De La Salle University

About: De La Salle University is a education organization based out in Manila, Philippines. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Computer science. The organization has 2951 authors who have published 4374 publications receiving 49567 citations. The organization is also known as: Pamantasang De La Salle.

Review of the development of China's Eco-industrial Park standard system

Abstract: Eco-industrial Parks (EIP) have become a central element in China’s industrial strategy to combine industrial development while minimizing environmental impacts and improving resource efficiency. National standard system has been developed as a main tool for assessing EIPs. This paper provides a review of the development of China's EIP standard system. The focus of the analysis is the new national demonstration EIP standard (HJ/T274-2015), including a review of calculation methods for some key indicators. The analysis also provides a comparison with previous standards to identify the main changes and improvements in the assessment of EIPs. Comparison findings illustrate that the new standard provides a more consistent indicator system by providing a consolidated standard system, and offering more comprehensive and quantitative indicators. Moreover, the new standard aims to better manage environmental issues by supplementing more comprehensive environmental indicators. The standard also strengthens the emphasis of the industrial symbiosis dimension in the evaluation of EIPs. By offering optional indicators and giving distinct targets based on contextual conditions for a number of indicators, the flexibility and rationality of the EIP assessments are also enhanced. Although many positive changes have been identified, there are still some shortcomings exist in the new EIP standard. The paper proposes a number of recommendations based on analyzing shortcomings, for instance further improving of the industrial symbiosis indicators, offering social benefit evaluation indicators, and strengthening the reduction action evaluation. China’s experience of setting EIP standards and indicators may provide lessons for other countries’ attempts to develop industrial estate indicators. In order to observe and effectively promote industrial estates at the global range, several remaining research questions that need further exploration are put forward in this study.

Sustainable supply chain management trends in world regions: A data-driven analysis

Abstract: This study proposes a data-driven analysis that describes the overall situation and reveals the factors hindering improvement in the sustainable supply chain management field. The literature has presented a summary of the evolution of sustainable supply chain management across attributes. Prior studies have evaluated different parts of the supply chain as independent entities. An integrated systematic assessment is absent in the extant literature and makes it necessary to identify potential opportunities for research direction. A hybrid of data-driven analysis, the fuzzy Delphi method, the entropy weight method and fuzzy decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory is adopted to address uncertainty and complexity. This study contributes to locating the boundary of fundamental knowledge to advance future research and support practical execution. Valuable direction is provided by reviewing the existing literature to identify the critical indicators that need further examination. The results show that big data, closed-loop supply chains, industry 4.0, policy, remanufacturing, and supply chain network design are the most important indicators of future trends and disputes. The challenges and gaps among different geographical regions is offered that provides both a local viewpoint and a state-of-the-art advanced sustainable supply chain management assessment.

Analysis of inter-plant water integration with indirect integration schemes through game theory approach: pareto optimal solution with interventions

Abstract: Fresh resources such as water can be conserved through effective reuse/recycle among several industrial plants with inter-plant water integration (IPWI) scheme. Two types of IPWI schemes exist, i.e. direct and indirect integrations. This article focuses on the latter, where the water networks are integrated indirectly through a centralised utility hub (CUH). The CUH acts as a buffer to collect water from different networks, where water is intercepted for further reuse/recycle (regeneration) and/or for final environmental discharge. A recent developed game theory approach is extended for the use of indirect IPWI schemes in this study. Besides, intervention by an eco-industrial park (EIP) authority is included in the analysis to investigate the influence of incentive on the participation of water network in the IPWI.

Flowrate targeting algorithm for interplant resource conservation network. Part 2: assisted integration scheme

Abstract: Part 1 of the series (Chew, I M L; Foo, D C Y; Ng, D K S; Tan, R R Flowrate Targeting Algorithm for Interplant Resource Conservation Network Part 1: Unassisted Integration Scheme Ind Eng Chem Res DOI: 101021/ie901802m) proposes a systematic three-step targeting algorithm for unassisted integration scheme for interplant resource conservation network (IPRCN), where cross-plant streams within the pinch region can be used to achieve minimum resource flow rate targets However, the unassisted scheme does not hold true for all cases Part 2 of the series explores additional material recovery to be realized by sending cross-plant streams outside the pinch region This is known as the assisted integration scheme Appropriate identification of waste streams as the cross-plant streams is an important step in locating the minimum flow rate targets for these cases The effect of pinch shifting and the generation of new waste streams are also investigated