ArcelorMittal Trials Technology to Recycle Steel Carbon Emissions

SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): ArcelorMittal, in partnership with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and leading climate tech company, D-CRBN has launched the world-first industrial trial of a new technology that recycles carbon dioxide emitted from steel production.

According to company press release, the technology converts carbon dioxide captured at ArcelorMittal’s Gent, Belgium plant into carbon monoxide, which in turn can be used is steel and chemical production. ArcelorMittal Gent has thus become the first steel plant in the world to trial the innovative plasma technology by D-CRBN.

The new trial is an expansion of the multi-year carbon capture pilot which has been running at the site, intended to test the feasibility of full-scale deployment of MHI's carbon capture technology.

The plasma technology uses renewable electricity to break the carbon-oxygen bond, thereby converting carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide. This carbon monoxide can be used as reductant in the steelmaking process, either as replacement for coke or metallurgical coal used in the blast furnace or as a basic ingredient in Gent’s Steelanol plant.

The pipeline between MHI’s carbon capture unit and D-CRBN’s unit was connected on July 1st. The industrial pilot is considered as an important stage of testing D-CRBN’s technology.

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