ArcelorMittal commissions European steel industry’s first project to convert wood waste into biocoal to reduce fossil coal consumption.
The €35 million plant in Ghent, Belgium, is the first of its kind in the European steel industry.
ArcelorMittal Belgium has commissioned the Torero plant, which converts wood waste into biocoal for use in the blast furnace at its Ghent steelworks. The first biocoal produced at the Torero plant, through a process known as torrefaction, was successfully used in the blast furnace in Ghent on Monday, December 18. The project will reduce the plant’s annual carbon emissions by 112,500 tonnes by reducing the use of fossil coal in the blast furnace. The industrial-scale demonstration plant, Torero, will convert 88,000 tonnes of wood waste into 37,500 tonnes of biocoal annually.
Carbonation process technology developer: Perpetual Next (formerly TorrCoal).