Sustainable metal management and recycling loops: Life cycle assessment for aluminium recycling strategies

Re-Engineering Manufacturing for Sustainability - Proceedings of the 20th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 403-408

  Paraskevas, Dimos ^a   Kellens, Karel ^a   Renaldi, ^a   Dewulf, Wim ^a,b   Duflou, Joost R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Associatie KULeuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aluminium recycling; Cascade recycling; Life cycle assessment; Quality losses; Resource efficiency

Indexed keywords

ALLOYING ELEMENTS; ALUMINUM; ARTIFICIAL LIFE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; RECYCLING; SCRAP METAL; SCRAP METAL REPROCESSING;

ALUMINIUM RECYCLING; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); PRIMARY MATERIALS; QUALITY LOSS; RECYCLING OPTIONS; RECYCLING PROCESS; RESOURCE EFFICIENCIES;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84926161815     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-4451-48-2_66     Document Type: Conference Paper

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