ULCOS - Pilot testing of the Low-CO2Blast Furnace process at the experimental BF in Luleå

Autor: Danloy, G., Berthelemot, A., Grant, M., Borlée, J., Sert, D., van der Stel, J., Jak, H., Dimastromatteo, V., Hallin, M., Eklund, N., Edberg, N., Sundqvist, L., Sköld, B.-E., Lin, R., Feiterna, A., Korthas, B., Müller, F., Feilmayr, C., Habermann, A.
Zdroj: Revue de Métallurgie; January 2009, Vol. 106 Issue: 1 p1-8, 8p
Abstrakt: The ULCOS blast furnace process aims at reducing the CO2emission of the blast furnace by 50% in two steps:
Decrease of carbon consumption by recycling most of the top gas after CO2removal, which requires operating the blast furnace with pure oxygen;
Underground storage of CO2. 
The first stage is essential to demonstrate the feasibility of this new process. It has been tested over a 6 week campaign at the LKAB experimental BF in Luleå. The facility was adapted specifically for the trials (including the erection of a VPSA plant). Different operating conditions were investigated. In conclusion, and taking into account underground storage, the CO2emission at the blast furnace was reduced by up to 76%. For the steelmaking plant, this should result in a net CO2-savings of 65% at the level of the hot rolled coil.
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