Many commodity chemicals produced today are based on endothermic reactions that operate at high temperatures (400-1000 o C) with fossil-derived heat. Examples include H2 SMR, ethylene from ethane cracking, and HCN from methane and ammonia, among others. One approach to replacing fossil-derived heat is direct resistive heating, which involves passing high-power electrical current through a material resulting in heat generation from resistance to current flow. The attainable temperature of heat supply depends on the reactor's heat transport characteristics and the material's resistivity, with lower resistivity (high conductivity) materials enabling higher temperatures. While resistive heating is ubiquitous in everyday life, it is less prevalent in the chemical process industry because of the relatively inexpensive cost of heat supply from fossil fuels to date. However, despite historic cost disadvantages, resistive heating has many advantages, as highlighted by studies on developing electrically-heated reactors for methane steam and dry reforming for hydrogen production. Resistive heating can provide heat over a wide range of temperatures and affords faster and more uniform heating, resulting in more compact, scalable, and dynamically responsive reactors . Resistive heating can also displace fossil-fuel combustion in lowtemperature separation processes such as distillation. Some examples include p-xylene and o-xylene separation (reboiler temperature near 150 o C), propylene and propane separation (reboiler temperature close to ambient), and alcohol-water separations (e.g., ethanol-water, methanol-water, with reboiler temperatures near 100 o C).