Thermal power plant: loss attribution?
…by 0.3%, because it becomes harder to extract as much heat from the working fluid as it expands across the turbines and in the process cools towards ambient temperatures. Higher-grade…
CANSOLV: CCS amine case study?
…as MEA, in our view. Hence the hunt for better amines. CANSOLV is the brand-name for a proprietary post-combustion CCS process, being commercialized by Shell, using the amine-based solvent, DC-103,…
Vacuum pumps: company screen?
…in making cheese), through to gas separations via swing adsorption, membranes or petrochemicals. Many processes in the semiconductors are remarkable because they use vacuum chambers to prevent contamination from, and…
Hydrogen reformers: SMR versus ATR?
…reformers are the dominant source of today’s industrial hydrogen market. SMRs derive 75% of their hydrogen from steam, 25% from methane. The seven-step process — along with detailed mass and…
Smooth operators: who benefits from volatile power grids?
…300 industries globally, each with 3-30x sub-processes. Complexity “is what it is”. In our view, it is also the reason that demand shifting opportunities have been overlooked and under-discussed as…
Newlight AirCarbon: bioplastics breakthrough?
…with over 10 different processing stages. The patents focus particularly upon one stage, which may be a rate limiting stage, enhancing the production of one out of two possible variants…
Polyurethane: production costs?
Polyurethane production costs are estimated at $2.5-3.0/kg in our base case model, which looks line-by-line across the inputs and outputs, of a complex, twenty stage production process, which ultimately yields…
Energy needed to produce steam: enthalpy and entropy data?
…cart Steam is used across dozens of industrial processes that have crossed our screens, from manufacturing, to steam cracking, to hydrogen reforming, to amine regeneration in CCS to nuclear power….
Industrial ecosystems: on the shoulders of giants?
…observation, value chains form ecosystems, clustering together, as outputs from one industrial process are inputs for the next. This is under-appreciated and has profound consequences for the world. Direct links….
Plug power: green hydrogen breakthroughs?
…pinch points currently are in manufacturing. The most exciting Plug patent that crossed our screen during this review discusses a ‘dry’ manufacturing process for PEM electrolyser membranes, unlocking lower uses…