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5 Heavy Industry Decarbonization
5 Heavy Industry Decarbonization
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Mizan noted that quality of life improvements in developing countries require access to affordable energy, and the refining industry is motivated to deliver this product and meet the world's increasing energy demands. Within global efforts to satisfy rising demand for energy, the refining industry contributes 39
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to drive chemical processes, electricity to power mechanical components, and hydrogen gas, each representing a unique challenge for decarbonization. Many common refinery components have large carbon footprints, including the steam methane reforming units that produce hydrogen gas for refining, as well as catalytic cracking units that produce gasoline.
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SOURCE: SINTEF Energy Research, "Understanding the cost of retrofitting CO2 capture to an integrated oil refinery," June 2017, 41 https://www.sintef.no/recap.
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Rauwerdink stated that steel production currently accounts for over 7 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions, representing a huge opportunity for decarbonization using Boston Metal's MOE technology. DECARBONIZATION OF THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY Cathy Tway, Johnson Matthey Cathy Tway began by scoping out the size of the chemical industry, including its contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions.
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The energy in those feedstocks stays locked into the products, so the CO2 emissions are lower than would be expected from the energy demand. Tway noted that the chemicals sector has already optimized their manufacturing processes, with only 15 percent of carbon dioxide emissions currently coming from process losses.
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A recent study5 suggested that building a new plant with electrified ethylene crackers, which produce about 10 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions from the sector, would require a $25/MWh renewable electricity price to be cost competitive with CCS, while retrofitting an existing unit would require a $15/MWh price. Tway stated that while deep decarbonization of the sector is possible, even with current technologies, we need more technological development to improve the economics to support such a transition.
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SOURCE: Cathy Tway, Johnson Matthey, presentation to the workshop; adapted from Carbon Dioxide Utilization (CO2U) ICEF 1 Roadmap 2.0, Nov.
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A participant asked what can be done to accelerate energy efficiency improvements -- and whether setting corporate goals might be helpful, as energy efficiency was deemed an important pillar in efforts to decarbonize heavy industry. Mizan pointed to the success of the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE)
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HEAVY INDUSTRY DECARBONIZATION 47 that the process relies on reliable and stable electricity to maintain high temperatures. Rauwerdink added that their furnaces are designed to be run con inuously for years of operation, like the units used for aluminum t production.
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