ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF THE MANUFACTURE AND USE OF LIME PRODUCTS, PART 3

The first and second parts of the article) have described the materia l and energy flows both for individual manufacturing steps and for pro duct manufacturing lines for lime and limestone products, in which the expenditure of primary materials and primary energy are also taken in to account. In Part 3 of the article the topic is now expanded to incl ude various applications of lime or limestone products, with emphasis on mass and carbon dioxide balances. The application of hydrated lime in the desulphurization of exhaust gases from power stations, in the p roduction of lime mortar and in water softening are selected as exampl es for linking manufacture and application.