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A life cycle inventory of aluminium die casting
conference contribution
posted on 2003-01-01, 00:00 authored by M Roberts, Eric Hu, Saeid NahavandiAs 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.
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Asia-Pacific Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Technologies (2003 : Yokkaichi, Japan)Series
Macro review. Special issue; 16.1Pagination
256 - 260Publisher
Japan Macro-Engineers SocietyLocation
Yokkaichi, JapanPlace of publication
[Yokkaichi, Japan]Start date
2003-05-08End date
2003-05-10ISSN
0915-0560Language
engNotes
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E1 Full written paper - refereedCopyright notice
2003, Japan Macro-Engineers SocietyEditor/Contributor(s)
Y AkiyoshiTitle of proceedings
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