Design of sustainable and resilient eco-industrial parks: Planning the flows integration network through multi-objective optimization

An Eco-Industrial Park is a community of businesses located together, exchanging material and energy with each other, to achieve sustainability advantages for its participants. The main benefits of this kind of parks are related to the three dimensions of sustainability: economic, environmental, and social. An important problem when designing and redesigning an Eco-Industrial Park is the infrastructure planning to connect plants. In this context, the connectivity of this network plays a significant role, because of material and energy sharing, and the new dependence and the problem thereof: failures are also propagated within the network.