Understanding the Evolution of Industrial Symbiosis with a System Dynamics Model: A Case Study of Hai Hua Industrial Symbiosis, China

Cui, Hua; Liu, Changhao; Liu, Weifeng

doi:10.3390/su10113873

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“…Regulations and policies were most often referred to as being important for encouraging or limiting the establishment of industrial symbiosis relationships [85,111,122,169]. While the decision to establish a symbiosis relationship is made by a given entity, the role of policies is critical in encouraging this practice.…”

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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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“…Models developed with a system dynamics approach ( [10], [11]) tend to represent the park and plant level. These models are developed in a top-down manner, but they don't provide hierarchical model elements.…”

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ESProNet: A Model Library for the Dynamic Simulation of Industrial Symbiosis

Maiwald¹,

Kosmol²,

Pieper³

et al. 2020

IJMO

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One approach to a more sustainable industry is the reuse of waste and by-products. In particular, the exchange of resources between companies and the reuse of energy are considered critical, as they are time-dependent and may require technical or organizational changes to the production system leading to new interdependencies between the companies. Simulation is a suitable tool for analyzing the dynamic behavior of production systems to identify and evaluate critical factors and risks with regard to compatibility or feasibility, necessary changes and their effects on the system. This paper presents a modeling and simulation approach for resource reuse and exchange in the context of industrial symbiosis. To distinguish the proposed method from related work, an overview of existing modeling and simulation approaches is presented. The suggested approach is based on the modeling language Modelica. A custom model library with reusable preconfigured model elements is developed to model and simulate different production systems and scenarios bottom-up and modularly and in order to investigate interactions between resource providers and consumers. The conceptual and mathematical development of the model components and their interaction principles are presented and demonstrated. Based on this, organizational interdependencies and their economic and ecological impacts can be analyzed.Index Terms-Modelica-based modeling, dynamic simulation, sustainable manufacturing, industrial symbiosis.

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“…The linking mechanism inside industrial symbiosis can be a bilateral sharing, a cascade sharing or a sharing according to the nucleus principle, which refers to a central supplier of secondary raw materials as a core of an industrial symbiosis [56]. According to [57], the emergence of industrial symbiosis can be identified by six factors: Resource (resource scarcity and availability of waste), government (regulations and standards and financial support), economy (economic benefit, financial payback and new business opportunities), company (short mental distance, trust, security and awareness), technology (technology innovation) and society (social organization or support system).…”

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Sustainability and Dimensions of a Nexus Approach in a Sharing Economy

Schneider¹,

Folkens²,

Meyer³

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Sustainability

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Increasing global resource consumption puts the availability of natural mineral resources under significant pressure. One strategy to overcome this trend is the decoupling of economic growth and resource consumption and the application of circular economy approaches. These approaches aim at closing material cycles across sectoral boundaries. Beside these attempts, there are further options for action aimed at minimization of resource consumption through resource sharing approaches. This study investigates resource-saving potentials on different scales namely on a personal scale through sharing goods and services, but also in the frame of industrial symbiosis through sharing of secondary resources at a company scale. The environmental effects have been quantified using life cycle assessment examples for these two simulated cases. The results show for both resource consumption levels, resource savings potentials of up to 2 powers of ten, that can particularly be proven regarding the impact category 'fossil resource depletion'. The emergence of industrial symbiosis can be identified by six factors: Resource, government, economy, company, technology, and society. The cases simulated in the study are supported by empirical evidence from real-life examples, which consider the mentioned factors.

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Understanding the Evolution of Industrial Symbiosis with a System Dynamics Model: A Case Study of Hai Hua Industrial Symbiosis, China

Cited by 31 publications

References 74 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

ESProNet: A Model Library for the Dynamic Simulation of Industrial Symbiosis

Sustainability and Dimensions of a Nexus Approach in a Sharing Economy

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