Universidad Nacional Experimental “Francisco de Miranda”

Complejo Académico Docente “El Sabino”

Área: Tecnología- Programa: Ingeniería Química
Departamento de Idiomas
U.C.: Inglés I – Lcda. Maribel Mendoza de M., MSc.
Prueba Escrita (10%)- Corte II

REALIZA LAS SIGUIENTES ACTIVIDADES:

1. Traduce el título del texto. (1pt)
2. Determina el significado y la función gramatical de las palabras resaltadas en el texto de acuerdo al
contexto. (9pts)
3. Extrae del texto y traduce dos (2) nombres compuestos. (2pts)
4. ¿En qué consiste el texto? Redacte la idea en un mínimo de 5 líneas. (3pts)
5. ¿Qué propone el equipo que lleva a cabo la investigación? (2pts)
6. ¿Cuál es el inconveniente que hay para llevar a cabo la propuesta? (2pts)
7. Explica la relación que tiene este tema con la carrera que estudias. (1pt)

Cuida la ortografía y la pulcritud.

Greening the chemical industry requires massive amount of renewables

ENVIRONMENT 13 May 2019

It would take huge amounts of clean energy to make the chemicals industry go green
By Michael Le Page

The really hard part of reducing greenhouse gas emissions could

be even more difficult than we thought. While in theory carbon
dioxide captured from the air could replace fossil fuels as a
feedstock for the global chemicals industry, in practice it would
likely require vastly more clean electricity than we currently have.

Most chemicals we use, including plastics, contain carbon, which

currently comes from fossil fuels. There’s been a lot of talk about
greening the chemicals industry, says Andre Bardow of RWTH
Aachen University in Germany, but no one has worked exactly
what it would take to do it. So his team created a bottom-up model
of the industry, looking what it takes to create the basic chemical components, or feedstocks.

They calculated that using carbon captured from the air as the feedstock for making chemicals could reduce
emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by 3.5 gigatonnes by 2030, Bardow’s team found.

However, this would require 18.1 petawatt hours of electricity per year, the study estimates. That’s not much less
than the 26 PWh of electricity a year produced by the entire world in 2018 according to the International Energy
Agency. And only a third of global electricity currently comes from clean sources, including nuclear and
hydroelectric power.

Even by optimistic growth projections, the total amount of renewable electricity available in 2030 is predicted to
be less than 18 PWh.
The reason the electricity demand is so massive comes down to the laws of thermodynamics, Bardow says. “What
you are doing is inverting combustion.”

For now, he says it makes more sense to use the renewable electricity we have to decarbonise heating and
transport. “A switch today would be a waste of valuable resources.”

But the chemicals industry will have to be decarbonised in the coming decades if the world is to limit global
warming. And the chemicals industry is far from the only tricky sector. Reducing emissions from farming, for
instance, will also be extremely difficult.

Journal reference: PNAS, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1821029116