SPIRE
Brokerage event
October 22nd
2013
SPIRE 4 – 2013:
SPIRE 4 – 2014: Methodologies, tools and indicators for crosssectorial sustainability assessment of energy and resource
efficient solutions in the process industry
Project Idea Presentation
Organizations
THIS PROPOSAL IS PRESENTED BY ESTEP, ON BEHALF OF ITS MEMBERS ET AL; LISTED
BELOW;
 ESTEP is the Steel Community's European Steel
Technology Platform
 ArcelorMittal
 CSM
 ISQ
 IVL
 BFI
 SSSA
 ULG
 Tata Steel
 IRT M2P
 ...
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Concept (I)
Context
Process industry as part of the solution for delivering growth that is
smart, sustainable, and inclusive, (European Commission Europe
2020)
Key words: Circular economy & Life Cycle Thinking
Prevent waste production and promote reduce, reuse & recycle
Sustainability assessment is a combination of different assessment
methods and tools including environmental, economic and social
aspects.
Today, sustainability assessment tools (integrating the three pillars)
providing decision making support are still in development
Decisions are more or less still made on the basis of technique and
economy.
A holistic approach is needed to identify and select appropriate
assessment methodologies and impact parameters and further
develop and demonstrate in real industrial pilot case suitable macro
and meso-indicators across sectors to meet the needs of a specific
assessment (spire roadmap)
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Concept (II)
End objective
Develop consistent sustainability assessment methodologies and tools
across sectors and along the value chains to improve resource and
energy efficiency.
customisation and sector-specific developments is possible
Steps to be followed
Understand what has been done so far in different sectors with the
following requirements:
- multiple sectors in the process industries (Metal production, energy
production, mineral production, plastics, wood, …)
ex: Sovamat Initiative, SAM Seminars, SATECH proposal, Prosuite, CENTC 350,
Solvay, Spire Roadmap (KA 5.2), ESTEP SRA, etc.
- across the whole value chain of industries
- assessing environmental, economic and social impacts (triple
bottlenecks) along the whole product life cycle with regards to
energy and resource efficiency
Define potential good solutions as well as gaps in the state of the art
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Concept (III)
Steps to be followed (II)
Identify opportunities as well as the bottlenecks towards further
development and cross-sectorial replication/transfer of these
approaches,
How can good references be used elsewhere?
Develop a participatory approach with a network of stakeholders
(including NGOs, public authorities, final customers, etc…)
Define the required steps to accelerate further uptake of resource and
energy efficiency indicators over the value chains, and
Produce recommendations as input for further research and
development projects in the field of sustainability assessment but
also on today’s most suitable tools for management and decision
making
Rq: Today, a CSA is not the right format. Still a lot of work needs to be
achieved. Not clear the level of development we can afford!
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Impact
•
Identification of the research needs in this area to achieve a
set of environmental, social and economic sustainability indicators
suitable for the process industry.
•
Identification of best practices over different sectors for
environmental, social and economic sustainability indicators to
facilitate cross-sectorial deployment.
•
Identification across the different sectors of the process
industry of a set of tools for management and decision making at
research lab, plant, company, sector and multi-sectorial level of the
process industry.
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Project Consortium
Expression of interest so far:
 AM: interested to develop further sustainability assessment tools (as defended in
the Sovamat Initiative, in SATECH, or in SOVASTEEL european proposals)
 CSM: overview, scenario analysis and global modeling, selection and
recommendation of most appropriate methodologies.
 ISQ: interested in the sustainability assessment of energy and resources
 IVL: interested to participate (see a european project proposed for the SAT call –
SATECH – which was not accepted
 including customized process modeling for scenario analyses.
 BFI: interest (no specification)
 SSSA: implementation of algorithms and practical (also SW) tools for integrated
sustainability evaluation jointly exploiting and combining different methodologies
(e.g. KPIs, LCA) and ULG: environmental assessment, dissemination of results,
social LCA and LCC
 Tata Steel: interested to develop further sustainability assessment tools;
methodology for OEF (Organisational Environmental Footprint)
 IRT M2P: interested in providing expertise in LCA and MFA
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Looking for partners…
Other industries (mining, metals, wood, plastics, concrete, energy
producers, ...)
NGOs,
Public bodies,
Standardisation bodies,
Consumer association,
etc.
companies operating in data -lean environments
Experts specialised in stakeholders engagement
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Contact details
Jean-Sébastien Thomas
ArcelorMittal Global R&D
Email: jean-sebastien.thomas@arcelormittal.com
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Detailed presentation of consortium
partner
ArcelorMittal Global R&D – Sustainability team
ArcelorMittal is the largest steel producer in the world. Around 1300 people work in
R&D worldwide in ArcelorMittal laboratories, offering a broad expertise in most
technical fields related to the steel industry. The company holds leadership positions in
its main markets: automotive, construction, household appliances and packaging as
well as general industry.
ArcelorMittal employs 280,000 people in over 60 countries. The company places its
commitment to sustainable development at the heart of its strategy and ambitions to
be a benchmark for economic performance, labour relations and social responsibility.
A Sustainability research group pursues R&D in this area, in connection with climate
change research (it is in charge of coordinating the series of European projects
included in the ULCOS program, www.ulcos.org), with LCA methodology development
relative to materials, steel, steel-containing products and more (cf. the SOVAMAT
initiative, www.sovamet.org).
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