An integrated approach for the selection of Best Available Techniques (BAT) for the industries in the greater Athens area using multi-objective combinatorial optimization

Management strategy for hazardous waste from atomised SME: application to the printing industry

“…IPPC has been proved to be quite useful when improving environmental performance on industrial processes, mainly by the application of BAT (Barros et al, , 2008Georgopoulou et al, 2008;Mavrotas et al, 2007;Torres Rodríguez et al, 2011). Accordingly, some aspects typical from IPPC-based methodologies have been selected and adapted to SME.…”

Integrated Permitting System and Waste Sector: An Analysis of Mediterranean Regions

“…[8] affirm, through the development of an operational decision tool, that firms should use not a single best available technique, but rather the best combination of several available techniques. The methods and tools for adopting a combination of BAT are also investigated in the paper [9]. Other studies deal with the implementation of BAT in a specific industrial sector included in the scope of the IPPC Directive.…”

Economy and CO2 emissions trade-off: A systematic approach for optimizing investments in process integration measures under uncertainty

“…One example is the optimization of operation strategies of cogeneration systems, minimizing costs and emissions [18]. A number of studies applying a multiobjective approach concern the efficient and sustainable use of energy in industry, but are aimed at the whole industrial sector in a specific region [19,20]. In addition to the mathematical programming methodologies using multiple objectives, there are also other methods for multi-criteria decision problems such as the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) which, for example, has been used to evaluate power plant technologies with regard to seven criteria [21].…”