Australian university forges partnership to cut steel emissions
The University of Wollongong (UoW) has announced plans to investigate ways to decarbonise the Port Kembla Steel Works, as part of a 13 month research partnership with BlueScope Steel and the Future Fuels Cooperative Research Centre.
According to UoW, the site-specific program aims to find ways to cut energy use and greenhouse gas emissions through new technology and methods at Bluescope’s Port Kembla facility, in New South Wales’ Illawarra region.
The budget for the project is $1.8 million, which includes $924,784 from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency and direct funding from BlueScope, as well as in-kind contributions from each partner.
The research will look at the technical and economic feasibility of a range of smart carbon usage and direct carbon avoidance technologies for the plant.
Some of the technologies the project will look at include the potential for substituting fossil fuels with hydrogen, as well as utilising gases that otherwise would have been flared off to produce biochar.
The project will run in three phases: the first investigating all available technologies, the second evaluating the potential of biochar, and the third covering research and development and next steps.
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