Electrified Processes for Industry without Carbon

Process heating (which uses thermal energy to convert feedstock into products) is responsible for 63% of all energy use in manufacturing, which itself contributes more than 30% of the nation's energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. 

By advancing technologies and supporting the U.S. workforce, the Electrified Processes for Industry without Carbon (EPIXC) aims to replace fossil fuels with cost-effective and high-impact electrical solutions to power process heating.

As the U.S. Department of Energy's 7th Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute (joining six other Manufacturing USA Institutes), EPIXC's public-private partnerships among scientists, engineers, and technology developers, community organizations, and labor unions can ensure the U.S. manufacturing sector remains competitive in an increasingly decarbonized global economy. 

EPIXC is supported by the Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office's efforts to decarbonize process heat.

EPIXC institute members are connected to partners across the industrial sector (including iron and steel; chemicals and refining; food processing, cement, pulp and paper) along with utilities, engineering firms, career professionals, and members of national laboratories, academia, unions, and community organizations.

Members benefit from EPIXC by gaining access to:

• Oversight of the institute through board participation, road mapping, project selection, proposal request submissions.
• A unique research ecosystem with top-level researchers focused on various aspects of industrial electrification.
• The workforce, ranging from precollegiate to undergraduate to graduate to postdoctoral levels.
• Bespoke test beds designed to prove electric heating technologies at a systems level.
• Software, ranging from simulations of unit processes to factories to techno-economic assessments, life cycle analyses, and social impact assessments.
• Events, such as webinars, networking meetings, and professional development programs.

Interested nonprofits, for-profit organizations, universities, state and local government agencies of all sizes are welcome to join the EPIXC public-private partnership by submitting a membership form on the EPIXC website.

Questions? Contact [email protected].