Minerals Industry Greenhouse Challenge Workbook

In 1996, we were engaged by the Greenhouse Challenge Office (now the Australian Greenhouse Office), the Minerals Council of Australia and the Australian Coal Association to produce a workbook for the minerals industry. The engagement was with Colin Randall (of C Randall & Associates) and Peter Stewart (of Molino Stewart) and the task was to produce a comprehensive workbook to assist industry members join and participate in the Greenhouse Challenge Program.

The workbook was completed in late 1996 and workshops held for the industry in NSW, Vic, SA, Qld, NT, and WA in early 1997. Feedback from the workshops indicated that the workbook had been favourably received. Copies of the workbook may be obtained from the Minerals Council State offices though the multipliers used in the calculations would need to be updated from the AGO web site.

The workbook contains generic greenhouse gas abatement projects relevant to the industry, a flow chart of the steps in the Challenge Programme and spreadsheets to get you started.

The Greenhouse Challenge Programme is a voluntary program between the Commonwealth Government and industry. Participants agree to:

establish an emissions inventory of greenhouse gases that result from their activities,

monitor and manage those emissions,

set greenhouse gas emissions targets (may be total or per unit targets),

identify projects to reduce greenhouse emissions,

implement projects that are economically viable,

monitor the results against targets, and

report annually to the Australian Greenhouse Office (AGO),

issue a public statement about their progress with the program.

The various components of the programme to meet these requirements are:

An emissions inventory for the base year (starting year) and emissions projections for future years - say the next five years.

The emissions inventory should be established for each site, then aggregated across the group.

Greenhouse Strategies and Projects for each mine site in the group,

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Abatement Action Plans (for each site), including the possibility of group wise Actions (policy/awareness/purchasing),

An initial Public Statement on commitments in the cooperative agreement.

Monitoring (internal at each site, plus overall review across the group),

Project Implementation,

Project review and identification of new projects, and

Annual Reporting to AGO.

The flowchart pictured shows the steps in the program.

The table below lists the Generic Projects from the Workbook:

Generic Greenhouse and Energy Projects

Energy Management
1	Energy Audit
2	Energy Management Program
3	Energy Monitoring as a Management a Tool
Energy Projects
4	Air Compressors and compressed air systems
5	Bathhouse heating systems
6	Boiler Controls Steam Systems
7	Building Air Conditioning and Space Heating
8	Buildings - Insulation and Shade
9	Collect methane and use to generate electricity
10	Combined Heat and Power (Cogeneration)
11	Computerised Energy Management System
12	Drive Belts and Coupling Systems
13	Fuel Efficient Diesel Engines
14	Fuel Substitution: electricity instead of diesel
15	Fuel Substitution: LPG/CNG instead of diesel
16	Furnace Controls and Improvements
17	Heat Pumps
18	Heat Recovery
19	High Efficiency Electric Motors
20	Lighting Systems
21	Optimisation of Face Shovel and Dragline Performance
22	Remote Area Power Supplied Photovoltaic Panels
23	Solar Water Heating
24	Trolley Wire Assist for Haulage Trucks
25	Variable Speed Drives for Pumps
26	Variable Speed Drives for Fans
27	Ventilation Systems
Chemical Processes
28	Energy efficient metallurgical processes
29	Fine Grinding Technology
30	Flare methane
31	Oil Reclamation System
32	Substitution of Chemicals in Recovery Process
33	Water Management
Mining Processes
34	Alternative Transport Overland Conveyors
35	Codisposal of Fines
36	Larger trucks shovels graders
37	Minimise blasting of coal - Use hydraulic backhoe
38	Recover coal to reduce spontaneous combustion/improve recovery of resource
39	Reduced weight of dragline and shovel buckets
Explosives
40	Blast Management
Training
41	Teach staff to identify ways to improve energy efficiency
Environmental
42	Clearing vegetation from areas to be inundated by dams
43	Tree plantings/Revised rehabilitation programs
44	Alternative feeds for agricultural animals

Contact us (phone 02-9871 6641) if you would like further information .

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