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LIFE+ Environmental Policy & Governance project: LIFE09 ENV/GR/000300

Development of

knowledge-based web services to promote and advance Industrial Symbiosis in Europe

31 March 2015 EKT-EIE Athens


eSYMBIOSIS LIFE09ENV/GR/000300

Development of knowledge-based web services

to promote advanced Industrial Symbiosis in Europe

LOCATION: Greece, UK

BUDGET : 1,763,295.00 €

EC Co-funding: 49.8%

DURATION: Start: 01/10/2010

End: 30/06/2014

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Region of Sterea Ellada (RSE) - Viotia

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eSymbiosis Partners

National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)

Region of Sterea Ellada (RSE)

University of Surrey (UoS)

Paul Innes Consulting (PIC)

CLMS HELLAS SA (CLMS)

Envireco Consulting SA (ENVI)

Coordinating beneficiary:

Associated beneficiaries:

AVCO Systems ltd (AVCO)

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Industrial Symbiosis

Industrial Symbiosis (IS) can be defined as :

An innovative approach which brings together

companies from all business sectors

aiming at

improving cross industry resource efficiency

through the commercial trading of

materials, energy and water

and the sharing of

assets, logistics and expertise

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Produce a Web Based PLATFORM

for Industrial Symbiosis Communities,

Offering Automation Supporting the SMEs,

Considering Regional Priorities and

Enabling public administrators

(municipalities, regional offices)

to implement their environmental policy and

to monitor environmental and

economic consequences

Main Objective

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Project Objectives

Consolidate practices and valuable knowledge

base (UK experience) in a form (service)

running on an autonomous basis

Build features to support innovative policy

approaches, facilitating the IS

implementation as an environmental policy at

a local-regional-national level

Formulate a knowledge-based approach with a

potential to report measurable social,

environmental and economic benefits

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Further Project Objectives

Prepare and train industries to embark on IS and utilize the

service

Deploy the widest possible application of scientifically

verified technologies for IS upgrade

Provide means to disseminate IS in the region of Viotia, but

also in other regions in Greece and Europe

Improve and increase the participation of Small and

Medium business enterprises (SMEs) into IS market–

oriented activities

Reduce the natural resources consumption (raw material,

energy, utilities)

Establish Industrial Symbiosis networks, recruit champions

to disseminate IS in Greece, Balkans and all regions

deprived of government support for IS

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2150/2002/EC: Waste Statistics Regulation

Joint Ministerial Decision 50910/2727/2003 (Official

Gazette, B 1909/2003), (OJG 1909/2003): Solid Waste

Management in compliance with European Waste

Framework Directive 91/156/EEC

6th Environmental Action Plan

Goetenberg strategy and the Lisbon process

Environmental Technologies Action Plan (ETAP),

Framework Programme for Competitiveness and

Innovation

MAIN EU POLICIES TARGETED

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Benefits & Results

The project work focused to :

Generate the interest for the new paradigm with the

introduction of advanced technologies and promote its use.

The delivery of an Industrial Symbiosis platform with

innovative features.

Produce an automated web facility to enable effective

matching for industry in Industrial Symbiotic actions.

Create new champions Industrial Symbiosis and advance it

using media, social media practices, creation of forums,

conferences and focused Industrial and technology

dissemination actions.

Produce a solution based on the industry characteristics of

Viotia to reduce the consumption of natural resources.

reduce volume of waste streams disposed to landfill.

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The eSymbiosis innovative environmental practice will contribute

to:

Trade waste as feedstock among companies, build

environmentally integrated and efficient communities

Cost savings in raw materials and discharge fees

Waste reduction across a wide range of industrial activities

The development and assessment of environmental policies at

local and regional level.

Benefits & Results

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Project Actions

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IS vs. eSymbiosis

Current IS Practice

Manual

Cost Intensive

Expertise Required

Only exact matches discovered

Static Process

eSymbiosis Practice

Automated

Cost Effective

User Friendly Process

Partial Matches discovered

Dynamic Process

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Implementing the e-Symbiosis

Technology Advantage eSymbiosis employs Artificial

Intelligence Knowledge modelling to support the synapsis of Successful Industrial Partnerships

Ontologies classify all relevant information to Industrial Symbiosis, eg. Materials, Technologies, Production Workflows, Geographical Information.

Registration and Matching are supported by sophisticated algorithms.

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IS Portal

Technology Advantage

eSymbiosis supports partnerships, producing suggestions for matching, exploiting ‘technology knowledge’ and Best Practices for Industrial Symbiosis from global experience.

Industrial Symbiosis experts are actively participating and supporting portal members engaging in IS Business Transactions.

Partnership Results and Success Stories are integrated in the eSymbiosis Knowledge Base.

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The Industrial Symbiosis (IS) Portal

With functions such as member communications, presence, information, forums, and expert blogs for consulting members and visitors on Industrial Symbiosis.

The IS Portal is live.

www.esymbiosis.eu/islive

facilitates

Business Relationships Managements

Business Transactions

Support

Used for Training


Distribution of Industrial Sectors in Viotia Livestock Units

3% Food - Beverage

Industries

12%

Textile - Leather

Industries

6%

Wood Industries

4%

Paper Industry

5%

Chemical

Industries

22%

Industrial Non-

Metallic Mineral

Products

6%

Metallurgical

Industries

28%

Business Units

3%

Warehouses

7%

Other

4%

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Prioritizing Industrial Sectors in pilot region

Metallurgical Industries

Mineral Industries

Chemical Industries

Food Industries

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Gathering Background Information and Data

Collection priorities

First Focus on:

Material flows

Waste stream specs

Locations

Extending knowledge with:

Context description

Inspection audits

Commercial profile

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Primary Information

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The knowledge models are enriched with: Toxic waste Environmental records IPPC Techniques Liquid disposal Production stages

Significant Information extensions to improve

Quality of Decisions Physical properties of resources Volumes available to trade Cost of disposal

Additional Modeled Information

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Capitalizing on best practices and

state-of-the-art Challenge: Translate cases into sharable knowledge Resources:

published and free accessible data, regional information for Viotia Approach:

Build components compatible with reference data

Produce links with ontologies

Used publicly available descriptions of best practices in UK Approach:

Selection of best practice cases

Transformed information in appropriate form to integrate with ontologies

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The knowledge model was enriched with 250 Best Practices bringing knowledge to include: Sources Uses Volumes

Produce Knowledge from use cases

Material Source Application Quantity, Capacity

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- as rules in material and

process ontologies

Extracting information and Building

Knowledge Links:

• industrial activity (ΣΤΑΚΟΔ)

• input and output flows of

technology streams

Modelling Regional Industrial activity

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· hasWasteType Aluminium· hasQuantity 300T· HasLocation· hasLongitude 23.529999· hasLatitude 38.322222

· canProcessWasteType EWC1201· hasQuantity 150T· HasLocation· hasLongitude 23.631156· hasLatitude 38.325086

• Distance Measurement Result: 2.5 Dissimilarity 36% similarity

Matching Industry A against Industry B:

• Property Matching: 65%


Technologies and processing data

About 500 processes available for storage

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Applications of Knowledge Models

Scenario of Potential use of Pyrolysis Question in Hand:

What is the potential to set up a Pyrolysis Unit in Viotia?

Process Inputs: plastics, biomass, MSW, etc. Process Outputs: oil, biogas, biochar/coal What is the local market for:

Coal? Gas? Fuel oil?

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Use of technology units Search indicates

206 types of industries that use coal and could possibly replace it with charcoal

196 processes that use natural gas, biogas or LPG and could possibly replace it with pyrolysis gas

45 processes that use fuel oil and could possibly replace it with bio-oil

51 processes that use heavy oil, petrol or gasoline and could possibly replace it with bio-oil

Input/output models provide indicative flows, however, opportunities depend on specific capacities, locations and specific demands!

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Thank you for your attention

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