Optimization of Interplant Water Reuse in Industrial Parks: Considering Water Treatment Systems

Reusing water is a crucial part of the solution for addressing the growing concern regarding the risk of water scarcity in industrialized and urbanized areas. This study introduces a tool for the design of water networks, focusing on water reuse in industrial parks. Utilizing a mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) model developed earlier,...

Sustainable and circular development of business parks: A cross-case analysis on the current practices and developments in sustainable and circular business parks in Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands in their contribution to the national, regional and local circular and energy transitions

Business parks are marked as key areas in sustainable transitions, including the energy transition and transition to a circular economy. This thesis analysis what the current practices and developments in sustainable and circular business parks in Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands are in their contribution to local, regional and national circular...

Ex-ante viability of wonder nanomaterials from waste CO2: An ex-ante techno-economic and environmental assessment of CO2 based carbon nanomaterial production and comparison with status quo

The primary objective of this study was to address the lack of understanding of the commercial- scale implementation of novel CO2 based carbon nanomaterial (CNM) production and its comparison with status quo CNM production processes using unsustainable fossil resources. To accomplish this objective, first, a literature review was performed on...

A socio-technical network analysis on the industrial symbiotic performance of water within chemical parks

Freshwater is becoming an increasingly scarce resource globally. The chemical industry is the second largest freshwater consuming industry and the largest wastewater producer. To reduce the freshwater consumption sustainable measures are introduced within the industrial sector, of which Industrial Symbiosis (IS), has gained prominence....

Assessing industrial symbiosis opportunities for a selected industrial cluster under different decarbonisation options: Towards a decision framework

According to the Paris agreement in 2015, global warming should be limited by applying new innovative technologies in the industry in order to keep the global temperature 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Governmental organisations, institutes and manufacturing companies themselves are concerned about high emissions and all together...

Sustainability Value Creation Through Circular Business Model Experimentation: Improving Industrial Symbiosis Networks through a Case Study in the Netherlands

Towards shared refrigeration in Dutch industrial parks

Refrigeration is an important aspect of the industrial world. As worldwide demand for it is growing while environmental issues are being increasingly addressed by regulations, the call for more sustainable practices in the refrigeration fields becomes louder and louder. Currently, refrigeration systems are mostly fragmented, each business having...

Creating Synergies in Eco-Industrial Parks in the Netherlands: A Refined Framework Through a Cross-Case Analysis

The Netherlands is aiming for a circular economy. To transition to a circular economy, eco-industrial parks (EIPs) are needed. The problem is that developing EIPs is not easy. Many industrial parks aiming to become more sustainable and transform into EIPs have failed. In the Netherlands, industrial symbiosis, which is the most important aspect...

Actor Behaviour and Robustness of Industrial Symbiosis Networks: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach

Industrial Symbiosis Networks (ISNs) consist of firms that exchange residual materials and energy locally, in order to gain economic, environmental and/or social advantages. In practice, ISNs regularly fail when partners leave and the recovery of residual streams ends. Regarding the current societal need for a shift towards sustainability, it is...

An integrated high-grade waste heat network for carbon emission reduction in industrial zones

The global battle to reduce greenhouse gases changes many aspects of how we should think of our energy resources. For a large part, the industry is responsible for worldwide energy consumption. In the Netherlands, this share amounts to 41% of total energy production (Compendium voor de Leefomgeving, 2019). The industry is looking into different...

Industrial Symbiosis: Towards a design process for eco-industrial clusters by integrating Circular Economy and Industrial Ecology perspectives

Industrial Symbiosis (IS) is a collective approach to competitive advantage in which separate industries create a cooperative network to exchange materials, energy, water and/or by-products. By addressing issues related to resource depletion, waste management and pollution, IS plays an important role in the transition towards sustainable...

The interaction between an industry revitalised through Industrial Symbiosis and its local workforce: A socially aware exploratory agent-based model of the sugar industry in Norte Fluminense, Brazil

This thesis researches the interaction between the revitalisation of an industry through industrial symbiosis and its local workforce, via a case study on the sugar industry in Norte Fluminense, Brazil. Agent-based modelling is used to gain insights in the case study with regards to the workers’ perception of their own status, power, their...

Creating Synergies: A business process model for the development of Industrial Symbiosis: Combining theory and practice to identify the steps that a private facilitator should take to develop a regional Industrial Symbiosis network in the Netherlands.

Circular economy principles are gaining attention in the Netherlands. Industries, consumers and the Dutch government feel increased responsibility to tackle barriers to sustainable development. The government is increasing its investments to stimulate consumers to live more sustainably and companies that develop circular products are established...

Development Patterns and Factors Influencing the Growth of Industrial Symbiosis: Case Study of Tata Steel IJmuiden and the Surrounding Industrial Region to Achieve Reduction in Water Consumption Using Industrial Symbiosis Approach

In today’s competitive and environmentally conscious industrial society, companies thrive to perform their production activities in the most environmentally friendly way. Companies are moving from individual resource efficiency approaches to broader community approaches. They are now looking for opportunities to broaden the scope and go beyond...

Discovering advantageous potential of Economy of Chain supply chains: A concept to extend Industrial Symbiosis

This report provides an analysis of competitive advantages for a new way of producing and supplying chemicals in a concept called Economy of Chain (EoC). By applying this concept existing supply chain architecture is transformed. Economy of Chain is a modular production concept, with the help of process intensified equipment the reactor sizes...

Life cycle assessment and simplified life cycle costing on Industrial Symbiosis

This paper adopts the life cycle thinking as the approach to assess the economic and environmental performances of industrial symbiosis. A detailed guidance of implementing LCA on industrial symbiosis under four research purposes: accounting of symbiosis, existing symbiosis, exploring symbiosis and comparing symbiosis design options is presented...