Luxembourg-headquartered global steelmaker ArcelorMittal has announced that it is working with Japan-based Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering (MHIENG) and Belgium-based climate tech company D-CRBN to trial a new technology designed to reduce carbon emissions.
The plasma technology, developed by D-CRBN, converts carbon captured at ArcelorMittal’s Ghent plant in Belgium into carbon monoxide which can be used as a reductant in steel production, replacing part of the coke or metallurgical coal used in the blast furnace. The technology in question requires high-purity carbon, which can be provided by MHIENG’s carbon capture unit, currently being used to capture blast furnace off-gases and off-gases from the hot strip mill reheating furnace at the Ghent plant.
In May, ArcelorMittal’s subsidiary ArcelorMittal Belgium started operating the abovementioned pilot carbon capture unit at its Ghent plant in partnership with Australian miner BHP Billiton, MHIENG and Australia-based Mitsubishi Development, as SteelOrbis previously reported.