Web Tool for the Identification of Industrial Symbioses in Industrial Parks
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Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics. ed. / Andreas Kamilaris; Volker Wohlgemuth; Kostas Karatzas; Ioannis N. Athanasiadis. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, 2021. p. 19-34 (Progress in IS).
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T1 - Web Tool for the Identification of Industrial Symbioses in Industrial Parks
AU - Lütje, Anna
AU - Leber, Sinéad
AU - Scholten, Jonas
AU - Wohlgemuth, Volker
PY - 2021/12/18
Y1 - 2021/12/18
N2 - Industrial Symbiosis (IS) is a systemic and collaborative business approach to optimize cycles of material and energy by connecting the supply and demand of various industries. IS provides approaches for advanced circular/cascading systems, in which the energy and material flows are prolonged for multiple utilization within industrial systems in order to increase resource productivity and efficiency. This study aims to present the conceptual IT-supported IS tool and its corresponding prototype, developed for the identification of IS opportunities in IPs. This IS tool serves as an IS facilitating platform, providing transparency among market players and proposing potential cooperation partners according to selectable criteria (e.g. geographical radius, material properties, material quality, purchase quantity, delivery period). So this IS tool builds the technology-enabled environment for the processes of first screening of IS possibilities and initiation for further complex business-driven negotiations and agreements for long-term IS business relationships. The central core of the web application is the analysis and modelling of material and energy flows, which refer to the entire industrial park as well as to individual companies. Methods of Material Flow Analysis (MFA) and Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) are used to identify possible input–output- and supply–demand matchings. The second central core of the web application is the identification of existing and potential cooperation partners for the development of IS networks. In order to achieve this, a combinatorial approach of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and a deposited geographical map are inserted, so that same suppliers and recycling/disposal companies can be detected.
AB - Industrial Symbiosis (IS) is a systemic and collaborative business approach to optimize cycles of material and energy by connecting the supply and demand of various industries. IS provides approaches for advanced circular/cascading systems, in which the energy and material flows are prolonged for multiple utilization within industrial systems in order to increase resource productivity and efficiency. This study aims to present the conceptual IT-supported IS tool and its corresponding prototype, developed for the identification of IS opportunities in IPs. This IS tool serves as an IS facilitating platform, providing transparency among market players and proposing potential cooperation partners according to selectable criteria (e.g. geographical radius, material properties, material quality, purchase quantity, delivery period). So this IS tool builds the technology-enabled environment for the processes of first screening of IS possibilities and initiation for further complex business-driven negotiations and agreements for long-term IS business relationships. The central core of the web application is the analysis and modelling of material and energy flows, which refer to the entire industrial park as well as to individual companies. Methods of Material Flow Analysis (MFA) and Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) are used to identify possible input–output- and supply–demand matchings. The second central core of the web application is the identification of existing and potential cooperation partners for the development of IS networks. In order to achieve this, a combinatorial approach of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and a deposited geographical map are inserted, so that same suppliers and recycling/disposal companies can be detected.
KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication
KW - Industrial ecology
KW - Industrial symbiosis
KW - Sustainability Governance
KW - Material flow analysis
KW - Material flow cost accounting
KW - Social network analysis
KW - Life cycle assessment
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/13a0f11a-379d-3d28-aed1-9f12aa894983/
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-61969-5_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-61969-5_2
M3 - Article in conference proceedings
SN - 978-3-030-61968-8
T3 - Progress in IS
SP - 19
EP - 34
BT - Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics
A2 - Kamilaris, Andreas
A2 - Wohlgemuth, Volker
A2 - Karatzas, Kostas
A2 - Athanasiadis, Ioannis N.
PB - Springer International Publishing AG
CY - Cham
T2 - 34th Annual Conference on Environmental Informatics - Envirolnfo 2020
Y2 - 23 September 2020 through 24 September 2020
ER -