In Texas, Utility Global and ArcelorMittal have announced a collaboration to explore the development of a clean hydrogen project at the latter’s facility in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
The project has entered the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) process, focusing on the potential application of Utility’s proprietary H2Gen system. This system uses blast furnace off-gas as an energy source to produce hydrogen from water.
Utility said it has developed a patented reactor H2Gen, which processes variable industrial process gases, without the use of electricity, into high-purity hydrogen and a concentrated CO2 stream that can be captured and stored. The hydrogen produced can be recirculated into the steelmaking process to replace natural gas, while the purity of the concentrated CO2 stream significantly simplifies and reduces the cost of subsequent carbon capture and sequestration – an important solution for decarbonizing steelmaking, the firm said.
Utility will lead the initial engineering stages to determine the technical and economic feasibility of deploying the H2Gen system at the site. The H2Gen system will produce up to 3 tons/day of hydrogen utilizing blast furnace off-gas from the ArcelorMittal Brazil plant in Juiz de Fora.
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