Estimation of air pollution from ribbed smoked sheet rubber in Thailand exports to Japan as a pre-product of tires
Estimation of air pollution from ribbed smoked sheet rubber in Thailand exports to Japan as a pre-product of tires
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泰国作为轮胎预产品出口日本的罗纹烟片橡胶造成的空气污染估算
DOI:
10.1016/j.apr.2018.11.010
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
4.5
通讯作者:
Furuuchi Masami
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作者:
Phairuang Worradorn;Tekasakul Perapong;Hata Mitsuhiko;Tekasakul Surajit;Chomanee Jiraporn;Otani Yoshio;Furuuchi Masami
Ribbed Smoked Sheet (RSS) is one of the leading primary rubber products and is used as a raw material for tire production. An emission inventory (EI) analysis was conducted for the production and transportation of RSS in Thailand following the Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) methodology in order to highlight improvements needed to render the processes more environmentally friendly. The air emission inventory focussed on CO2, NOx,SOx, particulate matters (PM) and particle-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) using available databases, reports and previously published papers. Data was also obtained from a small-scale RSS factory, known as a cooperative, in Songkhla province, Thailand. Upstream para-rubber industries start from RSS in Thailand. Instead, downstream industries operate under tire production in Japan. There are high exported of RSS from Thailand to tire production in Japan. The material flow during the production and export of the amount of RSS produced and transported and the distances travelled were investigated. The results suggest that the tire production in Japan contributes more than 80% of the CO2and 90% of the SOxemissions arising during the period from latex tapping to tire production. Conversely, 60% of PM and more than 90% of the PAHs were released from the drying process involving the wood-fuel burning without any pollution control devices. These results indicate that the environmental load due to hazardous air pollutants such as PAHs and smoke particles is serious in Thailand and has to be reduced to achieve environmentally sustainable tire production.