Towards "Fossil-free" refineries? Refineries are industrial plants at the coreof today’s thermo-industrial society. The challenge is to rethink the refinery without crude oil and gas, leading to a carbon neutral society.
Refineries are industrial plants at the coreof today’s thermo-industrial society. The challenge is to rethink the refinery without
crude oil and gas, leading to a carbon neutral
society.
Harnessing Plasma: Innovative CO2 Conversion for a Sustainable Future. Fossil fuels, with their high energy density and transportability, were pivotal in driving the industrial revolution, enhancing global living standards, and in enabling economic diversification and...
RAW MATERIAL PROCESSING VIA MICROWAVES
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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...
ELASTOCALORIC SYSTEMS
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From Heat to Cool: Elastocaloric Systems in the Defossilisation Journey. In developed countries, heating and cooling make up about half of the global final energy consumption, surpassing electricity (20%) and transport (30%). They are responsible for over 40% of global...
BIOCONVERSION OF CARBON
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Bioconversion: The Future of Carbon Utilisation. Our way of life relies heavily on carbon: plastics, textiles, medicine, electrodes, etc. If we want to keep our current lifestyles, and still reduce our fossil footprint, we need renewable carbon that will not be a net...
DIGITAL TWINS COUPLED WITH AI
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Bridging the Physical & Virtual Worlds with Digital Twins. Originally employed in industrial settings, a digital twin combines numerical simulations with real-world observations to produce a virtual model that is indistinguishable from the actual object. This enables a...
ELECTRIC CRACKING
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How to accelerate the electrification in the Chemical Industry? Focus on e-cracking. The cracking of hydrocarbons, particularly through steam cracking, is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions in the petrochemical industry. This chapter focuses on...
LEARNING ORGANISATION OF TOMORROW
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Navigating the Future: A Comprehensive AI Roadmap for industrial knowledge. This roadmap outlines the essential steps for AI adoption, beginning with the creation of modular and multimodal transformers and advancing towards the development of empathic and responsible AI agents.
FOSSIL - FREE STEEL
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Steel is at the heart of modern society. Iron is abundant in the earth’s crust, so there is easy access to resources. Steel can be recycled ad infinitum. Even so, we need to extract additional iron to Meet society’s energy transition needs.
