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Greater cost-efficiency, safer, easier on the environment
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More products, less energy
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Heat isn´t wasted
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Higher emissions without the Verbund
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Off the road into the pipeline
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Model calculation for Ludwigshafen
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Business case: Production Verbund |
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The efficient use of resources is a basic economic principle. Resource conservation is an important element in protecting the environment and supporting the environmental dimension of sustainability. BASF's Production Verbund links processes extremely efficiently. It is thus a major financial strength and at the same time provides environmental advantages.
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Greater cost-efficiency, safer, easier on the environment
We estimate that in total we achieve annual cost savings of approximately 800 million euros at our Verbund sites around the world, and about 500 million euros each year at the our Ludwigshafen site alone. Waste materials and emissions are reduced effectively, resource consumption is cut and transportation is kept to a minimum.
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More products, less energy
BASF has succeeded in breaking the link between production output and the use of energy derived from fossil fuels. Since the mid-1970s, the use of fossil energy sources for electrical power and steam generation has fallen by about 52 percent at the Ludwigshafen site. During the same period, however, production has risen by approximately 50 percent.
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Heat isn´t wasted
By linking energy supplies within the Energy Verbund, excess energy from chemical processes in the form of heat can be immediately converted into steam and fed into the BASF steam network. Instead of being released into the environment, this heat can be used as an energy source in other production plants. The results are impressive: Excess heat and incineration of production waste provide about 55 percent of BASF's steam requirements.
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Higher emissions without the Verbund
Without the Verbund, BASF's annual emissions in Ludwigshafen would rise by about 500 metric tons for carbon monoxide (CO), about 1,600 metric tons for sulfur dioxide (SO2), about 2,200 metric tons for nitrogen oxides (NOX) and about 2.5 million tons for carbon dioxide (CO2).
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Off the road into the pipeline
At BASF's Verbund sites raw materials and feedstocks are transported through a dense network of piping rather than having to be sent long distances by road, rail or sea. Additional costs for handling and storage can also be eliminated. In Ludwigshafen, about 300 million euros can be saved through the Logistics Verbund. In addition, the pipelines in our Verbund are an environmentally friendly and safe means of transportation for raw materials such as acetylene, hydrogen and synthesis gas, which are otherwise difficult to transport.
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Model calculation for Ludwigshafen
The economic advantages of the Verbund are clear when the costs associated with production in Ludwigshafen are compared with the costs that would arise if the same amount of production were allocated to 70 separate companies each 100 kilometers apart.
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