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Short answers on process heat, feedstocks, costs and carbon rules in chemical plants. To see them worked out with your own plant data, book a demo.
Carbonova connects reactor, furnace, boiler, utilities and energy data to CarbonOS, a platform of AI agents that calculates emissions by unit and by product, flags drift in steam, gas and electricity use, and ranks scenarios by cost per tonne of CO₂ avoided. Carbonova Build, in early access, adds process simulation with pinch analysis, advanced process control and soft sensors.
Mostly from burning fuel for process heat and steam, from reactions that release CO₂ or N₂O, as in ammonia and nitric acid production, and from purchased electricity. Chemicals are the largest industrial energy consumer, and more than half of the energy the sector takes in is used as feedstock rather than fuel (IEA, 2018).
Chemical and fertiliser plants emitting more than 100,000 tCO₂e a year are Safeguard Mechanism facilities, with baselines falling by 4.9% a year to 30 June 2030. Smaller sites may still report under NGER, and large companies report Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions under AASB S2, which applied to Group 2 entities from reporting periods starting on or after 1 July 2026.
Yes. The Hydrogen Production Tax Incentive is a refundable tax offset of $2 per kilogram of eligible hydrogen, for income years from 1 July 2027 to 30 June 2040, with up to 10 years per facility. The hydrogen must have an emissions intensity of no more than 0.6 kg CO₂e per kg and a Product Guarantee of Origin certificate (ATO). Carbonova’s e-Fuels Intelligence agents compute batch footprints as evidence for certifiers.
Using the plant’s real data, Carbonova Build runs pinch analysis on heat exchange and shows where rejected heat could preheat feeds or raise steam, and the CarbonOS planning agent ranks the options by cost per tonne of CO₂ avoided. The room is often large: between 20% and 50% of industrial energy input in the United States is lost as waste heat (US Department of Energy, 2008).
Asset Graph builds a digital twin of units, streams and energy flows, so Carbon Intelligence can assign steam, electricity and feedstock emissions to each product, using data from SCADA, meters and ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle. Proof Engine keeps the lineage and versioned emission factor behind every number, in line with the ISO 14064-3 verification standard, for customers and verifiers.
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