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 AnonW | Energy, World | Boston Metal, Green Steel, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Molten Oxide Electrolysis, Scunthorpe Steelworks, Steel, Teesside