Carbon Mitigation Pathway Evaluation and Environmental Benefit Analysis of Mitigation Technologies in China’s Petrochemical and Chemical Industry

Xi Yang,Xiangzhao Feng,Shan Guo,Xiaoqian Xi,Wanqi Lin

doi:10.3390/en11123331

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Journal: Energies	Publication Date: Nov 29, 2018
Citations: 5	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: China University of Petroleum, Beijing

Abstract

The co-benefits of mitigation technology in China’s petrochemical and chemical industry have not been evaluated, although they are deemed valuable for the cost-benefit analysis of carbon mitigation. On this basis, this study evaluates the carbon mitigation effects and environmental co-benefits of mitigation technologies that have been long ignored in China’s petrochemical and chemical industry. In addition, this study also fills the gap of provincial research in chemical industry. A bottom-up energy model and marginal abatement cost curves are constructed for each sector. The study is based on national and provincial levels to provide quantitative reference for the mitigation technologies. Results show that, among 18 technologies in the chemical industry, waste heat utilization and technological process transformation technologies have the highest marginal abatement benefits. Technologies in the petrochemical industry with the largest marginal abatement social benefit typically exists in three categories: efficiency improvement technology, waste heat utilization technology, and coating technology. At the national level, 8039 and 5105 premature deaths are effectively avoided by the promotion of chemical and petrochemical mitigation technologies, respectively. Monetary value of health impact in these two industries are 7.0 billion and 5.5 billion RMB, respectively. At the provincial level, coal gasification multi-generation gas turbine power generation technology, a technological process transformation technology, performs well in Shaanxi province with 122 million RMB of total social benefit.

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China is facing environmental challenges, such as the global effects of curbing CO2 emissions and local air pollution and public health [1,2,3]
This study aims to evaluate the health benefit of these technologies revise the abatement costs forof the technologies and revise the marginal abatement costs forand showing themarginal economy and feasibility showing economy and feasibility of the promotion of energy saving and remission reduction promotion of the energy saving and remission reduction technologies in the chemical industry
Health benefits are further integrated into the marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs) of the technologies

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China is facing environmental challenges, such as the global effects of curbing CO2 emissions and local air pollution and public health [1,2,3]. Environmental problems are a hot issue concerning the whole region, with specific industrial characteristics [4]. Focusing on the environmental impact and social cost of technology promotion will promote the progress of the industrial emission roadmap. To tackle the complicated environmental problem, academia has done great efforts. Some scholars have analyzed correlations between CO2 and other local pollutants, such as SO2 , soot, and particulate matter (PM). On the basis of factor demand theory in economics, Li et al [5] (2017) discovered that co-benefits would achieve a co-control policy in the mitigation of local pollutants and CO2 emission. Yang et al [6]

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