Date of Publication :20th December 2017
Abstract: In the last century the manufacturing industry has enabled the move to efficiency, consistency and competitiveness by the development of fairly cheap and abundant energy resources with a restricted emphasis on energy and waste minimization. But in the last few decades, more and more stringent regulations have been introduced worldwide and, in particular, in Europe, to reduce pollution and consumption of resources. A highly mature and competitive industry, like the foundry, therefore expects challenges which can become significant future opportunities in an effort towards sustainability. A method is being developed to routinely examine energy and material movements during the casting process. A description of the architecture of the computer program is provided with confirmation of its performance against real world data from the foundries.
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