LanzaTech: biofuels breakthrough?
…with Shell and BA, and is now progressing larger projects: a €150M exhaust-gas capture for AccelorMittal’s Ghent steel plant, and a 10MGal/year aviation fuel facility in Georgia. We have assessed…
Energy economics: an overview?
…Ammonia, Carbon Fiber, Cement, Copper, Cyanides, Desalination, Glass, H2O2, Hydrogen, Industrial Gases, Lithium Batteries, Methanol, NaOH/Cl2, Nitric Acid, Paper, Plastics, Silicon, Silver, Steel, Wood Products. As a rule of thumb,…
Hydro electric power: the economics?
…nil, even after reflecting the embedded energy of concrete, steel and construction. $399.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart A typical hydro project requires a 10c/kWh power price and a $50/ton CO2…
Construction materials: a screen of costs and CO2 intensities?
…materials include conventional construction materials such as concrete, cement, steel, brick, wood and glass, plus novel wood-based materials such as cross-laminated timber. Insulated wood and CLT are shown to have…
Energy transition market sizing: hydrocarbon, new energies, capital goods and materials?
…largest materials markets in the world today include steel ($1.5 trn pa), plastics ($750bn pa) and copper ($250bn pa). We actually have a more detailed data-file, looking into more underlying…
Carbon fiber: the miracle material?
Energy transition will catapult carbon fiber demand upwards from today’s 120kTpa baseline, across wind turbine blades, more efficient vehicles and hydrogen tanks. This miracle material is 3-10x stronger than steel…
Methane reforming: costs of grey hydrogen, costs of blue hydrogen?
…see an emerging boom in decarbonizing hydrogen-consuming value chains, especially blue ammonia and blue steel, and especially in the US Gulf Coast region, due to incentives under the Inflation Reduction…
Very long term historical commodity prices and disruptions?
…terms (i.e. nominal prices of the time). Covered commodities include bricks, coal, copper, cotton, nails, rock oil, steel rails, sugar, turpentine, whale oil, wheat and wood. A combined profile of…
US decarbonization: energy and CO2 emissions?
…blue value chains, catalysed by reforms to the 45Q incentive, under the US IRA, for example blue ammonia and blue steel. All of our CCS research is here. CO2 removals…
Waste heat recovery: heat exchanger costs?
…being heat exchanged. Some systems use stainless steel and others require high grade nickel steels. Plate-fin designs are 2x more efficient than shell-tube designs. Capex costs of heat exchangers in…