This full textbook on plant design and understanding the economic processes on scaling chemical technology is a foundational piece of work. Visit this often when you're looking to ramp up your chemical business production abilities.

Credit: Max Peters, Klaus Timmerhaus

The cement industry accounts for more than 5 percent of global anthropogenic CO2 emissions. The cleanest cement factories can emit as little as half the pollution as their dirtiest counterparts. The findings of this report show that California’s cement industry is not yet a part of the transition to a low-carbon cement and concrete sector. The state’s cement factories are the largest consumers of coal and petroleum coke in California; in fact, California’s cement factories have higher emissions per ton of cement than similar factories in China, India, and other major cement-producing regions.

Credit: Ali Hasanbeigi & Cecilia Springer (Global Effciency Intelligence)

This study characterises how net zero emissions can be achieved by 2050 from the largest sources of 'hard to abate' emissions: steel, plastics, ammonia, and cement. The approach starts from a broad mapping of options to eliminate fossil CO2-emissions from production, including many emerging innovations in production processes.

Published on: https://materialeconomics.com/publications/industrial-transformation-2050