Air Emissions Impacts of Fuel Substitution in the United States Cement Industry
Anaís Ostroski, Vi H. Rapp, Corinne D. Scown · 2026
Read Air Emissions Impacts of Fuel Substitution in the United States Cement Industry by Anaís Ostroski, Vi H. Rapp, Corinne D. Scown (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13449888.txt.
Description
Ostroski and colleagues ask how much cleaner United States cement plants could run on other fuels. Cement kilns burn coal and petroleum coke, a heavy oil residue, at very high heat. The team weighs farm waste and other waste fuels as swaps for those fuels.
Across all eighty-eight linked plants, such swaps could lift the share of other fuels from about one sixth to near three quarters. Fuel-linked carbon output could then fall by about one fifth to near one half. Gains for health were largest where coal and coke were replaced first. Some nitrogen oxide results were mixed, yet cuts in sulfur gases and fine dust drove clear net gains.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Anaís Ostroski, Vi H. Rapp, Corinne D. Scown |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 52 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |