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Cleaner production
Abstract
Purpose: The aim of the present work is characterization of the clean technology and cleaner production in
relation to sustainable development and environmental requirements.
Design/methodology/approach: The paper desrcibes the general cleaner production aims, which are correspond
to the prevention criteria of the IPPC-Directive. It presents cleaner production practises and technologies and
examines the methods of successful application of cleaner production practises in companies, which want to
realize proecological targets.
Findings: The minimization of waste and reductions in material and energy inputs are the most important
environmental aims. Sustainable technological development and innovations do not automatically lead to total
reduction of environmental burden of industrial production. However, technological innovation is an important
factor and seems to play a central role in the long-term initiation of cleaner production.
Practical implications: Sustainable technology is usually connected with the design and analysis of complex,
integrated management systems and sustainable development and it is a central target in environmental science
and growth of global economies.
Originality/value: Environmental improvement of companies strategy by application the idea of cleaner
production linked with sustainable technologies leads to produce environmentally friendly products and leads
to increas the position of company on the market.
Keywords: Theoretical fundamentals of cleaner production; Clean technology; Sustainable development
1. Introduction
1. Introduction pipe techniques, recycling of wastes, non-renewable products
substitution or adaptation clean technological innovations [6].
Clean technology is the most important factor for economic
The rapid increase of human activities since the industrial
growth of industries and it seems to play a main role not only in the
revolution caused that huge quantities of resources and energy
idea of cleaner production, but also in sustainable development [7].
have been consumed in relatively short time. That mass
The development of clean technology seems to be the main
consumption and the large production has significant influences
on the earth’s ecology, exhausting non-renewable resources and factor of company’s strategy. Each companies, which want to
causing some environmental problems by polluting the air, water reach the competitive position on the market and want to be
and soil [1-5]. environmental friendly should compile the strategy of technology.
Nevertheless, there are a lot of possibilities to reduce the The risk of initiation a strategy of technology may be limited
environmental burden of industrial production exist. For example; across accumulating, processing and using in decission making
optimization of the environmental performance through good process information about techniques, products, machines, capital
housekeeping, total quality management, application of end-of- and human resources and environmental parameters [8,9].
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Table 1.
Chosen examples of new kinds of technology [10]
No. Kind of technology Elements
1. Modern materials Biomaterials, diamond coatings,
modern polymers, intermetallic
alloys, composite materials
2. Numerical Image processing, data
technology of image compression, high resolution
systems
3. Modern Modular software, computer
computational simulation, neural networks
methods
4. Optoelectronics Light pipes, lasers, optical
computers
5. Artifical intelligence Inteligent machines, expert
Fig. 1. Components of technology [10] systems, genetic algorithms
6. Flexible Computer integrated
The basic actions of preparation of technology’s strategy
manufacturing manufacturing (CIM), computer
contains a recognition of all using technologies in company and
systems integrated designing (CAD)
an identification of all components of technology (Fig.1), which
7. Sensor technology Active/passive sensors, optical
are being with object of scientific investigations. Analysing of all
sesnsors
components of technology is very important. It helps in the
selection of suitable techniques of production, which should 8. Biotechnology Bioelectronics, Genetic
guarantee established productivity, quality of realized processes engineering
and allows to manufacture proecological products [11].
The initiation of the new technology is very expensive
process, however in long period of time, technology is one of 2. Sustainable technology
2. Sustainable and natural
technology and
main factors, which influences on quality of products [9]. natural environment
environment
In practice, a technology and realization of technological
processes is in exact relationship from elements of working and
natural environments. Steering of technological processes can not
be realized without consideration of all settings in company
processes and external environment (Fig.3) [12].
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4. Conclusions
4. Conclusions Cleaner Production 6 (1998) 129-134.
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