Participants will be exposed to carbon footprinting, energy auditing. water auditing, waste auditing, life cycle assessment, product stewardship principles and green buildings. Detailed course coverage:
Climate change and carbon footprinting
- What is climate change
- What is global warming
- GHG management system
- Approach to GHG management
- ISO 14064 standards
- GHG protocol
- Inventorization – Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3
- Assignment on carbon footprinting
- How to achieve carbon neutrality / carbon positivity
Energy Efficiency and Energy Auditing
- Importance of energy efficiency
- Difference between energy efficiency and energy conservation
- Approach to energy management
- ISO 50001
- How to audit an electrical system
- Transformers
- Motors
- Lighting system
- How to audit a mechanical system
- Calculation of specific energy consumption for facility and systems
- Energy audit instrumentation
Water Conservation
- Importance of water conservation
- How to come up with water balance diagram
- Water audit instrumentation
- Specific water consumption & benchmarking
- How to reduce domestic water consumption
- wastewater treatment technologies
- How to achieve water neutrality / water positivity
- Beyond the fence water initiatives
Waste management, material conservation and MFCA
- How to define waste and what is waste
- Waste management rules and regulations
- Solid waste management – Management approach, latest technologies
- Liquid waste management – Latest technologies
- Gaseous waste management – Latest regulations and technologies
- Material conservation and its approach
- Material Flow Cost Accounting to complement material conservation
Renewable energy
- India's current scenario in RE
- Factors assisting and affecting the growth RE in India
- Energy storage technologies
- Solar energy – cost, operation and regulations promoting solar energy
- Wind energy – cost, operation and regulations promoting solar energy
- Biomass – cost, operation and regulations promoting solar energy
- Hydel energy – cost, operation and regulations promoting solar energy
- Comparison coal based, solar and wind energy
- Renewable Purchase Obligation RPO
- Renewable Energy Certificates REC
- Solar rooftop - Net metering and gross metering
Life Cycle Assesment and Product Stewardship
- Understanding Life Cycle Assessment
- Importance of life cycle assessment in environmental management and achieving sustainability goals
- The definition of life cycle thinking LCT and life cycle management LCM
- ISO 14040 LCA Framework – Goal & Scope, Life Cycle Inventory, Life Cycle Impact and Interpretation
- Case studies – Application of LCA concepts in decision making
- Product Stewardship
- The role of single issue approaches, such as carbon footprint
- Environmental Product Declaration
- Eco labelling, Types of ecolabel and how they are connected to LCA
- Assignment on LCA
Green Buildings
- What are green buildings
- What are the environmental touchpoints of a built environment
- Comparison of green buildings and conventional buildings
- Advantages of constructing a green building
- Case studies
