DECRYPTION – The steel group is starting a pilot unit at its Dunkirk site.
The big gray pipes connect the blast furnaces, where the steel is produced, and the rolling mills, from which the finished coils come out. Inside, circulates the gas generated during the production of steel. The tower installed next door is brand new. Culminating at 22 meters, it has a brown and yellow steel frame that encloses a set of cylinders.
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This tower is the latest project launched on the ArcelorMittal site in Dunkirk (North), aimed at decarbonizing steel production. This industrial CO capture pilot has just started. The principle: plug in to recover the gas from the blast furnaces, bring it into contact in one of the cylinders of the tower with a solvent which, thanks to a chemical reaction, will capture the CO2.
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The technology has been developed for fifteen years by IFP Énergies nouvelles (IFP EN), a public research center. The demonstrator was built by Axens, a subsidiary of IFP EN, and ArcelorMittal. It will be operated by IFP EN and TotalEnergies…
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