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

M N 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

MN Dastur to set up first industrial scale Carbon Capture project for ArcelorMittal processes by supporting carbon capture as well as new sources of hydrogen - produced from renewable energy, nuclear energy, or waste - to power industrial facilities.”