Market Assessment: Natural Gas Opportunities within the Evolving U.S. PlasticsIndustry. Final Report, August 1995-October 1995

摘要

A market assessment was performed to investigate broad opportunity for gas firedtechnologies within the plastics processing industry. This market assessment is being utilized to assist in development of future planning efforts by the gas industry with respect to research and development within this strategic end-use market. Key findings from the assessment relative to the 'state' of the industry include: (1) plastics processing market is growing at 5 percent annually, (2) electrotechnologies control over 95 percent of energy consumption within plastics processing with process heat load representing approximately 30 percent of total energy load (a significant amount of process heat demand satisfied via indirect heat via motor load), (3) total energy load within plastics processing is approximately 280 trillion BTU.