DocumentCode :
2839050
Title :
Application of Results of Ceramic Tiles Life Cycle Assessment due to Energy Savings and Environment Protection
Author :
Hocenski, Verica ; Hocenski, Zeljko ; Vasilic, Suzana
Author_Institution :
J.J. Strossmayer Univ., Osijek
fYear :
2006
fDate :
15-17 Dec. 2006
Firstpage :
2972
Lastpage :
2977
Abstract :
The production of ceramic tiles has significant influence to environment due to consumption of energy sources, raw material, emission and waste that emerges throughout the production. The life cycle assessment method is used to show and test the possibility of decreasing the influence of contemporary manufacturing process of ceramic tiles to environment. The ceramic tiles are produced in monofiring production technology as a part of integrated management system using international accepted standards for quality ISO 9001 and for management environment ISO 14001. The influence of life cycle phases of ceramic tiles and total influence to environment is determined by usage of EKO indicator 99. We tested the possibility of using data obtained by evaluation to management decisions about the decreasing the influence of production process as a life cycle phase through the decreasing of energy consumption and natural resources. The consumption of energy sources as gas and electricity was reduced by using the projects for increasing the power efficiency. The savings in gas consumption are achieved by building in unit for supplying with waste warm from oven to atomizer and electronic equipment for atomizer automatic control. The procedures for decreasing the electricity consumption are also used.
Keywords :
ISO standards; ceramic products; energy consumption; environmental factors; maintenance engineering; natural resources; tiles; EKO indicator 99; ISO 14001; ISO 9001; atomizer automatic control; ceramic tiles; electricity consumption; electronic equipment; energy consumption; energy saving; environment protection; integrated management system; life cycle assessment method; manufacturing process; monofiring production technology; natural resources; raw material; Ceramics; Energy consumption; Environmental management; ISO standards; Life testing; Production; Protection; Quality management; Technology management; Tiles;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Technology, 2006. ICIT 2006. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Mumbai
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0726-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0726-5
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICIT.2006.372682
Filename :
4238004
Link To Document :
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