Scaling green hydrogen and CCUS via cement-methanol co-production in China

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Hauptverfasser: He, Yuezhang, Luo, Hongxi, Lin, Yuancheng, Talsma, Carl J., Li, Anna, Wang, Zhenqian, Fang, Yujuan, Liu, Pei, Jenkins, Jesse D., Larson, Eric, Li, Zheng
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author He, Yuezhang
Luo, Hongxi
Lin, Yuancheng
Talsma, Carl J.
Li, Anna
Wang, Zhenqian
Fang, Yujuan
Liu, Pei
Jenkins, Jesse D.
Larson, Eric
Li, Zheng
author_facet He, Yuezhang
Luo, Hongxi
Lin, Yuancheng
Talsma, Carl J.
Li, Anna
Wang, Zhenqian
Fang, Yujuan
Liu, Pei
Jenkins, Jesse D.
Larson, Eric
Li, Zheng
contents High costs of green hydrogen and of carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) have hindered policy ambition and slowed real-world deployment, despite their importance for decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors, including cement and methanol. Given the economic challenges of adopting CCUS in cement and green hydrogen in methanol production separately, we propose a renewable-powered co-production system that couples electrolytic hydrogen and CCUS through molecule exchange. We optimize system configurations using an hourly-resolved, process-based model incorporating operational flexibility, and explore integrated strategies for plant-level deployment and CO2 source-sink matching across China. We find that co-production could reduce CO2 abatement costs to USD 41-53 per tonne by 2035, significantly lower than approximately USD 75 for standalone cement CCUS and over USD 120 for standalone renewable-based methanol. Co-production is preferentially deployed at cement plants in renewable-rich regions, potentially reshaping national CO2 infrastructure planning. This hydrogen-CCUS coupling paradigm could accelerate industrial decarbonization and scaling for other applications.
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spellingShingle Scaling green hydrogen and CCUS via cement-methanol co-production in China
He, Yuezhang
Luo, Hongxi
Lin, Yuancheng
Talsma, Carl J.
Li, Anna
Wang, Zhenqian
Fang, Yujuan
Liu, Pei
Jenkins, Jesse D.
Larson, Eric
Li, Zheng
Systems and Control
High costs of green hydrogen and of carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) have hindered policy ambition and slowed real-world deployment, despite their importance for decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors, including cement and methanol. Given the economic challenges of adopting CCUS in cement and green hydrogen in methanol production separately, we propose a renewable-powered co-production system that couples electrolytic hydrogen and CCUS through molecule exchange. We optimize system configurations using an hourly-resolved, process-based model incorporating operational flexibility, and explore integrated strategies for plant-level deployment and CO2 source-sink matching across China. We find that co-production could reduce CO2 abatement costs to USD 41-53 per tonne by 2035, significantly lower than approximately USD 75 for standalone cement CCUS and over USD 120 for standalone renewable-based methanol. Co-production is preferentially deployed at cement plants in renewable-rich regions, potentially reshaping national CO2 infrastructure planning. This hydrogen-CCUS coupling paradigm could accelerate industrial decarbonization and scaling for other applications.
title Scaling green hydrogen and CCUS via cement-methanol co-production in China
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13674