SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION CASE STUDY
INDUCTION-HARDENED PIPE SAVES 9,631 TONS OF CO2 EMISSIONS A leading Canadian mining company is preparing to order 37,000 feet of 8 NPS Sch80 Ultra Tech 600 induction-hardened (IH) pipe, which can last 4 to 6 times longer than mild steel. The energy required to produce this amount of UT 600 is 4,601,965 kWh. The same length of mild steel would need to be produced 5 times (21,071,269 kWh) to match the operational useful life of the Ultra Tech 600 pipe. The difference in energy saved (16.46M kWh) results in a reduction of 9,631 tons in CO2 emissions.*
Saving 9,631 tons of CO2 emissions is equivalent to...**
gasoline-powered passenger vehicles driven for one year 2,143
miles driven by an average gasoline-powered passenger vehicle
GHG emissions from:
24.7 M
homes' energy use for one year
1.2 B smartphones charged
gallons of gasoline consumed 1.1 M 1,214
CO2 emissions from:
tons of waste recycled instead of landfilled
garbage trucks of waste recycled instead of landfilled
416,884 trash bags of waste recycled instead of landfilled
GHG emissions avoided by:
3,333
476
*U.S. Energy Information Administration FAQs Calculated 0.855 pounds of CO2 emissions per kWh by US-based, utility-scale electric power plants in 2021. **EPA (2022, March 1). Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator. Retrieved August 28, 2023, from https://www.epa.gov/energy/greenhouse-gas- equivalencies-calculator#result. Energy calculations do not take into account energy used during the following: transportation of material by rail, boat, and truck; digging and installation; or labor and safety measures taken to replace a line 4 extra times.
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