Journal article
Transforming the Process Industries through Electrification: Challenges and Opportunities
Industrial & engineering chemistry research, v 64(34), pp 16466-16478
29 Jul 2025
Abstract
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 CO2 emissions, 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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- Title
- Transforming the Process Industries through Electrification: Challenges and Opportunities
- Creators
- Michael Baldea - The University of Texas at AustinElizabeth E. Endler - Shell (Netherlands)Elaine Hale - National Laboratory of the RockiesChristos T. Maravelias - Princeton UniversityMassimiliano Barolo - University of PaduaIiro Harjunkoski - Aalto UniversityMehmet Mercangoz - Imperial College LondonSirish L. Shah - University of AlbertaMasoud Soroush - Drexel University, Chemical and Biological EngineeringBrent R. Young - University of AucklandQi Zhang - University of Minnesota SystemAmerican Chemical Society (ACS-C)
- Publication Details
- Industrial & engineering chemistry research, v 64(34), pp 16466-16478
- Publisher
- ACS Publications
- Number of pages
- 13
- Grant note
- U.S. DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Strategic Analysis Team; United States Department of Energy (DOE) DE-EE0010725 / U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Industrial Technologies Office (ITO); United States Department of Energy (DOE) DE-AC36-08GO28308 / U.S. Department of Energy (DOE); United States Department of Energy (DOE)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001539107100001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-105014283124
- Other Identifier
- 991022071595404721
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- Industry collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Engineering, Chemical