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IEEE - Life Cycle Assessment of Rice Hull-Coal Co-Firing For Portland Cement Clinker Production
IEEE - Life Cycle Assessment of Rice Hull-Coal Co-Firing For Portland Cement Clinker Production
IEEE - Life Cycle Assessment of Rice Hull-Coal Co-Firing For Portland Cement Clinker Production
LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF RICE HULL – COAL CO-FIRING FOR PORTLAND CEMENT CLINKER
PRODUCTION
Daniel Joseph Marianoa, Jose Bienvenido Manuel M. Bionab, Jeremias A. Gonzagac
a&b
Mechanical Engineering Department, De La Salle University – Manila, 2401 Taft Avenue, 1004 Manila, Philippines
b
Center for Engineering and Sustainable Development Research, De La Salle University – Manila, 2401 Taft Avenue, 1004 Manila, Philippines
daniel_joseph_mariano@dlsu.ph
bionaj@dlsu.edu.ph
jeremias.gonzaga@dlsu.edu.ph
The product key parameters are defined as follows: The life cycle system boundary and stages covered
are provided by Figure 1 and Table 4 respectively.
• Lime Saturation Factor ( ) – Amount of CaO that is
not combined with SiO2, Al2O3 and Fe2O3; Table 2 Process Parameters (P)
Table 1 Upper and Lower Limits of the independent variables (δv), Primary Clinker Mineral Phases (Ms), and Clinker Oxide
Composition (zck)
Limits Independent Variables (δv)a Primary Clinker Phases Portland Clinker Oxide Composition (zck)b z
(Ms) a
δ1 δ2 δ3 δβ1 δβ2 M1 M2 M3 M4 zc1 zc2 zc3 zc4 zc5 zc6 zc7 zc8
LSF SM AM Coal RH C3S C2S C3A C4AF SiO2 Al2O3 Fe2O3 CaO MgO SO3 Na2O K2O
U 95 3.2 2.5 100 100 70 30 10 15 24.25 6.78 4.64 70.14 6.5 2.07 0.33 1.76 100
L 80 1.9 1.5 - - 50 15 5 5 19.71 3.76 1.29 63.76 - 0.2 0.03 0.31 100
a
Provided by Aldieb and Ibrahim [5]
b
For k = {9, 10, 11, 12, and 13} assumed Lck and Uck equal to zero [2] .
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Table 4 Process Stages (y) combinations are initially determined using genetic algorithm
y Description and further refined by exhaustive grid search for faster
1 Material Extractions and convergence.
Preparations
2 Transportation III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
3 Electricity Generation
4 On-site Emissions from The optimum rice hull thermal percentage substitution
Production and Material was found to be at 64% and yielded a 35.45% optimum
Movement reduction in life cycle impact. Beyond the optimal ratio, it is
probable to experience operational and quality disturbances
due to rice hull’s ash siliceous properties, thus violating
quality constraint.. Table 5 shows the final simulated δv, while
succeeding sub-sections presents discussion of environmental,
cost, process, and quality performance of the optimum mix
with the baseline respectively.
C. Optimization Process
The optimum raw material and fuel composition relative to transportation phase eventually providing to provide an over-
pure coal combustion is provided in Table 6. all global warming impact reduction of 26%. It could be noted
that the acidification and nutrient enrichment impact potentials
decreased by 27.22% and 4.70% respectively.
Table 6 Raw Material and Fuel Consumption – Uncalcined/Unignited
(Kg/KgC)
• Scenario1: Change of Rice hull source - 3.97% (5.4782x10-4 KW-Hr/KgC), because Silica component
Transportation in rawmeal production was displaced by rice husk ash that
From a distance of 169 Km (Main source), if the rice husk neither needed to be crushed nor grinded. The reduction in
source is transfer to nearby province with a distance of Coal Mill operation caused by the lower coal demand
77.35 Km from the reference cement plant, the simulated decreased the specific power consumption of Coal plant by
HTP value decreased by 10.45% or a total of 1.36% in the 64% (1.6022x10-3KW-Hr/KgC). In general, the specific power
total overall weighted environmental impact at 64% required declined by 3.02% compared with pure Indonesian
thermal substitution. coal consumption. The yielded amount for Indonisian Coal
• Scenario2: Increase rice hull density via compression and Rice Husk were 0.3136 and 0.3040 PhP/KgC respectively.
Rice hulls have bulk density of about 9 lb. per cubic foot. Though, Table 13 shows an increased in the specific fuel
It can be compressed to 25 lb. per cubic foot without consumption for rice husk, but due of its low unitary price
destroying its flexibility. It shows that at 64% rice husk compared with Indo coal, it still manages to provide positive
substitution, if the rice husks are compressed before effect in of fuel cost, 29.10% reduction.
delivery, then HTP value will lower by 9.8682%, while in
total weighted impact decreased by 1.73%, although
additional impact from the compression process needed to IV. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
be validated and ensure that its impact must be lower or it
will have no bearing at all. The calculated optimum results equivalent to 64% of rice
husk thermal substitution over pure coal proved to be a
Economic Feasibility sustainable source of alternative energy, and provides
maximum environmental life cycle benefit. The simulated
The cost aspect decreased by 19.08% (0.2727 PhP/KgC) result found to have no significant negative effect on cement
caused by the 29.10% reduction in Fuel Cost as shown in kiln stability and product quality due to predefined set of
Table 7. This was due to lower unit price of Rice husk environmental, process, cost and product quality constraints
compared with imported fuel. Although minimal, the that limits the dependent variables within the desirable
reduction in Raw Material and Power cost with 7.46% operating boundary.
combined, was caused by the displacement of Silica Mineral
by the Rice Husk ash. Table 16 shows a minimal decline in the It is important however to take into consideration rice hull
raw material cost with 4.44% (); though rice husk ash contains supply limitations and system modification requirements. The
96.78% SiO2 by weight and served as a viable option for Hi- un-interrupted supply of rice husk is required by the cement
plant in order to sustain the co-processing and avoid frequent
Table 7. Clinker Production Cost Details (Php/kgc) changes in raw meal mix design that will later affect the kiln
Cost Item Pure Coal 64% RH operation. Considering the variability of rice hull supply, plant
Raw Material Cost 0.1648 0.1574 to needs set a maximum target based on the minimum safety
Limestone 0.1174 0.1173 stock stored within its plant storage facility for a given period.
Clay 0.0254 0.0299 It could be noted that the 64% substitution would entail a 571
Hi-Silica 0.013 0.000
MT safety stock for daily consumption which could take so
Copper Slag 0.0089 0.0102
Fuel Cost 0.8711 0.6176
much space. The cement plants in the country were either
Coal 0.8711 0.3136 installed or commissioned between 20 to 50 years ago. The
Rice Hull 0 0.304 fuels used as the basis for the design of existing Calciner are
Electricity Cost 0.3928 0.381 either BFO or coal which contains higher calorific value. A
Total (PhP/KgC) 1.4287 1.1561 high substitution rate could possibly entail modifications in
the fuel feeding mechanism thus should be properly evaluated
Silica Mineral substitution, this was not enough, other for retrofitting time and incremental investment requirements.
important minerals needed to produce clinker were not present It would be interesting to also simulate other municipal,
in the ash, thus in order to satisfy the predefined set of industrial or agricultural waste and by products to the system
constraints, the needed minerals were acquired from other raw and examine feasibility as alternative fuel or substitute
material components such that of Clay and Copper Slag. This rawmaterial under the same objective function. [19], provided
is evident in Table 12, wherein consumption of these significant number of options. A post study on the
components increased by 17.90% and 14.19% respectively. environmental impact of compressing rice husk prior to
However, due to the huge specific Hi-Silica’s displacement, delivery will be a viable option to address the low bulk density
the raw meal to clinker ratio still manage to decrease by of the rice husk, thus decreasing the transportation
1.75%, which when translated to cost equivalent to environmental impact. Multi-objective optimization presented
0.0073PhP/KgC reduction. The decreased in Power cost was by [20] in Life cycle Assessment can be utilized if additional
also relative the later observation. It reduced the specific objectives function will be defined. A detail study that aim to
power consumption of Crushing and Raw Mill Facility by determine the correlation between kiln power consumption
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