A bespoke carbon footprint framework to set the path towards Net Zero in foundries

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dc.contributor.authorCox, Rylan
dc.contributor.authorPagone, Emanuele
dc.contributor.authorJolly, Mark R.
dc.contributor.authorSalonitis, Konstantinos
dc.contributor.authorBirch, Tim
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-12T12:50:27Z
dc.date.available2024-12-12T12:50:27Z
dc.date.freetoread2024-12-12
dc.date.issued2024
dc.date.pubOnline2024-11-27
dc.description57th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems 2024, 29-31 May 2024, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal
dc.description.abstractA bespoke carbon footprint framework for the metal casting industry is presented to enable swifter carbon accounting of foundries and identify energy and carbon footprint hotspots to support the drive towards Net Zero goals. Many manufacturing enterprises in the United Kingdom and Europe are already struggling to maintain financial competitiveness as well as drive towards a sustainable shift, particularly SMEs. This framework is to help alleviate the pressure on the industry by providing an outside tool to direct companies to sustainable solutions. This paper validates such framework breaking down the environmental footprint of ferrous products through energy and material profiles of sand casting processes in two real UK foundries identified as “A” and “B”. During environmental visits, it was established that Foundry A emitted an average of 41700 tons of CO2 annually and Foundry B 1400 tons. The framework developed to estimate the melting process energy (to be, then, converted into carbon footprint) predicted with about 15% accuracy the actual data. Furthermore, the framework can be expanded and improved on for its accuracy and into other processes within the casting process including melting, core and mould making, pouring sand reclamation, ancillaries and fettling.
dc.description.conferencename57th CIRP Conference on Manufacturing Systems 2024 (CMS 2024)
dc.description.journalNameProcedia CIRP
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors gratefully acknowledge the two foundries for providing access to their facilities and data, Foseco International for funding this work and Auwal Muhammad for some of the foundational work carried out during his MSc thesis.
dc.format.extentpp. 1084-1089
dc.identifier.citationCox R, Pagone E, Jolly M, et al.,T. (2024) A bespoke carbon footprint framework to set the path towards Net Zero in foundries. Procedia CIRP, Volume 130, November 2024, pp. 1084-1089
dc.identifier.elementsID559885
dc.identifier.issn2212-8271
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2024.10.210
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/23251
dc.identifier.volumeNo130
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212827124013672?via%3Dihub
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject4014 Manufacturing Engineering
dc.subject40 Engineering
dc.subject12 Responsible Consumption and Production
dc.subject4014 Manufacturing engineering
dc.titleA bespoke carbon footprint framework to set the path towards Net Zero in foundries
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.coveragePóvoa de Varzim, Portugal
dcterms.dateAccepted2024
dcterms.temporal.endDate31-May-2024
dcterms.temporal.startDate29-May-2024

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