Thursday 18 July - 16:10-17:30 - Prestige Gratte-Ciel
The transition scenarios to the low-carbon energy in the chemical process industries are commonly based on the so-called Power-to-X concept, which basically assumes using the low-carbon or renewable electricity to produce fuels and/or chemicals.
While the electrocatalytic production of fuels from water, CO2 or nitrogen is undoubtedly of fundamental importance for decarbonizing (or rather defossilizing) the chemical sector, it is equally important to address possible applications of electricity-based heating methods, such as microwave, radio-frequency, induction/hysteresis or Joule heating, in industrial catalysis.
Examples of questions to be discussed:
► Are some of the novel heating technologies more promising than the other?
► Will we have enough renewable electricity to supply?
► Integrated, large-scale processes Vs. distributed, small-scale manufacturing?
► Are expected decarbonisation effects large enough to justify the efforts?
► Process economy: can this ever beat current technologies?
► Industrial acceptance: how to make a convincing business case for the industry?
► How should further efforts be financed?
Moderators & Panelists
- Moderators: Andrzej STANKIEWICZ, Enrico TRONCONI
- Panelists:
- Georgios Stefanidis (National Technical University of Athens)
- Bruno Chaudret (University of Toulouse)
- Dongxia Liu (University of Delaware)
- Reyes Mallada (University of Zaragoza)
- Alan Chaffee (Monash University)