Ecological-and-Economic Evaluation of Vinyl Chloride Production in Mineral Resource Clusters

Irina Kudryashova,Natalia Zakharova,Evgeniy Kharlampenkov,Anastasiya Kolevatova,M Tyulenev,D Nuray,M Cehlár,J Janocko,S Anyona,A Abay,S Zhironkin,Y Tan,S Vöth,A Khoreshok

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/20184102025

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https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20184102025

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Abstract

Over the past six years, the volume of plastics production inprimary forms in Russia increased by 57%, exceeding 7.8 million tons in 2017. During this period, the production capacities were substantially renovated; new plants were put into operation. Increasing the competitiveness of Russian polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is possible on the basis of the integrated use of raw materials, the use of innovative technologies and reduction of production costs. When calculating costs, the following aspects were taken into account: type, availability and cost of raw materials, the number of chemical stages of final product production, its yield, energy intensity and material consumption of the process, the possibility of combining this method of production with other productionp rocesses of a chemical company, i.e. complex use of all obtained products. This is due to the low cost of raw materials, the clustering of coaland chemical enterprises and energy companies located in the Kemerovo region, which makes the production of PVC competitive.

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Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) can really be considered a construction material of the XXI century
It seems that it is the relationship between the resource industries and other industries of the economy that can solve the problem of transition to a qualitatively new level of development
The use of mineral raw materials’ clusters of innovative technologies in practice can help to follow the intensive way of field development, reducing the "technological" losses of extracted raw materials, and to have a positive impact on the economy of extracting enterprises, which will open up new opportunities for the formation of global value chains using the available results of intellectual activity, while allowing one to significantly extend the part of the chain accounting for the Russian market, as well as to ensure sustainable development of the region's economy on the principles of rational subsoil use

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Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) can really be considered a construction material of the XXI century. The share of PVC in the total consumption of plastics is 18%, which allows it to occupy an honorable third place. The demand for PVC in the world market will grow by an average of 1.4% per year and by 2020 can reach 43.5 million tons. Global production capacities for PVC have increased by almost 30% to 55 million tons per year in the period 2007-2017. For the Russian polymer industry, recent years have been marked by a significant breakthrough. Except for polystyrene plastics, showed a significant increase in production volumes in 2016 (19%). The production of vinyl chloride polymers, including the compositions, reached 0.85 million tons, but the highest share of imports remains in the PVC segment (33% in 2016 against 47% in 2011) [1]

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