Energy conservation and circular economy in China's process industries
By Huiquan Li, Wei-jun Bao, Caihong Xiu, Yi Zhang, Hong-bin Xu. 2010
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Since energy consumption in process industries accounts for a great proportion of China's total energy consumption, energy conservation becomes the practical choice to reduce the conflict between energy demand and energy supply in China, and therefore, promoting energy conservation is the long-term solution to China's energy and environment problems from the source. In this paper, based on the introduction of the concept of energy consumption status in China's key energy-consuming process industries, the main technical bottlenecks and resource-environment problems were analyzed with special emphasis on energy utilization efficiency, energy consumption mode, and waste emission. As for the measures to resolve these problems, at the policy level, policies and programs of Chinese government related to energy conservation were introduced in combination with China's circular economy structure. At the technical level, the key technologies and research progress to improve energy utilization efficiency, reducing energy consumption, as well as utilizing the resource of discharged wastes were reviewed. Finally, three typical cases of the development of circular economy at three levels, namely the chemical industry, metallurgical industry, and electric power industry, were studied for the enforcement of circular economy and energy conservation in China's process industries.
Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Strategy and Management
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- Prioritization of sustainability indicators for promoting the circular economy: The case of developing countries (2019, methodology): “[92] have utilized them in the case studies of chromate production plant, steel manufacturing process and eco-industry in Yima city.”
- A Review of the Circular Economy and its Implementation (2016, unknown): “The second reason for continuously implementing and further developing CE is severe shortage of resources and energy to meet growing demands and high rate of economic growth so that a pathway to sustainable development can be found (Li et al., 2010).”