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    The document discusses industrial symbiosis, which is a systems approach to a more sustainable industrial economy through improved resource utilization. It provides the example of the Kalundborg Industrial Symbiosis in Denmark, where 5 industrial plants (a power station, oil refinery, plasterboard factory, pharmaceutical company, and local government) have developed extensive resource sharing and byproduct reuse over 20 years in an unplanned way. This industrial ecosystem exchanges materials and energy in a closed loop system that generates cost savings while reducing environmental impacts for the partners involved.

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    The document discusses industrial symbiosis, which is a systems approach to a more sustainable industrial economy through improved resource utilization. It provides the example of the Kalundborg Industrial Symbiosis in Denmark, where 5 industrial plants (a power station, oil refinery, plasterboard factory, pharmaceutical company, and local government) have developed extensive resource sharing and byproduct reuse over 20 years in an unplanned way. This industrial ecosystem exchanges materials and energy in a closed loop system that generates cost savings while reducing environmental impacts for the partners involved.

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    Industrial symbiosis (systems approach to a

    sustainable industrial economy)

    • Industrial symbiosis is a systems approach to a more


    sustainable and integrated industrial economy that identifies
    business opportunities to improve resource utilisation
    (materials, energy, water, capacity, expertise, assets, etc)

    Source: Lombardi and Laybourn (2012) Journal of Industrial Ecology 16(1)

    SECTION A. CASE ANALYSIS AND PROBLEM SOLVING:


    Kalundborg Industrial Symbiosis
    The most celebrated example and demonstrated industrial symbiosis is the multi plant
    setting in Kalundborg Denmark. The web of reuse and recycling in this industrial
    complex was not designed but had evolved over the last two decades. This has
    generated revenues and cost savings for the companies involved and reduced pollution
    to air, water and land in the region.
    Kalundborg industrial symbiosis has five partners:
    1. ASNAES power Station- coal fired 1500 megawatts
    2. Statoil Refinery has a capacity of 4.8 million tons
    3. GYROC plasterboard factory makes 14 millions m2 of plaster board annually
    4. Novo Nordisk – a biotechnological company produces pharmaceutical (insulin- a
    major product and industrial enzyme)
    5. City of Kalundborg- Supplies water and district heating.
    The energy flows consist of the following:
     ASNAES pipes steam to Novo Nordisk to the City of Kalundborg for district
    heating and to the refinery
     The power plant uses coal and refinery gas to provide electricity , steam and
    district heating to Kalundborg (replacing 5000 oil burning heaters in homes)
     The power plant excess energy at low temperature level is used for aquaculture
    and for green house
     The refinery provides gas to GYPROC wall board factory
     Statoil built a sulfur recovery unit to comply with regulations of sulfur emission.
    Gas became clean enough to use at the plant as supplementary fuel.

    The material flows consist of the following:


     The power plant’s fly ash is used by a cement factory
     ASNAES desulfurization unit produces gypsum which GYPROC uses in wall
    board
     The refinery’s desulfurization operation produces pure sulfur which goes to Bitor
    Inc. a company producing sulfuric acid
     Sludge from pharmaceutical processes and from the fish farm’s water treatment
    plant is used as fertilizer for nearby farms.
     Surplus yeast from insulin production at Novo Nordisk goes to farmers as swine
    feed.

    Question. From the case, illustrate through a food web


    diagram showing the industrial symbiosis of the 5
    partners of the Kalundborg Industrial Symbiosis.
    Answer: Kalundborg Symbiosis Diagram

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