Will renewables pave the future of steel production?
Green carbon is a valuable component for many industries around the world. It is the backbone of the products we produce at NextGen Technologies. Power production with reduced ash production, metals manufacturing using renewable carbon sources, carbon for land applications to increase crop yield, and using green carbon for concrete production is possible using our renewable and sustainable products.
Steel Shifts to Renewables
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will complete the world’s largest steel plant in Australia using hydrogen instead of coal to reduce iron ore. This plant is targeted to produce 250,000 tons of steel per year with trials beginning in 2021. They will require a renewable source of green carbon.
Using hydrogen as a fuel is costly, and Japan believes costs will be reduced by 70% within the next ten years.
The new furnace technology cost is expected to cost “trillions of Yen” (a trillion Yen equals USD 9.6 billion). But, Mitsubishi Heavy believes the development costs are worth it. Using hydrogen as a fuel (the current price for hydrogen is 100 Yen per standard cubic meter) is costly, and Japan believes costs will be reduced by 70% within the next ten years. Steel production accounts for 7% of global CO2 emissions and reducing these emissions is serious business with serious money at stake.
Will renewable be the future for steel production?
The Zilkha Black® Pellet can achieve higher carbon levels using renewable and sustainable feedstocks — wood, grasses, bagasse, for example — to produce high carbon feedstock for the metals industry. The primary benefit of using these biomass sources of carbon lies in reducing CO2 emissions. Just think, while new technology is developed for the long term, environmental improvements will be made now.
NextGen and our Zilkha Black® Pellet brand provide the bridge to CO 2 reductions in many industries. Also, the product enhances soils for crop production. Rebuilding soils by restoring carbon for plant growth is critical for long term sustainable crops in your local regions. Our process provides by-products that can be used to enhance existing fertilizers, creating a circular lifecycle for our total green carbon process.
Rebuilding soils by restoring carbon for plant growth is critical for long term sustainable crops in your local regions.
As a renewable industry, we must look at what can be done next to improve processes that produce high levels of CO2 and ways to grow food faster. Renewable carbon and the by-products of the black pellet process are available now.
Are you ready to work on the solutions for industries beyond power production? White pellets are not able to provide these opportunities, but black pellets already do.
Originally published at https://nextgenbiomass.com on January 5, 2021.
