Role of Carbon Capture and Storage
(CCS) or Use (CCU) on Climate
Mitigation
Jan Bollen
Abstract ArcelorMittal, world leader in steel production, is working together
with industrial partners from the cement and chemical industries, other energy
intensive sectors, for potential synergies between the respective manufacturing
processes and how these could contribute to the reduction of overall CO 2 emissions. Based on this project, the session aimed at demonstrating the place of LCM
methods and tools in support of regional and/or local policy frameworks. Industrial
representatives and policy makers involved in the panel presented and discussed the
technical and political challenges faced when developing and implementing disruptive technologies and associated business models.
1 Synthesis of Presentations and Discussions
Eric De Conick (ArcelorMittal) presented the reuse of various process gases as
feedstock for producing low carbon fuels and chemical feedstocks are under
development or study at ArcelorMittal. The latter will allow producing plastics
which can be ground at the end of life, and be re-injected as a C-agent in the blast
furnace. That way a circular economy will emerge from the re-use of the
second-hand carbon in industrial gasses. Even if, in a first stage of this development, the gasses would be converted in fuels for transport, and the carbon would be
burnt and emitted in the atmosphere, a significant reduction of GHG emissions
worldwide will be realized by the replacement of fossil oil and gas fuels. The
replacement of the electricity, currently produced from these process gasses, should
be done with renewable electricity. Minerals or steel slags can be further carbonated
J. Bollen (&)
ArcelorMittal Europe, Brussels, Belgium
e-mail: jan.bollen@arcelormittal.com
© The Author(s) 2018
E. Benetto et al. (eds.), Designing Sustainable Technologies,
Products and Policies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66981-6_33
307
(CCS) or Use (CCU) on Climate
Mitigation
Jan Bollen
Abstract ArcelorMittal, world leader in steel production, is working together
with industrial partners from the cement and chemical industries, other energy
intensive sectors, for potential synergies between the respective manufacturing
processes and how these could contribute to the reduction of overall CO 2 emissions. Based on this project, the session aimed at demonstrating the place of LCM
methods and tools in support of regional and/or local policy frameworks. Industrial
representatives and policy makers involved in the panel presented and discussed the
technical and political challenges faced when developing and implementing disruptive technologies and associated business models.
1 Synthesis of Presentations and Discussions
Eric De Conick (ArcelorMittal) presented the reuse of various process gases as
feedstock for producing low carbon fuels and chemical feedstocks are under
development or study at ArcelorMittal. The latter will allow producing plastics
which can be ground at the end of life, and be re-injected as a C-agent in the blast
furnace. That way a circular economy will emerge from the re-use of the
second-hand carbon in industrial gasses. Even if, in a first stage of this development, the gasses would be converted in fuels for transport, and the carbon would be
burnt and emitted in the atmosphere, a significant reduction of GHG emissions
worldwide will be realized by the replacement of fossil oil and gas fuels. The
replacement of the electricity, currently produced from these process gasses, should
be done with renewable electricity. Minerals or steel slags can be further carbonated
J. Bollen (&)
ArcelorMittal Europe, Brussels, Belgium
e-mail: jan.bollen@arcelormittal.com
© The Author(s) 2018
E. Benetto et al. (eds.), Designing Sustainable Technologies,
Products and Policies, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66981-6_33
307