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- Опубликовано: 2022-12-21
SSAB Is Sharing the Secret of Fossil-Free Steel
The Swedish steel maker reveals how its fossil-free production process produces water instead of CO2
When the HYBRIT consortium, including SSAB, enabled the rollout of the world’s first vehicle built with fossil-free steel in 2021, it ushered in a new era for the steel industry and the world. Now, SSAB is making the nearly emissions-free steel technology public to all.
Thanks to the new steelmaking process, the by-product from what has been one of the most carbon dioxide-emitting industries can now be water. SSAB has bottled some of it to bring the point home.
“We can now produce steel where the by-product is water instead of CO2,” says Martin Pei, CTO at SSAB. “We wanted to celebrate this by tangibly showing the change in a way that most people will understand instantly.” SSAB has bottled some of the water resulting from fossil-free steel production, calling it Pure Waste. “A bottle of Pure Waste from the HYBRIT pilot plant is the best proof of what this technology means. We are going from emitting CO2 to emitting water that is recycled in the process. It is nothing short of an incredible possibility. I hope that our colleagues in the industry will seize this chance to transform our sector from a climate villain to a climate hero,” Pei says.
A New Era for Steel Production
Steel is essential to the global economy, enabling everything from transportation and new building construction to consumer goods and electrical infrastructure. So, as the global economy grows, so does steel production — from 1.7 billion metric tons in 2017 to 1.9 billion tons in 2021, according to the World Steel Association.
But the steel industry also produces 7 percent of the world’s CO2 emissions, according to the International Energy Agency. Most of the emissions come from the way conventional steel is made — in a blast furnace that relies on coal and coke to remove oxygen from iron.
The fossil-free steel production process developed by SSAB as part of the HYBRIT consortium is an imp
The Swedish steel maker reveals how its fossil-free production process produces water instead of CO2
When the HYBRIT consortium, including SSAB, enabled the rollout of the world’s first vehicle built with fossil-free steel in 2021, it ushered in a new era for the steel industry and the world. Now, SSAB is making the nearly emissions-free steel technology public to all.
Thanks to the new steelmaking process, the by-product from what has been one of the most carbon dioxide-emitting industries can now be water. SSAB has bottled some of it to bring the point home.
“We can now produce steel where the by-product is water instead of CO2,” says Martin Pei, CTO at SSAB. “We wanted to celebrate this by tangibly showing the change in a way that most people will understand instantly.” SSAB has bottled some of the water resulting from fossil-free steel production, calling it Pure Waste. “A bottle of Pure Waste from the HYBRIT pilot plant is the best proof of what this technology means. We are going from emitting CO2 to emitting water that is recycled in the process. It is nothing short of an incredible possibility. I hope that our colleagues in the industry will seize this chance to transform our sector from a climate villain to a climate hero,” Pei says.
A New Era for Steel Production
Steel is essential to the global economy, enabling everything from transportation and new building construction to consumer goods and electrical infrastructure. So, as the global economy grows, so does steel production — from 1.7 billion metric tons in 2017 to 1.9 billion tons in 2021, according to the World Steel Association.
But the steel industry also produces 7 percent of the world’s CO2 emissions, according to the International Energy Agency. Most of the emissions come from the way conventional steel is made — in a blast furnace that relies on coal and coke to remove oxygen from iron.
The fossil-free steel production process developed by SSAB as part of the HYBRIT consortium is an imp
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