| Abstract |
The Total Site - Cleaner Production - Energy Efficiency - Optimisation (TS-CP-EEO) approach proposed by Petek et al. enables gradual research, development and integration of Cleaner Production (CP), Energy Auditing and Optimisation methodologies, and concepts such as Pinch Analysis and Mixed Integer (Non) Linear Programming (MINLP). This approach is suitable for optimisation of the environmental impacts and energy costs within the companies, especially in process industries. On the other hand, this approach does not cover in total all the three dimensions of sustainability: economic (specific cash flow, relative R&D expenditure, specific exploration cost, environmental and safety penalties cost), environmental (oil products used, greenhouse gas emissions, specific hazardous waste, and specific spills), and societal (employees, relative societal and community investments, relative fatalities and injuries for employees and contractors). The sustainability of the industrial plants can be further improved by including resource efficiency (of energy, material and human resources), industrial ecology or industrial symbiosis (in case that there are more industrial plants included in the site), energy symbiosis (in case that there is public sector available as a sink of the waste heat from industrial plants), circular economy and zero waste approaches. Production plants are voluntarily approached to adopt and maintain total Quality Management Systems (ISO 9000), Environmental Management Systems (ISO14000, EMAS), Energy Management Systems (ISO 50001), Corporate Social Responsibility Systems (ISO 26000), and a model for designing a Composite Sustainable Development Index (Krajnc and Glavic, 2005) depicting company performance along all the sustainability dimensions. Therefore, they have all been integrated into a unique management system which is included into the novel Total Site Resource Efficiency System. The public relation is maintained within the Sustainability Reporting in order to show to the customers and public the right approach and gradual improvements of all the three pillars of sustainability and prove that the sustainability enables companies to decrease costs and make additional, "sustainable" profit. As the case study the industrial laundry within coalmine is presented where into the analyses of the plant are included all three dimensions: economic, social and environmental ones. |