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The EPOS project - Enhanced energy and resource Efficiency and Performance in process industry Operations via onsite and cross-sectorial Symbiosis - brings together 5 global process industries from 5 key relevant sectors: steel, cement, chemicals, minerals and engineering.
EPOS's main objective is to enable cross-sectorial Industrial Symbiosis (IS) and provide a wide range of technological and organisational options for making business and operations more efficient, more cost-effective, more competitive and more sustainable across process sectors.
For more information on the EPOS Toolbox and industrial symbiosis, take a look at the EPOS User Club.https://epos.userecho.com
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Out of the community created by SPIRE covering industrial and research actors throughout Europe, the EPOS project brings together 5 global process industries from 5 key relevant sectors: steel, cement, chemicals, minerals and engineering. Together they represent 166 bn € in sales with 75% of their production located in Europe. The 5 industries joined forces with 2 excellent science institutes and 5 highly R&I minded SMEs, building the EPOS consortium with Ghent University as coordinator.
With the aim of reinforcing competitiveness of the EU industry, it is the ambition of the EPOS partners to gain cross-sectorial knowledge and investigate cluster opportunities using an innovative Industrial Symbiosis (IS) platform to be developed and validated during the project. The main objective is to enable cross-sectorial IS and provide a wide range of technological and organisational options for making business and operations more efficient, more cost-effective, more competitive and more sustainable across process sectors. The expected impact is clearly in line with the SPIRE roadmap - and sector associations, city councils (in the districts where EPOS is deployed), the SPIRE PPP as well as standardisation bodies are committed to participate in the EPOS transdisciplinary advisory board.
The EPOS project spans 48 months and its structure builds on activities that ensure the project challenge is addressed in an optimal way, including:
An entire work package is dedicated to define realistic business scenarios for the exploitation of the EPOS tool and the proven, overall cost-reducing IS cluster activities, in view of a wide uptake and a broad EPOS outreach.
The overall EPOS work plan is divided into 8 Work Packages (WPs):
The EPOS project brings together 5 global process industries, 5 highly R&I minded SMEs and 2 excellent science institutes.
Here is a list of the various partners of the EPOS project:
Key EPOS deliverables are:
DELIVERABLE 1.1
Preliminary SWOT analysis of the EPOS sites and their cluster potential
DELIVERABLE 1.2
Preliminary SWOT analysis of the EPOS sites and their cluster potential (II)
DELIVERABLE 1.3
Preliminary SWOT analysis of the EPOS sites and their cluster potential (III)
DELIVERABLE 1.4
Long-list of metrics and system setting for industrial symbiosis
DELIVERABLE 1.5
Long-list of metrics and system settings for IS II
DELIVERABLE 1.6
Long-list of metrics and system settings for IS III
DELIVERABLE 2.1
Sectorial and cross-sectorial Key Performance Indexes (KPIs)
DELIVERABLE 2.2
Map of potential IS streams and activities
DELIVERABLE 2.3
Sector blueprints and virtual marketplaces
DELIVERABLE 2.4
Sector reports on data collection
DELIVERABLE 2.5
Sector blueprints and IS potential including cost benefits
DELIVERABLE 3.1
Technical metodology for cross-sectorial industrial symbiosis
DELIVERABLE 3.2
Non-technical IS methodology and EPOS footprinter 1
DELIVERABLE 3.3
Technology and management database for cross-sectorial industrial symbiosis
DELIVERABLE 3.4
Simple and single IS management tool
DELIVERABLE 3.5
Technical methodology for cross-sectorial IS II
DELIVERABLE 3.6
EPOS Tool Box
DELIVERABLE 3.7
EPOS Tool Box and IS tool
DELIVERABLE 3.8
Non-technical IS methodology and EPOS footprinter (II)
DELIVERABLE 4.1
Exemplary report on the ArcelorMittal District Cluster
DELIVERABLE 4.2
Generic IS assessment matrix
DELIVERABLE 4.3
Review generic IS assessment matrix
DELIVERABLE 4.4
Overall cost reduction at AM Dunkirk demo site
DELIVERABLE 4.5
Feed-back on ArcelorMittal Industrial Symbiosis data feed into EPOS tool
DELIVERABLE 5.1
Checklist of criteria/conditions for successful industrial symbiosis
DELIVERABLE 5.2
Simulated IS potential study per cross-sector (I)
DELIVERABLE 5.3
Simulated IS potential study per cross-sector (II)
DELIVERABLE 5.4
Generic IS validation scheme
DELIVERABLE 5.5
Operational validation of the EPOS tool
DELIVERABLE 6.1
EPOS tool market study
DELIVERABLE 6.2
EPOS tool business scenarios
DELIVERABLE 6.3
Industrial symbiosis guide for conceptualising business relations
DELIVERABLE 6.4
Policy recommendations to support industrial symbiosis activities in Europe
DELIVERABLE 6.5
Footprint calculation
DELIVERABLE 6.6
Final exploitation activites report
DELIVERABLE 7.2
Course & manual for Osmose and EPOS tools 1
DELIVERABLE 7.3
Course & manual for Osmose and EPOS tools (II)
DELIVERABLE 7.6
EPOS User Club
INSIGHT #1
Market Study
INSIGHT #2
Analysis of 5 European industrial clusters
INSIGHT #3
Key performance indicators for industries
INSIGHT #4
Data collection in the industries
INSIGHT #5
Dunkirk: EPOS demo site
INSIGHT #6
Industrial Symbiosis in the Humber Region
An introduction to virtual sector profiles
Minerals Blueprint
Industrial Symbiosis in the Fos-sur-Mer region (FR): ArcelorMittal (Fos-sur-Mer) and INEOS (Lavera) - Business Case 1, Naphthalened Gasoil
Industrial Symbiosis in the Fos-sur-Mer region (FR): ArcelorMittal (Fos-sur-Mer) and INEOS (Lavera) - Business Case 2, Coke
Generic industrial symbiosis validation scheme
Steel Blueprint - A generic material and energy profile for steel plants (BF-BOF ROUTE)
Industrial Symbiosis between minerals and paper
Chemical Blueprint
Cement Blueprint
INSIGHT #16
Industrial symbiosis in the Fos-Sur-Mer region (FR): "Neutral User" experience on energy integration
INSIGHT #17
Industrial symbiosis generic cases and EU impact potential
INSIGHT #18
INSIGHT #19
Industrial symbiosis from a process industry perspective
Interim Report
September 2015 to March 2017
Review of successful IS methods and systems for the steel industry
March 2018
Review of successful IS methods and systems for the cement industry
January 2019
Case Watch 01:
Waste fuel valorisation
Case Watch 02:
CO2 use for mineralisation
Case Watch 03:
District heating
Case Watch 04:
Energy optimisation
Case Watch 05:
Wind power sharing
Case Watch 06:
Coke valorisation
Case Watch 07:
Solar power cogeneration
Case Watch 08:
Industrial heat networks
Case Watch 09:
Industrial water networks
Case Watch 10:
Co-product valorisation (mineralisation)
Case Watch 11:
Co-product valorisation (cement)
Case Watch 12:
Demand side response
Case Watch 13:
CO valorisation from steel
Case Watch 14:
Industrial CO2 capture and utilisation
Case Watch 15:
Waste water treatment
Case Watch 16:
Case Watch 17:
Waste plastic valorisation in steel
Case Watch 18:
Solar heat in process industry
Case Watch 19:
Steel slag valorisation
Case Watch 20:
Waste plastic valorisation in cement
Case Watch 21:
Hub for CO2 upgrading
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS #01
December 2017 Waste Heat - Heat recovery, reuse and recycling (Part. 1)
pdf, 5 Mo
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS #02
January 2018 Waste Heat - Heat recovery, reuse and recycling (Part. 2)
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS #03
February 2018 Electrical Energy - Storage technologies
pdf, 8 Mo
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS #04
March 2018 Flue and process gases - Recovery and abatement of volatile organic and inorganic compounds (Part. 1)
pdf, 7 Mo
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS #05
May 2018 Flue and process gases - Recovery and abatement of volatile organic and inorganic compounds (Part. 2)
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS #06
June 2018 Transport and supply chain optimisation - Transport technologies for industrial processes
pdf, 4 Mo
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS #07
July 2018 Electrical Energy - Distributed (renewable) energy sources (Part. 1)
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS #08
August 2018 Flue and process gases - Carbon capture and storage or utilisation (Part. 1)
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS #09
October 2018 Solids - Solid waste pre-treatment techniques
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS #10
November 2018 Wastewater and other liquids - Mechanical separation for water purification
pdf, 3 Mo
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS #11
January 2019 Waste Heat - Heat to electricity techniques
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS #12
February 2019 Solids - Metal waste treatment and recycling
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS #13
May 2019 Wastewater and other liquids - Physicochemical treatment for water purification
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS #14
June 2019 Flue and process gases - Carbon capture and storage or utilisation (Part. 2)
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS #15
July 2019 Electrical Energy - Distributed (renewable) energy sources (Part. 2)
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS #16
August 2019 Solids - Gasification and Pyrolysis
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS #17
September 2019 Wastewater and other liquids - Sludge treatment techniques
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS #18
November 2019 Solids - Incinerators
TECHNOLOGY FOCUS #19
December 2019 Wastewater and other liquids - Methanation techniques
The technology watch is the EPOS "eye" on what it is going on around the world that is of interest for the project.
To get all the information about EPOS, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking on the following link.
EPOS Newsletter 1/2016
EPOS Newsletter 2/2016
EPOS Newsletter 3/2016
EPOS Newsletter 4/2017
EPOS Newsletter 5/2017
EPOS Newsletter 6/2018
EPOS Newsletter 7/2019
EPOS Newsletter 8/2019
Project coordinator:
Prof. Greet Van Eetvelde
Ghent University, Ghent (Belgium)
email: info@project-epos.eu