Re: Natural Gas as Feedstock

On Apr 25, 1:11 pm, nada <dwalters...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 23, 1:21 pm, peterweze...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

What fraction of natural gas consumed in the United States is used as
a feedstock to produce fertilizer, plastics, methyl alcohol, etc?

Thank you,

Peter Wezeman
anti-social Darwinist

It is not broken down that specifically. "Industrial" is about 30% of
the total, this includes chemical as well as process heat. Most, about
40% is used for "electrical' the rest "commercial and residential".

Thank you for your reply. With the price of natural gas as high as it
is, I am trying to find out where substitutes could be used. I suspect
that the easiest niche to replace natural gas would be as a feedstock.
There is already a company looking into replacing gas worth coal for
making fertilizer, and I wanted to get an idea of the total amount of
gas now used for similar purposes.

Does industrial include co-generation where gas is used to produce
electricity and then the waste heat is used for on-site industrial
processes?

Thank you,

Peter Wezeman
anti-social Darwinist

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