The paper introduces a semantic algorithm for building Industrial Symbiosis networks. Built around ontology modelling of knowledge in the domain of Industrial Symbiosis, the algorithm enables the acquisition of the explicit knowledge from the user through ontology instantiation and input/output matching based on semantic relevance between the particip...

As the production of biofuels continues to expand worldwide, criticism about, e.g. the energy output versus input and the competition with food has been questioned. However, biofuels may be optimized to increase the environmental performance through the concepts of industrial symbiosis. This paper offers a quantification of the environmental performance of industrial symbiosis in the biofuel in...

Industrial symbiosis networks conventionally provide economic and environmental benefits to participating industries. However, most studies have failed quantify waste management solutions identify network connections in addition methodological variation of assessments. This study provides a comprehensive model conduct sustainable industrial symbiosis, which includes identification connections, ...

Industrial symbiosis (IS) has been used to describe the physical exchange and shared management of input and output materials by geographically proximate firms. Firms that engage in IS are said to belong to an industrial ecosystem. Symbiosis has been found to be motivated by economic considerations, such as lowering costs for waste disposal, as well as by environmental ones, such as accessing l...

Resource sharing among co-located firms--referenced in the industrial ecology literature as "industrial symbiosis"--engages traditionally separate industries in a collective approach to business and environmental management involving the physical exchanges of materials, energy, water, and byproducts. While industrial symbiosis is seen hypothetically as a win-win situation, there are few analyse...

This paper reports on a practical case that involved the confluence of an industrial software development platform, based on the model-driven development paradigm and a research methodology and prototype set of tools, based on the notion of capability. The focus of the application is the development of a web-based industrial symbiosis platform. The outcome is an example of a successful alignmen...

Geographic proximity is said to be a key characteristic of the resource reuse and recycling practice known as industrial symbiosis. To date, however, proximity of symbiont companies has remained an abstract characteristic. By conducting a statistical analysis of synergies facilitated by the United Kingdom’s National Industrial Symbiosis Programme during their first five years of operation, this...

Industrial symbiosis is actively being developed and implemented in various countries as a tool to reduce the negative impact of business activity on environment. There are more than 30 examples industrial world: Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Japan, China, USA, Brazil, Russia, etc. Existing studies have determined that practical implementation concept occurs, rule, two ways: ...

Waste accumulation in landfills, global warming and the need to preserve finite raw materials push governments industries shift towards a circular economy. Industrial symbiosis represents sustainable way of sharing resources converting unavoidable production residues into useful added-value products. In this context, we introduce new planning problem arisen between two units (PU) within an indu...

Purpose: This paper tries to review the exiting literature on Information and Communication Technologies for Industrial Symbiosis. And it presents an open data approach to the Industrial Symbiosis research. Method: Literature reviews and data mining are used to achieve the research purposes. Results: Four insights can be gained from an explorative open data approach on E-PRTR data sets: 1. We c...