Carbon, capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is a complex value chain that requires progress in each segment to enable a global energy transition successfully. The four segments of the CCUS value chain, capture, transportation, storage, and use- are seeing varying level of progress. Capture should work more efficiently with power plants, and their CO-concentrated streams […]
Going Blue: No amines? Consider these alternative CCS technologies
Post-combustion, pre-combustion, and oxy-fuel combustion are the three main methods of capturing CO2 from large-scale industrial facilities. Most of the CO2-capture technologies today are amine-based solvents for wet absorption. Fluor Corporation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Aker Solution, and BASF are some prominent amine-based solvent vendors. Various commercial plants use their technologies, but what alternatives exist to […]
Greener skies: Part I: A jet fuel and sustainable aviation fuel market outlook
Aviation is one of the hard-to-abate industries when it comes to decarbonization. COVID-induced lockdowns and the recession that closely followed slashed global aviation demand by 42% in 2020 compared to 2019. This also resulted in the lowest CO2 emissions from the aviation industry in over two decades dropping from about a billion tons of CO2 […]
Going Blue: How CCS is growing across the oil and gas value chain
As one of the earliest adopters of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), the oil and gas industry has contributed significantly to the development of CCS processes over the last five decades. Recently, prominent oil and gas companies such as Chevron, ExxonMobil, Phillips 66, and TotalEnergies have announced new CCS projects across the oil and gas […]
Floating light: The potential of hydrogen as a marine fuel
The global shipping industry is one of the hard-to-abate industries when it comes to decarbonization. While it constitutes a small share of global CO2 emissions today, it may see astronomical amount of growth if left unchecked. Global shipping industry demand is expected to see a 275% increase by 2050 compared to 2020 levels. To address […]
2022 Built Revolution Energy Podcast
Energy is evolving daily. From commercial construction to infrastructure and industrial applications, every sector is putting in place Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria and working toward Net-Zero carbon emissions goals. In this first episode of the Energy Evolution Miniseries, Victaulic’s Elliott Smith sits down with Uday Turaga of ADI Analytics to discuss the energy […]
Global Natural Gas Outlook: Steep Recovery, Moderate Growth
ADI Analytics was asked to provide an outlook on natural gas markets for CompressorTech2 magazine. Our article was featured in the August-September 2021 edition and provided insights from our research on the outlook of natural gas demand, supply pricing, projects, and implications on international trade. The article also covered the impact COVID-19 had on natural […]
Scope 3 emissions will challenge decarbonization goals of the chemical industry
We wrote in an earlier blog that the Paris Agreement’s goal to limit global warming to well below 2 °C compared to pre-industrial levels will be challenged by decarbonization of several hard-to-abate sectors. The chemical industry is both one of the largest consumers of energy globally and a hard-to-abate sector. A large portion of carbon […]
“Green premiums”: A new approach to energy transition investments
Nearly two-thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions can be attributed to CO2 from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes. A report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) outlines the potential for emissions to fall to 70% of the current levels over the next three decades but more needs to be done to limit […]
Decarbonization initiatives in the chemical industry
The Paris Agreement’s goal to limit global warming to well below 2 °C compared to pre-industrial levels will be challenged by decarbonization of several hard-to-abate sectors. The chemical industry along with cement, iron and steel, shipping, and aviation are among the hard-to-abate sectors. Hard-to-abate sectors are highly energy-intensive sectors where fossil fuels serve as the […]
