Extending Production Waste Life Cycle and Energy Saving by Eco-Innovation and Eco-Design: The Case of Packaging Manufacturing

Campean, Teofil; Gavrilescu, Dan

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63215-5_42

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“…Thus, this would imply recovering not only production wastes but also technological scraps. Therefore, achieving the elimination of wastes should involve the adoption of all forms of innovations (technologies, products, and services) that are able to reuse production waste as eco‐designed smart new products (Gavrilescu et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

Enabling the Circular Economy transition: a sustainable lean manufacturing recipe for Industry 4.0

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Over the past 10 years, the concepts and objectives of circular economy have been increasingly detailed and become strategic issues of international, European, and national policies. However, the transition towards circular production models continues to be affected by several barriers and critical factors that make the transition difficult to achieve. The paper tries to design a relationship between sustainable production and lean production, highlighting the opportunity to invest in reverse‐logistics and how Industry 4.0 system represents a breeding ground for circular economy targets application. The aim of the current study is to examine the relationships among sustainable production, lean production, and Industry 4.0 in order to evidence the need to adopt a lean methodology and Industry 4.0 technologies in a sustainable development perspective for companies. Following a holistic vision, the authors summarize the production principles and formulas, which, although in parallel, lead to similar results and therefore represent the pillars of a competitive and sustainable business. In conclusion, exploring the circular economy principles and production chain model, challenges, opportunities, and future outlooks are formulated.

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Enabling the Circular Economy transition: a sustainable lean manufacturing recipe for Industry 4.0

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“…For this reason, systemic studying of the core factors affecting this process is required, first of all, to take decisions on saving energy carriers during production. To explore the influence of technological progress on industrial energy intensity, times series of the following indicators are applied: Overall costs involved in technological innovation; costs incurred in purchasing machinery and equipment; technology acquisition costs; software acquisition costs (Khrustalev and Ratner, 2015); expenditure on research and development of new products, services and production methods (Gavrilescu, et al, 2018); staff training costs (Khrustalev and Larin, 2011;Golove and Eto, 1996).…”

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Modeling Energy-Efficient Consumption at Industrial Enterprises

Todorov¹,

Volkova

Vlasov

et al. 2019

IJEEP

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A possibility to reduce costs incurred in both product manufacturing and energy consumption constitutes energy-efficient consumption at industrial enterprises. Manufacturers operating in various economic sectors adopt similar conceptual models of energy consumption, which allows developing a universal solution for modeling such processes. The central problem of modeling lies in finding an adequate objective function based on a sufficient set of parameters and characteristics of the efficiency of an enterprise's power circuit. The article justifies the performance indicators of industrial enterprises' power supply systems. The literature review proves that economic feasibility of energy efficiency is especially obvious if a massive modernization program is implemented. The estimates produced indicate that the largest portion of the potential energy savings is attributed to implementation of energy-saving projects in industrial buildings and other structures. We present a mathematical model designed to perform a comparative analysis of technical and economic features of two modernization scenarios of the heat and power supply system of an industrial enterprise circuit. Performing a simulation calculation based on performance aspects of Russian companies, the paper outlines the advantages of integrated modernization and analyzes the influence of various factors. The results reveal that there is an inverse correlation between specific heat consumption of buildings under thermal modernization and the length of the thermal network. As specific energy consumption in the thermal modernization scenario increases, the payback period for capital investments decreases. The effect of this dynamics is virtually proportional. Compared with total costs for various heat sources, the share of capital costs differs significantly; however, the share of running costs is dominant for all types of units. At the same time, the length of an enterprise's heat circuit weakly affects the payback period of capital costs.

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