The evaluation of fired clay brick production in terms of energy efficiency: a case study in Turkey

Yüksek, İzzet; Öztaş, Saniye Karaman; Tahtali, Gurhan

doi:10.1007/s12053-020-09896-y

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“…The kiln type is a significant factor that can reduce emissions and save energy. Owing to their heat-recovery qualities, continuous kilns are more energy-efficient than their intermittent counterparts [56]. Other necessary measures to take to improve efficiency during the brickmaking process include improving fuel feeding best practices, providing periodic maintenance of kiln walls, reducing leakages, providing proper fuel preparation, improving supervision of the firing operation, ensuring adequate drying of the bricks, and reducing the mass of each unit by increasing its perforations [57].…”

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Context Analysis for Transformative Change in the Ceramic Industry

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Foundation industries are under increasing pressure to transform for sustainable development. Ceramics play a key role within foundation industries as a necessary material for building manufacturing facilities. Therefore, transforming the ceramic industry could support changes across other foundation industries as well, making it one of the most important industries to transform. Given the limited finances, staff time, and other resources to support transformative change, this study aims to identify a set of key intervention points to enable transformative change in the ceramic industry in the United Kingdom. A desk-based study, reviewing written industry, government, and scientific materials available in the public domain, was carried out to identify initial key intervention points for transformative change. The PESTLE approach was used to analyse macro factors in political, environmental, social, technological, legal, and economic domains in order to understand how the context enables or constrains change in the ceramic industry. A SWOT analysis was conducted to further consolidate the findings. Our analysis detected over 50 transformative change drivers and barriers and showed that decarbonisation and energy-saving strategies were the main drivers for transforming the UK ceramic industry. On the other hand, foreign government policy and legislation, trade barriers, skills shortages, and costly alternative energy sources were among the major barriers.

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Context Analysis for Transformative Change in the Ceramic Industry

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“…The production of bricks requires large amounts of energy, and the process can lead to significant environmental impacts such as greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution, and depletion of natural resources [1][2][3][4][5]. Therefore, there is a growing need to focus on energy efficiency in brick production to reduce its environmental impact and promote sustainable development.…”

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“…In order to have energy saving in brick production, the firing technology is changed from the intermittent process into continuous process. Some well known firing technologies for brick production include: Hoffman kiln [1][2][3], Vertical shaft brick kiln (VSBK) [1,3], Tunnel kiln [1,2], and Multi-chamber brick kiln (MCBK) [4,5]. These technologies offer significant potential for reducing energy consumption in brick production while improving efficiency and reducing environmental impact.…”

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Evaluating the Energy Efficiency and Environmental Impact of a Multi-Chamber Brick Kiln in Vietnam

2023

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Brick production is an essential component of the construction industry, contributing significantly to the development of infrastructure and housing worldwide. This study evaluates the energy efficiency and environmental impact of a multi-chamber brick kiln in Vietnam. The study was conducted through a detailed field survey of the kiln, which included measurements of energy consumption and pollutant emissions. The results show that the kiln has a moderate level of energy efficiency, as indicated by the specific energy consumption of 2,035.1 kJ / kg output brick. However, the kiln also produces pollutants, including SOx, CO, and NOx. The study provides recommendations for improving the kiln's energy efficiency based on the results of the energy analysis. Overall, this study highlights the importance of improving the energy efficiency as well as the environmental performance of a Multi Chamber Brick Kiln in Vietnam and provides valuable insights for policy-makers and industry stakeholders.

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“…First, a high level of air pollution emissions associated with the procedures of brick production makes it challenging for the brick makers to obey environmental standards and avoid polluting the environment. Second, a high degree of global energy consumption constrains brick manufacturers, who should be energy-efficient [2,3]. The survey of the literature shows that there are some analytical studies about different aspects of brick production regarding environmental competencies, energy efficiency improvement, clean production, and technological competencies that are reviewed in the following sections.…”

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Sustainable High-Tech Brick Production with Energy-Oriented Consumption: An Integrated Possibilistic Approach Based on Criteria Interdependencies

2021

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Brick making contributes significantly to the of supply materials for the building industry. The majority of brick production sectors, especially in developing countries, employ polluting and energy-inefficient technologies. Due to the increasing pressures on manufacturing firms to improve economic performance and growing environmental protection issues, sustainable and clean production is the main concern for brick makers. This paper considers the technological, economic, environmental, social, and energy-oriented criteria to select the optimal brick production technologies. Therefore, technology selection is viewed as a multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM) problem. This research proposes a novel hybrid fuzzy MCGDM (HFMCGDM) model to tackle the problem. In this respect, first of all, the modified triangular fuzzy pair-wise comparison (MTFPC) method is proposed to compute the local weights of criteria and sub-criteria. Then, a fuzzy DEMATEL (FDEMATEL) method is presented to calculate the interdependencies between and within the criteria. Moreover, the integration of MTFPC and FDEMATEL methods is applied to calculate the global criteria weights. Afterward, a novel method is proposed to determine the experts’ weight. Considering the last aggregation approach to diminish data loss, a new version of a fuzzy TOPSIS method is proposed to find the local and global priorities of the candidates. Then, a case study is given to demonstrate the applicability and superiority of the proposed methodology. To get a deeper view about considering kilns, energy and environmental performance of which has been investigated. Moreover, a comparative analysis is presented to illuminate the merits of the proposed methodology. Eventually, a sensitivity analysis is conducted to peruse the influence of criteria weights on ranking order.

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The evaluation of fired clay brick production in terms of energy efficiency: a case study in Turkey

Cited by 10 publications

References 15 publications

Context Analysis for Transformative Change in the Ceramic Industry

Context Analysis for Transformative Change in the Ceramic Industry

Evaluating the Energy Efficiency and Environmental Impact of a Multi-Chamber Brick Kiln in Vietnam

Sustainable High-Tech Brick Production with Energy-Oriented Consumption: An Integrated Possibilistic Approach Based on Criteria Interdependencies

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