Laboratory of Production and Environment

LaProMA

PRESENTATION

The Environment and Production Laboratory (LaProMA) offers support infrastructure to the Production Engineering Graduate Program of Universidade Paulista. The group of Research Line Cleaner Production and Industrial Ecology develops its academic activities in the laboratory, advising students of the Graduate Program (master and doctoral level) and conducting research in the following themes: Cleaner Production, Industrial Ecology and Sustainability Indicators.

The Production and Environment Laboratory typically works with undergraduate, master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral students. Currently, the Laboratory is offering positions at all levels. Project where students can develop their research activities:

  • Area of Concentration: Sustainability in Production Systems
  • Research Line: Advances in Cleaner Production and Circular Economy

Project Name: PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT IN SEARCH OF MORE SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION CHAINS: PROCESS, PRODUCT, CONSUMPTION AND DISPOSAL

Description: The project highlights the importance of integrating production chains, the environment, and society, systematically evaluating the life cycle of products and processes in pursuit of sustainability. This includes agricultural and industrial systems evaluated under a broad approach that encompasses everything from product design, the origin of raw materials, transformation processes, delivery of the final product to the consumer, to waste management alternatives. Planning, management, and quality tools are considered, as well as others that result in quantitative indicators to assist in diagnoses and decision-making in the pursuit of more sustainable production systems.

Project Name: CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND SUSTAINABILITY FOR COMPETITIVENESS: MANAGEMENT BASED ON SYSTEMIC VALUATION

Description: This research project aims to identify and/or propose production management tools based on systemic and objective valuation, using the most important scientific concepts and tools focused on sustainability, such as ecological footprint, environmental accounting based on emergy, life cycle analysis, among others. The ultimate goal is to achieve the desirable and necessary transition to a circular economy, replacing the linear economy of extraction, production, and disposal. Although the concepts of sustainability and circular economy have different origins and foundations, they are interrelated and considered fundamental for the viability of management models based on systemic valuation, making production systems more competitive in an increasingly conscious and demanding market. Carbon markets, smart and sustainable cities, ecology, and industrial symbiosis are topics discussed in this project in light of the social, economic, and environmental demands of a modern circular economy.