The Kwinana Industrial Area (KIA) is located 30 km south of the capital city of Perth on the shores of the Cockburn Sound, a sensitive marine environment. Kwinana’s many features make it a world-class industrial area and the Kwinana Industrial Area is Western Australia’s primary area of industrial development.
The area was established in the 1950s to accommodate the development of resource processing and other heavy industries. There is now a coexistence of diverse and non-competing processing industries in the Kwinana area, such as alumina, nickel, and oil refineries, chemical factories, power plants, a cement manufacturer, and fertiliser plants.
Over the past three decades, Kwinana operations have established a total of forty seven by-product and utility synergy projects. The evolution and maturity of industry collaboration in Kwinana provide testimony for the contribution regional synergies (industrial symbiosis) can make to sustainable development.
The following regional synergy examples are documented in this database:
By-Product Synergies
- Chemical Plant Supplying Carbon Dioxide for Residue Neutralisation at Alumina Refinery
- Chemical Plant Supplying Food Grade Carbon Dioxide to Utility Gas Provider
- Chemical Plant Supplying Gypsum for Residue Area Amelioration at Alumina Refinery
- Chemical Plant Supplying By-Product Hydrogen to Utility Gas Provider
- Coal Company Supplying Shale (Overburden) to Cement Company
- Emerging By-Product Synergies Around HIsmelt Pig Iron Plant
- Exchanges of Sulphuric Acid Between Two Chemical Plants
- Nickel refinery Supplying Ammonium Sulphate to Chemical Plant
- Nickel Refinery Supplying By-Product Carbon Dioxide to Utility Gas Provider
- Nickel Refinery Supplying By-Product Sulphur to Nickel Processing Plant
- Nickel Refinery Supplying Food Grade Carbon Dioxide to Utility Gas Provider
- Nickel Refinery Supplying Process Residue to Nickel Processing Plant
- Oil Refinery Providing Hydrogen to City Bus Trial
- Pigment Plant Supplying Hydrochloric Acid to Chemical Manufacturer to Produce Ammonium Chloride
- Reuse of Ammonium Chloride Solution from Zirconia Powder Producer
- Reuse of Bauxite Residue from Alumina Refinery for Effluent Treatment
- Reuse of Blast Furnace Slag in Cement Mill
- Reuse of By-Product Hydrogen from Oil Refinery in Nickel Refinery
- Reuse of By-Product Sulphur from Oil Refinery
- Reuse of Concrete By-Products in Blokpave Manufacturing
- Reuse of Lime Kiln Dust from Quick Lime Manufacturer
- Reuse of Organic Domestic Wastes in Worm Farm
- Reuse of Silica Fume from Fused Alumina and Zirconia Producer
- Reuse of Spent Catalysts for Cement Manufacturing
- Reuse of Spent Catalysts from Oil Refinery as Compost Addition
- Use of Biosludge from Wastewater Treatment Plant as Soil Conditioner
- Use of Fly Ash from Power Plant
Utility Synergies
- Artificial Wetland Treatment at Chemical Plant
- Chemical Plant Supplying Effluent to Neighbouring Chemical Plant
- Chemical Plant Supplying Excess Bore Water to Pigment Plant
- Coal-Fired Power Station Supplying Demineralised Water to Chemical Plant
- Coal-Fired Power Station Supplying Demineralised Water to Neighbouring Gas-Fired Power Station
- Cogeneration Facility for Oil Fefinery
- Cogeneration Facility for the Titanium Dioxide Pigment Plant
- Kwinana Water Reclamation Plant
- Recycling of Boiler Blowdown from Gas-Fired Power Station
- Reuse of Recycled Effluent from Wastewater Treatment Plant at the Alumina Refinery
- Utility Synergies Between Chlor-Alkali Plant and Titanium Dioxide Pigment Plant
More information about regional synergies in Kwinana Industrial Area can be found on:
We would be interested to learn from other case study examples that could be added to this database:
This webpage was last modified on 11 April 2007.
Disclaimer: The synergy information is provided for general use and although we believe all data to be correct, CSRP can accept no responsibility for the accuracy of the information. All presented case-study examples are retrieved from publicly available resources.