INITIATE featured on Euractiv for its different routes to decarbonise steel

Giampaolo Manzolini and Nicola Zecca from our project partner Politecnico di Milano explained on Euractiv how INITIATE can lead to different routes to contribute to decarbonising the iron and steel sector.

Steelmaking is a major emitter of industrial greenhouse gases. It is considered a hard-to-abate sector, as the current potential for using renewable feedstocks and energy is limited. Our project proposes a novel symbiotic process from steel residual gases to tackle this issue. It utilises two types of residual steel gases, the Blast Furnace Gas (BFG) and the Basic Oxygen Furnace Gas (BOFG) (which collectively represent approx. 80% of the emissions of steel made through the Blast Furnace route) and carbon dioxide (CO2) within the same process to produce ammonia and urea.

Besides urea production, INITIATE has been exploring additional symbiotic pathways for the utilisation of the residual gases, for example for the production of methanol, the production of construction materials through CO2 mineralisation, the generation of low-carbon dispatchable power via ammonia or the development of hybrid steel making processes.

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