TY - JOUR
T1 - Life cycle assessment of caustic soda production
T2 - A case study in China
AU - Hong, Jinglan
AU - Chen, Wei
AU - Wang, Yutao
AU - Xu, Changqing
AU - Xu, Xu
PY - 2014/3/1
Y1 - 2014/3/1
N2 - Life cycle assessment was conducted to estimate the environmental impact of caustic soda production. Electricity and raw salt production accounted for >90% of the overall environmental burden. These findings can be attributed to electrical consumption for bipolar electrolysis and brine extraction, diesel consumption for generating electricity during well production, and direct heavy metal emissions during drilling fluid loss and waste disposal. The key factors in reducing the overall environmental impact include optimizing raw salt production, electricity, and steam consumption efficiency, choosing drilling fluids with less toxic heavy metals (e.g.; arsenic, barium, molybdenum, selenium, vanadium, beryllium, and nickel), minimizing brine leakage during brine transport, reducing the volume of drilling fluid lost, and decreasing the transport distance from brine buyers to suppliers.
AB - Life cycle assessment was conducted to estimate the environmental impact of caustic soda production. Electricity and raw salt production accounted for >90% of the overall environmental burden. These findings can be attributed to electrical consumption for bipolar electrolysis and brine extraction, diesel consumption for generating electricity during well production, and direct heavy metal emissions during drilling fluid loss and waste disposal. The key factors in reducing the overall environmental impact include optimizing raw salt production, electricity, and steam consumption efficiency, choosing drilling fluids with less toxic heavy metals (e.g.; arsenic, barium, molybdenum, selenium, vanadium, beryllium, and nickel), minimizing brine leakage during brine transport, reducing the volume of drilling fluid lost, and decreasing the transport distance from brine buyers to suppliers.
KW - Brine
KW - Caustic soda
KW - Electricity
KW - Heavy metal
KW - Life cycle assessment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84893765494&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.10.009
DO - 10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.10.009
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84893765494
SN - 0959-6526
VL - 66
SP - 113
EP - 120
JO - Journal of Cleaner Production
JF - Journal of Cleaner Production
ER -
