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Screening Environmental Impact Reduction Enabled by Brass Reclamation through Hot Forging Operations

Johansson, Jakob LU ; Furberg, Anna and Schultheiss, Fredrik LU (2020) 9th Swedish Production Symposium, SPS 2020 In Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering 13. p.241-248
Abstract

The traditional method for recycling brass chips is to send the scrap back to the material manufacturer for re-melting. Alternatively, brass chips can be reclaimed through hot forging operations at the production site. As an initial screening of the environmental impact of this novel reclamation method, the impacts of this new method was compared to conventional brass production (including recycling) for a specific part. These two production routes were compared in terms of cumulative energy demand and climate change impact. The comparison between the two production routes showed that the new reclamation method reduced the cumulative energy demand with 29 % and climate change impact with 30 % for production of a specific part compared... (More)

The traditional method for recycling brass chips is to send the scrap back to the material manufacturer for re-melting. Alternatively, brass chips can be reclaimed through hot forging operations at the production site. As an initial screening of the environmental impact of this novel reclamation method, the impacts of this new method was compared to conventional brass production (including recycling) for a specific part. These two production routes were compared in terms of cumulative energy demand and climate change impact. The comparison between the two production routes showed that the new reclamation method reduced the cumulative energy demand with 29 % and climate change impact with 30 % for production of a specific part compared to conventional recycling. It is, however, important to note that the material produced using hot forging reclamation method have slightly lower mechanical properties as compared to the traditionally recycled material. Currently the novel recycling method is only tested in lab scale and therefore, further studies are needed in order to fully assess the environmental impacts of the new reclamation method compared to conventional brass production.

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Brass, Life cycle assessment (LCA), Recycling, Resource efficient production
host publication
SPS2020 - Proceedings of the Swedish Production Symposium
series title
Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering
editor
Safsten, Kristina and Elgh, Fredrik
volume
13
pages
8 pages
publisher
IOS Press
conference name
9th Swedish Production Symposium, SPS 2020
conference location
Virtual, Online, Sweden
conference dates
2020-10-07 - 2020-10-08
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  • scopus:85098635889
ISBN
9781614994398
DOI
10.3233/ATDE200162
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English
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  author       = {{Johansson, Jakob and Furberg, Anna and Schultheiss, Fredrik}},
  booktitle    = {{SPS2020 - Proceedings of the Swedish Production Symposium}},
  editor       = {{Safsten, Kristina and Elgh, Fredrik}},
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  keywords     = {{Brass; Life cycle assessment (LCA); Recycling; Resource efficient production}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{10}},
  pages        = {{241--248}},
  publisher    = {{IOS Press}},
  series       = {{Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering}},
  title        = {{Screening Environmental Impact Reduction Enabled by Brass Reclamation through Hot Forging Operations}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/ATDE200162}},
  doi          = {{10.3233/ATDE200162}},
  volume       = {{13}},
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