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Pollution Prevention: An Opportunity for the Romanian Iron and Steel Industry

Life Cycle Assessment, the First Step to Pollution Prevention

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Tools and Methods for Pollution Prevention

Part of the book series: NATO Science Series ((ASEN2,volume 62))

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Abstract

Many Romanian industrial plants and technologies are either old and inefficient or not well operated. They need to be modernized through process modification; by increases in the efficiency of equipment, operation and maintenance procedures; or by undergoing complete technological change.

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a technical tool to use to identify and evaluate opportunities to reduce the environmental effects associated with a specific product, production process, package, or activity. It has three separate but interrelated components: inventory analysis, impact analysis and improvement analysis. Implementation of opportunities pointed out in the third stage of LCA can be made using pollution prevention techniques.

The paper presents characteristics of the iron and steel industry, a case study of an LCA in a Romanian iron and steel plant, and some resultant pollution prevention measures for the studied system.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Environmental Research and Engineering Institute, 294 Splaiul Independentei, Bucharest 6, Romania

    Viorel Harceag

  2. Metallurgical Research Institute, 39 Mehadia Str, Bucharest 6, Romania

    Greta Winckelbauer & Mariana Hri AC

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  1. Viorel Harceag
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  1. National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinatti, Ohio, USA

    Subhas K. Sikdar

  2. Department of Engineering and Public Policy and the Environmental Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Urmila Diwekar

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Harceag, V., Winckelbauer, G., Hri, M. (1999). Pollution Prevention: An Opportunity for the Romanian Iron and Steel Industry. In: Sikdar, S.K., Diwekar, U. (eds) Tools and Methods for Pollution Prevention. NATO Science Series, vol 62. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4445-2_4

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