TKMJ38 · 6 credits · Advanced level (A1N) · Energi- och miljöteknik
Industrial Symbiosis
Active · next start HT 2026
94%
passed the latest ordinary exam
DIT1 · 28 Oct 2025 · 35 students
86%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
DIT1 · 90 students
59%
Harder than 59% of courses at advanced level
Compared with 285 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 64 students.
Part of 2 programmes
Exam
DIT1 Digital examination
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Ordinary exams
86% passed · 90 students
- 94%35
- 69%29
- 92%26
Re-exams
92% passed · 12 students
- 92%12
- Pass the re-exam: 92% (12 students), compared with 86% (90 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 53% (102 students)
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Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
- 100%2
- 67%3
- 100%1
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Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Exam
TEN1 Written Examination
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Ordinary exams
93% passed · 42 students
- 96%23
- 89%19
Re-exams
No sittings with at least 5 students.
- Get 4 or 5: 76% (42 students)
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Hand-in or lab
UPG1 Approved Project Assignment and Literature Seminar
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 136 students
- 100%37
- 100%32
- 100%25
- 100%23
- 100%19
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
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- 100%1
About the course
Aim
After completion of the course the student will be able to:
- Explain core principles, concepts and importance of industrial symbiosis;
- Explain and discuss the roles of techno-physical, economic, managerial, social and political conditions for industrial symbiosis developments;
- Explain and analyse different approaches to facilitate industrial symbiosis developments;
- Identify, map and evaluate existing or potential symbiotic relationships between actors in studied cases;
- Create knowledge- and evidence-based suggestions for industrial symbiosis developments in studied cases;
Content
This course is about the opportunities offered by connecting one business to other businesses and actors nearby. Geographic proximity is sometimes an overlooked dimension when it comes to development of a business’s activities and could be seen as a complementary approach to management of supply chains. One definition of Industrial symbiosis is; “Studies of processes where materials, water, energy and information are transferred between companies with geographic proximity aiming at developing their activities and relations”.
The course will introduce the concept of industrial symbiosis and how it may be usefully applied within a business context through the use of case studies and theoretical understanding. More specifically, the course will deal with how businesses can achieve resource efficiency and savings through links with other businesses. Students will explore key concepts and then apply the knowledge acquired to industrial areas to learn more about the practical relevance of the industrial symbiosis approach. The findings about industrial areas will be a contribution to an online web-portal on industrial symbiosis that is under development in a European research network.
Course components include; By-product exchanges and utilities sharing, uncovering of industrial symbiosis, planning and facilitating industrial symbiosis, case study descriptions, eco-industrial parks, environmental performance of industrial symbiosis, social, political and strategic dimensions of industrial symbiosis development, and experiences from industrial symbiosis dissemination programs
- Examiner
- Murat Mirata
- Scheduled hours
- 49 h
- Main field of study
- Energi- och miljöteknik