United States Steel Corporation (US Steel) has teamed up with CarbonFree Chemicals Holdings to capture carbon emissions generated from its Gary Works manufacturing plant in Indiana.
The Pittsburgh-based steel producer said it hopes to install CarbonFree’s patented SkyCycle technology to capture and mineralise up to 50,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year.
US Steel’s Gary Works currently has annual a production capability of 7.5 million net tonnes of raw steel per year, making it one of the largest steel mills in North America.
SkyCycle captures carbon emissions from hard-to-abate industrial sources, converts the CO2 into the specialty chemical precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC), and produces hydrochloric acid (HCl) as a co-product.
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