%0 Journal Article
%K Cement industry
%K Abatement cost curve
%K Abatement technologies
%K CO2 emission
%A Ali Hasanbeigi
%A Christoph Menke
%A Lynn K Price
%B Journal of Cleaner Production
%D 2010
%N 15
%P 1509-1518
%R 10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.06.005
%T The CO<sub>2</sub> Abatement Cost Curve for the Thailand's Cement Industry
%V 18
%8 11/2010
%X <p>The cement industry is one of the largest carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) emitters in the Thai industry. The cement sector accounted for about 20,633 kilotonnes (ktonnes) CO<sub>2</sub> emissions in 2005 in Thailand. A bottom-up CO<sub>2</sub> abatement cost curve (ACC) is constructed in this study for the Thai cement industry to determine the potentials and costs of CO<sub>2</sub> abatement, taking into account the costs and CO<sub>2</sub> abatement of different technologies. The period of 2010–2025 is chosen as the scenario period. We analyzed 41 CO<sub>2</sub> abatement technologies and measures for the cement industry. Using the bottom-up CO<sub>2</sub> ACC model, the cost-effective annual CO<sub>2</sub> abatement potential for the Thai cement industry during the 15 year scenario period (2010–2025) is equal to 3095 ktonnes CO<sub>2</sub>/year. This is about 15% of the Thai cement industry's total CO<sub>2</sub> emissions in 2005. The total technical annual CO<sub>2</sub> abatement potential is 3143 ktonnes CO<sub>2</sub>/year, which is about 15.2% of the Thai cement industry's total CO<sub>2</sub> emissions in 2005. We also conducted a sensitivity analysis for the discount rate parameter.</p>