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Project
Material, energy and water management in industrial parks: industrial symbiosis. (POL/001/07).
Partners: Flanders: KUL, UGent, VOKA-Halle-Vilvoorde, Interleuven Poland: Technical University of Lodz, (Lodz), Belchatow Industrial Park (Belchatow) Romania: Carfil Industrial Park (Brasov) Eco-industrial parks are sites where different companies work together, according to the principles of industrial ecology/symbiosis, in order to achieve sustainability concerning process management, site organisation, exchange of materials and of energy, utilities management, waste and waste water management. Design and management of ecoparks is in practice however often limited to the collective organisation of road construction, green services, utilities management and security. The aim of this project is: · to document basic criteria/principles with which new and existing industrial parks have to comply in order to be catalogued as eco-industrial park based on the knowledge of the Flemish partners. This will result in a checklist on eco-industrial park design, which may also serve as a tool for reorganising existing industrial parks. Special attention will be paid to the exchange of material (raw materials, waste, waste water) and energy streams (industrial symbiosis) by interconnected companies. · to develop a tool for data gathering on potential material and energy streams in industrial parks of interest, helping in selecting opportunities for the application of industrial symbiosis. · to use this tool for data gathering for the selected industrial parks in order to obtain a number of future scenarios for activities (including innovative ones) according to the principles of industrial ecology. -to disseminate the checklist containing the basic criteria for eco-industrial parks, the tool for data gathering, and the results obtained, by workshops, seminars and educational curricula
Date:15 Jan 2008 → 13 Jan 2011
Keywords:Industrial park, Industrial symbiosis
Disciplines:Sustainable and environmental engineering