Managing the costs of CO<sub>2</sub> abatement in the cement industry

Rootzén, Johan; Johnsson, Filip

doi:10.1080/14693062.2016.1191007

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“…Investment cost ranges between 200 and 300 million Euros per kiln 59 , inducing a possible increase of between 50 to 100% in the price of cement 139 , which can increase social inequalities. Actually, the increase in total costs for the construction of a middle-class multifamily residential building is limited to 1%, even when the cement price is doubled 140 . On the contrary, for low cost housing, the cost of cement represent 5 to 10% of construction costs and a price increase would directly impact final costs.…”

Section: Carbon Capture and Storagementioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental impacts and decarbonization strategies in the cement and concrete industries

Habert

Miller

John

et al. 2020

Nat Rev Earth Environ

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The use of concrete is under scrutiny as it appears as one of the few human activities where the transition toward a post-carbon society is not possible unless large investments in risky carbon capture and storage are made. With current urbanization, it is also a sector that is expected to continuously grow, leading to increased resource consumption and emissions. In this review, we aim to shed light on the available solutions that can be implemented in the short and long term to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Rather than waiting for disruptive technologies that could transform a very slow moving and risk-averse construction sector, this review focuses on the small improvements that every stakeholder involved along the value chain of concrete production and use can achieve. We stress how significant the combined effect of these marginal gains can be. By balancing societal needs, environmental requirements, and technical feasibility, the intention of this review is to show credible pathways for a transition to sustainable use of concrete. Key points• Cement usage is so massive, more than 4 billion tonnes per year worldwide, that large-scale replacement by other materials within the next decade is not possible.• Environmental impact of cement and concrete is low per unit of material, but the amount used makes the impact of the sector highly significant.• Reductions in CO 2 emissions are possible through successive improvement all along the cement and concrete value chain: less clinker in cement, less cement in concrete, less concrete in structures, and less replacement of structures.• By engaging all stakeholders of the construction sector, immediate savings of the order of 50% can be reached without heavy investment in new industrial infrastructure or modification of standards.• Research and development need urgently to be conducted for post-2050 construction to meet future emissions reduction targets. Alternative cement and faster carbonation of concrete should be explored.

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Section: Carbon Capture and Storagementioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental impacts and decarbonization strategies in the cement and concrete industries

Habert

Miller

John

et al. 2020

Nat Rev Earth Environ

663

269

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“…This pressure trickles down the value chain when big manufacturers of end-products, such as IKEA, decide to demand more sustainable basic materials. However, customers of EPIs are typically not willing to pay a price premium for cleaner basic materials, believing they cannot channel this premium to the end-consumer, even though the net price impact is often very small 4 [85,86]. One reason is in transparency, since so far, consumer products typically do not show the carbon footprint of the materials they use.…”

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The transition of energy intensive processing industries towards deep decarbonization: Characteristics and implications for future research

Wesseling¹,

Lechtenböhmer²,

Åhman³

et al. 2017

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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A B S T R A C TEnergy-intensive processing industries (EPIs) produce iron and steel, aluminum, chemicals, cement, glass, and paper and pulp and are responsible for a large share of global greenhouse gas emissions. To meet 2050 emission targets, an accelerated transition towards deep decarbonization is required in these industries. Insights from sociotechnical and innovation systems perspectives are needed to better understand how to steer and facilitate this transition process. The transitions literature has so far, however, not featured EPIs. This paper positions EPIs within the transitions literature by characterizing their sociotechnical and innovation systems in terms of industry structure, innovation strategies, networks, markets and governmental interventions. We subsequently explore how these characteristics may influence the transition to deep decarbonization and identify gaps in the literature from which we formulate an agenda for further transitions research on EPIs and consider policy implications. Furthering this research field would not only enrich discussions on policy for achieving deep decarbonization, but would also develop transitions theory since the distinctive EPI characteristics are likely to yield new patterns in transition dynamics.

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“…An alternative or complementary way to finance BECCS is based on the fact that an assumed CCS cost of 100 €/tCO 2 will only marginally influence the prices of the end-products. Rootzén and Johnsson (2016) and Rootzén and Johnsson (2017) have estimated the increases in the price of a car and of a building made of CO 2 -neutral steel and cement and steel, respectively. These materials are rendered CO 2 -neutral through CCS (as part of a portfolio of measures within which CCS is a substantial component) at a total cost of around 100 €/tCO 2 .…”

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The BECCS Implementation Gap–A Swedish Case Study

Fuss

Johnsson

2021

Front. Energy Res.

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The IPCC has assessed a variety of pathways that could still lead to achievement of the ambitious climate targets set in the Paris Agreement. However, the longer time that climate action is delayed, the more the achievement of this goal will depend on Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) technologies and practices. In the models behind these pathways, the main CDR technology is Bioenergy combined with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS). We review the role that BECCS could play in reaching net-zero targets based on the existing 1.5°C scenarios. Such scenarios presented in the literature typically have BECCS at a GtCO2 per year scale. We also assess the potentials and obstacles for BECCS implementation at the national level, applying Sweden as a case study. Given that BECCS deployment has scarcely started and, thus, is far from capturing 1 GtCO2 per year, with lead times on the scale of multiple years, we conclude that there will be a large implementation gap unless BECCS development is immediately intensified, emissions are reduced at a much faster pace or removals realized through other CDR measures. In the national case study, we show that Sweden has favorable conditions for BECCS in that it has large point sources of biogenic emissions, and that BECCS has been identified as one potential “supplementary measure” for reaching the Swedish target of net-zero emissions in 2045. Yet, work on planning for BECCS implementation has started only recently and would need to be accelerated to close the implementation gap between the present advancement and the targets for BECCS proposed in a recent public inquiry on the roles of supplementary measures. An assessment of two ramp-up scenarios for BECCS demonstrates that it should in principle be possible to reach the currently envisaged deployment scales, but this will require prompt introduction of political and economic incentives. The main barriers are thus not due to technological immaturity, but are rather of a socio-economic, political and institutional nature.

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Managing the costs of CO₂ abatement in the cement industry

Cited by 36 publications

References 26 publications

Environmental impacts and decarbonization strategies in the cement and concrete industries

Environmental impacts and decarbonization strategies in the cement and concrete industries

The transition of energy intensive processing industries towards deep decarbonization: Characteristics and implications for future research

The BECCS Implementation Gap–A Swedish Case Study

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Environmental impacts and decarbonization strategies in the cement and concrete industries

Environmental impacts and decarbonization strategies in the cement and concrete industries

The transition of energy intensive processing industries towards deep decarbonization: Characteristics and implications for future research

The BECCS Implementation Gap–A Swedish Case Study

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