posted on 2003-01-01, 00:00authored byM Roberts, Eric Hu, Saeid Nahavandi
As part of an ongoing project, a life cycle inventory (LCI) of aluminium high pressure die casting (HPDC) has been collected. This has been conducted from the view of an individual product and also the entire process. The objective of the study was to analyse the process and suggest changes to reduce environmental impacts. One modem aluminium high pressure die casting plant located in Victoria, Australia was evaluated and modelled. Site specific data on energy and materials was gathered and the process was modelled using a typical automotive component. The paper also presents our experience and methodology used in this inventory data collection process from the real industry for LCA purposes. The inventory data collected itself reveals that the HPDC process is energy intensive and as such the major emissions were from the use of natural gas fired furnaces and from the brown coal derived electricity. It is also found the large environmental benefits of using secondary aluminium over primary aluminium in the HPDC process. A detailed LCA is being cal1ied out based on the inventory obtained.
History
Pagination
256 - 260
Location
Yokkaichi, Japan
Open access
Yes
Start date
2003-05-08
End date
2003-05-10
ISSN
0915-0560
Language
eng
Notes
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Publication classification
E1 Full written paper - refereed
Copyright notice
2003, Japan Macro-Engineers Society
Editor/Contributor(s)
Y Akiyoshi
Title of proceedings
Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Technologies