A major milestone in the Steel2Chemicals project was reached in early 2021: the pilot plant was completed and transported to ArcelorMittal.
A major milestone in the Steel2Chemicals project was reached in early 2021: the pilot plant was completed and transported to ArcelorMittal.
Zeton built the CO conversion pilot plant. It consists of a twelve-meter-long tubular reactor. In Ghent, Dow will test the pilot plant with ArcelorMittal blast furnace gas. The first tests will start at the end of April.
For the next two years the installation will remain in Gent, where ArcelorMittal has developed a special pilot park. The University of Ghent, for example, is also investigating whether the product from the pilot installation indeed meets expectations and is suitable as a raw material for Dow's steam crackers. In addition, TNO is trying to develop a method to remove the nitrogen from the blast furnace gas. If this succeeds, the large factory can be made a lot smaller because less gas will have to flow through it.
Furthermore, the University of Ghent is analyzing the data from the pilot plant to calculate how much CO2 this concept prevents and at what cost. If the pilot proves successful and economically viable, the partners will investigate whether a demonstration plant on a larger scale is feasible.
Since November 2018, Dow Benelux, ArcelorMittal, Tata Steel, University of Ghent, TNO and the Institute for Sustainable Process Technology have been working together on the Steel2Chemicals project to reduce CO2 emissions from the steel and petrochemical industries.
Source: Petrochem
