A Case Study of LCA for Environmental Protection in Steel Company

• Published in: 2012 Third International Conference on Digital Manufacturing & Automation pp. 13 - 16
• Main Authors: Hao Yingjun, Zhu Zheng, Li Suqin, Cang Daqiang
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.07.2012
• Subjects: CML2001; EDIP; EI99; Humans; Inventory analysis; Iron; LCA; Materials; Metals industry; Production; Recycling; Steel; Steel Production

In China, as sustainable development strategy being implemented, quantitative evaluation of environmental load in steel industry has paid been more and more attention. In this paper, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) was applied in evaluation of the steel production process, analyzing the energy and mater...