Climate Neutral Roadmap in Fossil Free Competitiveness for Paroc, Sweden : what Paroc can do to meet up with the roadmap from Fossil Free Sweden

• Main Author: Mörk, Felix
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Högskolan Kristianstad, Fakulteten för naturvetenskap 2021
• Subjects: Climate neutral; Fossil free; Mineral wool; Competitiveness; Intercommunion; Plasma burner; Oxy fuel; Hydrogen gas.; Energy Systems; Energisystem; Engineering and Technology; Teknik och teknologier
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hkr:diva-22107

Today’s society is standing in front of a revolution where fossil energy should be replaced with renewable energy. Governmental agencies and policy makers have formed goals and regulations to become greener, and the organisation Fossil Free Sweden has published roadmaps for fossil free competitiveness. Therefore, this report has connected Paroc’s operations with a roadmap for fossil free competitiveness to form a strategic environmental plan. Early, it was recognized that the field was big and a limitation to CO2-emissions during production were established. The facts were gathered mostly throughout literature studies, scientific publications/articles, and personal communication with personnel at Paroc/Owens Corning. The results gave a description over fossil free competitiveness for the construction sector, previous, and current sustainability efforts at Paroc. After that, the report lifted suggestions of modifications to the mainstream process. Focus laid on the reduction of coke, propane, and dolomite. Later, the report discussed a possible strategy to become fossil free by 2045. It found out that there are many approaches to become climate neutral. Moreover, a need for practical testing of the solutions in the mainstream processes, and that emissions can be calculated in an absolute of relative way.