Comparison of CO2 emission related to off highway trucks and belst conveyors in an open pit coal mine

2011-05-13
Environmental impacts of extraction and utilization of finite resources are crucial more than ever. In recent years, mining industry has been faced with increasing constraints and forced to manage and mitigate the environmental impacts associated with mining. Mining professionals and practitioners have become obliged to make decisions in accordance with certain systematic standards like Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). This study presents the use of LCA in material handling system selection between off-highway trucks and belt conveyors. The main objective of the study is to provide an aid in comparison of these two material handling systems from the environmental perspective. The research study involves i) the conceptual modeling of LCA framework for both trucks and belt conveyors, ii) implementation of LCA stages, iii) simulations of the developed model. The result showed that LCA provides an important aid in making decisions for mining machinery which may have a substantial contribution to atmospheric emissions.
Comparison of CO2 emission related to off highway trucks and belst conveyors in an open pit coal mine, 22nd International Mining Congress and Exhibition of Turkey, Ankara, Türkiye, 11 - 13 Mayıs 2011

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Citation Formats
M. Erkayaoğlu and N. Demirel, “Comparison of CO2 emission related to off highway trucks and belst conveyors in an open pit coal mine,” presented at the Comparison of CO2 emission related to off highway trucks and belst conveyors in an open pit coal mine, 22nd International Mining Congress and Exhibition of Turkey, Ankara, Türkiye, 11 - 13 Mayıs 2011, Ankara, Türkiye, 2011, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/82500.