MN Dastur to set up first industrial scale Carbon Capture project for ArcelorMittal

Steel Insights Bureau

MN Dastur & Co’s foreign arms, US-based Dastur International Inc and Dastur Energy Inc, have been awarded a US Department of Energy (DOE)-funded study for the design and engineering of a carbon capture project for ArcelorMittal’s North America facility.

The project is designed to enable the production of low-carbon emissions steel through CO2 capture of up to 2 million tons per annum from the available blast furnace gases. This is the first industrial-scale carbon capture project for the steel sector in North America.

“Dastur is the prime recipient of the Award and will be supported by Boulder, CO based ION Clean Energy, Inc. and Austin, TX based University of Texas at Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences,” a release by the DOE said.

Addressing a major share of carbon emissions in the integrated steelmaking process, the project aims to design an industrial scale and cost-effective solution for the capture and disposition of CO2 and provide a hydrogen-rich gas stream for meeting the energy needs of the host steel plant.

Dastur’s proposed approach and design targets to bring down the cost of capture and disposition to mid $40/ton of CO2, a significant improvement over incumbent solutions in the 60-100 $/ton range, the release said.

The Biden Administration, in its “2030 Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Target”, has announced that “The US can address carbon pollution from industrial processes by supporting carbon capture as well as new sources of hydrogen - produced from renewable energy, nuclear energy, or waste - to power industrial facilities.”

“We are pleased to support this project for industrial-scale and cost-effective carbon capture from blast furnace gases at a large integrated steel plant in the US. We hope that this approach can provide a viable pathway for the decarbonisation of an important sector of the US economy.” Dr Jennifer Wilcox, Office of Fossil Energy, US Department of Energy

Acting Assistant Secretary and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) Dr Jennifer Wilcox at the US DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy said, “We are pleased to support this project for industrial-scale and cost-effective carbon capture from blast furnace gases at a large integrated steel plant in the US. We hope that this approach can provide a viable pathway for the decarbonisation of an important sector of the US economy.”

“This is the first and a very important carbon capture project at an integrated steel plant in the US. With the Department of Energy’s support and with Dastur’s expertise in the design of commercial-scale engineering systems for carbon capture, this project can provide a competitive path for decarbonization of the US steel industry,” said Peter Marcus, Founder and Managing Partner at World Steel Dynamics, a leading strategic advisor in the steel sector.

Atanu Mukherjee, President and Chief Executive Officer of Dastur, said, “As a leader in industrial decarbonization and designs for industrial plants to minimize the ‘carbon premium’, Dastur is pleased to receive this award from the US Department of Energy.