Cement News tagged under: methane emisions

RSS feed

Reducing methane emissions

24 January 2022, Published under Cement News

As the cement industry prepares to meet its sustainability objectives, this month’s Technical Forum focusses on the potential of methane as an alternative to coal in firing kilns. More than 70 per cent of kilns are still fired with coal or petcoke whereas only 10 per cent are currently using natural gas. If 10 per cent of the world’s cement kilns could be switched from coal to natural gas, then 1.16Gt of CO 2 would be prevented between 2020-50 News in the first weeks of Nove...