Waste Input-Output Analysis of the Dynamic Path of the Use and Dissipation of Metal Resources and the Associated GHG Emissions

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22360386
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Recycling engineering
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: NAKAMURA Shinichiro 早稲田大学, 政治経済学術院, 教授 (20180367)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KAGAWA Shigemi 九州大学, 経済学研究科, 准教授 (20353534) ; NAKAJIMA Kenichi 独立行政法人国立環境研究所, 特別研究員 (90400457)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): NAGASAKA Tetsuya 東北大学, 工学研究科, 教授 (30180467)
• Project Period (FY): 2010 – 2012
• Keywords: 再資源化 / 資源回収 / 産業連関分析

Research Abstract

Recycling is vital for sustainable management of metal resources. While closed-loop recycling is desirable, open loop recycling is more common due to the mixing of different metal-species in the end of life process. This is associated with losses in quality, and additional environmental burdens such as GHG emissions, as well. A tool was developed that makes possible to estimate the environmental burdens associated with these quality losses. Application to ferrous materials used in passenger cars showed the significance of improvement in end-of-life separation technologies in mitigating the nation-wide GHG emissions. Furthermore, a mathematical model was developed that is capable of tracing the fate of materials over time across products under explicit consideration of products lives, recovery, refining, and use.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Simultaneous MFA of nickel, chromium and molybdenum used in alloy steel by means of input-output analysis (2013)
  • Author(s): Nakajima K., Ohno H., Kondo Y., Matsubae K., Takeda O., Miki T., Nakamura S., Nagasaka T
  • Journal Title: Environmental Science and Technology Volume: 47 Pages: 4653-4660
  • DOI: DOI:10.1021/es3043559is
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] uality- and dilution losses in the recycling of ferrous materials from end-of-life passenger cars (2012)
  • Author(s): Shinichiro Nakamura, Yasushi Kondo, Kazuyo Matsubae, Kenichi Nakajima, Tasaki Tomohiro and Tetsuya Nagasaka
  • Journal Title: Environmental Science & Technology Volume: 46 (17) Pages: 9266-9273
  • DOI: doi:.org/10.1021/es3013529
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Identifying the substance flow of metals embedded in Japanese international trade by use of Waste Input-Output Material Flow Analysis (WIO-MFA) model (2011)
  • Author(s): Nakajima, K., Nansai, K., Matsubae, K, Kondo, Y, Kagawa, S, Inaba, R, Nakamura, S, and Nagasaka, T
  • Journal Title: ISIJ International Volume: 51 Pages: 1934-1939
  • DOI: DOI:10.2355/isijinternational.51.1934
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] PIOM : A New Tool of MFA and Its Application to the Flow of Iron and Steel Associated with Car Production (2010)
  • Author(s): Shinichiro Nakamura, Yasushi Kondo, Kazuyo Matsubae, Kenichi Nakajima, Tetsuya Nagasaka
  • Journal Title: Environmental Science & Technology Volume: 45 Pages: 1114-1120
  • DOI: DOI:10.1021/es1024299
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] oward a closed loop society : The fate of metals over time across products (2013)
  • Author(s): S Nakamura
  • Organizer: REWAS2013
  • Place of Presentation: USA
  • Year and Date: 20130000
• [Presentation] IO MFA and Thermodynamic Approach for Metal Recycling (2013)
  • Author(s): Nakajima K., Matsubae K., Kondo Y., Nakamura S., Nagasaka T
  • Organizer: REWAS2013
  • Place of Presentation: USA
  • Year and Date: 20130000
• [Presentation] Development of Efficient Recycling System for Steel Alloying Elements in End of Life Vehicles (2013)
  • Author(s): Ohno H., Matsubae K., Nakajima K., Nakamura S., Nagasaka T
  • Organizer: REWAS2013
  • Place of Presentation: USA
  • Year and Date: 20130000
• [Presentation] Hybrid LCA towards sustainable management of metals : quality- and dilution losses in recycling (2012)
  • Author(s): S Nakamura, Y Kondo, K Matsubae, K Nakajima, T Tasaki and T Nagasaka
  • Organizer: SETAC 18th LCA Case Study Symposium
  • Place of Presentation: Denmark
  • Year and Date: 20120000
• [Presentation] Input-output analysis of the quality and dilution losses associated with recycling of ferrous materials embedded in passenger vehicles (2012)
  • Author(s): S Nakamura, Y Kondo, K Matsubae, K Nakajima, T Tasaki and T Nagasaka
  • Organizer: MFA - ConAccount Section Conference 2012
  • Place of Presentation: Germany
  • Year and Date: 20120000
• [Presentation] Dynamic Waste Input Output Analysis of Durable Goods : A Case Study of the Automobile Use (2012)
  • Author(s): Kagawa, S., Kondo, Y., Matsubae, K., Nagasaka, T. and Nakamura, S
  • Organizer: 20th International Input output Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Slovakia
  • Year and Date: 20120000
• [Presentation] Visualization of Inter-industry Material Flow and Impurities in Iron and Steel Scrap along the Supply Chain of a Passenger Car (2011)
  • Author(s): Y Kondo and S Nakamura
  • Organizer: World Resource Forum 2011
  • Place of Presentation: Switzerland
  • Year and Date: 20110000
• [Presentation] Hybrid Life-Cycle MFA of Ferrous Materials Embedded in Passenger Cars under Explicit Consideration of Grades of Secondary Materials (2011)
  • Author(s): S Nakamura, Y Kondo, K Matsubae, K Nakajima, T Tasaki and T Nagasaka
  • Organizer: LCM2011
  • Place of Presentation: Germany
  • Year and Date: 20110000
• [Presentation] UPIOM : A new tool of MFA and its Application to Primary and Secondary Metals Associated with Construction and Car Manufacturing (2011)
  • Author(s): S Nakamura, Y Kondo, K, Matsubae, , K Nakajima, T. Nagasaka.
  • Organizer: ISIE 2011
  • Place of Presentation: USA
  • Year and Date: 20110000
• [Presentation] UPIOM : A ew tool of MFA with application to the flow of iron & steel associated with car production (2010)
  • Author(s): S Nakamura, Kondo, Y, Matsubae, K, Nakajima, K, T, Nagasaka.
  • Organizer: ISIE MFA-ConAccount Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Tokyo
  • Year and Date: 20100000
• [Presentation] Hybrid LCA of a new technology for design of disassembly based on smart materials (2010)
  • Author(s): S Nakamura and E. Yamasue
  • Organizer: 18th International Input-Output Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Australia
  • Year and Date: 20100000
• [Book] Metal Recycling Opportunities, Limits, Infrastructure Report 2b of the Global Metal Flows Working Group of the International Resource Panel of UNEP
  • Author(s): Markus Reuter, Christian Hudson, Antoinette van Schaik, Kari Heiskanen, Christina Meskers, Christian Hageluken, Contributors : Helmut Antrekowitsch, Diran Apelian, Bo Bjorkman, Bart Blanpain, Francoise Bodenan,Mieke Campforts,Amelia Enriquez, Bernd Friedrich, Stefan Gossling-Reisemann, Daniel Froelich, Tom Jones, Yasushi Kondo, Jinhui Li, Hans-Rainer Lotz, Stefan Luidold, Elisabeth Maris, Kazuyo Matsubae, Nourredine Menad, Shinsuke Murakami, Kenichi Nakajima, Tetsuya Nagasaka, Shinichiro Nakamura, Sheraz Neffati, Shuji Owada, Jim Petrie, Georg Rombach, Susanne Rotter, Mathias Schluep, Guido Sonnemann, Philip Strothmann, Pia Tanskanen, Karel van Acker, Jacques Villeneuve, Harro von Blottnitz, Patrick Waeger, Philippe Wavrer, Rolf Widmer, Patrick Wollants, Guomei Zhou
  • URL: http://www.unep.org/resourcepanel/Portals/24102/PDFs/Metal_Recycling_Full_Report.pdf