TY - JOUR
T1 - Transforming the Process Industries through Electrification
T2 - Challenges and Opportunities
AU - Baldea, Michael
AU - Endler, Elizabeth E.
AU - Hale, Elaine
AU - Maravelias, Christos T.
AU - Barolo, Massimiliano
AU - Harjunkoski, Iiro
AU - Mercangoz, Mehmet
AU - Shah, Sirish L.
AU - Soroush, Masoud
AU - Young, Brent R.
AU - Zhang, Qi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 American Chemical Society
PY - 2025/8/27
Y1 - 2025/8/27
N2 - For the more than 70 years, the process industries have provided essential fuels and materials for global growth. Increased manufacturing production comes with substantial environmental impact. Reducing environmental impact through process electrification, carbon capture, and other emerging technologies would require large changes throughout the process industries. We review opportunities and challenges related to electrification, focusing on technical, operational, and economic considerations. We conclude that electrification could completely eliminate scope 1 CO2emissions, increase product quality, and reduce the equipment size and cost. On the other hand, it calls for a significant expansion of power generation capacity, as well as new paradigms for process design and operations.
AB - For the more than 70 years, the process industries have provided essential fuels and materials for global growth. Increased manufacturing production comes with substantial environmental impact. Reducing environmental impact through process electrification, carbon capture, and other emerging technologies would require large changes throughout the process industries. We review opportunities and challenges related to electrification, focusing on technical, operational, and economic considerations. We conclude that electrification could completely eliminate scope 1 CO2emissions, increase product quality, and reduce the equipment size and cost. On the other hand, it calls for a significant expansion of power generation capacity, as well as new paradigms for process design and operations.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.iecr.5c01256
DO - 10.1021/acs.iecr.5c01256
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:105014283124
SN - 0888-5885
VL - 64
SP - 16466
EP - 16478
JO - Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research
JF - Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research
IS - 34
ER -