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Ahmad Hammouz, P.Eng.
This course delivers a comprehensive, sector-wide introduction to industrial decarbonization, grounded in the most current technical, economic, and policy insights identified by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Industrial Decarbonization report. Learners will examine how eight major industrial sectors - chemicals, refining, iron & steel, food & beverage, pulp & paper, cement, aluminum, and glass - contribute to national emissions, and explore the technologies, pathways, and system-level strategies required to transition these sectors toward net-zero emissions.
The course explains the foundational science of industrial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the spectrum of decarbonization levers including CCS, electrification, energy efficiency, low-carbon fuels and feedstocks, raw-material substitution, hydrogen, clean-onsite power, and grid decarbonization. Students will gain insight into where each technology sits along the RDD&D continuum, the economic barriers that currently prevent widespread adoption, and the enabling conditions - policy supports, infrastructure, demand signals, and workforce development - required to reach “commercial liftoff.”
By integrating cross-cutting themes such as environmental justice, capital-formation challenges, industrial facility constraints, and sector-specific abatement opportunities, the course equips learners to critically evaluate industrial decarbonization pathways and assess what it will take to scale low-carbon solutions across heavy industry.
This course includes a multiple-choice quiz at the end, which is designed to enhance the understanding of the course materials.
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