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Objective of the project:
Eco-Industrial Park Environmental Support System (EPESUS) project aims to serve Small and Medium
Size Enterprises (SMSEs) within an industrial park or any communication network, in improving their environmental requirements, managing their resource usage and waste treatment and improving their energy efficiency.
Aims of the project:
• The project aims at designing industrial establishments named as the eco-industrial park (EIP)
• The software is designed as a decision support tool in order to develop an eco-industrial park
• The project provides guidance for waste minimization and reuse, energy saving potential and optimization for the industrial establishments of an EIP
• Establishments of an EIP through utilization symbiotic relations
• The project system delivers a set of guidelines and best practices to the industrialists
• Software will be comprised of establishment, management, financial issues, sustainability and strategies on the design of EIPs.
• The software will be consisting two modules: waste and energy.
• (You can reach more information about the two modules in the Main concerns of the project modules link)
Main project results:
• As a result of the project, decision makers will benefit at the stage of establishment of new industrial parks.
• Existing national industrial park managers are expected to be assisted in the decision making process among industrial parks.
• An increase in the awareness of industries on environmental liabilities and thus the implementation of the EU environmental Acquis within the national industry will also increase.
• Benefits such as, cleaner production, pollution and waste reduction and reuse, energy saving, inter-company co-operations are expected to be provided.
• Utilization of such symbiotic benefits among any group of industrial networks that are using the system
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Waste management module will be concerned about the followings:
• Facilitating waste-resource exchange among the industries and encouraging reuse of products. Waste module will be implied over the waste stream and process by products of the EIPs such as;
o Excess raw materials, operating inventories;
o Waste-Stream Categories of Waste European Waste Catalogue
o Total amount of wastes generated/industrial sector,
o Recyclables, hazardous and non-hazardous wastes within the facility,
o Identify candidate waste, by-product, and resource streams
o Recycled outside the facility (tonne/year)
o Disposed Amount (tonne/year)
o Idle, obsolete, unused or inoperable equipment, machinery and facilities;
o Special wastes such as tyres, electric and electronic wastes
o Construction and demolition wastes
o Out of specification or discontinued products
o Characterize candidate streams
o Identify and contact potential collaboration partners
o Form joint teams with selected collaboration partners
• Bringing improvement solutions considering the Environmental regulations and existing technical documents such as Best Available Techniques (BAT) and BAT reference documents (BREF) of the industrial sectors
• Quantifying those modifications though reliable indicators
• Assist to the industrialists to cope with the legal responsibilities considering the environmental issues
• Assist in waste exchange opportunities both within the EIP or any larger region
• Waste elimination or at least waste minimisation activities and their impacts on environmental and economic indicators (BAT and BREF documents)
The energy support system will be concerned about the followings:
• Energy efficiency of the buildings within EIPs. In order to define the environmental effects, life-cycle assessment method will be used. The life cycle of the buildings will be studied in several stages such as: design, construction, operation, and demolition. The tool will guide the users for optimization of the use of energy sources
• Energy efficiency in the EIP establishments’ processes will be supported with guidance on energy efficient techniques and components.
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EPESUS project will provide a network based information exchange and decision support system to any group/cluster of industrialists towards achieving cleaner technologies in cooperation with relevant industrialists. Use of information communication technologies to create a platform supporting these activities would provide significant positive synergy effects for industrial actors.
EPESUS software will be deployed to the IT infrastructure of the management bodies any Network of Industrial establishments, such as EIPs or Local Authorities. Industrial clusters’ and EIPs’ decision makers and managers, associate company owners, engineers and architects will be the users of the EPESUS Information System.
EPESUS Information System will provide the following outputs and information:
• maintain and manage information on the mix of companies and their ability to use each others’ by-products
- provide a cumulative analysis on the possible exchange, reuse or management of products, wastes within the network to provide a systematic methodology for optimising the resource requirements and waste management.
• make estimations on the waste, energy and CO2 emissions of the EIP based on past statistical data
• provide estimations based on green technology implementation, setting goals for the cluster of companies and individual companies, evaluating the potential improvement in greenness and sustainability of the activities
• serve the industrial establishments, in making micro scale estimations and setting individual goals, providing guidance and support for green technology implementations providing improvement in environmental performance for individual companies and the EIP
• provide a tool for inter-company communications, informs members of local environmental conditions, and provide feedback and monitoring on EIP performance
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