Quality- and dilution losses in the recycling of ferrous materials from end-of-life passenger cars: Input-output analysis under explicit consideration of scrap quality

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 9266-9273

  Nakamura, Shinichiro ^a,b   Kondo, Yasushi ^a   Matsubae, Kazuyo ^c   Nakajima, Kenichi ^d   Tasaki, Tomohiro ^d   Nagasaka, Tetsuya ^c  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED-LOOP; ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE; END-OF-LIFE; END-OF-LIFE VEHICLES; FERROUS MATERIALS; HIGH PURITY MATERIALS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INPUT OUTPUT ANALYSIS; METAL SCRAPS; METAL SPECIES; OPEN-LOOP RECYCLING; QUALITY REQUIREMENTS; SECONDARY MATERIALS; STEEL RECYCLING;

CARBON DIOXIDE; COPPER; DEGRADATION; DILUTION; ELECTRIC FURNACES; IRON; MATERIALS; MIXING; RECYCLING; SCRAP METAL REPROCESSING; STEEL SCRAP;

COPPER SCRAP;

ALLOY; CARBON DIOXIDE; COPPER; FERROUS ION; METAL; STEEL;

AUTOMOBILE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; COPPER; DATA SET; DILUTION; EMISSION CONTROL; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; IRON; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; RECYCLING; STEEL;

ARTICLE; CAR; DILUTION; ENERGY; EXHAUST GAS; FURNACE; JAPAN; PURIFICATION; RECYCLING;

AUTOMOBILES; COPPER; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; RECYCLING; STEEL;

EID: 84865744417     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es3013529     Document Type: Article

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