STAN becomes 2

MFA is the systematic assessment of flows and stocks of materials within an arbitrarily complex system defined in space and time. The term material serves as an umbrella term for both goods and substances. Goods are defined as economic entities of matter with a positive or negative value (e.g. drinking water, fuel oil, and solid waste, sewage, respectively). Some goods have no economic value, i.e. they are neutral in their values, e.g. air or precipitation. Goods contain substances. A substance is any (chemical) element or compound composed of uniform units.

In October 2006 STAN 1.1.3 was released. STAN (short for subSTance flow ANalysis) is a free software that supports performing material flow analysis (MFA) according to the Austrian standard ÖNORM S 2096 (Material flow analysis – Application in waste management) under consideration of data uncertainties. The main idea behind STAN is the combination of all necessary tools to perform a MFA in one software product: graphical modelling, data management, calculations and graphical presentation of the results. The benefits of the application of STAN are demonstrated on the example of a fictitious waste management company.

Autor(en)

Dipl.-Ing. Oliver Cencic, Professor Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Helmut Rechberger

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Depotech (2008) (November 2008)

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