The exchange of wastes, by-products, and energy among closely situated firms is one of the distinctive features of the applications of industrial ecological principles.This at= ticle examines the industrial district at Kalundborg, Denmark, often labeled as an “industrial ecosystem” or “industrial symbiosis” because ofthe many links among the firms.The forces that led to its evolution and to the...

Today, both workers and management are concerned about the quality of work lives, ergonomics and occupational safety and health. New development such as information and communication technologies and specialized work requiring repetitive tasks add up to a need for Ergonomics. By examining, designing, testing and evaluating the work piece and how people interact in it, ergonomics can create prod...

Industrial Symbiosis (IS) is a sub discipline of Industrial Ecology that aims to bring together companies from different sectors to share resources, namely energy, materials, water (Chertow, 2004)(Jacobsen, 2006). The main goal of IS is to improve resource efficiency and lead to environmental benefits to participants. Benefits are generated by the reduced intake of virgin materials, reduced amo...

non-destructive ultrasonic testing is one of the methods utilized to evaluate quality of agricultural produce. transducers used in this method are made for basically industrial applications. since ultrasonic attenuation of waves in agricultural produce is very high, industrial transducers cannot be used in agriculture and needs to be modified. this is done with horns that concentrate energy on ...

important producer countries of wood and paper products are identified by this study. identification of these countries is important for trade of wood and paper products. ranking of different regions of the world was done using mean values of the production based on fao 10 years reports from 1998 to 2007. results showed that the production value for the major part of the products was almost con...

As a kind of mode and stage, Eco-Industrial Parks (EIPs) is of great importance in developing circular economy. Therefore, inquiring deeply into the theory of EIPs and devoting great efforts into its practice constitute primary projects of developing circular economy. This paper analyzes the interrelationship between circular economy and eco-industry, i.e. the intrinsic quality of circular econ...

Since the development of the phenomenological method by Husserl, a variety of thinkers and researchers have contributed to an intense debate regarding the ontological and epistemological bases of Phenomenology, as well as its applicability to the inquiry of the human condition. This dialogue has spun an area of phenomenological research known as existentialphenomenological psychology, which has...

Electronic marketplaces are a popular phenomenon, both for academics and for practitioners. During the last two to four years we have seen several emarketplaces trying to find their niches. One of the most discussed e-marketplace, especially in the business press, is Covisint, the “big” e-marketplace of the car industry. Because Covisint is so well known, it has become an example and a model fo...

The current literature of regional agglomerations faces the fundamental problem that it is focused on observing and explaining the concentration of economic activity in a defined location (a region or a state for instance) with different approaches. This could be attributed to the fact that many of the existing approaches were developed from case study research of existing agglomerations (Becat...