Infra-Free Life (IFL)- Proposal for a Spin-Off Technology from Aerospace into Building Industry

Anilir, Serkan; Matsumura, Shuichi; Schmidt, Robert; Fukuda, Koichiro; Nishii, Susumu; Araki, Mika

doi:10.2514/6.2006-7329

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“…Recovering hydrogen from water could be realized through an electrolysis process, which is well-understood, as shown in eqn (2 …”

Section: Semi-closed Hydrogen Production Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The size of 0.6x1x1m incinerator has four surfaces; each of 0.6m 2 , with a total of 2.4m 2 . As combustion occurs, outside air can be circulated to cool the incinerator and transfer heat through the reactor, and finally into the home regulated to necessary temperature.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The Infra-Free (IF) research studies the concept of a decentralized lifestyle, where all type of solid and liquid waste sources produced in a HH are integrated for source reduction, reuse or recycling, treatment to process and reprocess waste to recover useful sources on-site [2]. It differs from other approaches in a sense that the proposed closed life-cycle system do not depend on environmental conditions like solar and wind power or rainwater; but on waste sources basically produced in every HH, which makes it universal.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A decentralized/self-sustaining (infra-free) kitchen-system proposal with a home incinerator and Sabatier reactor-integrated waste management utility

Anilir¹

2008

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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This paper studies a decentralized process for solid, liquid and gas waste management in a single-person household (HH), in which the kitchen produces less or no garbage and returns valuable products to support its own system. It particularly focuses on two CO 2 -consuming solid waste management scenarios; (1) to use garbage as a power source with a home incinerator to run a Sabatierreactor with an outcome of energy (methane) and water; and (2) to produce hydrogen from methane and water in order to close the lifecycle, which otherwise has to be supplied from outside. Further integration of a hydroponic unit controls the flow of excess gases to produce food, provide clean air while cooling the incinerator and improving combustion efficiency. The volume requirement of approximately 2m 3 could be integrated inside a prefabricated wall so that the waste management utility can be easily commercialized and installed without additional space requirements. Due to decentralization process and elimination of municipal waste collection, process and treatment infrastructure, installing the IF system could serve as a catalyst in the reduction of approximately 187 million tons of CO 2 -emission in the case of Japan; a 9% decrease from the 1990 emission values, where the target is set for 6% by 2012. Thus, it minimizes stress to expensive landfill area; integrating the potential of solid waste into the daily lifecycle and proposing a future kitchen system for everyday and emergency use, both in developing and industrialized countries.

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“…Recovering hydrogen from water could be realized through an electrolysis process, which is well-understood, as shown in eqn (2 …”

Section: Semi-closed Hydrogen Production Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Wwwwitpresscom Issn 1743-3541 (On-line)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A decentralized/self-sustaining (infra-free) kitchen-system proposal with a home incinerator and Sabatier reactor-integrated waste management utility

Anilir¹

2008

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…A minimal single-family installation (4 people) normally includes a digester tank of about 4-5m 3 and a gas tank of at least 2m 3 . The total tank volume necessary for an IF community would be approximately 90m 3 . The primary problem of operating fuel cells is the cost.…”

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“…The primary objective of IF research, is to completely close the solid, liquid and gas waste cycle of a house to reuse/recycle all waste products into useful resources to reduce dependency on physical (centralized) and social infrastructures and, finally, to obviate having to rely on it [Anilir et al, 2006]. Reducing waste and producing energy from it also lowers the cost and environmental stresses such as increasing CO 2 and pollution.…”

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Designing a Small-scale Infra-free (IF) System for Community Applications: Managing Energy, Water and Waste

Anilir

Nelson²,

Allen

2008

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

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This paper explores alternative infra(structure)-free (IF) scenarios at a community level to promote machizukuri (community/neighborhood planning), a bottom-up decentralization approach improving citizen' and municipality involvement in city planning in Japan. Demographic analysis in Japan shows that the population is becoming more urbanized, with an increasingly centralized infrastructure, but that per capita waste generation is increasing because the number of people in each household is decreasing; therefore, integration of the energy, water and waste (EWW) cycles becomes more important. For residents who are unconnected to centralized sewage treatment in Japan, mainly concentrated in municipalities whose population is less than 100,000, there is a lack of alternatives for wastewater treatment, except the current technically-demanding 'joukasou' on-site treatment system. The authors evaluated the 30-year life-cycle cost performance of three current systems with alternative (integrated-technology) IF scenarios focusing on wastewater treatment for a small community (20 households). These systems are; wastewater gardens with biogas production, an anaerobic digester gas system integrated with fuel cell technology and a heat and power unit (CHP) combined with a biogas-producing reed bed system, all of which treat wastewater and result in useful end products-, closing the life cycle with low maintenance, a lower environmental load-, and two to four times smaller development cost than centralized options in both rural and urban communities.

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Towards a universal intelligent infra-free system

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Anilir

Tajima

2009

2009 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Space Technologies

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A new framework for sustainable spaces is proposed. Proposed framework consists of a group of conceptual hardware and software design. Purpose of the work is to solve the sustainability problem for terrestrial and extraterrestrial applications, using key concepts of the computer science, robotics, thermodynamics and architecture. Related to the proposed work, a machine learning method is applied for a household simulation and a new hardware design for remote sensing and control of electric appliances is presented.

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Infra-Free Life (IFL)- Proposal for a Spin-Off Technology from Aerospace into Building Industry

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A decentralized/self-sustaining (infra-free) kitchen-system proposal with a home incinerator and Sabatier reactor-integrated waste management utility

A decentralized/self-sustaining (infra-free) kitchen-system proposal with a home incinerator and Sabatier reactor-integrated waste management utility

Designing a Small-scale Infra-free (IF) System for Community Applications: Managing Energy, Water and Waste

Towards a universal intelligent infra-free system

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