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...

Secondary Resources in the Bio-Based Economy: A Computer Assisted Survey of Value Pathways in Academic Literature

Research on value pathways for organic wastes has been steadily increasing in recent decades. There have been few considerably broad overview studies of such materials and their valuation potential in the bio-based economy in part because of the vast multitude of materials and processes that can be used to produce energy carriers, chemicals,...

Developing and understanding design interventions in relation to industrial symbiosis dynamics

Symbiotic Urban Agriculture Networks (SUANs) are a specific class of symbiotic networks that intend to close material and energy loops from cities and urban agriculture. Private and public stakeholders in SUANs face difficulties in the implementation of technological and organisational design interventions due to the complex nature of the...

Coordination of industrial symbiosis through anchoring

This paper aims to contribute to understanding the dynamics of industrial symbiosis. More specifically, we focus on the dynamics of anchoring as they can be observed in the Chinese context of eco-industrial development. We define anchoring as those activities that (typically local) actors perform to create local physical and institutional...

Requirements for Industrial Symbiosis by cluster development for by-product hydrogen and regional hydrogen mobility

The Master's programme Industrial Ecology is jointly organised by Leiden University and Delft University of Technology - An emerging strategy for industry to reduce environmental impact is the utilization of by-products. Steel manufacturer Tata Steel IJmuiden in the Netherlands has identified a large potential source of by-product hydrogen...

City Government’s Pursuit of Circular Economy from an Industrial Park: Taiwan’s Largest Feasible Scope of Industrial Symbiosis in Reality

Circular economy is an economic model aiming at decoupling economic growth from the consumption of finite resources. It attracts attention to system changes at all levels, and Taoyuan City Government devotes itself to the circular economy development as well. Nevertheless, the Taoyuan environmental protection park, with the early ambition of...

Industrial Energy Use and Interventions in Urban Form: Heavy Manufacturing versus New Service and Creative Industries

Now that it becomes obvious that disregarding the seriousness of climate change and the exhaustibility of fossil fuels would have severe and unpredictable impacts, improvement of the efficiency of urban energy consumption is of utmost importance. Hence, a rather diverse spectrum of policies to encourage this improvement has been put into...

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...

An ontology of Industrial Symbiosis: The design of a support tool for collaborative Industrial Symbiosis research with as test cases from Tianjin Economic Development Area and Kalundborg

Industrial Symbiosis (IS) in an inter-firm collaboration that delivers both economic and environmental benefits. IS can occur when there are local opportunities for the exchange of an underutilized resource, this means that the exchanged resource is often not a standard product. A non-standard product requires technical expertise and investments...

Eco-transformation of industrial parks in China

During the past three decades, China has achieved impressive economic development. However, the pollution and resource depletion that accompanied China's rapid industrialization have led to severe environmental issues, such as ecosystem degradation, groundwater contamination and smog, which have turned into visible crises. In China, industrial...

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...