Webinar—Electrifying Chemicals Production: Inside RMI’s Applied Innovation Roadmap

In this webinar, RMI explored our Applied Innovation Roadmap (AIR) for Chemicals, an action-oriented assessment of six electrification technologies with the potential to significantly cut emissions from primary chemicals production. RMI experts walked through the recent analysis highlighting high-potential technologies, the critical research, development and demonstration (RD&D) gaps holding them back, and where coordinated funding and policy can unlock scale and cost reductions.

About the Applied Innovation Roadmap

The AIR provides an objective, action-oriented perspective on how to advance the technological and deployment readiness of six promising electrification technologies in chemicals: induction heating, resistive heating, shockwave heating, air-source heat pumps, thermal energy storage, and CO2 electrolysis.

For all six technologies, the AIR includes:

• Current state assessments of active projects and companies, and obtained funding
• Technical assessments of technology readiness and adoption readiness levels and potential emissions impacts
• Impact assessments of human health impacts and risks to scale and adoption within the chemical industry
• A roadmap of RD&D projects, with project scopes, timelines, and budgets to accelerate the technology and its deployment
• A success story highlighting optimistic deployment potentials for each technology, with estimated cost improvements over time relative to incumbent processes

Download the AIR here.