important in smart city and quarter concepts. It also enables the production of certain foods in places where they usually dare not produced, such as production of fish or shrimps in large cities far away from the coast. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to show students such concepts and systems in real life as part of courses: visits of such industry plants are sometimes not possible because of distance or are permitted by the operator for hygienic reasons. In order to give the students the opportunity of getting into contact with such an urban farming system and its complex operation, an industrial urban farming plant was set up on a significantly smaller scale. Therefore, all needed technical components like water aeriation, biological and mechanical filtration or water circulation have been replaced either by aquarium components or by self-designed parts also using a 3D-printer. Students from different courses like mechanical engineering, smart building engineering, biology, electrical engineering, automation technology and civil engineering were involved in this project. This “miniature industrial plant” was also able to start operation and has now been running for two years successfully. Due to Corona pandemic, home office and remote online lectures, the automation of this miniature plant should be brought to a higher level in future for providing a good control over the system and water quality remotely. The aim of giving the student a chance to get to know the operation of an urban farming plant was very well achieved and the students had lots of fun in “playing” and learning with it in a realistic way.
KW  - urban farming
KW  - food production
KW  - smart engineering
KW  - 3D printing
KW  - sustainability
Y1  - 2021
N1  - FOE 2021 : The Future of Education International Conference – Fully Virtual Edition; 01.07.2021-02.07.2021; Florence, Italy
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Altherr, Lena
A1  - Ederer, Thorsten
A1  - Pöttgen, Philipp
A1  - Lorenz, Ulf
A1  - Pelz, Peter F.
ED  - Pelz, Peter F.
ED  - Groche, Peter
T1  - Multicriterial optimization of technical systems considering multiple load and availability scenarios
JF  - Applied Mechanics and Materials
N2  - Cheap does not imply cost-effective -- this is rule number one of zeitgeisty system design. The initial investment accounts only for a small portion of the lifecycle costs of a technical system. In fluid systems, about ninety percent of the total costs are caused by other factors like power consumption and maintenance. With modern optimization methods, it is already possible to plan an optimal technical system considering multiple objectives. In this paper, we focus on an often neglected contribution to the lifecycle costs: downtime costs due to spontaneous failures. Consequently, availability becomes an issue.
KW  - sustainability
KW  - availability
KW  - energy efficiency
KW  - mixed-integer linear programming
KW  - system synthesis
Y1  - 2015
SN  - 1660-9336
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.807.247
VL  - 807
SP  - 247
EP  - 256
ER  -