How Energy Efficiency Will Power Net Zero Climate Goals
Massive improvements in efficiency are needed to achieve net zero targets. In the lead-up to COP26, countries around the world are committing to new …
Massive improvements in efficiency are needed to achieve net zero targets. In the lead-up to COP26, countries around the world are committing to new …
The CO 2 emissions reduction associated with cost-effective electricity savings is 144 Mt CO 2 and the CO 2 emission reduction associated with technical electricity saving potential is 161 Mt CO 2. The fuel CSC model for the cement industry suggests cumulative cost-effective fuel savings potential of 4,326 PJ which is equivalent …
1. Introduction. The iron and steel industry (ISI) is a typical industry with high energy consumption and intensive CO 2 emissions, especially in China, a country with the largest crude steel output in the world [1].According to statistics from World Steel Association, China's crude steel output reached 1.06 × 10 9 t in 2020, accounting for …
Energy efficiency improvement could lead to a 2% reduction in SO 2 emissions, in a similar way to PM 2.5 emission reduction. All scenarios demonstrate that the catalytic cracking process will contribute a great deal to emission, accounting for 90%, followed by diesel hydrogenation refining (5%). ... could have a direct effect on CO 2 …
Results: energy efficiency and emission reduction potentials & costs. Energy use is also a major source of emissions in the petrochemical industry making energy-efficiency improvement an attractive opportunity to reduce emissions and operating costs. Energy efficiency should be an important component of a company's …
Given the importance of the cement industry in China as one of the highest energy-consuming and CO 2-emitting industry, this study aims to understand the potential for energy-efficiency improvement and CO 2 emission reductions using a bottom–up …
The improvement of the CO 2 reduction efficiency (CRE) is an important means to reduce CO 2 emissions and improve environmental quality (Xie et al., 2021). Moreover, carbon-free NP and less carbon-emission renewable energy have a high potential to reduce CO 2 emissions (Metta et al., 2020).
The cement production process emits approximately 0.9 tons of CO 2 per ton of cement (Hasanbeigi et al. 2010), accounting for about 5–8% of global CO 2 emissions and ranking as the second-largest CO 2 emissions source (Mikulčić et al. 2016; Kajaste and Hurme 2016).According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) …
of the company. Energy efficiency is an important component of a company's environmental strategy. End-of-pipe solutions can be expensive and inefficient while energy efficiency can be an inexpensive opportunity to reduce criteria and other pollutant emissions. Energy efficiency
an 11% reduction of total CO: 2: emissions. The greatest gains in reducing energy consumption and lowering emissions in the cement/concrete industry will be obtained with improvements in pyroprocessing. ... Energy efficiency improvements and emission reductions can also result from changes in -ii ...
Bottom-up analysis of energy efficiency improvement and CO 2 emission reduction potentials in the cement industry for energy ... on synergetic emission reduction path shows that there is a great synergistic benefit between air pollutants and CO 2 emission reduction in coking industry. It is estimated that the APeq (air pollutants …
India's cement industry accounted for over six percent of the world's annual cement production and its iron and steel industry accounted for nearly five percent of the world's annual steel production in 2010. We analyzed 22 and 25 energy efficiency measures applicable to India's cement and iron and steel industries. A forward looking …
The purpose is to propose suggestions for further improvement of DCs' energy utilization from the source of energy estimation. 2021 (Long et ... Energy-conservation and emission-reduction measures for data centers. ... for saving computing resources and increasing DC energy efficiency. Switch: A company that uses …
These studies highlight that improvements in energy efficiency and changes in the industry's production structure will both contribute to reduce energy use and CO. 2. emissions. The current study contributes to the literature in this area by examining the future energy and emissions reductions in relation to the penetration of energy-efficient
Introduction. The World Energy Statistics Yearbook (2019) pointed out that the growth rate of carbon emissions generated in the process of global energy consumption and energy use has reached the highest level since 2010. Furthermore, the Institute of Health Effects, which issued the State of the World Air 2019 Report, claimed …
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Abstract. Nowadays, as China has become the factory of the world, China's industrial sectors have become the country's main source of energy consumption and emissions including CO 2, SO 2, NO x and soot. This article will use the non-radial directional dispersion function model (DDF) to explore ways to improve both the energy …
In view of the above questions, in order to fill those gaps, this paper will take the entire industrial sector as the research object, from the perspective of energy efficiency improvement, under the premise of maintaining certain economic growth, to explore the feasible paths to achieve the goal of energy conservation and emission reduction in ...
The most widely used indicator to measure energy efficiency of cement plants is the specific energy use for the production of clinker (Ecofys et al., 2009, European Commission, 2013a, IEA, 2015, IEA-ETSAP, 2010, Worrell et al., 2007).There are several kiln types in operation worldwide for clinker manufacture with large differences in …
In 2010, China was responsible for 45% of global steel production, while consuming 15.8 EJ of final energy and emitting 1344 Mt CO 2eq, 8.4 Mt of PM (particulate matter) emissions, and 5.3 Mt of SO 2 emissions. In this paper we analyse the co-benefits of implementing energy efficiency measures that jointly reduce greenhouse gas …
According to this projection, detailed in our Efficient World Scenario (EWS), energy efficiency could deliver a reduction in annual energy-related emissions of 3.5 Gt CO 2-eq (12%) compared with 2017 levels, delivering over 40% of the abatement required to be in line with the Paris Agreement. Combined with renewable energy and other measures ...
The criteria to select the keywords used as input for literature search is based on the aim to scrutinize the extant studies within the energy efficiency of ships (see Table 1).Energy efficiency in shipping can be defined as reducing energy consumption and GHG emissions per unit transport work (Jia et al., 2017).As part of greenhouse gas …
The U.S. EPA is in the final stages of promulgating regulations to reduce CO 2 emissions from the electricity generating industry. A major component of EPA's …
The formulation of policy aimed at increasing energy efficiency and reducing CO 2 emissions will require identification of key energy-efficient technologies …
Energy efficiency improvements are regarded by many as a cost-effective mitigation strategy (Szklo and Schaeffer, 2007; Morrow et al., 2015; Comodi et al., 2016; Malinauskaite et al., 2019), although they may only allow a modest reduction in emissions of 5–10% (Talaei et al., 2020; Lei et al., 2021).
With efforts to conserve and better manage energy consumption in sharp focus since the onset of the crisis, efficiency progress has gained momentum, with annual energy intensity improvements expected to …
1. Introduction. Efficient process technologies are an essential component of any comprehensive strategy for improving energy efficiency and reducing CO 2 emissions associated with petroleum refining. In many cases, energy efficiency measures are among the most cost-effective investments that refineries can make to improve …
A bottom-up model based on the CSC (Conservation Supply Curve) concept was developed in order to estimate the cost effectiveness and technical potential for …
FOOTNOTES: These charts illustrate potential greenhouse gas abatement options for Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions. These options are not all-inclusive and are subject to change as a result of a number of factors, including abatement reduction magnitude, implementation timing, abatement cost, portfolio changes, policy …
Energy saving and emission reduction potential analysis Energy saving and emission reduction of energy cascade utilization scenario. In this scenario, the potential heat and steam sources were collected 6385 TJ with the reduction emission effect of 353 t of SO 2, 790 t of NO x, 67 t of PM 10, and 35 t of PM 2.5. The energy …