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However, none of these initiatives addresses the ‘elephant in the room’: the industrial plastics manufacturing process itself, which is heavily reliant on the carbon-intensive chemical production sector.. Chemical production is set to become ‘the single largest driver of global oil consumption by 2030’ according to a 2019 paper in the.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The chemical industry uses around 28% of all industrial energy and 10% of global final energy.2. , which shows how vital it is for the industry to change if we are to reduce carbon emissions and help combat climate change..This is a lot to accomplish, but it offers Bryden Wood an opportunity to make great steps towards this goal and lead by example, by promoting methods to reduce emissions in the chemical engineering sector.. We started studying this problem to see if it would be possible to produce plastics more sustainably.

And we have found that existing carbon capture technologies have the potential to change the way industrial plastics are produced.. Industrial Plastic Production: Reducing Carbon Emissions.As we know, industrial plastics are used in many items we use every day.

From nylon stockings to Teflon-coated cooking pans, we all use these types of plastics in some form or other.

Industrial plastics have become so prevalent precisely because of their wide range of uses.In addition, where the design and construction industry tends to focus on the differences between sectors - segmenting itself into deep specialisms and viewing particular elements in isolation, we must instead switch our focus to commonality, anchoring the design and build process in similarities, not differences.

P-DfMA achieves this goal.For example, floor-to-floor heights are relatively standard across a variety of different buildings: schools, hospital wards, apartment buildings and certain office types.

This is because the heights result from the size of people, rather than being necessitated by the requirements of a particular sector.We allow for the height of a person, plus headroom, plus a zone for structures, M&E systems and architectural finishes.