Carbon Accounting and Sustainable Designs in Product Lifecycle Management

ABOUT THE COURSE: This course offers an overview of Product Lifecycle technologies and Carbon Capture and Storage. This content is designed for a wide-ranging audience with a keen interest in energy, sustainability, and climate change. The objective is to identify carbon-negative solutions, therefore achieving a state of carbon balance in the 21st century. Carbon Capture and Storage guarantees the security and feasibility of affordable and easily obtainable fossil fuels while adhering to the guidelines set forth in the 2015 Paris Climate Change agreement. The first part of the course talks about the emission of the carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by firmly and permanently sequestering it beneath. This course acts as a bridge between the latest breakthroughs in science, engineering, geology, policy, and economics and the wider public. A practical approach in designing, developing, and running the DSS models in order to track, store and account the Carbon is presented. A working prototype is demonstrated for the better understanding of the students. The aim is to encourage further exploration of possible strategies to alleviate climate change.INTENDED AUDIENCE: Students of all Engineering and Science disciplines.PREREQUISITES: The student should have completed two semesters of UG Engineering or Science program.INDUSTRY SUPPORT: TCS, Accenture, Tech Mahindra, Capgemini India Pvt Ltd., Genpact.

Week 1:

• Productivity vs sustainability
• Transformation process and SDGs
• Carbon Accounting principles
• Carbon Footprint

Week 2:

• Direct Carbon emissions
• Indirect Carbon emissions
• Carbon Dioxide Utilization
• Carbon Negative Technologies

Week 3:

• Green Product Development
• Connected Development Process
• Carbon Sequestration - 1
• Carbon Sequestration technologies

Week 4:

• Carbon Sinks
• Carbon Sequestration examples
• Carbon neutral processes
• Carbon neutral product/process design

Week 5:

• Introduction to Product Lifecycle Management(PLM)
• Manufacturing Process
• PLM components
• Levels of PLM

Week 6:

• Ecosystem in PLM
• Meetings of PLM and SLM
• Digitalization in PLM
• PLM Data Analytics

Week 7:

• Carbon Transformation Process
• Traceability of Carbon
• Carbon Traceability in PLM - 1
• Carbon Traceability in PLM – 2, Software demonstration

Week 8:

• ESG Frameworks
• Carbon Footprint Assessment
• Emission Reduction Strategies
• Carbon Accounting Strategies

Week 9:

• Capturing emissions data
• Decisions on 6R – Reduce,Reuse,Recycle,Refuse,Repair,Re-innovate,
• Examples of 6R initiatives in SDG
• Modeling Global Warming Potential (GWP)

Week 10:

• Energy System Modelling
• Prototype Models
• UI of Energy Modeling
• UI characteristics,with Visual Demonstration

Week 11:

• Carbon Accounting and Databases
• Auditorial database features
• Creating Database-1
• Creating Database-2

Week 12:

• Models rendering
• Capture Model
• Grid Model
• Summarizing the results