Industrial Symbiosis (IS) involves a network of organizations that exchange energy, materials, and by-products to lower production costs, reduce environmental impact, conserve natural resources. Despite over two decades extensive research into IS, its benefits are well known, but implementation remains challenging. This paper proposes utilizing blockchain technology (BCT) digitize making it mor...

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 the recovery streams ends. Regarding current societal need for a shift towards sustainability, it is undesirable should fail. Failures may be caused by actor behaviour le...

This paper aims to analyze organisations’ behaviour in the Industrial Symbiosis implementation process Circular Economy Pilot Project, Brazil from actors’ perception. We conducted an exploratory and descriptive study with a qualitative approach attain research objective. The data collection involved depth interviews eighteen actors. Data were analyzed using Content Analysis technique. results s...

Steam is a key energy vector for industrial sites, most commonly used for process heating and cooling, cogeneration of heat and mechanical power as a motive fluid or for stripping. Steam networks are used to carry steam from producers to consumers and between pressure levels through letdowns and steam turbines. The steam producers (boilers, heat and power cogeneration units, heat exchangers, ch...

This paper presents a systems analysis perspective that extends the traditional process design framework to green process design, green energy and industrial ecology leading to sustainability. For green process design this involves starting the design decisions as early as chemical and material selection stage on one end, and managing and planning decisions at the other end. However, uncertaint...

This review concerns the methodological challenges that industrial ecology faces in integrating natural and social sciences. Network analysis can be seen as the most promising method to mediate between industrial ecology’s overall systems approach and the complex structures found in society. It is a well established method across scientific disciplines, including the social sciences. It has bee...

The study examines potential opportunities for the implementation of concept industrial symbiosis as a component circular economy in regions Russian Black Sea region. logic solving this objective reflects transition from theoretical analysis concepts and key components to comprehensive consideration specialization territory under forming it. made it possible conclude that there are potentially ...