Chemicals manufacturing consumes large amounts of energy and is responsible for a
substantial portion of global carbon emissions. Electrochemical systems that produce the
desired compounds by using renewable electricity offer a route to lower carbon emissions in
the chemicals sector. Ethylene oxide is among the world's most abundantly produced
commodity chemicals because of its importance in the plastics industry, notably for
manufacturing polyesters and polyethylene terephthalates. We applied an extended …

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