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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...
Guy Pulham

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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Decarbonisation

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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,...
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...
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...