Development of knowledge-based web services to promote and advance Industrial Symbiosis in Europe

ATHENS 2012: International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management Friday, 29th June 2012

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eSYMBIOSIS

LIFE09ENV/GR/000300 Development of knowledge-based web services to promote advanced Industrial Symbiosis in Europe LOCATION: Greece, UK BUDGET : 1,763,295.00 € EC Co-funding: 49.8% DURATION: Start: 01/10/2010 End: 30/09/2013 LIFE+ Environmental Policy & Governance project: LIFE09 ENV/GR/000300 2

Region of Sterea Ellada (RSE) - Viotia LIFE+ Environmental Policy & Governance project: LIFE09 ENV/GR/000300 3

eSymbiosis Partners

Coordinating beneficiary: National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) Associated beneficiaries: Region of Sterea Ellada (RSE) University of Surrey (UoS) Paul Innes Consulting (PIC) AVCO Systems ltd (AVCO) CLMS HELLAS SA (CLMS) Envireco Consulting SA (ENVI) LIFE+ Environmental Policy & Governance project: LIFE09 ENV/GR/000300 4

Main Objective

Produce a Web Based PLATFORM for Industrial Symbiosis Communities, Offering automation Supporting SMEs, Consider Regional Priorities and Enable public administrators

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(municipalities, regional offices) to implement their environmental policy and to monitor environmental and economic consequences

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Industrial Symbiosis

Industrial Symbiosis (IS) can be defined as : “ An innovative approach which brings together companies from all business sectors aiming at improving cross industry resource efficiency through the commercial trading of material, energy, water and sharing assets, logistics and expertise ” .

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Background and Aims

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The eSymbiosis innovative environmental practice will contribute to: Trade waste as feedstock among companies, build environmentally integrated and efficient communities Cost savings in raw materials and discharge fees Waste reduction across a wide range of industrial activities The development and assessment of environmental policies at local and regional level.

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MAIN EU POLICIES TARGETED

2150/2002/EC: Waste Statistics Regulation Joint Ministerial Decision 50910/2727/2003 (Official Gazette, B 1909/2003), (OJG 1909/2003): Solid Waste Management in compliance with European Waste Framework Directive 91/156/EEC 6th Environmental Action Plan Goetenberg strategy and the Lisbon process Environmental Technologies Action Plan (ETAP), Framework Programme for Competitiveness and Innovation LIFE+ Environmental Policy & Governance project: LIFE09 ENV/GR/000300 8

Project Objectives

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Consolidate practices and valuable knowledge base (UK experience) in a form (service) running on an autonomous basis

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Build features to support innovative policy approaches, facilitating the IS implementation as an environmental policy at a local-regional-national level

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Formulate a knowledge-based approach with a potential to report measurable social, environmental and economic benefits

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Further Project Objectives

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Prepare and train industries to embark on IS and utilize the service Deploy the widest possible application of scientifically verified technologies for IS upgrade Provide means to disseminate IS in the region of Viotia, but also in other regions in Greece and Europe Improve and increase the participation of Small and Medium business enterprises (SMEs) into IS market– oriented activities Reduce the natural resources consumption (raw material, energy, utilities) Establish Industrial Symbiosis networks, recruit champions to disseminate IS in Greece, Balkans and all regions deprived of government support for IS

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Benefits & Expected Results

The project hopes to :

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generate a critical mass of champions to support the new paradigm and its extended use.

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engage with research and development groups with capabilities to advance the platform’s innovative features.

Expected results:

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An automated web platform to enable effective matching of companies in IS;

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New champions for the IS paradigm, through an IS forum;

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Reduced consumption of natural resources in Viotia;

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Reduced volume of waste streams disposed to landfill in Viotia.

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Project Actions

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IS vs. eSymbiosis

Current IS Practice  Manual  Cost Intensive  Expertise Required  Only exact matches discovered  Static Process eSymbiosis Practice  Automated  Cost Effective  User Friendly Process  Partial Matches discovered  Dynamic Process

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Implementing the e-Symbiosis Technology Advantage

   eSymbiosis employs Artificial Intelligence Knowledge modelling to support the synapsis of Successful Industrial Partnerships Ontologies classify all relevant information to Industrial Symbiosis, eg. Materials, Technologies, Production Workflows, Geographical Information.

Registration and Matching are supported by sophisticated algorithms.

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IS Portal Technology Advantage

   eSymbiosis supports partnerships, producing suggestions for matching, exploiting ‘technology knowledge’ and Best Practices for Industrial Symbiosis from global experience.

Industrial Symbiosis experts are actively participating and supporting portal members engaging in IS Business Transactions.

Partnership Results and Success Stories are integrated in the eSymbiosis Knowledge Base.

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IS Portal

 The IS Portal is gradually coming alive.

www.esymbiosis.eu/islive

 It will incorporate functions such as member communications, presence, information, forums, and expert blogs for consulting members and visitors on Industrial Symbiosis.

 It will facilitate    Business Relationships Managements Business Transactions Consulting and Training.

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Building the technology repository

Technology repository:  Focused on helping the matching process  High level representation of Technologies  Input/Output structure  Drives for Technology data  Regional drive  IS best practice  Integration with external resources

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Distribution of Industrial Sectors in Viotia

Warehouses 7% Business Units 3% Metallurgical Industries 28% Other 4% Livestock Units 3% Food - Beverage Industries 12% Textile - Leather Industries 6% Wood Industries 4% Paper Industry 5% Industrial Non Metallic Mineral Products 6%

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Chemical Industries 22%

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Prioritizing Industrial Sectors in pilot region

Metallurgical Industries Mineral Industries Chemical Industries Food Industries

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Gathering Background Information and Data Collection priorities

 First Focus on:  Material flows  Waste stream specs  Locations  Extending knowledge with:  Context description  Inspection audits  Commercial profile

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Primary Information

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Additional Modelled Information

 The knowledge models are planned to be enriched with:  Toxic waste     Environmental records IPPC Techniques Liquid disposal Production stages  Significant Information extensions to improve Quality of Decisions    Physical properties of resources Volumes available to trade Cost of disposal

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Capitalizing on best practices and state-of-the-art

 Resources  published and free accessible data   Challenge: Translate cases into sharable knowledge Steps:  Build components compatible with reference data  Produce links with ontologies  Actioned: Used publicly available descriptions of best practices in UK  Steps:   Selection of best practice cases Transformed information in appropriate form to integrate with ontologies

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Produce Knowledge from use cases

Source Material Application Quantity, Capacity

 The knowledge model was enriched with 250 Best Practices bringing knowledge to include:  Sources   Uses Volumes

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Modelling Regional Industrial activity

- as rules in material and process ontologies

• • Extracting information and Building Knowledge Links: industrial activity (ΣΤΑΚΟΔ) input and output flows of technology streams

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Properties on Concepts isBiodegradable (boolean) validFrom (date) validTo (date) hasQuantity (float) isCompositOf (link to Products)

Ontologies

isCompositeOf Properties on Concepts PET 22 Instances Restrictions on Properties LIFE+ Environmental Policy & Governance project: LIFE09 ENV/GR/000300 Values of the Properties 26

· · · · · canProcessWasteType

EWC1201

hasQuantity

150T

HasLocation hasLongitude

23.631156

hasLatitude

38.325086

Matching Industry A against Industry B: · · · · · hasWasteType

Aluminium

hasQuantity

300T

HasLocation hasLongitude

23.529999

hasLatitude

38.322222

• • Distance Measurement Result: 2.5 Dissimilarity  36% similarity Property Matching: 65%

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Technologies and processing data

 About 500 processes available for storage

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Applications of Knowledge Models

Example: Scenario of Potential use of Pyrolysis Question in Hand:

What is the potential to set up a Pyrolysis Unit in Viotia?

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Process Inputs:

plastics, biomass, MSW, etc.

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Process Outputs: oil, biogas, biochar/coal

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What is the local market for:

 Coal?

  Gas?

Fuel oil?

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Use of technology units

 Preliminary search indicates  206 types of industries that use coal and could possibly replace it with charcoal  196 processes that use natural gas, biogas or LPG and could possibly replace it with pyrolysis gas  45 processes that use fuel oil and could possibly replace it with bio-oil  51 processes that use heavy oil, petrol or gasoline and could possibly replace it with bio-oil  Input/output models provide indicative flows, however, opportunities depend on specific capacities, locations and specific demands!

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Thank you for your attention

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