EVSC 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sewage Treatment
21 May 2016
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Energy consumption (housing, heating [you would need to know fuel type either wood or coal]) Heating/cooling/light (we buy our power from dominion) Research animals (would need to know how much they consume, how much they excrete, how long they live, how many of them there are) Food at uva is either consumed (ends up in wastewater treatment plants) or wasted (ends up in a landfill, or composted or donated) Electricity at uva is purchased (when burned nitrogen is immediately admitted into the atmosphere) Transportation (uva jet, faculty, staff, and student commuting, university transit system) Research animals (feed turned into waste [and dead animal carcass] that either goes in an incinerator or landfill) *** uva"s nitrogen footprint in 2010 was 492 metric tons of reactive nitrogen. Mt, food consumption: 23 mt, utilities: 234 mt, transportation 30 mt, research animals: 21 mt.
