Air Liquide to provide the purification technology for the waste gas to ethanol plant of ArcelorMittal in Belgium
Type of post: NEWS IN BRIEF.
Air
Liquide is partnering with ArcelorMittal
in a pilot project to capture carbon gas from the steelmaking process and
recycle it into advanced bioethanol. Air Liquide Engineering & Construction
will provide a technology solution that purifies the offgas coming from the
blast furnace. The purified gases will then be injected into a bioreactor to
produce bioethanol.
Press release: “Air Liquide partners with
ArcelorMittal in pilot project to capture and recycle carbon”, 17/10/2019.
Figure 1. ArcelorMittal site in Ghent (Belgium)
The project is led by ArcelorMittal and its
partner Lanzatech. Construction of the
facility is underway at the ArcelorMittal site in Ghent (Belgium) and the plant
is planned to become operational at the end of 2020. It is expected to produce
80 million litres of bioethanol annually.
Extended information on the project: “Sulzer
to provide the distillation equipment for the waste gas to ethanol plant of
ArcelorMittal in Belgium”, 17/1/2019.