Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 23
An Environmentally Integrated
Manufacturing Analysis
Combined with Waste
Management in a Car Battery
Manufacturing Plant
Suat Kasap
Hacettepe University, Turkey
Sibel Uludag Demirer
Villanova University, USA
Sedef Ergün
Drogsan Pharmaceuticals, Turkey
ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an environmentally integrated manufacturing system analysis for companies
looking for the benefits of environmental management in achieving high productivity levels. When the
relationship between environmental costs and manufacturing decisions is examined, it can be seen that
the productivity of the company can be increased by using an environmentally integrated manufacturing
system analysis methodology. Therefore, such a methodology is presented and the roadmap for generating
environmentally friendly and economically favorable alternative waste management solutions is elabo-
rated. The methodology combines data collection, operational analysis of the manufacturing processes,
identification of wastes, and evaluation of waste reduction alternatives. The presented methodology is
examined in a car battery manufacturing plant, which generates hazardous wastes composed of lead.
It is aimed to decrease the wastes derived from the production so that the efficiency in raw materials
usage is increased and the need for recycling the hazardous wastes is decreased.
