Sustainable Mineral and Petroleum

Resources Development

By

Thitisak Boonpramote
Department of Mining and Petroleum Engineering
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok Thailand
 Overview of
Circular Economy
 Conceptual Industrial Process:
Material Value Chain

PRODUCTION OUTPUT
INPUT
PROCESS -Main Products
-Raw Materials CONSUMPTION
-Technology -Co-products
(&Energy)
-Management -By-products
End-Of-Life
Products

Waste
Management

Recycled Landfill / Dispose

Materials Incineration
 “A modern industrial society can be viewed as a complex machine for
degrading high-quality energy into waste heat while extracting the energy
needed for creating an enormous catalogue of goods and services”
Claude Summers (1971)
Source:
From a linear economy …
 … to a
circular
economy
Circular economy promises decoupling of
development and footprint

Low ecological
footprint

Green Innovation

Green Operations

Circular Economy

High human development

Access to Supporting
Well-Being
Care Society
Multiple-R
• Preserve embedded
labor, capital costs and
materials of hardware
• Monetize them as long
as possible at highest
value, ideally as service
• Resource consumption is
reduced
• IT & Big Data make it
possible at scale
What is the circular economy?

John Murrow | Interim Executive Director, Plant Chicago

CIRCULAR ECONOMY - MATERIAL COST SAVINGS VALUE
 Skills to make the Circular Economy work:
Systems thinking is central
Design products for Managed service
modularity, After service & repair
upgradability, Buy back and re-use
reparability, Pay-per-use
Design disassembly Business
Models Software

Reverse supply chain

Cross-chain and
for Remanufacturing
cross-sector
collaboration, Upgrade
IT tools Reverse Parts harvesting
Collaboration Materials recovery
Logistics
• Circular Supplies: Provide renewable energy, bio based- or fully recyclable
input material to replace single-lifecycle inputs.
• Resource Recovery: Recover useful resources/energy out of disposed
products or by-products.
• Product Life Extension: Extend working lifecycle of products and components
by repairing, upgrading and reselling.
• Sharing Platforms: Enable increased utilization rate of products by making
possible shared use/access/ownership.
• Product as a Service: Offer product access and retain ownership to internalize
benefits of circular resource productivity.
Business Models for CE