| Title | Emergy-based assessment on industrial symbiosis: a case of Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 18484 |
| Authors | Geng, Y; Liu, ZX; Xue, B; Dong, HJ; Fujita, T; Chiu, A |
| Title | Emergy-based assessment on industrial symbiosis: a case of Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone |
| Year | 2014 |
| Published | Environmental Science And Pollution Research, 21.0, 23 |
| Abstract | Industrial symbiosis is the sharing of services, utility, and by-product resources among industries. This is usually made in order to add value, reduce costs, and improve the environment, and therefore has been taken as an effective approach for developing an eco-industrial park, improving resource efficiency, and reducing pollutant emission. Most conventional evaluation approaches ignored the contribution of natural ecosystem to the development of industrial symbiosis and cannot reveal the interrelations between economic development and environmental protection, leading to a need of an innovative evaluation method. Under such a circumstance, we present an emergy analysis-based evaluation method by employing a case study at Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone (SETDZ). Specific emergy indicators on industrial symbiosis, including emergy savings and emdollar value of total emergy savings, were developed so that the holistic picture of industrial symbiosis can be presented. Research results show that nonrenewable inputs, imported resource inputs, and associated services could be saved by 89.3, 32.51, and 15.7 %, and the ratio of emergy savings to emergy of the total energy used would be about 25.58 %, and the ratio of the emdollar value of total emergy savings to the total gross regional product (GRP) of SETDZ would be 34.38 % through the implementation of industrial symbiosis. In general, research results indicate that industrial symbiosis could effectively reduce material and energy consumption and improve the overall eco-efficiency. Such a method can provide policy insights to industrial park managers so that they can raise appropriate strategies on developing eco-industrial parks. Useful strategies include identifying more potential industrial symbiosis opportunities, optimizing energy structure, increasing industrial efficiency, recovering local ecosystems, and improving public and industrial awareness of eco-industrial park policies. |
Similar Articles
| ID | Score | Article |
|---|---|---|
19833
|
Pan, HY; Zhang, XH; Wang, YQ; Qi, Y; Wu, J; Lin, LL; Peng, H; Qi, H; Yu, XY; Zhang, YZ Emergy evaluation of an industrial park in Sichuan Province, China: A modified emergy approach and its application(2016) | |
| 17892
|
Geng, Y; Zhang, P; Ulgiati, S; Sarkis, J Emergy analysis of an industrial park: The case of Dalian, China(2010)Science Of The Total Environment, 408, 22 | |
| 18234
|
Zhe, L; Yong, G; Hung-Suck, P; Huijuan, D; Liang, D; Tsuyoshi, F An emergy-based hybrid method for assessing industrial symbiosis of an industrial park(2016) | |
| 28336
|
Zhao, Y; Yu, M; Kong, FW; Li, LH An emergy ternary diagram approach to evaluate circular economy implementation of eco-industrial parks(2019)Clean Technologies And Environmental Policy, 21.0, 7 | |
| 13020
|
Yu, F; Han, F; Cui, ZJ Evolution of industrial symbiosis in an eco-industrial park in China(2015) | |
| 26193
|
Sun, L; Li, H; Dong, L; Fang, K; Ren, JZ; Geng, Y; Fujii, M; Zhang, W; Zhang, N; Liu, Z Eco-benefits assessment on urban industrial symbiosis based on material flows analysis and emergy evaluation approach: A case of Liuzhou city, China(2017) | |
| 17759
|
Huang, BJ; Yong, G; Zhao, J; Domenech, T; Liu, Z; Chiu, SF; McDowall, W; Bleischwitz, R; Liu, JR; Yao, Y Review of the development of China's Eco-industrial Park standard system(2019) | |
| 18027
|
Liu, Z; Geng, Y; Ulgiati, S; Park, HS; Tsuyoshi, F; Wang, H Uncovering key factors influencing one industrial park's sustainability: a combined evaluation method of emergy analysis and index decomposition analysis(2016) | |
| 19035
|
Dong, L; Fujita, T; Dai, M; Geng, Y; Ren, JZ; Fujii, M; Wang, Y; Ohnishi, S Towards preventative eco-industrial development: an industrial and urban symbiosis case in one typical industrial city in China(2016) | |
| 25765
|
Shi, H; Chertow, M; Song, YY Developing country experience with eco-industrial parks: a case study of the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area in China(2010)Journal Of Cleaner Production, 18, 3 |