Industrial CO2 emission, accounting for nearly a quarter of the total CO2 emission, is a “hard-to-abate” emission sector, owing to the longstanding challenge in reducing CO2 emission while not sacrificing industry economics. Herein, this...
The share of global CO2 emissions deriving from the cement industry is about 5%. More than 50% of these are process-related and cannot be avoided. This paper addresses the application of CO2 capture technology to the cement industry. Analyses focusin...
Decarbonization of energy-intensive systems (e.g., heat and power generation, iron, and steel production, petrochemical processes, cement production, etc.) is an important task for the development of a low carbon economy. In this respect, carbon capt...
The implementation of carbon capture, use, and storage in the cement industry is a necessity, not an option, if the climate targets are to be met. Although no capture technology has reached commercial scale demonstration in the cement sector yet, muc...
Cement manufacturing is one of the most energy and CO2 intensive industries. With the growth of cement production, CO2 emissions are increasing rapidly too. Carbon capture and storage is the most feasible new technology option to reduce CO2 emissions...
The cement industry is regarded as one of the primary producers of world carbon emissions; hence, lowering its carbon emissions is vital for fostering the development of a low-carbon economy. Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologi...
A technical evaluation of CO2 capture technologies when retrofitted to a cement plant is performed. The investigated technologies are the oxyfuel process, the chilled ammonia process, membrane-assisted CO2 liquefaction, and the calcium looping proces...
The elevated increase of CO2 emissions related to activities of the extractive industry is becoming a challenging issue gradually affecting climate change and global warming. In this frame, the effective utilisation of CO2 through the techniques of C...
Addressing escalating energy demands and greenhouse gas emissions in the oil and gas industry has driven extensive efforts in carbon capture and utilization (CCU), focusing on power plants and industrial facilities. However, utilizing CO2 as a raw ma...
The cement industry is a significant contributor (around 8%) to CO2 global emissions. About 60% of the industry’s emissions come from limestone calcination, which is essential for clinker production, while 40% are the result of fuel combustion....
Many governments around the world have taken action to utilise carbon capture (CC) technologies to reduce CO2 emissions. This technology is particularly important to reduce unavoidable emissions from industries like cement plants, oil refineries, etc...
The use of amine-based solvents for carbon dioxide (CO2) capture has shown significant promise; however, operational challenges such as high energy requirements, solvent degradation, and equipment corrosion highlight the need for enhanced solutions....
The concrete sector is known for its significant contribution to CO2 emissions. There are two main contributing factors in this situation: the large amount of concrete consumed per year on the planet and the high levels of CO2 released from the manuf...
With the acceleration of global industrialization, the issue of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions has become increasingly severe, highlighting the urgent need to develop effective CO2 capture and utilization technologies. CO2 absorption-mineralization t...
Carbon capture storage and utilization is the main technology for reducing CO2 emissions, accounting for 56% of the overall reduction required to achieve the carbon neutrality of concrete by 2050. Different strategies have been explored in cement-bas...
Cement production is one of the key industries responsible for emissions of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide (CO2), which influence climate change. In order to reach zero carbon in the cement industry, various deep decarbonization pathways...
This paper discusses and elicits consumer attitudes towards industrial carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage (ICCS) products and technologies. It presents a comprehensive review of the relevant research literature on consumer attitudes towards ICC...
Membrane-based CO2 capture has emerged as a promising technology for industrial decarbonization, offering advantages in energy efficiency, modularity, and environmental performance. This review presents a comprehensive assessment of membrane processe...
Amine-functionalized mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) have emerged as promising materials for efficient CO2 capture, offering high adsorption capacities, reusability, and environmental benefits. These materials exhibit significant potential in...
Heavy industry is a significant contributor to CO2 global emissions, accounting for approximately 25% of the total. In Europe, the continent’s largest emitting industries, including steel, cement, and power generation, face significant decarbon...
High carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industrial processes have intensified the need for large-scale, sustainable, and low-energy-consumption carbon capture technologies. Amine-based chemical absorption is a promising method for large-scale CO2 re...
Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) may offer a response to climate change mitigation from major industrial emitters. CCU can turn waste CO2 emissions into valuable products such as chemicals and fuels. Consequently, attention has been paid to petro...
Rapidly 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, l...
The paper investigates the potential of co-electrolysis as a viable pathway for hydrogen production and industrial decarbonization, expanding on previous studies on water electrolysis. The analysis adopts a general and critical perspective, aiming to...
The recycling process of concrete originates a byproduct, cement paste powder (CPP), which is a material composed mainly of hydrated cement. This cementitious material has demonstrated promising results when applied as a binder in new concrete batche...
The worldwide cement industry plays an important role in addressing the climate change challenge. Brazil’s cement industry currently has 91 cement plants with an installed production capacity of 94 million tons per year and has started to calcu...
The present work studies the adsorption of CO2 using a zeolitic industrial molecular sieve (IMS) with a high surface area. The effect of the CO2 feed concentration and the adsorption temperature in conjunction with multiple adsorption–desorptio...
We explore the use of industrial sources of silicon and surfactant for obtaining low-cost MCM-41 materials and evaluate their performances as CO2 adsorbents. All of them presented a high specific surface area with different structural characteristics...
The European parliament has declared a global “climate and environmental emergency” on 28 November 2019. Given that, climate change is a clear strategic issue all around the world. Then, greenhouse gas emissions are reported by each count...
As the cement industry continues to address its role in the climate crisis, Portugal’s cement industry has started to calculate its net CO2 emissions to become an entirely carbon neutral sector. These emissions are calculated by simply subtract...
The problem of global warming and the emission of greenhouse gases is already directly affecting the world’s energy. In the future, the impact of CO2 emissions on the world economy will constantly grow. In this paper, we review the available li...
Microalgae is a promising metabolism microorganism for the fixation of CO2 from industrial gas while accumulating microalgae biomass. The process of CO2 fixation by microalgae is able to be significantly improved by the regulation of phytohormones. H...
Global fossil fuel consumption has induced emissions of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2), which has emanated global warming. Significant levels of CO2 are released continually into the atmosphere from the extraction of fossil fuels to their process...
Carbon dioxide capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is one of the essential approaches to achieving permanent CO2 emission reduction. A new idea of absorbing and mineralizing CO2 with industrial wastewater and converting activated calcium into mi...
Despite the diversity of studies on global warming and climate change mitigation technologies, research on the changing role of CO2 in the industrial processes, which is connected with the introduction of circular economy principles, is still out of...
One of the alternatives to reduce CO2 emissions from industrial sources (mainly the oil and gas industry) is CO2 capture. Absorption with chemical solvents (alkanolamines in aqueous solutions) is the most widely used conventional technology for CO2 c...
Magnesite (MgCO3) is a carbonate mineral, which is calcinated and further processed to generate magnesia (MgO) refractory materials and other products. MgCO3 products are mainly used in the iron and steel industries, in cement manufacture as a refrac...
Global warming is one of the major problems in the developing world, and one of the major causes of global warming is the generation of carbon dioxide (CO2) because of the burning of fossil fuels. Burning fossil fuels to meet the energy demand of hou...
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is recognized as the primary cause of global warming due to its greenhouse potential. It plays a significant role in contributing to the emissions arising from a variety of anthropogenic activities, such as energy production, tra...
The cement industry significantly impacts the environment due to natural resource extraction and fossil fuel combustion, with carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions being a major concern. The industry emits 0.6 tons of CO2 per ton of cement, accounting for a...
One of society’s major current challenges is carbon dioxide emissions and their consequences. In this context, new technologies for carbon dioxide (CO2) capture have attracted much attention. One of these is carbon capture and utilization (CCU)...
CO2 mineralization is an alternative to conventional geological storage and results in permanent carbon storage as a solid, with no need for long-term monitoring and no requirements for significant energy input. Novel technologies for carbon dioxide...
At present, mitigating carbon emissions from energy production and industrial processes is more relevant than ever to limit climate change. The widespread implementation of carbon capture technologies requires the development of cost-effective and se...
This study determines and presents the capital and operating costs imposed by the use of CO2 capture technologies in the refining and petrochemical sectors. Depending on the refining process and the CO2 capture method, CO2 emissions costs of EUR 30 t...
Climate change, especially global warming, is observed due to greenhouse gases released on an industrial scale. For this reason, progress is being made around the world to reduce CO2 emissions and transition to sustainable energy sources. One of the...
In order to combat global warming and climate change in a sustainable way, it is necessary to capture the anthropogenic CO2 emitted by different industrial sources and use it as a raw material to obtain a matrix of products for industrial use, such a...
The iron industry is the largest energy-consuming manufacturing sector in the world, emitting 4–5% of the total carbon dioxide (CO2). The development of iron-based systems for CO2 capture and storage could effectively contribute to reducing CO2...
The continuous rise in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide gas (CO2) is of significant global concern. Several methodologies and technologies are proposed and applied by the industries to mitigate the emissions of CO2 into the atmosphere....
Bio-based carbon capture and utilization emerges as a critical pathway to mitigate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industrial activities. Within this context, plant factories become an innovative solution for biological carbon capture within indu...
Membrane technology has emerged as a selective and efficient option for carbon dioxide (CO2) capture [...]
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