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Measuring frugality - application to a solar water distiller
Rohmer, Serge; Merabtine, Abdelatif; Bouzidi, Youcef
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Year:
2017
Editor:
Anja Maier, Stanko Škec, Harrison Kim, Michael Kokkolaras, Josef Oehmen, Georges Fadel, Filippo Salustri, Mike Van der Loos
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Series:
ICED
Institution:
University of Technology of Troyes, France
Section:
Resource Sensitive Design, Design Research Applications and Case Studies
Page(s):
459-467
ISBN:
978-1-904670-89-6
ISSN:
2220-4342
Abstract:
This paper explores the concept of frugality to help designers in optimizing the resources needed for the design of products. A metric proposes to integrate the geographical origin of the components which participate at the achievement of the product's functions. The resulting profile gives a global notation of the frugality, and suggests ways of improvement by targeting functions that are less frugal. A case study on a solar water distiller supports the proposal in order to prove the efficiency of the methodology.
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