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

Virtual

About This Event

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.