Purpose – Managing the green (environmentally sustainable) supply chain is an important issue for industry. This paper aims to provide a framework to understand and appreciate the relationships of various research streams and topics in this field. Utilizing this framework, emergent research directions to advance the field are also presented.Design/methodology/approach – Published research in peer‐reviewed journals is evaluated using a new framework of nine non‐exclusive, interrelated boundaries and five flows of resources related to green supply chains and supply chain management.Findings – The research literature can be integrated into these comprehensive multidimensional frameworks, which also provide opportunities as vehicles for future research. Research directions are described utilizing the framework presented in this paper.Research limitations/implications – This work presents one potential set of frameworks. Insights relating to other potential frameworks are additional areas of investigation and ...

A boundaries and flows perspective of green supply chain management

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The dynamics of industrial symbiosis: A proposal for a conceptual framework based upon a comprehensive literature review

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01843098/document

Optimization methods applied to the design of eco-industrial parks: a literature review

The designing of heat exchanger networks (HENs), mass exchanger networks (MENs), and water networks (WNs) is a major topic of process system engineering. The WN problem is most recent, and although the seminal work was published in 1980, the real development should be dated from 1994. Increasing public concern on scarce water resources, together with stringent regulations on wastewater discharge, has caused a great number of publications in recent years. Despite noticeable achievements in the topic, there is still a need for robust flexible approaches that will find wider application in practice. This review provides the reader with literature annotations on the WN problem from the year 1980 and follows the format of an earlier HEN review paper [Furman, K. C.; Sahinidis, N. V. A critical revue and annotated bibliography for heat exchanger network synthesis in the 20th century. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2002, 41, 2335−2370]. An analysis of the WN problem formulation also is given, together with an overview of s...

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Review of Water Network Design Methods with Literature Annotations

This work presents a review of the main deterministic mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) solution methods for problems with convex and nonconvex functions. An overview for deriving MINLP formulations through generalized disjunctive programming (GDP), which is an alternative higher-level representation of MINLP problems, is also presented. A review of solution methods for GDP problems is provided. Some relevant applications of MINLP and GDP in process systems engineering are described in this work.

Review of Mixed-Integer Nonlinear and Generalized Disjunctive Programming Methods

This work is aimed at developing an optimization-based approach to the design and integration of eco-industrial parks (EIPs). Focus is given to the management of water among multiple processes in a common EIP facility. Recycle, reuse, and separation using interception devices are considered as possible strategies for managing wastewater. A source-interception-sink structural representation is used to embed potential configurations of interest. The representation accounts for the possibilities of direct recycle, material (waste) exchange, mixing and segregation of different streams, separation and treatment in interception units, and allocation to process users (sinks). Then, the EIP design problem is formulated as an optimization program whose objective is to minimize cost of the EIP while determining optimal recycle and separation strategies. A case study is solved to illustrate the applicability of the devised approach.

Design and Integration of Eco-Industrial Parks for Managing Water Resources

This paper is aimed at developing a systematic methodology for the cost-effective reduction of water usage and discharge in pulp and paper plants. As the industry moves towards increased system closure, the build-up of Non-Process Elements (NPEs) leads to serious consequences on the process equipment. In response, this paper achieves the following: a mathematical model to track water and primary NPEs throughout the pulping process; rigorous targeting for water usage and discharge; a systematic framework for water reduction using mass integration strategies including no/low cost techniques as well as capital-based techniques; an optimisation model for the optimisation of allocation, recycle and separation of aqueous streams. A case study for water management in a kraft pulping process has been solved to highlight the usefulness of the devised approach.

An integrated approach to the optimisation of water usage and discharge in pulp and paper plants

A Property-Integration Approach to the Design and Integration of Eco-Industrial Parks

Summary This work introduces a new approach to integrating the discharges of industrial processes with macroscopic watershed systems. The key concept is that environmental quality models (such as material flow analysis) can be inverted and included in an optimization formulation that seeks to determine the maximum allowable target for the process discharges while meeting the overall environmental requirements of the watershed. Because of its holistic nature, this approach simultaneously considers the effects of the inputs and outputs to the watershed (e.g., agricultural, residential, wastewater treatment plants, industrial, and so on) and the various physical, chemical, and biological phenomena occurring within the watershed. An optimization formulation is developed to systematically represent the reverse problem formulation. To illustrate the effectiveness of this approach, a case study is solved to manage phosphorus in Bahr El-Baqar drainage system leading to Lake Manzala in Egypt. The key environmental and economic aspects are addressed and used to screen plant location and discharges.

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Reverse Problem Formulation for Integrating Process Discharges with Watersheds and Drainage Systems Managing Phosphorus in Lake Manzala

36 www.aiche.org/cep February 2009 CEP Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a procedure for determining, assessing and mitigating a proposed project’s biological, physical, chemical, economic and social consequences on the environment. When the EIA addresses broad goals and focuses on policies, plans and programs for an area, a region or an industrial sector, the effort is known as strategic environmental assessment (SEA) (1). An environmental impact assessment estimates a project’s environmental effects in an effort to prevent adverse impacts before major resource commitments are made (2). This early incorporation of environmental issues looks beyond environmental regulations and considers interactions with neighboring systems and spatial/temporal tracking of discharges. It is important in the selection of design alternatives — once potential environmental problems are identified, the design can be altered or a new design alternative generated to address the concerns raised during the analysis. Recognizing the need for EIAs, countries around the world have enacted regulations covering their nature, scope and format. Although the specific implementation procedures may differ from one country to another, there are common themes for a conventional EIA and for its documentation (referred to as the environmental impact statement, or EIS). The EIA procedure Typically, an EIA involves some variation of the following steps (Figure 1): 1. Describe the project. Prepare an overview of the nature and objectives of the proposed project. The description should discuss the main features of the production process, the selected site, and a basic characterization of the interactions of the process’ environmental and social components. 2. Conduct preliminary screening. Determine whether an EIA is required for the project, and/or any of its parts. 3. Perform scoping. Conduct a top-level analysis to identify the primary matters to be included in the EIA and the extent to which these matters should be addressed. 4. Describe the baseline environment. In order to track any environmental impacts of the proposed project, it is important to gather and document data (e.g., physical, biological, economic, social) on the existing state of the environment, including the interacting components (e.g., industrial, residential, etc.) and planned developments. 5. Generate alternatives and process descriptions. This step involves the generation and characterization of potential technologies and solutions for the project. For each alternative, develop a process description that provides sufficient details about the process (e.g., block flow diagrams, basic mass and energy balances, needed labor, This approach provides valuable insights early in the design process and systematizes the design effort, while reconciling process objectives with environmental constraints. Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi Texas A&M Univ.

Eva M. Lovelady

Papers

Design and Integration of Eco-Industrial Parks for Managing Water Resources

An integrated approach to the optimisation of water usage and discharge in pulp and paper plants

A Property-Integration Approach to the Design and Integration of Eco-Industrial Parks

Reverse Problem Formulation for Integrating Process Discharges with Watersheds and Drainage Systems Managing Phosphorus in Lake Manzala

Apply Process Integration to Environmental Impact Assessment