EcoWater report - Baseline eco-efficiency assessment of water use in industrial sectors

Deliverable 4.2 presents results of the work undertaken during the second phase of the Case Study Development progress and the second year of the EcoWater Project, for the four industrial Case Studies: Case Study 5: Textile Industries in Biella Region in Italy Case Study 6: Cogeneration of thermal energy and electricity using water from the Rhine Channel in the Netherlands Case Study 7: Dairy industry in Denmark? Case Study 8: Automotive Industry in Sweden The Baseline Eco efficiency Assessment was based on the Value Chain Mapping of the four Case Studies, presented in Deliverable 4.1. However, the task of calculating the environmental and economic performance indicators proved to be more difficult than expected for all four Case Studies. This was due to the complexity of the pro-cesses in the production chain and the large amount of data required in order to build a representative model of each studied system. Thus, minor or major changes were made to the system boundaries of all four systems, without, however, affecting their meso-level characteristics. The analysis has revealed the environmentally and economically weak stages and actors, providing the basis for the next and final phase of the Case Study Development, the identification and the assessment of innovative technologies. This report is only available in English