HILT CRC public webinar: Non-hydrogen ironmaking

Professor Geoff Brooks from Swinburne University of Technology will provide insights into technologies that are helping to decarbonise the iron and steel industry. The webinar will explore approaches employing:

• Electrolysis: using electrical energy to directly reduce iron ore without fossil fuels
• Biomass: sustainable carbon sources as alternatives to coal and coke
• Metallothermic reduction: using metals with higher affinity for oxygen than iron to reduce iron oxide to metallic iron.

Professor Brooks will also delve into associated carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) technologies essential for transitioning to low-carbon steelmaking, focusing on recent trials such as Steelanol in Belgium.