Minimum Operational Emissions in Earthmoving

摘要: The paper explores minimum emission configurations in earthmoving and like operations, including quarrying open-cut mining. Emissions data, based on field observations available the public literature, are used to derive operation that lead emissions. Such compared with conventional cost solutions order give guidance as best way configure manage operations. Variables considered analyses performed include truck fleet size, capacity loading, loader haul route parameters. It can be shown for certain assumptions emissions per production solution coincides solution. In such circumstances, managing earthmoving, mining operations costefficient ways leads least emissions; it also follows not a cost-efficient will unnecessary paper's derivations original of interest those designing particularly reference sustainability.