What is Symbioptima?

SYMBIOPTIMA is an H2020 project funded under the SPIRE-6 action and proposes a completely new paradigm for industrial clusters: the human-mimetic symbiosis. Drawing inspiration from one of the most complex biological organism, namely the human body, it promotes the mutual interaction of diverse industries, also among different sectors, for beneficial reuse of flows (e.g. water, waste, by-products, energy, recycled materials) that could result in a more resource-efficient production at network level, and in fewer adverse environmental impacts. Synergy and optimization of the flows of a cluster are obtained thanks to the hierarchical decentralization of operations management tasks to multiple collaborating Production Units, integrating at inter-plants and cross-sectorial level the monitoring, supervision and shared optimization of their activities.
Symbioptima aims at improving efficiency by: (1) developing a cross-sectorial energy & resource management platform for intra- and inter-cluster streams; (2) developing extensive, multi-disciplinary, modular and "plug&play" monitoring of all relevant cluster information flows; (3) integrating all thermal energy sources, flows and sinks of the cluster into a systemic unified vision; (4) considering disruptive increase of cross-sectorial re-use for particularly impacting waste streams.

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