Analysis of steel production in Thailand: Environmental impacts and solutions

Tongpool, Rungnapa; Jirajariyavech, Athiwatr; Yuvaniyama, Chantana; Mungcharoen, Thumrongrut

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2010.07.003

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“…The supplemental processes, i.e., production of softened water, steam production, air cooling, and humidity control were also included in the assessment. The impacts from buildings and machinery related to the production were negligible, as large amounts of the feeds were produced in their lifetimes (Tongpool et al, 2010). Because relatively large amounts of feed ingredients were imported, overseas transportation via ship was included in the assessment.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Improvement of the environmental performance of broiler feeds: a study via life cycle assessment

Tongpool¹,

Phanichavalit²,

Yuvaniyama³

et al. 2012

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…The methodology of LCA has been explained in detail elsewhere (ISO 14040, 2006(ISO 14040, , 2006Finnveden et al, 2009;Tongpool et al, 2010). Because large amounts of data are gathered, software has been created to accelerate the process and reduce any possible mistakes.…”

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Improvement of the environmental performance of broiler feeds: a study via life cycle assessment

Tongpool¹,

Phanichavalit²,

Yuvaniyama³

et al. 2012

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…In Australia, Norgate et al used the LCA to estimate the environmental impacts of ferroalloy and metal (copper, nickel, aluminium, lead, zinc, steel, titanium) production processes (Haque and Norgate, 2013;Norgate et al, 2007). To address climate change and the energy shortage, a several LCAs have discussed the energy and carbon emission reduction potential of steel industries around the world (Iosif et al, 2008;Tongpool et al, 2010;Yang and Chen, 2014). In China, however, no related studies on the use of a thorough life cycle method to assess the environment impacts of the comprehensive utilisation of VTM have been reported.…”

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Life cycle assessment of the comprehensive utilisation of vanadium titano-magnetite

Chen

Chu

et al. 2015

Journal of Cleaner Production

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a b s t r a c tThis study describes the life cycle assessment (LCA) of the comprehensive utilisation of vanadium titanomagnetite (VTM) through the integrated steel production and valuable element (V and Ti) extraction route. The major sources of environmental impacts are described and pollution prevention methods are proposed. The LCA methodology is based on the ISO 14044 standard, which uses GaBi 6.0 software and the Ecoinvent database, and the life cycle inventory (LCI) data (input and output) are from Pan. Steel. Impact assessment results indicate that production of pig iron in blast furnace (BF) exerts the most extensive impacts on global warming potential for the time horizon of 100 years (GWP 100 ) and fossil fuel consumption. By contrast, iron ore mining dressing and sintering contribute the most to acidification potential (AP), eutrophication potential (EP) and photochemical ozone creation potential (PCOP) because of dust and pollutant gas emissions. When indicator contributions are considered, the observed impacts on AP (50.88%), GWP 100 (24.25%) and photochemical ozone creation potential (POCP) (19.51%) are higher than those on EP, human toxic potential (HTP) and abiotic depletion potential (ADP). Therefore, when processes with environmental impacts are taken into account, the iron mining and dressing, iron ore sintering and BF iron-making processes must be considered, when category indicators are taken into account, AP, GWP 100 and POCP must be considered.

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“…The slab is used to produce flat products; hotrolled, cold-rolled, and galvanized steel. Tongpool et al [29] assessed the environmental impacts of the different flat products in Thailand. The slab showed the lowest impacts while the highest were due to the hot-dipped galvanized steel in all impact categories of fossil fuels, global warming, eco-toxicity, minerals, carcinogens, and respiratory inorganics.…”

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Steel as a sustainable choice towards the green building concept

Taha¹,

Ibrahim²,

Ali³

2016

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Due to the significant global environmental impacts of building construction through water consumption, energy use, gas emission and solid waste, a building's sustainability becomes the fourth consideration after cost, time and quality for the success of its design and construction. The green building standards state that a building is considered environmentally green whenever its structure and expected use simultaneously match the prescribed environmental standards over the span of its life-cycle. Therefore, the life cycle assessment of different buildings was studied to investigate building sustainability and how to achieve the criteria for green buildings. It was shown that a green building does not have a particular construction method, but it is a set of techniques, materials, and technologies suitably integrated together to improve the environmental performance of the building. Thus, this research will focus on steel as the main construction material which can be an appropriate choice that represents interesting solutions to fulfill the green building standards. The characteristics of durability, adaptability and recyclability of steel structures can definitely be highlighted at construction sustainability principles. Otherwise, the Egyptian steel industry has been performing a great effort to accomplish the optimum environmental performance, provide a high structural performance and quality, and satisfy clients' requirements for sustainability. Data from a private steel plant in Egypt has been compiled as a step to complete the Egyptian life cycle inventory so that the steel industry could be environmentally assessed.

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Analysis of steel production in Thailand: Environmental impacts and solutions

Cited by 41 publications

References 34 publications

Improvement of the environmental performance of broiler feeds: a study via life cycle assessment

Improvement of the environmental performance of broiler feeds: a study via life cycle assessment

Life cycle assessment of the comprehensive utilisation of vanadium titano-magnetite

Steel as a sustainable choice towards the green building concept

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