Redcar, UK-based technology innovation center The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) and Indian steel giant Tata Steel have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a new national ‘High Temperature Innovation Centre' (HTIC) at Tata Steel's Teesside Technology Centre (TTC) in the UK.
According to a Tata statement dated November 3, under the memorandum regarding the £5 million project, CPI will create an open access innovation and research facility centered on two new pilot plants which are to be installed on the TTC site. The new plants will extend the existing capabilities of the site to carry out research and development work in the fields of novel sources of fuel and energy, the recovery of raw materials and reductions in the amounts of organic wastes produced. The equipment to be installed comprises a 350 kg pyrolysis oven and two-meter diameter fully flexible gassifier.
These facilities will be supported with access to Tata Steel's existing high temperature process knowledge and experience, which will in turn be integrated with CPI's knowledge of the process industries, to provide a one-stop shop for high temperature technology and process development. The equipment installed will operate on a scale midway between theoretical, laboratory research and real industrial production.