Decarbonizing Industrial Ovens

This webinar will cover decarbonization approaches for industrial ovens, along with a short assessment of grid decarbonization requirements. Near-term and longer-term efficiency/decarbonization approaches will also be discussed. Topics will include operational and electrification strategies to improve efficiency, as well as deeper decarbonization methods such as fuel swapping.

IHEA's Sustainability and Decarbonization webinar series focuses on carbon producing heating processes and provide methods to optimize their efficiency and thereby reduce their carbon emission intensity. Additionally, these webinars cover the various scopes of carbon emissions and the methods to determine your site, or specific equipment, carbon footprint. The available DOE tools and other resources for determining and reducing your carbon footprint will be presented. Overall, this webinar series gives the attendees an excellent overview of carbon emissions, how to determine them, and how to reduce them.  Learn more about IHEA's Sustainability Initiatives by clicking here.

Date: Thursday, July 24, 2025

Time: 11:00 AM Eastern

Cost: Free!

Registration:  CLICK HERE to register.

Presenter: Eamon Hogg, Technical Leader III, EPRI
Eamon Hogg is a chemical engineer with 20 years of experience in the energy industry, covering a wide array of topics such as biofuels production, coal gasification, energy storage, and industrial decarbonization. He gained hands-on experience working at a venture capital startup biofuels company, addressing fundamental engineering and scale-up problems while completing an M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering. He then transitioned to Southern Company, where he worked as a process engineer at a large greenfield integrated coal gasification combined cycle power plant (IGCC). There, he gained additional experience with large industrial equipment design, startup, and troubleshooting. He later moved into a research role within the renewable, energy storage, and distributed generation group (RSDG) at Southern Company, where he led research efforts into distributed generation technologies. During his time in Southern Company’s research organization, he restarted research effort into the industrial decarbonization space. In his current role at EPRI, he is in the electrification program (P199) and is supports research efforts into industrial decarbonization while also supporting the low carbon resource initiative (LCRI).