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Introduction to Ceramic Sanitary-Ware Manufacturing

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Water and Energy Use in Sanitary-ware Manufacturing

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This chapter analyzes the state of the art in the field of sanitary-ware manufacturing so as the global impact of this industrial sector worldwide. Ceramic industry manufacturing requires a great amount of energy and water. Its sustainability and environmental impact demand an effort to develop more efficient technologies to reduce resources consumption. General ceramic industry has been treated from the energy point of view. There is much research regarding tile manufacturing but few articles or papers regarding sanitary-ware from the perspective of the energy–water nexus management. In this regard, the sanitary-ware production sector presents a defined special map of consumption through the manufacturing process characterized by the levels of temperature and heat demands through the different processes where thermal wastes in some of the sub-processes are very suitable to be profited in other ones allowing for an easy reusing of resources.

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  1. Engineering, ROCA, Barcelona, Spain

    Carlos Cuviella-Suárez

  2. Electrical Engineering and Systems and Automation Department, University of León, León, Spain

    David Borge-Diez

  3. Control, Electronics and Electrical Engineering, UNED, Madrid, Spain

    Antonio Colmenar-Santos

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Cuviella-Suárez, C., Borge-Diez, D., Colmenar-Santos, A. (2021). Introduction to Ceramic Sanitary-Ware Manufacturing. In: Water and Energy Use in Sanitary-ware Manufacturing. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72491-7_1

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