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Sustainable Metals Management Securing Our Future - Steps Towards a Closed Loop Economy /

Metals have been essential to human civilisation for many thousands of years. With a broad range of applications they have found their way into virtually every aspect of our daily lives. Their durable and recyclable properties should make them ideal materials for a sustainable economy. But can metal...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Gleich, Arnim von (Editor ), Ayres, Robert U. (Editor ), Gößling-Reisemann, Stefan (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edición:1st ed. 2006.
Colección:Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science ; 19
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sustainability and Metals
  • Outlines of a Sustainable Metals Industry
  • Metallic Raw Materials - Constituents of Our Economy
  • Economy, Thermodynamics, and Sustainability
  • Aluminium
  • Prospects for a Sustainable Aluminum Industry
  • Towards a Sustainable Copper Industry?
  • An Application of Exergy Accounting to Five Basic Metal Industries
  • Entropy as a Measure for Resource Consumption - Application to Primary and Secondary Copper Production
  • Dematerialization of the Metals Turnover
  • Sustainability Strategies in Field Trial
  • Metals Materials Flows
  • Limits of Metal Recycling
  • Secondary Materials in Steel Production and Recycling
  • Optimisation Possibilities of Copper Smelting and -Processing
  • The Hamburger Aluminium-Werk GMBH's Contribution to a Sustainable Closed Loop Aluminium System
  • Sustainable Use of Copper
  • Ecological, Social, Toxicological, and Cultural Effects
  • Heavy Metals in the Netherlands
  • Toxic Effects of Metals and Metal Compounds
  • Metallurgical Plants and Chemicals Industry as Challenges to Environmental Protection in the 19th Century
  • Copper Mining and Metallurgy in Prehistoric and the More Recent Past
  • Social and Ecological Consequences of the Bauxite-Energy-Aluminium Product Line
  • The Ok Tedi Pages
  • Product Design and Use
  • Metals and Plastics - Competition or Synergy?
  • Sustainability-Optimised Material Selection and Product Design at Audi
  • Recycling of Electronic Waste Material
  • Sustainable Development of Microelectronics Industry
  • The Role of Metals for Designing Products and Solutions in the Context of a Sustainable Society.