1. Secure Management Platform for Shared Process Resources Rachel Lombardi Industrial Symbiosis Committee Manager

2. Quick overview
Topic: SPIRE 6 – Energy and resource management systems for improved efficiency in the process industries
Grant Agreement no
Start date: 1st September 2015
End date: 31st August 2019
Participants: 15 partners, 6 EU countries
SME-led project that includes
the SME leader in industrial symbiosis,
industrial clusters and companies,
academia and institutes.

3. SHAREBOX: Facilitating the next generation industrial symbiosis delivery to process industries through ICT and data intelligence
Industrial symbiosis:
• Engages diverse organisations in a network to foster eco-innovation and long-term culture change.
• Creates and shares knowledge for novel sourcing of required inputs, value-added destinations for non-product outputs, and improved business and technical processes.
• Delivers the circular economy: increasing turnover, reducing waste emissions and primary resources consumption.
Lombardi and Laybourn, 2014, J. Industrial Ecology

4. What are the industry challenges to the adoption of industrial symbiosis?
• Information flow and knowledge of opportunities • Lack of a secure platform including cross-sectorial experience • Inadequate resource information re.: contamination, classification, distribution and availability
SHAREBOX will yield a world first ICT platform with the potential to be a major catalyst for increased industrial symbiosis among process industries.

5. What is SHAREBOX?
A secure platform for the flexible management of shared process resources

6. What is SHAREBOX? Key objectives
To provide plant operations and production managers with the robust, reliable and timely information they need to effectively and confidently identify resource reuse opportunities (for materials, equipment, energy, water, and capacity) with other companies in an optimum symbiotic eco-system.
To identify and realise new cross-sectorial interactions (‘synergies’)
To apply intelligence tools such as input-output (IO) modelling, game theory (GT) and agent-based modelling (ABM)

7. Specific outputs Research Organisations UT, Univ Leeds, ZHAW
ITC- AICE, UPC
Technology and Advisory SMEs
IRIS, ISL
Process Industries and Industrial Clusters/Parks
CCB, Keros, ECI KeraFit, ISSA, Guzman, NEPIC
Market Actor
DECHEMA
Assist to bridge innovation gap
Technological
capacity,
Post-project
Industrialisation
Route to market
S&T knowledge, background and expertise
Specifications
Validation of project output
Post-project uptake

8. Expected outcomes
ICT-enabled next generation industrial symbiosis delivery
New approaches that perform cost-saving optimisation of energy and resources supply and demand
Data mining techniques for further optimisation of industrial symbiosis based on historical big data collected from SHAREBOX
Flexible and secure platform that allows secure sharing of information about resources and energy transactions among industries in a Symbiotic Network and for generating operative actions

9. A synergistic eco-system:
Wealthier companies due to extra income and cost savings
Less waste generation
Cost-effective reduction in resource use
… through …
Identification of immediate, medium, and long-term opportunities for resource recovery and reuse
Industrial symbiosis engages diverse organisations in a network to foster eco-innovation and long-term culture change

10. Expected impacts Increased mainstream uptake of industrial symbiosis.
Generation of revenue through the deployment of the platform
Contribution to growth and jobs by enabling adoption of industrial symbiosis across European process industries and cross-sectorally.
Improved eco-innovation capacity of European process industries
Liaising with their local ETV bodies to identify innovative environmental technologies suitable for industrial symbiosis implementation based on local resources and data.
Cross-sectorial technology transfer: Demonstration activities across 4 different industry clusters in 4 countries will enable technology transfer.

11. Beyond SHAREBOX boundaries
Planned dissemination and exploitation activities will ensure the technology developments reach other interested sectors
Active collaboration with other SPIRE projects to multiply impact: SHAREBOX and IbD.
SHAREBOX is open to collaboration with similar projects and platforms to ensure a greater project impact.
SHAREBOX will contribute to the development of EU-wide shared standards in industrial symbiosis

12.
Thank you!