Effiziente Verwendung von Ressourcen und Umweltkostenbewertung bei Stahlprodukten entlang der Wertschöpfungskette

The goal of this work is to give an overview of the consumption of resources in steel production during the value added processes and to show new potentials for the save of resources. Economic efficiency is valued and additionally the effects to the environment are analyzed during the value added processes. Approaches to value the environmental cost are also analyzed in this work. Environmental effects have to be analyzed as a whole during the production processes and not only related to a single company. To save the resources the efficiency of the consumption must be improved in the lifecycle of steel products as soon as possible. Resources must also be replaced by substituts that cause less negativ effects to the environment. Simultaneously methods to save costs have to be developed to cover the costs of the changes. With this train of thoughts the structure of this work was designed. This work will attempt to value the environmental costs of steel products along the value added processes to make the costs to the invoronment visible. The discovered environment costs shall lead to a prevention or at least a reduction of the negativ effects to the environment so that companies are well prepared to meet governmental limitations or taxation of resources. Additionaly such companies don’t have to fear fines for creating environmental harm.