Industrial Natural Gas Demand
Description:... The industrial sector represents the largest end-use market for natural gas in Canada, providing a large and stable baseload demand for producers and distributors. This study examines the energy use patterns of major industrial consumers to assess how future production technologies are likely to impact on energy demand and the magnitude of those effects on natural gas demand. The study consists mainly of a detailed exposition of industrial processes, describing where and how energy is used in each of the energy-intensive industries. Detailed process analyses are provided for the pulp and paper, iron and steel, petroleum refining, petrochemical, inorganic chemical and fertilizer industries. In addition, specific scenarios for cement production and aluminum smelting are developed. The analysis used the University of Waterloo's socio-economic framework (SERF) model's input-output structure to reflect a likely scenario of the impact of new production technologies in each industry and to generate internally consistent production paths for each industry.
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