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Pilot testing model to uncover industrial symbiosis in Brazilian industrial clusters
Adriana Valélia Saraceni1,2, Luis Mauricio Resende3, Pedro Paulo de Andrade Júnior4
1Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (MIE), University of Toronto, 5 King's College Road, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G8, Canada. av.saraceni@mail.utoronto.ca.
Abstract:
The main objective of this study was to create a pilot model to uncover industrial symbiosis practices in Brazilian industrial clusters. For this purpose, a systematic revision was conducted in journals selected from two categories of the ISI Web of Knowledge: Engineering, Environmental and Engineering, Industrial. After an in-depth revision of literature, results allowed the creation of an analysis structure. A methodology based on fuzzy logic was applied and used to attribute the weights of industrial symbiosis variables. It was thus possible to extract the intensity indicators of the interrelations required to analyse the development level of each correlation between the variables. Determination of variables and their weights initially resulted in a framework for the theory of industrial symbiosis assessments. Research results allowed the creation of a pilot model that could precisely identify the loopholes or development levels in each sphere. Ontology charts for data analysis were also generated. This study contributes to science by presenting the foundations for building an instrument that enables application and compilation of the pilot model, in order to identify opportunity to symbiotic development, which derives from "uncovering" existing symbioses.
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