Abstract
This study focuses on the mitigation of CO2 emissions in transportation and industrial processes using renewable energy technologies. Carbon dioxide is a colourless, tasteless and odourless gas readily available in the earth’s atmosphere, produced naturally by all aerobic organisms. Increased human activities had created a huge gap between the volume of CO2 emitted into the environment and that absorbed by oceans and vegetations. Globally, the transportation sector has contributed more than seven billion, seven hundred and thirty-eight million metric tons of carbon dioxide from fuel combustion since 2015, while industrial processes also generate greenhouse gas emissions during chemical or physical transformation of raw materials from one state to another in their conversion into finished goods. Analysis suggested that the world can achieve 90% of the reduction in CO2 emissions needed to be within the Paris Agreement via an accelerated deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency, with the remaining 10% met by other low-carbon solutions.
Highlights
Carbon dioxide can be described as a colorless, tasteless and odorless gas readily present in the earth’s atmosphere
International Renewable Energy Agency [24] divided the carbon dioxide emitting sectors into two main parts, electricity generation & industrial processes and transportation, buildings & district heating with 65% and 35% respectively their contributions to global energy-related CO2 emissions, its analysis suggested that the world can achieve 90% of the reduction in CO2 emissions needed to be within the Paris Agreement via an accelerated deployment of renewable energy and energy efficiency, with the remaining met by other lowcarbon solutions
The global renewable energy share can attain and exceed 30% by 2030 with technologies to achieve these already available, quantifiable renewable energy growth must be experienced in the transportation and industrial sector in other to amplify the crusade for a greener world and reduced global warming as well as present and projected environmental challenges
Summary
Carbon dioxide can be described as a colorless, tasteless and odorless gas readily present in the earth’s atmosphere. Industrial processes generate greenhouse gas emissions during chemical or physical transformation of raw materials from one state to another in their conversion into finished goods These can be visible in Metal Production (aluminum smelting, iron and steel production and metallurgical coke production, zinc, ferroalloys, lead, magnesium and other metals production), Mineral Products (cement production, lime production, limestone and dolomite use in industrial smelting, soda ash use etc.), Chemical and Petrochemical Industry (ammonia production and urea consumption, nitric acid, phosphoric acid, adipic acid, titanium dioxide, organic polymers production, soda ash manufacture, nitrous oxide use, petrochemical production etc.), Non-energy Products from fuel and solvent use (Lubricant use emissions from the combustion of lubricant engine oil in vehicles), Product uses as substitutes for ozone depleting substances (emissions from HFC’s refrigerants in refrigerators and air conditioning equipment’s; fire extinguishers, aerosols, etc.), Other process uses of carbonate ( glass manufacturing, flux stone etc.), Semiconductor Production, Silicon carbide Production and Consumption, Sulphur hexafluoride emissions, emissions from food, drink and beverage industry etc [9],[10]. A mode of reducing these emissions using renewable energy technologies is the burden of this study
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