Britain’s industrial revolution: what happened to energy demand?
…heating fuel was 70% wood and 30% coal. By 1660, it was 70% coal and 30% wood. This was long before the first coal-fired pumps, machines or locomotives. This is…
Flaring reduction: screen of service and equipment companies?
…possible to separate the gas, and fluids must be moved by multi-phase pumps. Sometimes wells are flowed back before gas infrastructure is available. Sometimes, despite extensive separation, gas still flashes…
Industrial gas separation: swing producers?
…other separation technologies, and the growing capability to backstop volatile renewables (demand shifting). Compressors and vacuum pumps are simply more flexible than cryogenics, per pages 13-14. Leading companies in Pressure…
Desalination by reverse osmosis: the economics?
…angle that excites over desalination costs is the possibility for demand shifting, as electricity is a major cost line, and desalination pumps can be run flexibly to backstop renewables’ volatility….
Methane emissions from pneumatic devices: by operator, by basin?
…data on 800,000 pneumatic devices, from 300 acreage positions, of 200 onshore producers, in 12 US basins. $799.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart Pneumatic devices are valves and pumps that are…
De-Carbonising Cars. Can Oxy-Combustion Save Gasoline?
…or the traditional Otto Cycle or Diesel Cycle). This technology works. It is being trialled at three power facilities globally, to decarbonise heat and power. One very promising industry-leader is…
Coal-to-gas switching: what CO2 abatement cost?
…words, to produce each kWh of useful energy requires less primary gas energy than primary coal energy. Heating buildings comprises a staggering 25% of all useful energy consumption in Europe…
Efficient frontiers: improvements from a CO2 price within oil and gas?
…this 14-page note. Cost-curves would steepen in E&P and refining. Technology leaders benefit. Spending would also accelerate, particularly for heat exchangers, compressors, digitization and electrification projects. $399.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to…
3D printing an energy transition?
Additive manufacturing (AM) can eliminate 6% of global CO2, across manufacturing, transport, heat and supply chains. This 21-page note on how additive manufacturing benefits the energy transition via 3D printing…
Solar energy: is 50% efficiency now attainable?
…as heat. Single-junction solar cells are composed of p-n junctions made of a single material, most commonly crystalline silicon, in today’s commercial solar industry. Silicon atoms have a bandgap of…