Phosphorus is an important element for the life cycle and for the industry, but the world reserve of the minerals decresign continuosly, both for the increase of the agricultural demand and for the constant industry request. More country try to avoid the exploitation of their reserve and other try to acquire new supply. The European Union depend strongly from the importation of phosphorus. So, is most important find a new way to obtain this essential substance and one path is the recycle. One firm, the ProPhos Chemical s.r.l., find in the extinguish exausted powder, a waste material, the mode to acquire phosphorus that agricultural industry demand. But the extinguish powder can not use directly for the agricutural purpose, them must be processed. The intention of ProPhos Chemical is achieve from extingush exausted powder a phosphorus fertilizer by a greenchemical process as musch possible. Phosphorus is an important element for the life cycle and the industry, but the world reserve of the minerals decreasing continuously, both for the increase of the agricultural demand and for the constant industry request. More countries try to avoid the exploitation of their reserves and others try to acquire new supplies. The European Union strongly depend on from the importation of phosphorus. So, it is most important to find a new way to obtain this essential substance and one path is the recycling. In March 2016 an Italian company, ProPHOS Chemicals S.r.l, won a European competition (HORIZON2020 - Sme Instrument Program) with the project “PhoSave – Innovative solution for phosphate recovery from exhausted extinguishing powders”. The aim of the PhoSave project is the recovery of exhausted ABC extinguishing powders via an eco-innovative solubilization process to develop new products to use in fields such as the agriculture and wood sector. To assess the technological validation and environmental sustainability of the newly designed extinguishing powder recovery process the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology is used, as defined in the international standard ISO 14040:2006 and 14044:2006, in a “cradle to grave” perspective. Phosphorus is an important element for the life cycle and the industry, but the world reserve of the minerals decreasing continuously, both for the increase of the agricultural demand and for the constant industry request. More countries try to avoid the exploitation of their reserves and others try to acquire new supplies. The European Union strongly depend on from the importation of phosphorus. So, it is most important to find a new way to obtain this essential substance and one path is the recycling. In March 2016 an Italian company, ProPHOS Chemicals S.r.l, won a European competition (HORIZON2020 - Sme Instrument Program) with the project “PhoSave – Innovative solution for phosphate recovery from exhausted extinguishing powders”. The aim of the PhoSave project is the recovery of exhausted ABC extinguishing powders via an eco-innovative solubilization process to develop new products to use in fields such as the agriculture and wood sector. To assess the technological validation and environmental sustainability of the newly designed extinguishing powder recovery process the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology is used, as defined in the international standard ISO 14040:2006 and 14044:2006, in a “cradle to grave” perspective. This study want to examine the environmental impact of the plant that ProPHOS Chemicals installed in its factory by using LCA analysis to obtain a picture of the process and so recognise which parts of this must be developed in the future to decrease the total environmental impact. The analysis is restricted to the lab-scale plant because the industrial plant is not ye operational and the data of processes before and operations after the plant is few. The study shows the comparison between the solvents that could be used by the company in the process. The result show also that the most critical part of the plant is the granulation phase that causes a huge impact comparison with other phases. This must be intepreted as a first step to achieve a complete portrait of the emissions of the industrial plant, from gate to gate and, in the future, of the entire production process, from cradle to grave.
Il fosforo è un elemento importante per il ciclo di vita e l'industria, ma la riserva mondiale dei minerali diminuisce continuamente, sia per l'aumento della domanda agricola che per la costante richiesta dell'industria. Altri paesi cer-cano di evitare lo sfruttamento delle loro riserve e altri cercano di acquisire nuove forniture. L'Unione europea dipende fortemente dall'importazione di fosfo-ro. Quindi, è importante trovare un nuovo modo per ottenere questa sostanza es-senziale e una strada è il riciclaggio. A marzo 2016 una società italiana, ProPHOS Chemicals S.r.l, ha vinto un concorso europeo (HORIZON2020 - Sme Instrument Program) con il progetto "PhoSave - Solu-zione innovativa per il recupero di fosfati da polveri estinguenti esauste". L'obiettivo del progetto PhoSave è il recupero delle polveri estinguenti esauste tramite un processo di solubilizzazione ecoinnovativa per lo sviluppo di nuovi prodotti da utilizzare in settori come l'agricoltura e il settore del legno. Per valutare la validazione tecnologica e la sostenibilità ambientale del processo di recupero delle polveri estinguenti di nuova progettazione, viene utilizzata la metodologia LCA (Life Cycle Assessment), come definito nello standard inter-nazionale ISO 14040: 2006 e 14044: 2006, in una prospettiva "dalla culla alla tomba". Questo studio vuole esaminare l'impatto ambientale dell'impianto che ProPHOS Chemicals ha installato nella sua fabbrica utilizzando l'analisi LCA per ottene-re un quadro del processo e quindi riconoscere quali parti di questo devono es-sere sviluppate in futuro per ridurre l'impatto ambientale totale. L'analisi è limitata all'impianto su scala di laboratorio perché l'impianto industriale non è operativo e i dati dei processi prima e le operazioni dopo l'impianto sono po-chi. Lo studio mostra il confronto tra i solventi che potrebbero essere utiliz-zati dall'azienda nel processo. Il risultato mostra anche che la parte più cri-tica dell'impianto è la fase di granulazione che provoca un enorme confronto di impatto con altre fasi. Questo deve essere interpretato come un primo passo per ottenere un quadro completo delle emissioni dell'impianto industriale, da porta a porta e, in futuro, dell'intero processo produttivo, dalla culla alla tomba.
PhoSave. Soluzione innovativa per il recupero di fosfati dalle polveri estinguenti esauste : analisi LCA
RECH, ELLIS
2016/2017
Abstract
Phosphorus is an important element for the life cycle and for the industry, but the world reserve of the minerals decresign continuosly, both for the increase of the agricultural demand and for the constant industry request. More country try to avoid the exploitation of their reserve and other try to acquire new supply. The European Union depend strongly from the importation of phosphorus. So, is most important find a new way to obtain this essential substance and one path is the recycle. One firm, the ProPhos Chemical s.r.l., find in the extinguish exausted powder, a waste material, the mode to acquire phosphorus that agricultural industry demand. But the extinguish powder can not use directly for the agricutural purpose, them must be processed. The intention of ProPhos Chemical is achieve from extingush exausted powder a phosphorus fertilizer by a greenchemical process as musch possible. Phosphorus is an important element for the life cycle and the industry, but the world reserve of the minerals decreasing continuously, both for the increase of the agricultural demand and for the constant industry request. More countries try to avoid the exploitation of their reserves and others try to acquire new supplies. The European Union strongly depend on from the importation of phosphorus. So, it is most important to find a new way to obtain this essential substance and one path is the recycling. In March 2016 an Italian company, ProPHOS Chemicals S.r.l, won a European competition (HORIZON2020 - Sme Instrument Program) with the project “PhoSave – Innovative solution for phosphate recovery from exhausted extinguishing powders”. The aim of the PhoSave project is the recovery of exhausted ABC extinguishing powders via an eco-innovative solubilization process to develop new products to use in fields such as the agriculture and wood sector. To assess the technological validation and environmental sustainability of the newly designed extinguishing powder recovery process the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology is used, as defined in the international standard ISO 14040:2006 and 14044:2006, in a “cradle to grave” perspective. Phosphorus is an important element for the life cycle and the industry, but the world reserve of the minerals decreasing continuously, both for the increase of the agricultural demand and for the constant industry request. More countries try to avoid the exploitation of their reserves and others try to acquire new supplies. The European Union strongly depend on from the importation of phosphorus. So, it is most important to find a new way to obtain this essential substance and one path is the recycling. In March 2016 an Italian company, ProPHOS Chemicals S.r.l, won a European competition (HORIZON2020 - Sme Instrument Program) with the project “PhoSave – Innovative solution for phosphate recovery from exhausted extinguishing powders”. The aim of the PhoSave project is the recovery of exhausted ABC extinguishing powders via an eco-innovative solubilization process to develop new products to use in fields such as the agriculture and wood sector. To assess the technological validation and environmental sustainability of the newly designed extinguishing powder recovery process the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology is used, as defined in the international standard ISO 14040:2006 and 14044:2006, in a “cradle to grave” perspective. This study want to examine the environmental impact of the plant that ProPHOS Chemicals installed in its factory by using LCA analysis to obtain a picture of the process and so recognise which parts of this must be developed in the future to decrease the total environmental impact. The analysis is restricted to the lab-scale plant because the industrial plant is not ye operational and the data of processes before and operations after the plant is few. The study shows the comparison between the solvents that could be used by the company in the process. The result show also that the most critical part of the plant is the granulation phase that causes a huge impact comparison with other phases. This must be intepreted as a first step to achieve a complete portrait of the emissions of the industrial plant, from gate to gate and, in the future, of the entire production process, from cradle to grave.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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