Nikos Markatos - NTUA

LIFE+ Environmental Policy & Governance project: LIFE09 ENV/GR/000300
Development of
knowledge-based web services
to promote and advance
Industrial Symbiosis in Europe
31 March 2015
EKT-EIE
Athens

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: 30/06/2014
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Region of Sterea Ellada (RSE) - Viotia
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eSymbiosis Partners
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
Region of Sterea Ellada (RSE)
University of Surrey (UoS)
Paul Innes Consulting (PIC)
CLMS HELLAS SA (CLMS)
Envireco Consulting SA (ENVI)
Coordinating beneficiary:
Associated beneficiaries:
AVCO Systems ltd (AVCO)
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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
materials, energy and water
and the sharing of
assets, logistics and expertise
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Produce a Web Based PLATFORM
for Industrial Symbiosis Communities,
Offering Automation Supporting the SMEs,
Considering Regional Priorities and
Enabling public administrators
(municipalities, regional offices)
to implement their environmental policy and
to monitor environmental and
economic consequences
Main Objective
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Project Objectives
 Consolidate practices and valuable knowledge
base (UK experience) in a form (service)
running on an autonomous basis
 Build features to support innovative policy
approaches, facilitating the IS
implementation as an environmental policy at
a local-regional-national level
 Formulate a knowledge-based approach with a
potential to report measurable social,
environmental and economic benefits
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Further Project Objectives
 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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 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
MAIN EU POLICIES TARGETED
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Benefits & Results
The project work focused to :
 Generate the interest for the new paradigm with the
introduction of advanced technologies and promote its use.
 The delivery of an Industrial Symbiosis platform with
innovative features.
 Produce an automated web facility to enable effective
matching for industry in Industrial Symbiotic actions.
 Create new champions Industrial Symbiosis and advance it
using media, social media practices, creation of forums,
conferences and focused Industrial and technology
dissemination actions.
 Produce a solution based on the industry characteristics of
Viotia to
 reduce the consumption of natural resources.
 reduce volume of waste streams disposed to landfill.
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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.
Benefits & Results
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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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The Industrial Symbiosis (IS) Portal
 With functions such as member communications, presence,
information, forums, and expert blogs for consulting members and
visitors on Industrial Symbiosis.
 The IS Portal is live.
www.esymbiosis.eu/islive
 facilitates
 Business Relationships
Managements
 Business Transactions
 Support
 Used for Training

Distribution of Industrial Sectors in Viotia
Livestock Units
3% Food - Beverage
Industries
12%
Textile - Leather
Industries
6%
Wood Industries
4%
Paper Industry
5%
Chemical
Industries
22%
Industrial Non-
Metallic Mineral
Products
6%
Metallurgical
Industries
28%
Business Units
3%
Warehouses
7%
Other
4%
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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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 The knowledge models are 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
Additional Modeled Information
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Capitalizing on best practices and
state-of-the-art
 Challenge: Translate cases into sharable knowledge
Resources:
 published and free accessible data, regional information for
Viotia
 Approach:
 Build components compatible with reference data
 Produce links with ontologies
 Used publicly available descriptions of best practices in UK
 Approach:
 Selection of best practice cases
 Transformed information in appropriate form to integrate with
ontologies
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 The knowledge model was enriched with 250 Best Practices
bringing knowledge to include:
 Sources
 Uses
 Volumes
Produce Knowledge from use cases
MaterialSource Application
Quantity,
Capacity
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- as rules in material and
process ontologies
Extracting information and Building
Knowledge Links:
• industrial activity (ΣΤΑΚΟΔ)
• input and output flows of
technology streams
Modelling Regional Industrial activity
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· hasWasteType Aluminium
· hasQuantity 300T
· HasLocation
· hasLongitude 23.529999
· hasLatitude 38.322222
· canProcessWasteType EWC1201
· hasQuantity 150T
· HasLocation
· hasLongitude 23.631156
· hasLatitude 38.325086
• Distance Measurement Result: 2.5 Dissimilarity 
36% similarity
Matching Industry A against Industry B:
• Property Matching: 65%

Technologies and processing data
 About 500 processes available for storage
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Applications of Knowledge Models
Scenario of Potential use of Pyrolysis
Question in Hand:
What is the potential to set up a Pyrolysis
Unit in Viotia?
 Process Inputs: plastics, biomass, MSW, etc.
 Process Outputs: oil, biogas, biochar/coal
 What is the local market for:
 Coal?
 Gas?
 Fuel oil?
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Use of technology units
 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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