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The park key features are:
• Six year multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional study of requirements;
• Cooperative partnership among academic, 3 levels of government,
owners, developers and tenants;
• Phases/retrofitting and planning.

Burnside Eco-Industrial Park reflects an example of what an eco-industrial
park should be like. The idea of having such parks requires a lot of study and
analysis through university professors and students in cooperation with
municipalities and owners.

The Bruce Energy Centre in Tiverton, Canada
Developing an eco-industrial park focused mainly around energy cascading
is the objective of this case study (The Cardinal Group 2005). In this park,
six companies are organized around Ontario Hydro’s Bruce Nuclear Power
Development (BNPD) to take advantage of its waste heat and steam genera-
tion capacity (steam serves as a potential source of heat energy for a broad
range of industrial and agricultural processes such as dehydration, concen-
tration, distillation, hydrolysis, and space heating). The main industries cur-
rently located in the park include:

• Bruce Tropical Produce Tomato: Which grows 2.3 million pounds of
tomatoes each year in a hydroponic greenhouse; an amount equivalent
to a 100 acre field. Steam from the BNPD is used to heat the green-
house. The steam is transported in hot water coils and the condensate
is then returned to the BNPD for reuse.
• Bruce Agra: Foods that process fruits and vegetables into concentrates,
sauces, and purees. The food processing facilitators use steam energy
from the BNPD to concentrate 84,000 gallons of raw products per day.
• Bruce Agra: Dehydrates locally grown crops to produce nutrient rich
feeds for livestock and horses. The facility uses steam to run its
dehydrators. This firm produces 90,000 tons of feed cubes per annum.
• Commercial Alcohols: The largest manufacturer and distributor of
alcohol in Canada, and currently produces 23 million liters of indus-
trial and fuel alcohol from 58,000 tons of locally grown corn. Steam
from the BNPD is used in the distillation and ethanol processing of
the alcohol.
• BI-AX International: A specialized company that manufactures a
special polypropylene film for domestic and international markets.
The polypropylene is heated in steam-driven ovens.
• St Lawrence Technologies: A research and development facility that
specializes in finding ways to convert renewable resources to develop
a wide range of products.