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Could electrifying thermal processes help refiners to lower their carbon footprint?

Opinion

Could electrification decarbonise petrochemical refining?

...transition It’s worth considering some of the technologies that make electric process heaters and heat exchangers promising candidates for replacing traditional heaters. Heaters with Continuous Helical Flow (CHF) technology are...

Opinion

UKIFDA responds to government consultations

...on the low carbon heat consultation UKIFDA technical manager Tony Brown said; “Whilst we always welcome any news on low carbon heat options and decarbonisation innovations, we are disappointed there...

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Future prospects for kerosene and HVO with domestic heating electrification ambitions.

Insight

Heating future: prospects for kerosene and HVO

...or so years. The Government, through its ‘Heat and Buildings’ strategy, published in 2021, signalled its clear preference for heat pumps as the principal energy source for space heating, but...

News

Phasing out fossil fuel in home heating

...a commitment to ensure that, from 2035, all new heating appliances in homes are low carbon. The main points of the strategy are highlighted below. Heat pumps first The strategy,...

Opinion

The route to off-grid heating beyond kerosene 

...HVO is around £500 – a conversion expected to take less than an hour. Off-grid and on radar The role HVO can play in sustainable, low carbon heating is beginning...

Opinion

Industry responds to CCC Sixth Carbon Budget

...of the UK’s challenge to reach net zero, particularly in heating. We also welcome the inclusion of biokerosene within the range of low carbon heating options endorsed for off-gas grid...

Further Reading

News

Heating oil’s future – making a difference

...government’s policy seems to be encouraging moving rural households and businesses – currently using oil heating – to electrically driven heat pumps to cut carbon emissions, reports Guy. “We’re concerned...

News

The future pathway for liquid fuel heating

...Clean Growth Strategy to phase out high carbon fossil fuel heating, whilst emphasising the viability of low carbon liquid fuels as a practical and cost-effective solution for off-grid homes. From...
Elizabeth de Jong, CEO of UKPIA, considers hydrogen and CCUS as part of the energy transition.

Opinion

Hydrogen and CCUS: a sector placed to deliver

...scenario, production of hydrogen and carbon capture would shift abroad because of our higher carbon costs, but global emissions would be higher because we would be importing cheaper, higher-carbon products...

News

Creating a Taskforce for Liquid Biofuels

...Low carbon liquid fuels offer the highest carbon reduction impact for the lowest cost (Based on existing SAP 10.1 figures). Analysis also shows that sustainable, low carbon liquid fuels could...