Abstract
The cement industry is one of the largest carbon dioxide (CO 2) emitters in the Thai industry. The cement sector accounted for about 20,633 kilotonnes (ktonnes) CO 2 emissions in 2005 in Thailand. A bottom-up CO 2 abatement cost curve (ACC) is constructed in this study for the Thai cement industry to determine the potentials and costs of CO 2 abatement, taking into account the costs and CO 2 abatement of different technologies. The period of 2010–2025 is chosen as the scenario period. We analyzed 41 CO 2 abatement technologies and measures for the cement industry. Using the bottom-up CO 2 ACC model, the cost-effective annual CO 2 abatement potential for the Thai cement industry during the 15 year scenario period (2010–2025) is equal to 3095 ktonnes CO 2/year. This is about 15% of the Thai cement industry’s total CO 2 emissions in 2005. The total technical annual CO 2 abatement potential is 3143 ktonnes CO 2/year, which is about 15.2% of the Thai cement industry’s total CO 2 emissions in 2005. We also conducted a sensitivity analysis for the discount rate parameter.
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