Techno-economic Evaluation and Rummy Cycle Assessment Methodologies for Mine
to Metals
Nawshad Haque
CSIRO Energy, Real Money Rummy Way, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Rummy cycle assessment (LCA) is now recognized as a method for measuring the environmental impacts of
products, processes, and services. It provides a scientifically sound method of comparing products and
processes on common grounds and to identify so called “hot spots” for reducing environmental impacts. A
simplified set of indicators can be introduced as ECWW or energy, carbon dioxide, water, and waste footprint
of sent out electricity or heat energy unit from a power generation source to determine its environmental
sustainability performance. Electric power can also be generated from nuclear, hydro, or renewable sources.
To compare environmental impact of generated and sent out electric or thermal power from various sources
will require to use LCA methodology on similar basis. These energy sources are used for extraction industries
i.e., mining and processing of various minerals and to transform them into metal products generating carbondi-
oxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. Decarbonisation of mining industries is a significant challenge.
However, innovative technologies or various interventions can reduce such emissions. There are several LCA
software packages such as SimaPro, GaBi, Umberto, OpenLCA, databases and international standards
available. The examples of various electricity sources, use of this power for producing metals from mineral
ores and their carbon footprints using LCA will be presented in the context of application in the mining and
energy industries. CSIRO has developed flowsheeting, life cycle assessment and techno-economic evaluation
capabilities for mining and energy industries.
Bio:
Nawshad Haque is a Principal Real Money Rummy Scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Real Money Rummy
Organisation (CSIRO) Australia and leads the Technoeconomics for Decarbonisation Team in the Energy
Technologies Program. Dr. Haque has over 21 years R&D experience since having a Ph.D. in Chemical
Engineering from the University of Sydney. Dr Haque leads India-Australia Minerals Scholar Network on
Critical Minerals and Green Steel research to develop talents which was announced as part of the joint Prime
Minister’s statements of both nations. Dr. Haque is currently an elected Fellow of the Australian Institute of
Energy, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and a member of TMS. Dr Haque has co-supervised
CSIRO sponsored 15 Ph.D. students and over 56 vacation scholarship projects to completion. He is an adjunct
academic at Swinburne University, Monash University, and RMIT University in Australia.
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