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For the last 20 years, the field of industrial symbiosis (IS) has raised interest among academics and industries. IS consists of dissimilar entities sharing and valorising underutilised resources such as materials, energy, information, services, or technologies in the view of increasing the industrial system’s circularity. Despite the benefits brought by IS, though, barriers hindering the full dissemination of IS remain. This paper presents a methodology developed in the framework of the H2020 European project EPOS that aims at removing some of the obstacles to the implementation of IS. The method follows a multidisciplinary approach that intents to trigger the interest of industry decision-makers and initiate efforts to optimise the use of energy and material resources through symbiosis. It is applied to an industrial cluster located in the Humber region of UK. The case study shows how the approach helped to identify several IS opportunities, how one particular high-potential symbiosis was further assessed, and how it led to the creation of a business case. It was estimated that the identified symbiosis could bring substantial economic (+2000 k€ pa), environmental (−4000 t of CO2 eq. pa) and social (+7 years of healthy life) gains to the region.
Hélène Cervo; Stéphane Ogé; Amtul Samie Maqbool; Francisco Mendez Alva; Lindsay Lessard; Alexandre Bredimas; Jean-Henry Ferrasse; Greet Van Eetvelde. A Case Study of Industrial Symbiosis in the Humber Region Using the EPOS Methodology. Sustainability 2019, 11, 6940 .
AMA StyleHélène Cervo, Stéphane Ogé, Amtul Samie Maqbool, Francisco Mendez Alva, Lindsay Lessard, Alexandre Bredimas, Jean-Henry Ferrasse, Greet Van Eetvelde. A Case Study of Industrial Symbiosis in the Humber Region Using the EPOS Methodology. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (24):6940.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHélène Cervo; Stéphane Ogé; Amtul Samie Maqbool; Francisco Mendez Alva; Lindsay Lessard; Alexandre Bredimas; Jean-Henry Ferrasse; Greet Van Eetvelde. 2019. "A Case Study of Industrial Symbiosis in the Humber Region Using the EPOS Methodology." Sustainability 11, no. 24: 6940.
Circular economy is the model the European Union opted for to make its production and consumption system more sustainable. Industrial symbiosis is one of its operational implementation strategies. This concept aims at redesigning industries supply chains by creating new interconnections between traditionally independent chains, new sources of raw materials and new market opportunities for wasted resources. This paper introduces an innovative methodology, developed within the SCALER project that aims at facilitating substitution synergies identification between cross-sectorial supply chains. Synergy ideas are automatically generated thanks to dedicated algorithms performing matching queries on input and output data of 17 industrial sectors. Data is generic and collected from publicly available sources. The methodology’s deductive approach has the benefit of proposing relevant synergy ideas for industries without asking confidential operating data. A total of 1000 relevant synergies were already identified. Development perspectives are to reinforce the methodology with additional technical data sets such as treatment technologies, geolocated facilities databases and European economic activity/waste codes.
Ogé Stéphane; Quintana Jean-Baptiste; Sockeel Charles-Xavier; Leprince Maillère Gwenaël; Mouhajir Mouad; Bredimas Alexandre. A Cross-Sectorial Synergies Identification Methodology for Industrial Symbiosis. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2019, 229 -240.
AMA StyleOgé Stéphane, Quintana Jean-Baptiste, Sockeel Charles-Xavier, Leprince Maillère Gwenaël, Mouhajir Mouad, Bredimas Alexandre. A Cross-Sectorial Synergies Identification Methodology for Industrial Symbiosis. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2019; ():229-240.
Chicago/Turabian StyleOgé Stéphane; Quintana Jean-Baptiste; Sockeel Charles-Xavier; Leprince Maillère Gwenaël; Mouhajir Mouad; Bredimas Alexandre. 2019. "A Cross-Sectorial Synergies Identification Methodology for Industrial Symbiosis." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 229-240.