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Heat exchangers and pinch integration and Natural gas

Their prices have moved together.

Heat exchangers and pinch integration (energy) and Natural gas (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: energy saved

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

Better heat integration cuts the gas plants burn, so high gas prices make investment more attractive. Yearly moves correlate at 0.56 with European gas, a moderate link driven by shared industrial cycles.

  • 0.01 monthly change correlation
  • 0.56 12-month change correlation
  • 0.13 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.