Professor Eric van Steen from Catalysis Institute was lead author in the book entitled “Renewable Energy in the Process Industry”.

The book provides an overview of current energy use and explores the challenges of renewable energy generation and storage across industries, from basic industrial sectors to consumer goods production.

Renewable energy is penetrating society, with the cost for renewable energy dropping being currently cheaper than power generated from fossil fuels in a greenfield plant. This offers opportunities and challenges for the process industry. Renewable Energy in the Process Industry examines CO2-generation in the process industry and its energy usage, specifically at the largest contributor, viz. heating, and outlines technologies to be used going forward. 

Renewable Energy in the Process Industry starts with an overview of current energy usage, and discusses the challenges associated with the generation and storage of renewable energy, moving from a broad perspective to a zoomed-in look at a variety of different industries, ranging from basic industries all the way down to the production of consumer goods. Renewable Energy in the Process Industry is a timely, forward-thinking resource for process, chemical, and pharmaceutical engineers, bioengineers, and engineers involved in power technology.