Environmental Technology
and Management
30
years
1980 - 2010
Printed by: LiU Tryck, 2011
Published by: Envtech
Editor: Michael Martin
Layout and Graphics: Daniel Camarda
Contents
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Foreword
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30 Years of Growth
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Staff
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Research Projects
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Welcome to
etm
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Foreword
Without a doubt, environmental problems like climate change, loss
of biodiversity, depletion of natural resources, etc. are challenging
how we live our lives. This calls for new solutions for how to design
technical systems as well as products and services, and how to
manage organizations.
This book presents people and projects at the Division of Environmental Technology and Management at Linköping University. It
shows how we do research and cooperate with the society to turn
environmental challenges into opportunities. We do this by applying a broad systems perspective on resource efficiency. You will
read about sustainable city development, new ways of designing
customer offerings in industry, sustainability management, export
of environmental technology, urban mining and more. You will also
meet an international multidisciplinary research group with a long
history of research and a broad experience. Hopefully you will find
our activities interesting.
Cooperation with research groups, companies and public organizations is of utmost importance for our strategic development
for mutual benefits. Please, do not hesitate to contact us or visit
our homepage for more information. It is today we support our
future!
Olof Hjelm, Head of Research Group
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30 Years of Growth
The division of Environmental Technology and Management has been active in more than 30 years. But
how did it all start? Below you will read the history
of ETM told by the founder Leif Thuresson.
In 1980, the Chairman of the Board for the program on Technical
Physics at the Technical Faculty, Alexander Lauber, was looking for
someone that could give a course on Environmental Technology
and he found me. I was at that time working as a study advisor and
teacher at the natural science division. For me this became an interesting challenge. My background as an engineer with economic
studies and an exam in biology and an environmental awareness
was a good help when I tried to interest technical students for
Environmental Science. One of the main obstacles was to translate
environmental science research into a language understandable
for the technical students.
The first course in Environmental Technology was very much about
end of pipe solutions and taken by a few students. After a couple of
years the interest among students was growing and also the need
for a wider perspective of the environmental science. In 1983 the
Environmental Technology course got a sister, Environmental Science with a natural, societal, economic and political approach to
environmental issues. This course then lived for over twenty-five
years as the main face of the division.
The environmental field was growing fast and I was able to recruit
more staff. Gunnar Karlsson came in with an interest in environmental chemistry and I met some interesting people and especially
an American, Don Huisingh in a project in Motala/Landskrona on
environmental industrial process design. The aim of the project
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was to show how environmental work in industry could be a winwin situation. This gave the input to start work in what now is
called Ecodesign.
A big input to the division was a round trip to USA together with
Don Huisingh, Leo Baas and some other Europeans to meet with
other concerned individuals. The trip resulted in forming the European Round Table of Cleaner Production in 1993. I became member of the board and Vice President for several years and gained
more networks outside of Europe. The Round Table has an annual
conference that over the years has attracted people from EU, UNEP,
UNIDO and the World Bank. In 2000, I became a representative
for our division in UNEP Higher Seminar on Cleaner Production.
These contacts led to development of courses in Environmental
Management and Life Cycle Assessment and Ecodesign. Also research and a Ph.D. program started in these areas with help from
a growing division. New staff like Mats Eklund and Olof Hjelm
came to the division and started very active work to make the
division well known and supported in the local area. Successful
work with Linköping Municipality and the county resulted in good
research and a growing interest for Industrial Ecology in Östergötland. Working together with local industry has also generated a
good reputation and a good base for national and international
research projects.
Over the years there have been some really fun projects. As an example, in 1995 the local Taxi Company in Linköping asked for help
to make their business more “environmental.” They had signals
from organizers of public transportation about coming demands.
One of the results of that project was a training course for taxi
drivers in environmental driving. The training took place at Mantorp Park racing ground with help from a former racing driver. The
program was a great success and other taxi companies copied the
concept, possibly the start of Ecodriving.
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Today, 30 years after the start, the division is well functional with
a wide experience in the environmental field with nearly 30 employees. We have local, regional, national and international coopera-tion with several partners from industry and public sector.
It has been a very interesting and stimulating journey for me over
these years and I am looking forward to more challenges in this
rapidly growing area.
One lesson from these 30 years could be that it is very nice to do
research projects, obtain new knowledge and expand borders but
we should never forget the importance of spreading the knowledge to the new generation of engineers. They are the people
that must deal with the future.
Leif Thuresson
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staff
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Researchers
Jonas Ammenberg
Jonas is an Assistant Professor that rejoined ETM in 2010 after six years as an
environmental consultant. He is a civil
engineer in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering, with an environmental
specialization. Jonas’ Ph.D. thesis was focused on environmental management systems, aiming to increase
the knowledge for the extent to which such systems contribute to
a better environment. He is now considering new research challenges. During his spare time, Jonas enjoys being in nature, sports
and building projects.
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Leo Baas
Leo is a Professor in Industrial Ecology
since May 2009. He has a M.Sc. in Sociology and defended a Ph.D. in Social Sciences at Erasmus University Rotterdam
(the Netherlands). He was Director of the
International Off-Campus Ph.D. Program
on Cleaner Production & Industrial Ecology at Erasmus University
until June 2009. He is an advisor of the UNEP/UNIDO National
Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production Centers Program. He
is at the editorial board Journal of Cleaner Production. He likes
camping, travelling and baseball.
Mats Eklund
Mats has an educational background in
the natural sciences and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. degree with a focus on environmental history. His present research
addresses flows and stocks of the technosphere, industrial symbiosis of bio-fuels,
sustainable city development and the environment as a growth
factor in regional development. He is still easily triggered if someone says, “it is not possible!” Outside of the academic life, Mats
loves planning and implementing new projects in the garden.
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Sara Gustafsson
Sara is an Assistant Professor and started
her academic carrier as Ph.D. student at
ETM in 1999. Sara presented her thesis at
ETM in 2005 and it focused local authorities’ approaches to environmental management systems. Her current research
still has a close connection to local authorities, however it has
developed into a broader approach for how local authorities organize and manage efforts for sustainable development. In her
spare time, Sara loves skiing (in winter) and playing the piano.
Olof Hjelm
Olof joined the group in 1998 after studying chemistry and receiving an interdisciplinary Ph.D. at Linköping University. He
also worked as a teacher at the Chemical Engineering program at LiU for several
years. Olof’s research interests have shifted from environmental chemistry and soil science to the management of environmental issues at organizations. He has specialized
in small business development as well as the role of local authorities in local sustainable development. Olof is also a devoted bird
watcher.
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Jenny Ivner
Jenny has her background in Energy Engineering and a BS from Umeå University.
Before initiating her doctoral studies at
ETM in 2001 she worked as project engineer at Bravida. Jenny achieved her Ph.D.
in 2009 on the subject of municipal energy planning and her post-doctoral research has followed the same
path in a collaboration project with local authorities in the region.
Jenny also takes part in ETM’s efforts to become world-leading
research within industrial symbiosis. In her spare time Jenny is a
devoted spexare.
joakim krook
Joakim is trained as a chemical engineer.
He then came to ETM as a Ph.D. Candidate
in 2001 and received his doctoral exam
in 2006. Joakim is currently an Assistant
Professor and his research involves studies in the intersection between environmental systems analysis and management, with special interest
in analyzing environmental and economic performance of waste
management and recycling strategies. In his free time, he likes to
play around with his two sons but is also often found hunting in
the woods just outside Västervik.
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Mattias Lindahl
He has conducted research and teaching
activities in Ecodesign since 1997 and in
Product Service Systems/Integrated Product Service Engineering since 1999 and is
now among the top internationally-recognized scholars in those areas. He is one
of the founders of the Design Society’s special interest group in
Ecodesign and of the International PSS Design Research Community. His motto is “Don’t Panic!” and has in his earlier life worked
with sound and light in his spare time and has even danced with
the Cullberg Ballet once.
Niclas Svensson
Niclas works as a Post doctoral fellow and
is also the Director of Studies at ETM.
His expertise is in environmental systems
analysis with a special focus on life cycle
assessment. He received his Ph.D. in December 2006 with work concerning life
cycle considerations for management of railway infrastructure.
Niclas has also been involved in developing the product category
rules needed to do an environmental product declaration for railways. Niclas likes to partake in different sports, renovate houses
and listen to music.
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Tomohiko sakao
Tom joined ETM in 2007 as the environmental Professor awarded by the Swedish
Association of Graduate Engineers. After
studying at the University of Tokyo, he
worked in industry in Japan and at Darmstadt Univ. of Technology, Germany. His
aim is establishing how to design products and services in an economic and environmentally friendly way. He likes living in Sweden;
the nature, strategic thinking, etc. Tom wants to be portal for you
inside and outside of Sweden with the cutting edge of research!
Leif Thuresson
Leif started the first environmental course
at the technical faculty thirty years ago.
He has a B.Sc in Limnology and a Teachers Exam. In 1992 he started the first
project in Ecodesign. In 1995 he helped
the local taxi company with an environmental project, today known as Ecodriving. Member of Board and coordinator for a three years program
on Ecodesign methododogy from 1999. One of the Founder the
European Round Table of Cleaner Production in 1993 and its vice
president for several years. Member of UNEP:s Higher Seminars
on Cleaner Production in 2000. He has been active as a local politician in Linköping for more than 20 years. He used to fly gliders
but now enjoys playing bridge and spending time in his garden
and greenhouse.
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Ph.D. Candidates
björn Berglund
Since March 2010, Björn is enrolled as a
Ph.D. Candidate at ETM applying sociotechnical perspectives on infrasystems
and urban development. In his research
as well as in life, Björn is interested in the
relationship between society and technology, and since urban areas provide dense agglomerations of both
people and systems, they are particular interests of his. Björn has
a M.Sc in Sociotechnical Systems Engineering and a Post-Graduate
Diploma in Sustainable City Development. He enjoys road bikes,
salty snacks and listening to Kate Bush.
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Santiago Dugand
Santiago completed his B.Sc in Colombia and came to Sweden in 2008 for his
Master’s degree at ETM. He is currently
working as a Ph.D. candidate within the
Megatech project, a project focused on
identifying environmental problems in
megacities, analyzing how they are dealt with and how the innovation process is considered for decision-making while having
in mind business opportunities for Swedish CleanTech companies.
He loves nature, sports and music, and tries to devote time to all
of them.
Carolina Ersson
Carolina started as a Ph.D. Candidate at
ETM in 2010. Her research focuses on the
implementation of synergies within the
biofuel industry. She is also working in a
project aiming at a regional vision for biofuels for transport. She has a Master of
Agricultural Science from SLU in Uppsala. She has worked about
ten years outside the university (as a consultant as well as an advisor for farmers) before starting her Ph.D. position. Carolina also
knows how to drive a tractor but is more often using her bicycle
for transportation in town. She tries to enjoy small things in life
besides the big research questions.
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Per Frändegård
Per is doing his Ph.D. research in the field
of Industrial metabolism, more specifically
the extraction of secondary resources. He
is involved in several projects concerning
Urban and Landfill mining, with an emphasis on quantitative issues, data collection and simulation. Per is originally from Östersund and moved
to Linköping to study at LiU in 2002. He completed his M.Sc. in
Industrial Engineering and Management in 2009 and started his
Ph.D. at ETM in early 2010. When he is not doing research, Per
likes reading and snowboarding.
Saeid Hatefipour
Saeid has been admitted as a Ph.D. Candidate since March 2010. His Ph.D. research
mainly focuses on regional Industrial
Symbiosis development in Östergötland.
Large Technical Systems, Industrial Symbiosis, Green Technologies and Cleaner
Production are also his research interest that brought him back
to academia after 10 years industrial experience at the product
development center of Iran Khodro Automobile Company. He has
a B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tehran,
Iran. Saeid spends his free time jogging and cycling in nature.
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Nils JOhansson
Nisse started as a Ph.D. Candidate at ETM
in 2010. His research focuses on the extraction of metals within the society, urban mining, and the social aspects for
implementing this sustainable technology. Before he moved to Linköping, Nisse
worked as an environmental inspector in Vimmerby kommun. He
has previously studied Management of the Environment and Natural Resources. Nisse’s spare time is devoted to art, Swedish troubadours or among his friends at Söderstadion when Hammarby is
playing.
Sofia LIngegård
Sofia is a Ph.D. Candidate who joined
the group in 2009 after graduating from
the Industrial Engineering and Management Programme at LiTH. Currently she is
working in the area of Integrated Product
Service Engineering focusing on contracts
and business models for procurement of rail infrastructure. She is
planning on completing her Licentiate degree in the fall of 2011.
When not working, Sofia enjoys spending time in the forest with
her hunting dog, skiing and riding horses.
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Michael Martin
Mike is a Ph.D. Candidate at ETM whose
research is related to the synergistic possibilities and quantification of the environmental performance of industrial symbiosis in the biofuel industry. After completing
his B.Sc. from USA and M.Sc. from KTH in
Sweden, Mike came to ETM and received his Technical Licentiate
degree in the Spring of 2010, and will complete his Ph.D. in few
years. When he’s not working at the department you might find
him in the mountains or woods of Sweden with his dog fly fishing,
hunting, hiking or camping.
Sofia Persson
Sofia has a Master’s degree in Environmental Science and is now a Ph.D. Candidate at ETM. Her research is about uncovering Industrial Symbiosis within the
Swedish energy sector. By investigating
district heating, which is a natural component within the Swedish energy sector, the research intends to
map occurring cases of Industrial Symbioses in Sweden. She will
also look into potential forms of collaboration with district heating
companies and other industries and investigate how to develop
and facilitate these collaborations and mutual exchanges.
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Administration and
technical staff
Anders Carlsson
Anders is the research communicator of
ETM since the autumn of 2010. He is a
Chemical Engineer with a Technical Licentiate in measurement technology, doing
part of his research in collaboration with
ETM. Anders has been working as the Environmental Strategist of LiU from 2002 to 2010. During part of
that time he has also been the coordinator of the regional environmental network and part of regional initiatives for industrial
ecology. He is a part time musician, playing mostly Irish music or
his own songs.
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Maria Eriksson
Maria works as administrator at the division. She joined the group in January
2003. Before that she worked at SEB and
in 1992 she moved abroad and lived in
Belgium for 3 years, then Norway for 7
years. In Norway she worked as an administrator at Astra Tech. The daily work at the division contains
study administration, economy administration and to be the “spider in the net.” When she’s not working at LiU, she loves to cook,
read books and is a big fan of opera.
Anton Helgstrand
Anton started at ETM in the fall of 2009
as a project employee working mostly in
projects where life cycle assessments were
implemented in specific industry areas. He
is now the division’s LCA-specialist where
the tasks mainly range between external
collaboration with the industry in LCA projects or research through
an LCA perspective. Anton completed his B.Sc. in Environmental
Science at LiU in the summer of 2009. During his free time he likes
to play the guitar and exercise.
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Project Employees
Roozbeh Feiz
Roozbeh is a Master Student at ETM whose
current research is about the application
of industrial ecology concepts such as life
cycle analysis and industrial symbiosis for
improving the environmental performance
of the cement industry. Since completing
his B.Sc. he has worked as a high school teacher, software developer and field engineer in the international energy industry. Roozbeh’s hobby is mentally or digitally recording his life experiences;
a pleasing activity which he often combines with photography and
blogging.
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Lars Johansson
Lars joined ETM in February 2011 as a
project manager in green screening and
sustainable development with a focus
on two research projects; “Sustainable
Norrköping” and “Sustainable energy and
climate strategies.” Lars combines several
years of practical experience in politics, eco-tourism and urban
planning with a passion for sustainable development and wants to
contribute to research, society and stakeholder cooperation. When
he is not working you will find Lars exploring different MMORPG´s,
the great outdoors or spending time with an emerging vineyard in
Österlen in the south of Sweden.
Caroline Rydholm
Caroline is a project employee that joined
the department in March 2010. She graduated in the spring of 2009 with a B.Sc.
in Environmental Science from LiU. Caroline is mapping the various environmental
management/sustainability tools available
for organizing environmental and sustainability efforts in local authorities. Recently, she has also started to work within the Sustainable Norrköping project with sustainable transportation systems.
When she’s not working she enjoys baking cookies and running.
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etm
projects
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Biofuel Synergies
The use of first generation biofuels for transport has increased
due to their general compatibility with current infrastructure and
established technologies. However, such fuels have received much
criticism due to their questionable performance and energy balance figures. By considering an efficient use of by-products the
environmental performance as well as the financial gains could
increase and biofuel production can be bettered. This can be accomplished by synergies to optimize the flow of material and energy between many industrial partners.
The overall aim of this project is to contribute to the development
for improving the performance of production systems for first generation biofuels for transportation from food crops, wastes and
by-products. Included in the project are 3 phases to 1) produce an
inventory of synergies, 2) assess the possibilities and barriers for
implementation of synergies and to 3) quantify the environmental
performance related to synergies in the biofuel industry.
Participants: Michael Martin, Carolina Ersson, Jenny Ivner, Niclas
Svensson and Mats Eklund.
For more information visit:
http://www.iei.liu.se/envtech/forskningsprojektsynergibiodrivmed
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SOFIQ
Solvent Free Industrial Cleaning
In this research collaboration project between SMEs and academia
a new way of cleaning machine parts have been developed. The
cleaning company Servicestaden and researchers at Linköping
University have discovered new ways of cleaning without the use
of solvents. In the research project called “Solvent-Free Industrial Cleaning” (SOFIQ) it has been found that cleaning with the
SOFIQ-technology is more environmentally sound than with traditional cleaning techniques.
The cleaning process uses ultra clean water to dissolve oil and
other substances. The use of ultra-clean water is completely new
to the manufacturing industry. The basics in producing ultra-clean
water are a very advanced filtering system. Bi-products such as
salt, lime, minerals, heavy-metals etc. are filtered out of the water,
resulting in water with a very high ability to dissolve dirt and oil as
a result of a very high surface tension in the water molecule.
Participants: Niclas Svensson and Mattias Lindahl
For more information visit: http://www.sofiq.se/
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IPSE
Integrated Product Service Engineering
We have for more than ten years carried out research about Integrated Product Service Engineering, which is engineering activities
to create and deliver offerings consisting of products and services
to increase value for customer/user. This research has been done
in close co-operation with leading Swedish and international companies and research organisations. Numerous past and ongoing
research projects, covering various aspects, e.g. marketing, design and environment has lead that we now are a leading research
actor in Sweden. Various project examples are developing and
carrying out a workshop series to support companies interested
in this new way of business, simulating such business offerings,
and evaluating economic and environmental aspects of such offerings.
Participants: Tomohiko Sakao, Mattias Lindahl, Niclas Svensson, Sofia Lingegård
For more information: www.ipse.se
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Image: Trafikverket
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DORIS
Development of (Integrated product
service) offerings for the Railway
Infrastructure sytems
The productivity development in the construction industry,
such as road and rail infrastructure, has been weak for a longer
period of time, possibly due to the traditional form of contracting used. Traditional forms for operation and maintenance have
caused increased costs and resulted in an increased interest for
new contracting types with better incentives for development and
cost efficiency. Integrated Product Service Offerings contracts
gives better incentives for contractors to develop the product by
e.g. find a better balance between building and maintaining costs
weighing building costs to future maintenance cost.
The DORIS project
This is the starting point of the DORIS project which was
launched in cooperation with the Swedish Transport Administration to investigate the possibility for Integrated Product Service
Offerings contracts within the rail infrastructure in Sweden. The
aim of this project is to support Swedish Transport Administration to find new ways to improve their procurement of the rail
infrastructure. Potential outputs are environmental and economical benefits, product innovation, organizational changes and closer
relationships between procurer and contractors.
Duration of the project: August 2009 – August 2012
Researchers involved in the project: Sofia Lingegård, Mattias
Lindahl, Niclas Svensson.
For more information visit: http://www.iei.liu.se/envtech/forskning/forskningsprojekt/doris?l=en
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MEGATECH
50% of the world’s population is now living in cities. Much of this
urban growth has been reached at the expenses of the environment, which is being pushed to its limits in the name of progress
and in order to serve the increasing population. Swedish innovators and environmental technology entrepreneurs have been very
good so far solving several of these environmental problems. However, supply always has a counterpart: demand. It is here that
ETM found the opportunity to start Megatech, a research project
focused on big cities, megacities. Conscious of the central role
they play regionally and globally, two venues were chosen for a
detailed analysis of their demands and needs if sustainability is the
goal: Cairo and Mexico City.
Megatech aims at understanding why some of the above mentioned necessities are unmet, by studying the local perspective
reflected on several stakeholders: academia, social and political
leaders, media, intermediary organizations, industry and citizens.
The identification of pre-conditions, barriers, drivers and enablers
will provide a strong base that will lead to important conclusions
and recommendations and hopefully facilitate a meeting arena for
these megacities and Swedish innovators and CleanTech providers, opening the way for new business opportunities.
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Megatech is funded by VINNOVA–Swedish Agency for Innovation
Systems. The team is composed by Leo Baas, Ph.D–an experienced researcher in human-environment relations and industrial
symbiosis, Olof Hjelm, Ph.D–with a broad experience in management systems and sustainability and a close cooperation with local
companies and Santiago Mejía, a Ph.D candidate working with
urban sustainability and innovation processes.
Visit the project’s website for more information:
www.iei.liu.se/envtech/forskning/forskningsprojekt/megatech
Megatech
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Urban mining: laying the
foundation for a new line
of business
Significant amounts of metals remain in society without being
used, for instance, in disconnected power grids and gas supply
systems located under ground in cities or in decommissioned industrial structures taken out of practice but still in place. Developing strategies for recovering such so-called hibernating materials
could offer both environmental and economic benefits – an approach often referred to as urban mining.
The overall aim of this project is to develop system solutions
for realizing the approach of urban mining. In doing so, we
will analyze occurrence of obsolete metal stocks in the Swedish built environment, assess main drivers and barriers for
mining such urban ores and evaluate environmental and economic performance of selected urban mining case-studies. Emphasis is on large technical systems and the technical, economic,
environmental and other institutional conditions for implementing
urban mining initiatives will be studied in detail for three different
cases: the city of Norrköping, the Swedish military defense and
the national railway system.
Participants: Joakim Krook, Niclas Svensson, Annica Carlsson,
Nils Johansson, Per Frändegård, Mats Eklund
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Industrial Ecology Research
Program (IERP)
“Toward a 100% renewable resources
Östergötland region”
A mission for the Industrial Ecology Research Program (IERP) is
to develop and to perform an umbrella to related research areas
that are pillars to reach the envisioned sustainable Östergötland
region. The Industrial Ecology Research Program has a basis in
Regional Industrial Symbiosis (IS).
Research in this area will address whether and how an IS- perspective can contribute to an “Industrial Symbiosis Network for
Sustainable Östergötland Development” as a driver of regional
sustainability innovation. Stakeholders from industries, agriculture, academia, government and public sector are involved in this
research. The research will explore how the involved organizations
and individuals collect, use and connect information in a system
thinking way.
Industrial Symbiosis will also be considered with respect to the
effectiveness and sustainability of Large Technical Systems (LTS).
The IERP intends to provide an IS-structured approach for large
technical systems like Waste-to-Energy and district heating networks.
Finally, the link between IS and renewable resourses will be explored as part of a sustainability process towards a “100% renewable energy” region.
Participants: Leenard Baas, Mats Eklund, Saeid Hatefipour,
Jenny Ivner
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Sustainable Norrköping
The ever growing cities of our modern world are based on
infrasystems that enable the good city life to prosper by providing water, energy, waste and mobility services. Sustainable Norrköping is a polycentric research programme consisting of three
core areas:
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Sustainable City development
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Systems of transportation
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Urban-industrial symbiosis
Our view is that cities cannot be considered as closed systems,
they also have industrial surroundings and that a regional context
of hinterland. Sustainable Norrköping is based on the local
Norrköping conditions, however it relates to sustainable city
develpoment in general. The aim of this research programme
is to support the city of Norrköping in their ambitions and
processes to become more sustainable and to identify innovative
solutions when it comes to the city’s infrasystems. The research
is carried out in a five step approach including mapping,
innovation, implementation, evaluation and communication/visualisation. The visualisation is carried out in collaboration with the
Norrköping Visualisation Center C, where visualisation is used to
create an interface between academia and society.
Participants: Björn Berglund, Leo Baas, Mats Eklund, Carolina
Ersson, Sara Gustafsson, Saied Hatefipour, Sofia Persson
For more information visit: www.iei.liu.se/envtech/forskningsprojekt/sustainable-nkpg?l=en
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Managing Innovation Processes for a Business-Driven
Collaborative Network (LIAN - Ledning av Innovationsprocesser för Affärsdrivna Nätverk)
The aim of the research project is to support small and medium
sized companies with environmental technologies that develop total solutions for the domestic market and then also for an emerging market in collaboration within a business-driven network. The
industrial objectives are specifically to develop new solutions (to
integrate services within total solutions) in certain business models that fit the needs on the emerging market addressed. Service
could be an effective measure to avoid products being copied, to
decrease a probability of technical problems, and to decrease time
to market. We capture and create knowledge about developing
technologies and business models that are applicable to companies with environmental technologies. This joint project between
LiU and KTH is financed by VINNOVA, while the cooperating partners include Swedfund and Cleantech Östergötland.
Participants: Tomohiko Sakao, Mattias Lindahl
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Local Energy Strategies
At ETM we have ten years of experience of strategic energy and
environmental processes at the local level. Research has focused
on understanding practice and the nature of processes, from setting an agenda in municipal energy planning to working with continuous improvement in environmental and sustainability management.
Examples of projects in the area are for example SEAMLESS –
exploring practice when it comes to combining municipal planning and environmental management systems; Energy planning
in Östergötland - a hands-on collaboration project with ten small
municipalities focussing on producing energy plans, method development and process support. The project “Sustainable Energy and
Climate Strategies” runs from 2010 to 2012 and focuses on policy
processes from formulating energy strategies to implementation
and evaluation in the Swedish national program Sustainable Municipalities. Special attention is paid to collaboration for capacity
building and long-term alliances in the transition of energy systems towards sustainability.
Participants: Jenny Ivner and Sara Gustafsson
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CEMEX-LiU: Industrial ecology project
Cement is a very essential product, used as a binder in concrete. It is produced and used all over the world, mainly as a
construction material in buildings, infrastructure, etc. Cement is also of great importance from an environmental perspective, for example the emissions of CO2 are extensive.
Starting in November, 2010, we will carry out a research project in cooperation with CEMEX, which is one of the world’s largest cement producers. CEMEX has production in more than 50
countries and trade relationships with more than 100 nations. It
is a joint project on how Industrial ecology could contribute to
the development of a more sustainable production of cement.
Focusing on CEMEX West Cluster in Germany, the project will lead
to increased knowledge about climate impact from cement produced according to different production approaches; from a rather
linear production chain to a more synergistic one. It will make
it possible for to more rationally assess different cement sites,
and production approaches, from a climate perspective, thereby
realizing where the potentials for improved synergistic solutions,
resource efficiency and other types of changes are greatest. The
project will also lead to increased knowledge about possibilities
to implement improvements based on different types of context.
Participants: Jonas Ammenberg, Mats Eklund, Leo Baas, Anton
Helgstrand and Roozbeh Feiz
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