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 Harmonizing the resource, technology and environmental cycles
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By
M.A. Reuter, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
U.M.J. Boin, Oberusel, Germany
A, van Schaik, Den Haag, The Netherlands
E. Verhoef, Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands
K. Heiskanen, Helsinki University of Technology, Hut, Finland
Yongxiang Yang, Delft, The Netherlands
G. Georgalli, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Included in series
Developments in Mineral Processing, 16
Description
This book is a must for individuals and companies that have an interest in developing sustainable technology and systems in the complex
'Web of Metals' on a first principles, technological and economic basis, with a focus to the minerals, metals and product manufacturing
industries.
In this inter-, intra- and trans-disciplinary book the material/metal cycle will be central, addressing technology as
the basis for achieving sustainability within the system of primary mineral and metal producing, and the consumer product material cycles,
linked to nature's cycles. The following major topics (not exclusive) are discussed in a detail, which will satisfy company CEO's and
students of environment, engineering, economics, and law alike: (i) industrial ecology, (ii) system engineering concepts, (iii) development
of future breakthrough technology as well optimization of present technology, (iv) process fundamentals (e.g. thermodynamics, separation
physics, transport processes etc.), (v) product manufacture and design (for recycling), (vi) environmental legislation and (vii) technology
as a basis for achieving sustainability within our present society.
The book discusses contentious issues such as the limits of recycling
determined by physics, chemistry, economics and process technology, therefore providing the reader with a fundamental basis to understand
and critically discuss the validity of environmental legislation. Furthermore, the 'Web of Metals' (i.e. the dynamic interconnection
of metal and material cycles and product systems) will reveal that, if the application of environmental evaluation techniques such as
material flow analysis, life cycle assessment etc. are not carried out on a sufficient theoretical basis, technological and economic
understanding, analyses could lead to erroneous and in the end environmentally harmful conclusions.
The book is illustrated with
many industrial examples embracing car and electronic consumer goods manufacturing and recycling, and the production and recycling of
all major metals (e.g. steel, aluminium, copper, zinc, lead, magnesium, PGM's and PM's) and to an extent plastics. A complete section
of the book is devoted to the recycling of light metals. Numerous colour figures and photos, plant and reactor data as well as software
and computer models (running under Matlab's Simulink® and AMPL® as well as tools based on neural net technology (CSense™)
are provided to give the reader the opportunity to investigate the various topics addressed in this book at various levels of depth and
theoretical sophistication, providing a wealth of information, share-data and industrial know-how.
Finally, the book philosophically
discusses how to harmonize the resource, life and technological cycles depicted by the figure on the cover to make a contribution to
the sustainable use of resources and products.
Audience
Any discipline interested in the sustainability of materials and metals and also products i.e. engineers, business community, legislators,
lawyers in the field, environmentalists, biologists, industrial ecologists, material scientists etc.
Contents
I. Overview of Book.
1. Metal and material ecology.
2. Product Recycling as applied to the car.
3. Metallurgical recycling of aluminium.
4. Objectives of book.
II. Metal and Material Ecology.
5. Sustainability and industrial ecology.
6. A description of the metal
cycles.
7. A prescription for the metal cycles.
8. Electronics recycling: Lead free solder.
9. Synthesis and conclusions.
III. Product
Recycling as Applied to the Car.
10. The dynamic and distributed nature of the recycling rate of the car - a fundamental description
of recycling systems.
11. Dynamic modelling and optimisation of the resource cycle of passenger vehicles - a technological framework.
12. The role of particle size reduction, liberation and product design in recycling passenger vehicles.
13. Recycling experiments - from
theory to practice.
IV. Metallurgical Recycling of Aluminium.
14. Aluminium metallurgy and recycling raw materials.
15. Physical
separation of aluminium containing material.
16. Primary production of aluminium.
17. Recycling of aluminium metal containing material.
18. Simulating a rotary furnace for aluminium recycling.
A. Relevant theory.
B. Description of metal production flowcharts.
C. Car recycling
- a case study.
D. Excel screen captures depicting the optimization model.
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Hardbound, 720 pages, publication date: NOV-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-51137-9
ISBN-10: 0-444-51137-7
Imprint: ELSEVIER
Price: Order form
GBP 120
USD 205
EUR 180
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Last update: 12 Jul 2008
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