2025 Summer School on Environmental and Ecological Systems Engineering at Beijing Normal University

授课主题/ Course Topic：

§ 课程A：驾驭循环经济：技术评估与可持续系统的创新实践（7月5日-9日）

PART A: Mastering the Circular Economy: Innovative Practices in Technological Assessment and Sustainable Systems (July 5-9, 2025)

§ 课程B：重塑绿色未来：环境核算与系统思维的全球视野（7月10日-14日）

PART B: Redefining the Green Future: Global Perspectives on Environmental Accounting and Systems Thinking (July 10-14, 2025)

课程内容/ Course Content：

PART A:

Course A: Jul 5, 2025 AM

§ 技术-经济分析（TEA）概述

Introduction to TEA and role in research and commercialization

§ TEA核心概念

Key concepts and components of TEA studies

§ TEA应用

Applications in chemical engineering

Applications in energy systems

§ 成本估算

Estimating production costs

Course B: Jul 5, 2025 PM

§ 可再生能源技术实例：平准化能源成本计算

Worked example of renewable energy technology, towards calculating levelised cost of energy

Course C: Jul 6, 2025 AM

§ 经济评估方法介绍

Financial evaluation methods (e.g., NPV, IRR, pay-back period)

§ 敏感性分析方法介绍

Sensitivity analysis: single parameter; scenario analysis; multiple parameter (e.g., Monte Carlo)

Course D: Jul 6, 2025 PM

§ 可再生能源技术-经济评估实例：敏感性测试与情景建模综合应用

Worked example assessing financial performance of renewable energy technology, and incorporation of single-parameter sensitivity analysis and scenario analysis

Course E: Jul 7, 2025 AM

§ 生命周期思维与方法概述

Overview of life cycle thinking and LCA methodology

§ 生命周期评估研究范式：从低成熟度技术实证到政策影响建模

Research applications of LCA-case study examples from low TRL technologies through to policy impact analysis of available technologies

§ LCA-TEA协同建模：成本与气候的多目标优化分析

Integrating LCA and TEA methods to quantify trade-offs in cost and climate objectives

Course F: Jul 7, 2025 PM

§ 可再生能源技术环境影响实证研究：LCA建模与多指标权衡框架

Worked example assessing environmental impacts of renewable energy technology

§ LCA-TEA协同建模实例：多情景下平准化减碳成本测算

Worked example integrating LCA and TEA, and scenario analysis to quantify levelised cost of carbon savings

Course G: Jul 8, 2025 AM

§ 可持续材料-资源效率分析

Sust Materials - Resource Efficiency

§ 可持续产业-㶲分析

Sustainable Industry - exergy analysis

Course H: Jul 8, 2025 PM

§ 资源流可视化：桑基图

Sankey diagrams

§ 㶲分析建模

Conducting exergy analysis

Course I: Jul 9, 2025 AM

§ 循环经济创新评价

Circular economy (new metrics)

Course J: Jul 9, 2025 PM

§ 循环性工程实践

Applying circularity

§ 全球能源系统建模

Global energy systems modelling, e.g. global calculator, or Osmoesys

教师团队/ Teaching Team

Prof. Jonathan Cullen 剑桥大学	Jonathan Cullen，剑桥大学工程系可持续工程教授，领衔剑桥大学资源效率研究组，创立全球工业代谢分析体系及材料能碳拓扑指标，聚焦高耗能行业效率提升与可再生技术资源约束评估，支撑产业低碳转型决策。 Jonathan Cullen is Professor of Sustainable Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He leads the Cambridge Resource Efficiency Research Group, having established a global industrial metabolism analysis framework and energy-carbon topology metrics for materials. His research focuses on optimizing efficiency in energy-intensive industries, assessing resource constraints for renewable technology scaling, and providing a scientific foundation for industrial decision-making in low-carbon transitions.
Prof. Jon McKechnie 诺丁汉大学	Jon McKechnie是诺丁汉大学化学与环境工程教授，主攻能源系统技术经济分析（TEA）与生命周期评估（LCA）。他领导跨学科团队开发技术-经济-环境集成模型，聚焦可再生能源成本建模、碳捕集系统评估及生物质/废弃物资源化路径优化，为低碳政策与工业脱碳提供决策支持。 Jon McKechnie is Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nottingham, specializing in techno-economic analysis (TEA) and life cycle assessment (LCA) for energy systems. He leads interdisciplinary teams in developing integrated techno-economic-environmental models, focusing on renewable energy cost modeling, carbon capture system evaluation, and optimization of biomass/waste valorization pathways. His research provides decision-making support for low-carbon policies and industrial decarbonization.
Dr. Fanran Meng 谢菲尔德大学	孟凡然任谢菲尔德大学化学与生物工程系讲师，主攻资源效率与可持续工程系统。他开发融合过程模拟、物质流分析、LCA/TEA与优化算法的全系统方法，驱动工业低碳转型。 Fanran Meng is a Lecturer in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield, specializing in resource efficiency and sustainable engineering systems. He develops integrated system approaches combining process modeling, material flow analysis, LCA/TEA, and optimization algorithms to drive industrial decarbonization.

PART B:

Course A: Jul 10, 2025 AM

§ 系统思维与图解法反馈解析

A short summary of Systems Thinking and diagramming; The importance of feedbacks

§ 能值核算：可持续性评估的系统生态学方法

The emergy accounting of an energy plant...for its sustainability assessment

§ 可持续性概念解析：以沼气发电厂为例

The concept of sustainability, Case study: a biogas power plant

§ 能值核算中的系统边界拓展

The role of boundary extension in the emergy accounting

Course B: Jul 10, 2025 PM

§ 系统性思维讨论与图示

Discussion of systems thinking, Why think systemically? Drawing diagrams.

§ 能值理论原理与概念：热力学法则与日常生活系统的生态关联

Discussion of emergy principles and concepts and how they relate to everyday life. Examples of laws of thermodynamics, maximum power, hierarchy, Maximum Power Principle

§ 基地球圈能值基线测算：可再生资源能值量化方法学

Calculation of renewable emergy sources from the Geosphere Emergy Baseline

Course C: Jul 11, 2025 AM

§ 生命周期评估与能值核算：农业化学品单位能值量化方法

Quick description of LCA and its use for calculation of UEVs. Examples: UEVs of chemicals used in agriculture.

§ 制浆造纸系统生态优化：LCA-能值协同建模与评估

Paper making and recycling. Integrated use of LCA and Emergy for high quality paper making and assessment.

§ 能值分析优化循环经济政策设计

Emergy for Circular Economy policy-making

§ 城市废物管理能值建模

Urban waste management and wastewater, and waste management policies

Course D: Jul 11, 2025 PM

§ 能值代数规则体系：重复核算难题破解与动态建模方法

Discussion of Emergy Algebra, Issue of double counting. Static and dynamic emergy accounting.

§ 静态能值分析表构建

Example emergy accounting table: Static accounting

§ 动态能值分析表构建

Example of dynamic accounting: EXCEL solver

Course E: Jul 12, 2025 AM

§ 多模式交通系统能值评估

Transportation patterns (cars, buses, trains and high speed trains, flights) and mobility policies

§ 多元发电系统能值评估

Electricity generation from different sources

§ 城乡系统能值评估

Emergy assessment of rural and urban environment

§ 电子废弃物回收能值评估

Emergy evaluation of electronic waste recovery: costs and benefits

Course F: Jul 12, 2025 PM

§ 能值-经济-货币关系讨论

Discussion of the relations between emergy, economy, and money

§ NEAD数据库使用

Using the NEAD

§ 能值与城市系统关系讨论

Discussion of the relations between emergy and urban systems

Course G: Jul 13, 2025 AM

§ 货币-能量-能值的快速定义

Quick definition of “value”: money, energy, emergy

§ 能值评估实证案例：多领域决策支持理解

Practical examples of emergy evaluations to understand values and support choices (e.g. trade, agriculture, energy, recycling, water)

§ 生物质发电系统能值核算

Emergy accounting of a bioelectricity production site

§ 种养循环：能值子系统作用

Agriculture-breeding-conversion: the role of subsystems in the emergy systemic description

Course H: Jul 13, 2025 PM

§ 生态系统核心概念解析及其限制因素原则讨论

Discussion of the concept of “ecosystem” … the difference between natural capital and ecosystem services. Why is limiting factors principle so important? Species and information

§ 河口系统能值计算与制图

Computing and graphing emergy signature of estuarine system

§ 河口系统能值评估：生态冲击与价值损失建模

Emergy evaluation of estuarine impacts and losses

Course I: Jul 14, 2025 AM

§ 生物质发电可持续性评估：能值指标体系与实证分析框架

Sustainability assessment of bioelectricity production through emergy indicators.

§ 系统可持续的不同的尺度和边界解决方案

How different scales and boundaries address different narratives for the system sustainability.

Course J: Jul 14, 2025 PM

§ 环境影响能值评估讨论

Discussion of concept of environmental impact…assessing environmental impacts

§ 能值评估的替代方案比较与净能值计算

Discussion of emergy evaluation of alternatives. Computing Net Emergy

§ 模型模拟：用EXCEL示例

Simulation modelling: examples using EXCEL

教师团队/ Teaching Team

Prof. Mark Brown 佛罗里达大学	Mark Brown，佛罗里达大学环境工程荣誉教授、湿地与环境政策研究中心主任，师从系统生态学奠基人H.T. Odum，国际能值分析学会创始人。创立能源-生态-经济系统耦合分析框架，聚焦生态系统服务评估、能-水-食物耦合及可持续政策建模，推动跨尺度能值理论在生态经济决策中的应用。 Mark Brown is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Engineering and Director of the Wetlands and Environmental Policy Research Center at the University of Florida. Mentored by H.T. Odum, the pioneer of systems ecology, and founder of the International Emergy Society, he established an integrated energy-ecology-economy analytical framework. His work focuses on ecosystem service valuation, seafood-energy-water nexus, and sustainable policy modeling, advancing the application of cross-scale emergy theory in eco-economic decision-making.
Prof. Sergio Ulgiati 意大利Parthenope大学	Sergio Ulgiati，意大利那不勒斯帕特诺普大学环境科学教授，可持续系统分析与生态经济学专家。他开发了整合能值分析与生命周期评估的方法体系，量化自然-社会系统资源流动与可持续性。研究聚焦可再生能源系统优化、城市代谢建模及环境-社会系统耦合创新，构建多尺度环境管理决策工具。 Sergio Ulgiati is Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Naples Parthenope, Italy, and an expert in sustainable systems analysis and ecological economics. He developed integrated methodologies combining Emergy Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to quantify resource flows and sustainability in nature-society systems. His research focuses on renewable energy system optimization, urban metabolism modeling, and environment-society nexus, aiming to develop multi-scale environmental management decision tools.
Prof. Francesco Gonella 意大利威尼斯大学	Francesco Gonell威尼斯Ca’ Foscari大学教授，担任国际复杂疾病系统动力学研究中心主任。研究兴趣包括环境物理学、环境-健康耦合、系统思维及教育等。 Francesco Gonella is a Professor of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. He was Director of the Center for the Study of the Systemic Dynamics of Complex Diseases. Research interests include environmental Physics, environment-health nexus, systems thinking, and higher education.
Prof. Gengyuan Liu 北京师范大学	刘耕源，北京师范大学教授。长期致力于城市代谢、环境耦合、生态产品价值实现等方面的研究。Liu Gengyuan is a Professor at Beijing Normal University. His research focuses on urban metabolism, environmental nexus, value realization mechanisms for ecological products.

招生对象/ Target Participants：

面向国际高校及科研院所环境生态工程及相关专业的在读研究生，并招收部分本科生。课程结束后将颁发课程结业证书，北师大的学生可以在课程结束后填写学生证获得课程学分。

This program is open to current postgraduate students in environmental and ecological engineering or related disciplines from international universities and research institutions, with limited enrollment opportunities for undergraduates. Upon completion, participants will receive a course completion certificate. BNU students can apply for course credits by submitting their student ID number after completing the course.

报名方式/ Course Registration：

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课程支持单位/ Supported by

§ 北京师范大学环境学院

School of Environment, Beijing Normal University

§ 多尺度生态模拟与环境安全调控技术创新基地

Multi-scale Ecological Simulation and Environmental Security Regulation Technological Innovation Base

§ 区域环境安全全国重点实验室

State Key Laboratory of Regional Environment and Sustainability

§ 国际能值分析学会

International Society for Advancement Emergy Research

§ 国际清洁生产进展网络

Advances in Cleaner Production Network

§ 中国城市科学研究会城市群绿色发展专业委员会

Urban Agglomeration Green Development Committee of Chinese Society for Urban Studies

欢迎全球高校及科研院所的同学们积极参加！

Join us! We enthusiastically welcome students from all universities and research institutions across the globe to take part!