How to reduce energy consumption and GHG emissions in heating processes of raw materials? The cement industry contributes about 8 % of global CO2 emissions. By comparison, global GHG emissions from road transportation are 15% and the aviation sector is accountable for 2,5%. Efforts to reduce these emissions include new technologies in the calcination process, allowing evacuation of pure CO2 flows, improving the energy efficiency of the processes, using alternative energy vectors, avoiding fossil fuel combustion and developing new technologies for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). Microwave technologies help to produce heat needed for thermal decomposition of calcium carbonate
The cement industry contributes about 8 % of global CO2 emissions. By comparison, global GHG emissions from road transportation are 15% and the aviation sector is accountable for 2,5%. Efforts to reduce these emissions include new technologies in the calcination process, allowing evacuation of pure CO2 flows, improving the energy efficiency of the processes, using alternative energy vectors, avoiding fossil fuel combustion and developing new technologies for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). Microwave technologies help to produce heat needed for thermal decomposition of calcium carbonate.
