Textbooks

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Textbook - Part 1
Introduction on Cleaner Production
The first part of the textbook outlines the background of the project and gives a brief introduction on Cleaner Production to prepare a first common understanding of the objectives of the project.

Textbook - Part 2
Waste & Emissions
This part of the textbook explains the managing of waste and emissions under the view of Cleaner Production: waste and emissions are not a subject of treatment only, but subject of avoidance and mitigation in first instance. To this end an appropriate understanding of waste and emissions is required.

Textbook - Part 3
The Foundry Industry - An Overview
This part of the textbook gives an overview of the mayor casting processes for the benefit of readers you are not quite familiar with this sector and to unify expressions and process descriptions among the project participants.

Textbook - Part 4
Embodiment of Cleaner Production in the Company
This part of the textbook and the working documents contained herein should help you optimise your company's organisational and structural framework in order to create ideal conditions for the introduction of preventive environmental action as a tool to optimise your operations. These measures are also a milestone for the introduction of an environmental management system to EMAS or ISO 14001.

Textbook - Part 5
Cleaner Production Ideas for the Foundry Industry
The ideas presented in this section have been chosen to demonstrate the wide range of Cleaner Production opportunities that exist in all areas of foundry operations. Cleaner Production is a way of bringing about operational improvement.

Textbook - Part 6
Sustain CP in the company
This part of the textbook is intended to help you to make the step forward from a single CP project to an ongoing consideration of environmental aspects in corporate production of goods and services.

Textbook - Part 7
Cleaner Production Ideas for the Foundry Industry - Best Practice in the Foundry Industry
This Textbook will give an overview of the environmental impacts of foundry operations and will outline best practices to improve the energy and martial efficiency, to improve the environmental performance and the product output of the operation. The Textbook will indicate state of the art technology and will give examples of furnace process improvements.