Publicación: Reduction of water and energy consumption in the sanitary ware industry by an absorption machine operated with recovered heat
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2021-01-25
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Water scarcity is a real problem that affects directly over one third of the world population, and greenhouse gases only worsen the situation. Due to this, action must be taken against the over exploitation of resources. Water accounting and saving should be mandatory for a proper sustainable industry. In this regard, the sanitary ware industrial sector, as an intensive consumer of water, should make a social commitment to contribute to stopping water overuse. Sanitary ware manufacturing delivers an amount of water equivalent to the half of the total production weight via evaporation. The aim of this research was to find a green process to reuse the evaporated water and thereby reduce the overall water consumption level as well as promote a cleaner technology with low environmental impact. The key point in supporting sustainability restriction is to match water condensation with heat recovery to avoid any energy surplus. The thermal energy recovered from kiln exhaust gets transferred into a cold flow, which condenses the evaporated water by an absorption cycle. Computational modeling was used to thermodynamically analyze and optimize the performance of this novel technology. The proposed model was applied to the most extended technologies to reduce natural gas usage by 25% and total water usage by 16%. Besides, the surplus of condensed water from combustion and from air moisture has been quantified to be added to savings. The present research provides a practical tool for the sector to use in designing more efficient, green manufacturing plants while supporting a more sustainable business model. It demonstrates and quantifies the potential of water saving in the sanitary ware industry, which
had never before been tackled.
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Esta es la versión aceptada del artículo. La versión registrada, publicado por primera vez en Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 292, 2021, 126049, ISSN 0959-6526, está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: Revista Aportes Revista de historia contemporánea; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126049.
This is the accepted version of the article. The registered version, first published in Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 292, 2021, 126049, ISSN 0959-6526, is available online at the publisher's website: Revista Aportes Journal of Contemporary History; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126049.
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Ceramic industry, energy reduction, water saving, factory design optimization, absorption, recovered heat
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Carlos Cuviella-Suárez, Antonio Colmenar-Santos, David Borge-Diez, África López-Rey, Reduction of water and energy consumption in the sanitary ware industry by an absorption machine operated with recovered heat, Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 292, 2021, 126049, ISSN 0959-6526, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126049.
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Facultades y escuelas::E.T.S. de Ingenieros Industriales
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Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica, Control, Telemática y Química Aplicada a la Ingeniería