- Advanced management of industrial waste
- Air quality and control of emissions
- Energy and resource efficiency
Metallic transformation and components manufacturing companies are challenged to allign with the requirements of public agents and society to be more environmentally responsible.
Using less natural and energy resources, developing greener and more durable products and decreasing the environmental impact of their products and manufacturing processes are some key aspects to work on and in which AZTERLAN accompanies industrial companies.
Reducing the generation of waste and developing new valorization ways, avoiding its storage in specialized spaces or its disposal in landfills, is crucial to improve the environmental impact of the metallic transformation industries and their client sectors.
- New valorization ways.
- Waste streams sorting and classification.
- Strategies to minimize waste generation.
Avoiding the generation of emissions that are harmful to health and the environment is key to building a more sustainable industry.
- Evaluation and identification of pollution sources to the atmosphere and in indoor spaces.
- Development of improvement proposals and implementation of solutions.
The use of heat energy generated during manufacturing processes and the development of new ways of thermal storage are essential to improve the energy and economic efficiency of metallic industries.
- Recovery of waste heat in industrial processes/facilities.
- New heat storage materials (metallic PCM, inorganic solids, etc.).
Optimization of the consumption of resources and reduction of the generation of impacts associated with the life cycle of products/processes.
- Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA)
- Life Cycle Cost (LCC)
- Methods for sampling and characterization of waste streams (gases and particles, residues, leakages).
- Eco-design models and procedures for products and processes.
- Methods to Asses Environmental Life Cycle (LCA), Social Life Cycle (SLCA) and Life Cycle Cost (LCC).
- Advanced technologies to treat emissions and to valorize waste though new applications of added value.
- Sustainable management of materials and energy consumption.
- Substitution of hazardous and polluting materials.
- Recycling and internal reuse of alloys, refractories, sands, etc.
- Optimization of processes, products and use of materials to prevent an minimize emissions and leakage.
- Industrial symbiosis for a better use of resources.
- Compliance with legislative obligations.
- Environmental diagnosis and audits.
- Technical, environmental and economic evaluation of operations, processes and products.
- Custom built itineraries to minimize environmental impacts.
- Municipal action plans for air quality and urban waste.
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«Our work is aimed at mastering the physics and the chemistry that govern the behavior of metallic alloys, the phenomena that take place during manufacturing processes and the conditions that affect the useful life of metallic components.
We rethink metallurgy to develop more effective, efficient and sustainable manufacturing processes that favor the manufacture of components with enhanced properties and that open up new fields of application».
