Développement dune méthodologie permettant lidentification, la mise en place et lévaluation de symbioses industrielles pour des sites industriels du secteur de la pétrochimie (thèse 2017 - 2020)
Publications scientifiques au M2P2
2021
Francisco Mendez-Alva, Hélène Cervo, Gorazd Krese, Greet van Eetvelde. Industrial symbiosis profiles in energy-intensive industries: Sectoral insights from open databases. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021, 314, pp.128031. ⟨10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128031⟩. ⟨hal-03597672⟩ Plus de détails...
Process industries are the foundation of the European economy, transforming raw materials into building blocks for strategic products and applications in today's society. Such industries range from steel, cement, or minerals to chemicals such as lubricants for wind turbines and polymers that prevent waste in logistic supply chains. The downside of this foundation industry is its high environmental impact regarding emissions, and intensive use of energy and resources. One of the key strategies to address such challenges is industrial symbiosis: various industries establish collective efforts to find value while transitioning to a more circular economy. This paper presents an exploratory analysis of databases on IS case studies. We used the European standard classification for economic activities (NACE) to draw industrial sector profiles for the most relevant energy-intensive industries: chemicals, steel, and cement, coupled with urban synergies. The majority of the synergies includes the chemicals sector with most commonly shared streams being energy, water, and carbon dioxide. IS cases are ranked in terms of frequency, then classified in topical groups and finally, the sustainability impact of the different categories is discussed. The outcome is a methodology to frame and assess industrial symbiosis case collections useful for future exploring and exploiting circularity projects in public and private organisations.
Francisco Mendez-Alva, Hélène Cervo, Gorazd Krese, Greet van Eetvelde. Industrial symbiosis profiles in energy-intensive industries: Sectoral insights from open databases. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021, 314, pp.128031. ⟨10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128031⟩. ⟨hal-03597672⟩
Francisco Mendez-Alva, Hélène Cervo, Gorazd Krese, Greet van Eetvelde. Industrial symbiosis profiles in energy-intensive industries: Sectoral insights from open databases. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021, 314, pp.128031. ⟨10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128031⟩. ⟨hal-03514699⟩ Plus de détails...
Process industries are the foundation of the European economy, transforming raw materials into building blocks for strategic products and applications in today's society. Such industries range from steel, cement, or minerals to chemicals such as lubricants for wind turbines and polymers that prevent waste in logistic supply chains. The downside of this foundation industry is its high environmental impact regarding emissions, and intensive use of energy and resources. One of the key strategies to address such challenges is industrial symbiosis: various industries establish collective efforts to find value while transitioning to a more circular economy. This paper presents an exploratory analysis of databases on IS case studies. We used the European standard classification for economic activities (NACE) to draw industrial sector profiles for the most relevant energy-intensive industries: chemicals, steel, and cement, coupled with urban synergies. The majority of the synergies includes the chemicals sector with most commonly shared streams being energy, water, and carbon dioxide. IS cases are ranked in terms of frequency, then classified in topical groups and finally, the sustainability impact of the different categories is discussed. The outcome is a methodology to frame and assess industrial symbiosis case collections useful for future exploring and exploiting circularity projects in public and private organisations.
Francisco Mendez-Alva, Hélène Cervo, Gorazd Krese, Greet van Eetvelde. Industrial symbiosis profiles in energy-intensive industries: Sectoral insights from open databases. Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021, 314, pp.128031. ⟨10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128031⟩. ⟨hal-03514699⟩
Hélène Cervo, Jean-Henry Ferrasse, Bernard Descales, Greet van Eetvelde. Blueprint: A methodology facilitating data exchanges to enhance the detection of industrial symbiosis opportunities – application to a refinery. Chemical Engineering Science, 2020, 211, pp.115254. ⟨10.1016/j.ces.2019.115254⟩. ⟨hal-02319708⟩ Plus de détails...
The European Union (EU) has put the concept of circularity at the heart of its strategy for transitioning towards a low-carbon economy and reducing the use of virgin resources. Concrete measures, such as clarifying rules on co-products or supporting innovative projects, have been taken in order to promote Industrial Symbiosis (IS)-turning one industry's co-product into another industry's raw material. However, one of the main barriers to the democratisation of IS remains the exchange of (confidential) data between industrial partners. Here, the concept of industrial sector blueprints is presented as a solution in order to overcome the challenge of sharing information across industrial sectors. A blueprint is constituted of a series of profiles providing insights on the key inputs and outputs of a given industry in terms of thermal and electrical energy, materials and services. A heuristic and comprehensive methodology is presented detailing a step-by-step approach for building the profiles and the type of data required. It is applied to a typical refinery demonstrating the efficiency of the method and showing how it can be used in an IS context.
Hélène Cervo, Jean-Henry Ferrasse, Bernard Descales, Greet van Eetvelde. Blueprint: A methodology facilitating data exchanges to enhance the detection of industrial symbiosis opportunities – application to a refinery. Chemical Engineering Science, 2020, 211, pp.115254. ⟨10.1016/j.ces.2019.115254⟩. ⟨hal-02319708⟩
Hélène Cervo, Stéphane Ogé, Amtul Samie Maqbool, Francisco Mendez Alva, Lindsay Lessard, et al.. A Case Study of Industrial Symbiosis in the Humber Region Using the EPOS Methodology. Sustainability, 2019, 11 (24), pp.6940. ⟨10.3390/su11246940⟩. ⟨hal-02395672⟩ Plus de détails...
For the last 20 years, the field of industrial symbiosis (IS) has raised interest among academics and industries. IS consists of dissimilar entities sharing and valorising underutilised resources such as materials, energy, information, services, or technologies in the view of increasing the industrial system's circularity. Despite the benefits brought by IS, though, barriers hindering the full dissemination of IS remain. This paper presents a methodology developed in the framework of the H2020 European project EPOS that aims at removing some of the obstacles to the implementation of IS. The method follows a multidisciplinary approach that intents to trigger the interest of industry decision-makers and initiate efforts to optimise the use of energy and material resources through symbiosis. It is applied to an industrial cluster located in the Humber region of UK. The case study shows how the approach helped to identify several IS opportunities, how one particular high-potential symbiosis was further assessed, and how it led to the creation of a business case. It was estimated that the identified symbiosis could bring substantial economic (+2000 k€ pa), environmental (−4000 t of CO 2 eq. pa) and social (+7 years of healthy life) gains to the region.
Hélène Cervo, Stéphane Ogé, Amtul Samie Maqbool, Francisco Mendez Alva, Lindsay Lessard, et al.. A Case Study of Industrial Symbiosis in the Humber Region Using the EPOS Methodology. Sustainability, 2019, 11 (24), pp.6940. ⟨10.3390/su11246940⟩. ⟨hal-02395672⟩
