Energetic/economic penalty of CO2 emissions and application to coal-to-olefins projects in China

Coal-to-olefins projects in different regions of China are used as case studies. Their energetic and economic penalties are calculated. Results show that olefins productions in Gansu, Ningxia, and Sinkiang suffer from the highest penalties. For economic penalties, they are higher than 2400 RMB/t olefins. Productions in Inner Mongolia and Shanxi have the penalties in middle range, 1235 RMB/t olefins and 1656 RMB/t olefins. Productions in other regions pay much lower penalties, around 1000 RMB/t olefins.