Development of an interactive industrial symbiosis query system with structured industrial waste database in Taiwan

摘要: Abstract Industrial symbiosis (IS) has contributed significant environmental and economic benefits in many industrial parks or regions, with inter-firm trade of wastes by-products for reuse. To facilitate IS more information systems tools could help identify the opportunities companies to mimic successful cases by-product synergies. A review existing showed that most lack sufficient quality data, are not operational, publicly accessible. In addition, studies on development have only limited descriptions programming approaches used create matching illustrating complicated network synergies based data. Based Taiwan’s waste this work presents a well-established system three applications designed target users, including involved IS, facilitators seeking grow management authorities. This web-based was massive amounts detailed input output datasets. by-products’ records than one metric ton per year, there 1833 patterns different reused by various industries. comparison other data repositories shows advantage using government-owned database classification identifying Novel visualization technologies employed interactively generate diagrams networks response user selection industries interest. demonstration query sugar manufacturers cane ten potentially 222 reuses