Challenges for process industries in recycling--颗粒学报PARTICUOLOGY

Reh, L. (2006). Challenges for process industries in recycling* *The article is based on the author’s keynote lecture at R’05 conference. China Particuology, 4(2), 47–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1672-2515(07)60234-6

Challenges for process industries in recycling

Lothar Reh ^a *

a Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zuerich Institute of Process Engineering, CH-8092 Zuerich, Switzerland

10.1016/S1672-2515(07)60234-6

Volume 4, Issue 2, April 2006, Pages 47-59

Received 30 September 2005, Accepted 12 January 2006, Available online 27 November 2007.

E-mail: reh@ipe.mavt.ethz.ch

Highlights

Abstract

Increasing population and individual wealth have led to a higher demand for energy and raw material resources as well as for steady improvement of processing technology in view of efficient use of resources and avoiding emissions in production and recycling processes. Present situation and future trend of recycling processing are discussed by examples from the aluminium and steel industries, recycling of cars and post-consumer municipal recovery. The importance of more intense observance of thermodynamic laws and of a 4E strategy “Economy, Energy, Environment and Education” is outlined.

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Keywords

environment; sustainability; resources; recycling; recovery; re-integration; global cycle; entropy; secondary materials

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