Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6302832 | Ecological Engineering | 2011 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Emergy evaluation provided global performance indicators that were used to assess the impact of waste exchanges on the sustainability of a sulfuric acid production system (SAPS) and a titanium dioxide production system (TDPS) in Pan-zhi-hua City, China. Impact of emissions was quantified in terms of emergy and integrated into the classic emergy-based indicators. Results show that waste exchanges improve the sustainability of the two systems, although the SAPS benefits more from the waste exchanges than the TDPS from an economic perspective however, the impact of emissions reduces their sustainability to some degree. This study creates awareness and brings new insight to the gains achieved with resource recovery from waste in the interrelated industrial systems, which is derived from the mutualism relationship existing in natural ecosystems. Finally, this paper puts forward some corresponding suggestions.
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Authors
XiaoHong Zhang, ShiHuai Deng, YanZong Zhang, Gang Yang, Li Li, Hui Qi, Hong Xiao, Jun Wu, YingJun Wang, Fei Shen,