Efficiency improvement and CO2 emission reduction potentials in the United States petroleum refining industry
Abstract
The U.S. EPA is in the final stages of promulgating regulations to reduce CO2 emissions from the electricity generating industry. A major component of EPA's regulatory strategy targets improvements to power plant operating efficiencies. As the EPA expands regulatory requirements to other industries, including petroleum refining, it is likely that plant efficiency improvements will be critical to achieving CO2 emission reductions. This paper identifies efficiency improvement measures applicable to refining, and quantifies potential cost of conserved energy for these measures. Analysis is at the U.S. petroleum refining sector national-level employing an aggregated notional refinery model (NRM), with the aim of estimating the efficacy of efficiency improvements for reducing emissions. Using this method, roughly 1500 petajoules per year (PJ/yr) of plant fuel savings and 650 gigawatt-hour per year (GWh/yr) of electricity savings (representing 54% and 2% of U.S. refining industry consumption, respectively) are potentially cost-effective. This equates to a potential 85 Mt-CO2/yr reduction. An additional 458 PJ/yr fuel reduction and close to 2750 GWh/yr of electricity reduction (27 Mt-CO2/yr) are not cost-effective at prevailing natural gas market prices. Furthermore, results are presented as a supply-curve ordering measures from low to high cost of fuel savings versus cumulative energy reduction.
- Authors:
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[1];
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- JM Energy Consulting, Inc., Gibsonia, PA (United States)
- Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1532171
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1249771
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Energy (Oxford)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Energy (Oxford); Journal Volume: 93; Journal Issue: P1; Journal ID: ISSN 0360-5442
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY; Energy-efficiency; CO2 emissions; Petroleum refining
Citation Formats
Morrow, III, William R., Marano, John, Hasanbeigi, Ali, Masanet, Eric, and Sathaye, Jayant. Efficiency improvement and CO2 emission reduction potentials in the United States petroleum refining industry. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.energy.2015.08.097.
Morrow, III, William R., Marano, John, Hasanbeigi, Ali, Masanet, Eric, & Sathaye, Jayant. Efficiency improvement and CO2 emission reduction potentials in the United States petroleum refining industry. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2015.08.097
Morrow, III, William R., Marano, John, Hasanbeigi, Ali, Masanet, Eric, and Sathaye, Jayant. Wed .
"Efficiency improvement and CO2 emission reduction potentials in the United States petroleum refining industry". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2015.08.097. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1532171.
@article{osti_1532171,
title = {Efficiency improvement and CO2 emission reduction potentials in the United States petroleum refining industry},
author = {Morrow, III, William R. and Marano, John and Hasanbeigi, Ali and Masanet, Eric and Sathaye, Jayant},
abstractNote = {The U.S. EPA is in the final stages of promulgating regulations to reduce CO2 emissions from the electricity generating industry. A major component of EPA's regulatory strategy targets improvements to power plant operating efficiencies. As the EPA expands regulatory requirements to other industries, including petroleum refining, it is likely that plant efficiency improvements will be critical to achieving CO2 emission reductions. This paper identifies efficiency improvement measures applicable to refining, and quantifies potential cost of conserved energy for these measures. Analysis is at the U.S. petroleum refining sector national-level employing an aggregated notional refinery model (NRM), with the aim of estimating the efficacy of efficiency improvements for reducing emissions. Using this method, roughly 1500 petajoules per year (PJ/yr) of plant fuel savings and 650 gigawatt-hour per year (GWh/yr) of electricity savings (representing 54% and 2% of U.S. refining industry consumption, respectively) are potentially cost-effective. This equates to a potential 85 Mt-CO2/yr reduction. An additional 458 PJ/yr fuel reduction and close to 2750 GWh/yr of electricity reduction (27 Mt-CO2/yr) are not cost-effective at prevailing natural gas market prices. Furthermore, results are presented as a supply-curve ordering measures from low to high cost of fuel savings versus cumulative energy reduction.},
doi = {10.1016/j.energy.2015.08.097},
journal = {Energy (Oxford)},
number = P1,
volume = 93,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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