Possibilities of increasing resource efficiency in nitrogen fertilizer production

Kliopova, Irina; Baranauskaitė-Fedorova, Inga; Malinauskienė, Milda; Staniškis, Jurgis Kazimieras

doi:10.1007/s10098-015-1068-9

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“…Of the three dimensions of sustainability, the environmental aspect was the most frequently discussed, and the most commonly applied method was the use of environmental indicators [10,13,39,88,105]. The reduction of carbon dioxide emissions was the most frequently addressed in the various analyses [35,36,38,63,70,73,98], followed by quantification of savings in the consumption of resources such as energy, water, raw materials and fossil fuels [9,39,63,88,95], and quantification of the reduction of waste sent to landfills [9,34,39] resulting from the potential application of industrial symbiosis. Life cycle assessment [9,38,63,84,98] was the method most commonly used to assess the environmental impact.…”

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“…Job creation [45,80,120,121] was the indicator most commonly used to assess the social benefits of realising potential industrial symbiosis relationships. The material flow analysis method [9,10,39,88,111] has also been used several times to quantitatively assess potential industrial symbiosis. The environmental and economic components of sustainability have also been used to optimise and select the best potential symbiosis relationships.…”

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The Potential of Industrial Symbiosis: Case Analysis and Main Drivers and Barriers to Its Implementation

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Industrial symbiosis, which is characterised mainly by the reuse of waste from one company as raw material by another, has been applied worldwide with recognised environmental, economic, and social benefits. However, the potential for industrial symbiosis is not exhausted in existing cases, and there is still a wide range of opportunities for its application. Through a comprehensive literature review, this article aims to compile and analyse studies that focus on potential industrial symbiosis in real contexts, to highlight the margin of optimisation that is not being used. The cases reported in the publications identified here were characterised and analysed according to geographic location, type of economic activity, waste/by-products, main benefits, and the methods employed in the studies. From this analysis, we conclude that there is great potential for applications involving industrial symbiosis throughout the world, and especially in Europe, corresponding to 53% of the total cases analysed. Manufacturing stood out as the sector with the highest potential for establishing symbiosis relationships, and the most common types of waste streams in potential networks were organic, plastic and rubber, wood, and metallic materials. This article also discusses the main drivers and barriers to realising the potential of industrial symbiosis. The diversity of industries, geographical proximity, facilitating entities and legislation, plans, and policies are shown to be the main drivers.

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The Potential of Industrial Symbiosis: Case Analysis and Main Drivers and Barriers to Its Implementation

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“…Recent studies (Kliopova et al. , ) have revealed that despite some already implemented process integration and CP innovations in the selected nitrogen fertilizer production company, there is still potential for resource efficiency improvements. A comprehensive environmental assessment is provided in Kliopova and colleagues ().…”

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“…Given the highest economic importance and geostrategic supply risk, as well as potential for resource efficiency improvement, natural gas was selected for further analysis. After performing material and energy flow analysis, evaluating environmental performance in terms of environmental indicators, Kliopova and colleagues (2014, ) determined that development of symbiotic links would allow utilizing waste heat from fertilizer production and therefore decrease energy intensity. Moreover, the possibility to partly substituted natural gas by renewable resources was identified.…”

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Geostrategic Supply Risk and Economic Importance as Drivers for Implementation of Industrial Ecology Measures in a Nitrogen Fertilizer Production Company

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Summary Among other concerns, safeguarding the supply chains of raw materials is an important task for industrial companies. Therefore, not surprisingly, the number of scientific publications concerning the evaluation of resource criticality has increased in recent years. However, it was noticed that currently published methodologies are too complex to be applied by industrial companies on a daily basis. For this reason, the need to develop a methodology that would allow not only assessing resource criticality, but could also be integrated into widely applied methodological frameworks as an additional driver to improve resource efficiency was identified. Geostrategic supply risk and economic importance were chosen as key indicators to analyze and assess relative resource criticality. The developed methodology was field tested by applying it to a resource‐intensive nitrogen fertilizer production company. Five scenarios for resource efficiency improvements, consisting of cleaner production and industrial symbiosis measures, were investigated. If all the proposed measures were implemented, consumption of natural gas would decrease by 3.552 million cubic meters per year (0.3% of the total consumption). However, not all identified measures contribute to a reduction of the overall criticality of resources for the production company. Nevertheless, the integration of criticality assessments into the widely applied methodologies for development and implementation of resource efficiency innovations is a valuable addition and should be included in the analysis for sustainable innovations and development.

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Socio-Environmental-Economic Transformations Towards Sustainable Development

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2022

World Sustainability Series

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Possibilities of increasing resource efficiency in nitrogen fertilizer production

Cited by 29 publications

References 21 publications

The Potential of Industrial Symbiosis: Case Analysis and Main Drivers and Barriers to Its Implementation

The Potential of Industrial Symbiosis: Case Analysis and Main Drivers and Barriers to Its Implementation

Geostrategic Supply Risk and Economic Importance as Drivers for Implementation of Industrial Ecology Measures in a Nitrogen Fertilizer Production Company

Socio-Environmental-Economic Transformations Towards Sustainable Development

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