Industries with Their Highly Specialized or Energy-Intensive Processes

This chapter is dedicated in detail to the energy-intensive industries with their partly very specific technologies—partly at very high process temperatures. These industries include basic chemicals, metal production and processing, the manufacture of glass, ceramics and cement, the production of paper, the food industry and plastics processing. The technical fundamentals are briefly described in each case to provide an understanding of the efficiency measures described in detail. The findings are illustrated in each case in industry-specific savings potential curves.

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Notes

Celitement is a cement developed at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Celitements are hydraulic binders that already contain water chemically bound in hydraulically active calcium hydrosilicates. Due to the lower process temperatures and the reduced need for cold stone, emissions from cement production can be significantly reduced.

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  1. Institute of Energy Economics and Rational Energy Use, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Markus Blesl
  2. Research and Development, EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, Karlsruhe, Germany Alois Kessler
  1. Markus Blesl