Rising demand for housing in most major cities around the world is increasingly at odds with efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions, as the literal building blocks—concrete and cement—of the construction projects are extremely polluting. Roughly 7% of all carbon emissions today come from cement production, making it one of the highest-emitting industrial sectors, according to [...]
Synhelion and Cemex announced today a significant milestone in their joint effort to develop fully solar-driven cement production: the scaling of their technology to industrially-viable levels. This includes the continuous production of clinker, the most energy-intensive part of cement manufacturing, using only solar heat. At the beginning of 2022, the companies announced the first-ever successful [...]
CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. («CEMEX») announced today that the U.S. Department of Energy awarded US$3.2 million to Solar MEAD, a joint project headed by CEMEX, Sandia National Laboratories, and Synhelion, which aims to decarbonize cement production. Solar MEAD aims to replace the use of fossil fuels with concentrated solar thermal (“CST”) energy in clinker production, [...]
Por la primera vez, CEMEX y Synhelion conectaron con éxito el proceso de producción de clinker con el receptor solar Synhelion, produciendo clinker solar. Esta innovación revolucionaria es un paso inicial para desarrollar plantas de cemento totalmente impulsadas por energía termosolar. CEMEX y Synhelion produjeron el primer clinker solar del mundo en la torre solar [...]
El principal productor mundial de cemento, CEMEX, ha comenzado a trabajar con la empresa emergente de combustible solar Synhelion para demostrar la primera producción de cemento con cero emisiones del mundo con energía solar de alta temperatura. Synhelion es una empresa derivada de la investigación solar de ETH que utiliza una tecnología avanzada de energía [...]