The objective is to know how the CO2 emits and how much the CO2 emits due to the cement
manufacture in both direct and indirect ways with the increasing concerns about the global warming and the
cement plants emitting huge CO2. A precise method to calculate CO2 emissions including three processes was
established in this paper and a case study was provided. From the case of 23 typical plants in China, we can
see the amount of CO2 emissions at the right level. The summary of CO2 emissions consists of emissions from
raw materials, fuels and electricity. The average result of the 23 typical plants is 0.74 t CO2 per ton clinker in
this study. Therefore, CO2 emissions from these typical cement plants were pictured and then measured. The
creative point is that an approach provides a basic framework to identify various situations in different cement
plants in China and other in the rest of the world. The framework would be useful in quantitatively evaluating
CO2 emissions for government to know precisely CO2 emissions in the cement plants.
LI Chen1 (李琛), CUI Su-ping1 (崔素萍), WANG Zhi-hong1 (王志宏)
. CO2 Emissions from Typical Cement Plants in China[J]. Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University(Science), 2012
, 17(3)
: 341
-344
.
DOI: 10.1007/s12204-012-1283-z
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