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"Australia-based thermodynamic smelting technology group Metal Logic is using
Danish toy maker Lego as the template to cut the carbon footprint of
steelmakers.
Metal Logic CEO Joel Nicholls told
Renew Economy the goal is to disrupt the
high-emissions steelmaking industry by revamping the centuries-old blast
furnace process by installing small modular furnaces near iron mines.
The furnaces designed to achieve greater thermodynamic efficiency don’t require
coking coal to smelt crude steel, effectively eliminating the need for fossil
fuel.
With some of the world’s richest iron ore deposits located in Australia’s
Pilbara region, Nicholls sees thermodynamic energy paving the way for Australia
to eventually play a global role in clean steel production, despite being a
minnow on the international steelmaking stage — Australia ranks 28th in
steelmaking world.
“To do that, we must rethink how we build this industry from the ground up,”
Nicholls said. “Rather than locking billions of dollars into massive, one-off
green steel plants, we need to take a page from LEGO and build smart, scalable,
modular systems that can grow as demand does.”
The company recently acquired a site in the Pilbara and is receiving support
for its technology from segments of the iron ore and steel industries,
including from Australia and Japan, allowing it to begin commercialising at an
industrial scale of 1 million tonnes per year, according to Nicholls.
“We’re ready to deploy systems that can scale alongside customer demand — not
in decades, but now,” Nicholls said."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
