Industry Decarbonization Newsletter

What happens if you offer generous subsidies💰 for Carbon Capture and Storage💨 - but you demand that projects deliver on time⏰? Denmark awarded CCS subsidies💶 in multiple tenders. But those came with a catch: deliver on time - or face hefty penalties. industrydecarbonization.com/news/denmarks-…

Some of the cleanest Caprolactam factories are shutting down 🧪🏭🚧 The production of a chemical used to make Nylon+plastics, results in significant N₂O emissions, a potent greenhouse gas🌿🏠🔥, but emissions can easily be avoided. 🔌💡 industrydecarbonization.com/news/some-of-t…

SF6, a Greenhouse Gas 25,000 times as bad as CO2 💨🟡🌍🔥 It's been known that reported📊 SF6 emissions&measurements☁️ don't match. Now, scientists have found a significant SF6 source in Southern Germany - a chemical plant🧪🏭 operated by @SolvayGroup industrydecarbonization.com/news/super-emi…

Why does @UNFCCC make it needlessly difficult to download emission data? Whatever the reason, I am now providing downloads of data that should be easily accessible. More: industrydecarbonization.com/news/why-is-it…

Will Enerkem's Waste Gasification tech work in Spain after it failed to deliver in Canada?♨️🗑️ Repsol wants to build a Waste-to-Methanol plant in Tarragona🇪🇸. The tech was used in Edmonton🇨🇦 for ~10y, but never came close to its expected production volumes industrydecarbonization.com/news/is-enerke…

Is Enerkem's Waste Gasification technology a Failure or a promising Climate Solution? industrydecarbonization.com/news/is-enerke…

Peregrine Hydrogen says they have a way to make H2 that requires 1/2 the electricity by integrating it with another process. By doing so, they make Hydrogen and another product (H2SO4) + there is an industry that needs both: Phosphate mines ⛏️⚒️🪨 industrydecarbonization.com/news/this-hydr…

You want CCS, but cheaper and less controversial? Try Biomethane industrydecarbonization.com/news/you-want-…

ArcelorMittal may shutdown its flagship "Smart Carbon" project Steelanol in Belgium 🇧🇪⛓️🏭 What most news don't mention is that Steelanol has a "sister project" called Torero, a biocoal plant🌲🪨🏭 & it appears Torero is not working as expected. industrydecarbonization.com/news/uncertain… #steel

Iceland's E-Fuels Controversy industrydecarbonization.com/news/icelands-…

Why power a short-distance Ferry with Liquefied Hydrogen? industrydecarbonization.com/news/why-power…

Why the owners of a Shipping Company are investing in Fossil-Free Plastics industrydecarbonization.com/news/why-the-o… #plastics #methanol #mto #chemicals

Is Sweden's Green Steel Transformation still on Track? Some news lately indicate that Swedish mining company @LKABgroup "has put the brake" on its green steel transformation. What exactly does that mean, and what is still going ahead? industrydecarbonization.com/news/is-sweden…

A "Methanol Economy" instead of H2: that was the idea chemist Georg Olah, published in 2005. While some of Olah's ideas appear & obsolete today, E-Methanol made from CO2/H2 is an option for sectors where direct electrification is infeasible🍃🛢️ industrydecarbonization.com/news/from-coal… #methanol

@ArdaghGroup If you find stories like that interesting, I invite you to subscribe to my newsletter 🖊️🗞️ industrydecarbonization.com/subscribe.html I'm covering the challenges to decarbonize industrial production, but also other sectors that are nontrivial to decarbonize.

@ArdaghGroup I covered the story of the failed glass electrification project by Cameron Glass, the discussions about hybrid vs. fully electric furnaces, as well as the challenges still ahead (even a fully electric furnace has process CO2 emissions) last year industrydecarbonization.com/news/making-gl…

glass maker @verallianews has recently inaugurated a fully electric glass furnace. Glass furnaces today usually burn fossil gas to melt their product. There's a discussion within the industry about how much of it can be electrified. 🪟🥃🍾🔌 🧵 verallia.com/en/communique-…

A chart posted on social media lately annoyed me. It appears to show a strong relation between a country's wealth & energy use. It comes with a catchy claim: "No such thing as a low-energy rich country", but it uses a misleading logarithmic scale. 🧵 industrydecarbonization.com/news/misleadin…