The Anonymous Widower

Startup Promises Green Steel By 2025 As Decarbonisation Race Heats Up

The title of this post, is the same as that as this article on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

This is the first paragraph.

A new player has emerged in the developing field of zero-emissions steel making, promising to deliver commercial quantities of green steel by 2025 without using hydrogen.

It sounds too good to be true.

But.

  • The process uses electricity, which of course can be renewable.
  • The process comes from research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
  • The process doesn’t use hydrogen, coal or even a blast furnace.
  • Electricity is used to turn iron ore into liquified metal.
  • It is based on a technique called Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE), which is used in aluminium refining.

A American startup called Boston Metal is developing the technology.

If it can be made to work, it is truly game-changing technology.

Any area in the world, with large amounts of renewable energy, (Think Scunthorpe and Teesside) can transform their steelmaking to zero-carbon in a few years.

February 10, 2022 - Posted by | Energy, World | , , , , , ,

2 Comments »

  1. yeah, that would be game changing. Interesting what the article says about hydrogen using 15x more electricity, one of the reasons I remain sceptical about hydrogen fueling this kind of heavy industry, along with the need for large amounts of water – a problem down under.

    Comment by Peter Robins | February 11, 2022 | Reply

    • It’s an A to B idea! Not one that goes via H!

      Comment by AnonW | February 11, 2022 | Reply


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