Global warming impact of the magnesium produced in China using the Pidgeon process

By S. Ramakrishnan, P. Koltun. 2004

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering

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In Biomaterials

1. Lynette Cheah
2. Ambalavanar Tharumarajah
3. Sergio Ulgiati
4. Marco Raugei
5. F. Cherubini
6. P. Koltun

In Materials Chemistry

1. Lynette Cheah
2. Ambalavanar Tharumarajah
3. Sergio Ulgiati
4. Marco Raugei
5. F. Cherubini
6. P. Koltun

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Lynette Cheah
2. Ambalavanar Tharumarajah
3. E. Harper
4. P. Nuss
5. N. Nassar
6. Marco Raugei
7. Sergio Ulgiati
8. F. Cherubini

Citations in the corpus

• LCA of magnesium production Technological overview and worldwide estimation of environmental burdens (2008, methodology): “The main data source for AM and Pidgeon process is Ramakrishnan and Koltun (2004b), while data for Bolzano and Magnetherm process come from Magnesium Encyclopaedia (2008). The assumptions for the transportation step are the following: 40 tonnes truck capacity, distance (round trip) of 200 km, averag”
• Cars on a diet : the material and energy impacts of passenger vehicle weight reduction in the U.S. (2010, methodology): “[94-98] Obtaining the same ingot using an electrolytic process requires 3-5 times less energy.”
• Microwave-assisted metallurgy (2015, background): “Magnesium (Mg) is the eighth most abundant element in the Earth’s crust.(150) Magnesium production over world was dominated by the electrolytic route based on various sources of magnesium chloride in the second half of the 20th century and by the Pidgeon (silicothermic process) process in the last 5”
• Criticality of metals and metalloids (2015, background): “e Both loss rates refer to magnesium oxide production from dolomite (170), due to the fact that these estimates were not available for magnesite.”
• Assessing the life cycle costs and environmental performance of lightweight materials in automobile applications (2011, background): “China currently produces over 70% of the world’s magnesium [44], and so is considered to be the source with LCI data taken from literature [45].”
• Life Cycle Impact of Rare Earth Elements (2014, background): “Since mining and beneficiation are established technologies, data is mostly based on our previous studies in mining and beneficiation [31, 32].”