Case Experience on WIN WIN Approach
Towards Industrial Pollution
Control-Economic and Environmental
Efficacy of Cleaner Technology in Select
Cement Industry in Tamil Nadu
X. Agnello J. Naveen, S. Boopathi, and A. Arivoli
Abstract The cement industry pollutes air, water and soil to control pollution using
different types of advanced pollution control technologies to reduce the pollution
levels and achieve permissible limits. But still, Cement industry manages to recycle
and reuse its (Co-processing) by-products based on the “concept of industrial ecology” on its own production premises in a holistic positive environmental management approach. Due to the production totally based on mining products from “fossil
fuels” like calcium carbonate, Gypsum. Co-generation (energy conservation, variable frequency drives (VFD), Cement industry cost variables Economic and environmental variables, older (Conventional) and newer (Cleaner) technology and their
negative and positive advantages were compared. Variables like capital cost, variable
cost, viability period of the equipment, depreciation cost, buy back cost, benefit cost
and environmental benefits like energy in kWh per year, water in liters per year and
other recycling process like “Add-on” and “Process change” technologies are taken
in consideration. The main objective is to focus on the cost aspects between the two
technologies, conventional and cleaner technology in pollution control. This was
carried out by comparing cost benefit analysis and Return on Investment (ROI) for
the old and clean technologies. There are nine technologies used in this industry that
has been analyzed.
Keywords Conventional technology · Cleaner technology · Industrial ecology ·
Return on investment · Recycling
X. Agnello J. Naveen (B)
Department of Environmental Management, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India
e-mail: agnello.naveen18@gmail.com
S. Boopathi
Department of Economics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India
A. Arivoli
Department of Environmental Science, Government Arts and Science College, Ariyalur, India
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M. Prashanthi et al. (eds.), Bioremediation and Green Technologies, Environmental
Science and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64122-1_15
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Towards Industrial Pollution
Control-Economic and Environmental
Efficacy of Cleaner Technology in Select
Cement Industry in Tamil Nadu
X. Agnello J. Naveen, S. Boopathi, and A. Arivoli
Abstract The cement industry pollutes air, water and soil to control pollution using
different types of advanced pollution control technologies to reduce the pollution
levels and achieve permissible limits. But still, Cement industry manages to recycle
and reuse its (Co-processing) by-products based on the “concept of industrial ecology” on its own production premises in a holistic positive environmental management approach. Due to the production totally based on mining products from “fossil
fuels” like calcium carbonate, Gypsum. Co-generation (energy conservation, variable frequency drives (VFD), Cement industry cost variables Economic and environmental variables, older (Conventional) and newer (Cleaner) technology and their
negative and positive advantages were compared. Variables like capital cost, variable
cost, viability period of the equipment, depreciation cost, buy back cost, benefit cost
and environmental benefits like energy in kWh per year, water in liters per year and
other recycling process like “Add-on” and “Process change” technologies are taken
in consideration. The main objective is to focus on the cost aspects between the two
technologies, conventional and cleaner technology in pollution control. This was
carried out by comparing cost benefit analysis and Return on Investment (ROI) for
the old and clean technologies. There are nine technologies used in this industry that
has been analyzed.
Keywords Conventional technology · Cleaner technology · Industrial ecology ·
Return on investment · Recycling
X. Agnello J. Naveen (B)
Department of Environmental Management, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India
e-mail: agnello.naveen18@gmail.com
S. Boopathi
Department of Economics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India
A. Arivoli
Department of Environmental Science, Government Arts and Science College, Ariyalur, India
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
M. Prashanthi et al. (eds.), Bioremediation and Green Technologies, Environmental
Science and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64122-1_15
209