Chemelot is a vast industrial park of petrochemical plants and research labs in the Netherlands. Inside one of its facilities, a group of companies is working to solve a thorny problem vexing the global chemicals industry: how to make one of the world’s most important compounds — ethylene — without pumping copious amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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Electrification powered by low-carbon sources should be viewed more broadly as a viable decarbonization pathway for the chemical industry, argue researchers from MIT and DC-MUSE. A paper shines a light on different ways to do just that.