Themes
  • Eco-efficiency
  • Economic feasibility
  • Energy
  • Industrial ecology
  • Optimization
Amount granted
$15,000

Description

Bécancour’s industrial park and port are home to 11 industrial enterprises and more than 15 service companies. Collectively, they use a number of energy sources for their industrial processes and heating. Some also generate energy locally as a main product or co-product. It is possible to decarbonize this energy consumption through various circular economy strategies, including process optimization and the local reuse of waste heat, as well as the establishment of local energy co-product exchanges and joint infrastructures for co-product sharing.

Rooted in industrial ecology, the strategy involves the identification and implementation of industrial synergies within a park, territory or region to spark a culture of industrial by-product recovery, collaboration and resource sharing within industrial symbioses. The technical and economic analysis and eventual optimization of the options to implement the opportunities require a more comprehensive view of the networking possibilities for local stakeholders and a more local perspective to ensure stakeholders’ long-term participation. In the case of industrial synergies involving pooling or joint investments, the participation of all stakeholders is required.

The overarching objective is two-fold. The first is scientific and relates to the development of a mixed integer linear programming model to optimize the opportunities for synergies and industrial networking within an industrial park. The second is practical and relates to the realization of a technical and economic study of the opportunities to decarbonize the energy sources used in Bécancour’s industrial park and port.

Affiliated research axes

Axis 2: Planning Optimization

2.1 – Support the development and use of tools to analyze and monitor the circular economy
2.4 – Plan and optimize the production of products and delivery of services in the context of the circular economy

Axis 3: Resource and Product Maximization

3.2 – Develop a conceptual framework of tools that may be mobilized to identify better circularization scenarios for products, components and resources at the end of their life cycles

Member(s)

  • Jean-Marc Frayret

    Ph.D., M.Sc., Eng. Full Professor
  • Simon Barnabé

    Ph.D. Professor
  • Normand Mousseau

    Full Professor

Collaborators

Léo Lamy-Laliberté

Polytechnique Montréal

Julien Pedneault

Polytechnique Montréal

Deliverables and spin-offs

  • Summary of project results

  • Revalorization of energy co-products in the Bécancour port area

    Webinar with the RRECQ
  • Energy by-product Exchanges Optimization in Industrial Parks : A case study of the Bécancour Industrial Park

    Presentation at the IISE Annual Conference and Expo 2024
  • Analysis and Optimization of Energy Coproduct Opportunities within an Industrial Park : A case study of the Bécancour Industrial Park

    Presentation at the 11th International Conference on Industrial Ecology (ISIE2023)
The RRECQ is supported by the Fonds de recherche du Québec.
Fonds de recherche - Québec