| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1514490 | Energy Procedia | 2011 | 8 Pages |
The necessity to follow the rules of sustainable development in the everyday industrial practice has led to the formulation of the concept of an industrial ecosystem mimicking the natural ecosystem, since about fourteen years old. The core of industrial ecology, the industrial ecosystem model has become a framework for studying the interactions of the modern technological society with the environment. The Strategies for manufacturing an industrial ecosystem is a system, in which the consumption of energy and material is optimized, waste generation is minimized and the effluents of one process serve as the raw material for another process. The concept of an industrial ecosystem was based on the flows of materials through the life cycles, otherwise known as industrial symbiosis. In the present study, we propose the mathematical modeling of different industrial symbiosis material/energy. To achieve the following aims: maximizing of flows, reducing the distances between different firms, reducing the wastes treatment cost, reducing the equipment treatment costs and connecting costs, we adopt the formulation of objective function, in which we detailed the different constraints in order to obtain the optimal material/energy flows an industrial cluster.
