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dc.contributor.authorBin Afif, Mohammed
dc.contributor.authorBin Afif, Abdulla Shaikh Abdul Qader
dc.contributor.authorApostorleris, Harry
dc.contributor.authorGandhi, K
dc.contributor.authorDadlani, Anup
dc.contributor.authorGhaferi, AA
dc.contributor.authorTorgersen, Jan
dc.contributor.authorChiesa, Matteo
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-17T11:47:13Z
dc.date.available2022-08-17T11:47:13Z
dc.date.issued2022-07-17
dc.description.abstractRapidly declining costs of renewable energy technologies have made solar and wind the cheapest sources of energy in many parts of the world. This has been seen primarily as enabling the rapid decarbonization of the electricity sector, but low-cost, low-carbon energy can have a great secondary impact by reducing the costs of energy-intensive decarbonization efforts in other areas. In this study, we consider, by way of an exemplary carbon capture and utilization cycle based on mature technologies, the energy requirements of the “industrial carbon cycle”, an emerging paradigm in which industrial CO<sub>2</sub> emissions are captured and reprocessed into chemicals and fuels, and we assess the impact of declining renewable energy costs on overall economics of these processes. In our exemplary process, CO<sub>2</sub> is captured from a cement production facility via an amine scrubbing process and combined with hydrogen produced by a solar-powered polymer electrolyte membrane, using electrolysis to produce methanol. We show that solar heat and electricity generation costs currently realized in the Middle East lead to a large reduction in the cost of this process relative to baseline assumptions found in published literature, and extrapolation of current energy price trends into the near future would bring costs down to the level of current fossil-fuel-based processes.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBin Afif, Bin Afif ASAQ, Apostorleris, Gandhi, Dadlani A, Ghaferi, Torgersen J, Chiesa M. Ultra-Cheap Renewable Energy as an Enabling Technology for Deep Industrial Decarbonization via Capture and Utilization of Process CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions. Energies. 2022;15(14)en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2039328
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/en15145181
dc.identifier.issn1996-1073
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/26240
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.relation.journalEnergies
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2022 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleUltra-Cheap Renewable Energy as an Enabling Technology for Deep Industrial Decarbonization via Capture and Utilization of Process CO2 Emissionsen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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