Chapter 2: Clarifying the Debate on Selection Methods for Engineering - Arrow's Impossibility ...

160 Pages·2015·2.04 MB·English

by  Urjan Jacobs

Selection and development of innovative design alternatives
Ethical, social and uncertainty issues

Johannes Franciscus Jacobs
Cover design: Hernán Verdinelli
Cover photo: Urjan Jacobs
Printing: Ridderprint BV
Selection and development of innovative design alternatives
Ethical, social and uncertainty issues

Proefschrift
ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor
aan de Technische Universiteit Delft,
op gezag van Rector Magnificus prof. ir. K.C.A.M. Luyben;
voorzitter van het College voor Promoties,
in het openbaar te verdedigen op
dinsdag 19 mei 2015 om 15:00 uur

door

Johannes Franciscus JACOBS

Ingenieur in Biochemical Engineering
Dit proefschrift is goedgekeurd door de promotoren:
Prof. dr. P. Osseweijer en
Prof. dr. ir. I.R. van de Poel

Samenstelling promotiecommissie bestaat uit:
Rector Magnificus, voorzitter
Prof. dr. P. Osseweijer promotor
Prof. dr. ir. I.R. van de Poel promotor

onafhankelijke leden:
Prof. dr. M. Dogterom Technische Universiteit Delft
Em. prof. ir. J. Grievink Technische Universiteit Delft
Em. prof. dr. J. Kinderlerer University of Cape Town
Prof. dr. E.H.M. Moors Universiteit Utrecht
Prof. dr. M.J. de Vries Technische Universiteit Delft

Dit onderzoek werd financieel ondersteund door het 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology
(www.ethicsandtechnology.eu) en het Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation dat
deel uitmaakt van het Genomics Initiative / Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
(www.kluyvercentre.nl).
If you have a distillation column and I have a tubular reactor and we exchange - then
you and I still each have a single piece of process equipment. In the contrary, if you
have an idea for safer designs and I know a way to make production more
sustainable and we exchange - then each of us will have two design ideas.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Chapter 2 Clarifying the Debate on Selection Methods for Engineering - Arrow’s 19
Impossibility Theorem, Design Performances, and Information Basis
Chapter 3 Usage and Evaluation of Decision Matrices - Innovative Conceptual 35
Design
Chapter 4 The Fire and Explosion Index in Innovative Engineering Design - 51
Methodological and Application Issues
Chapter 5 Design for Values - Nanotechnology 73
Chapter 6 Towards Safety and Sustainability by Design - Nano-sized TiO in 95
2
Sunscreens
Chapter 7 Sunscreens with Titanium Dioxide (TiO ) Nano-particles - A Societal 109
2
Experiment
Chapter 8 Discussion and Outlook 127
Summary 143
Samenvatting 145
Curriculum Vitae 149

Chapter 1

If man realizes that technology is within reach, he achieves it. Like its damn near
instinctive.
Motoko Kusanagi – Ghost in the Shell

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