Abstract

The industrial sector generates 23% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Across all industrial facilities, emissions are produced when fossil fuels are combusted to supply heat to industrial processes. Reducing these emissions requires facility-level estimates of process heat demand to evaluate the technical feasibility of low-carbon heating systems. This work bridges the gap between industrial heat demand characterization and energy system planning, connecting process-level heat requirements to decarbonization strategies and their downstream grid-scale consequences. This dissertation investigates the following: (1) the magnitude and characteristics of industrial process heat demand, (2) the cost-effective systems that reduce industrial heat emissions, and (3) the impact of decarbonizing industrial heat on the gas-electricity energy infrastructure. Together, these analyses quantify heat energy demands for U.S. industry, highlight carbon mitigation opportunities, and chart pathways for cost-optimal decarbonization of industrial process heat.

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