Issue 12/2013 - Chemical technology helps steel companies use furnace gas to produce ethanol

Chemical technology helps steel companies use furnace gas to produce ethanol

Recently, Hebei Iron and Steel Group Tang Iron and Steel Company and the United States Hasco Group signed a cooperation framework agreement
on the use of steelmaking converter gas fermentation method to produce fuel ethanol project.
This is the first industrialization project of steelmaking furnace gas to ethanol in China after the successful pilot test of Baosteel, and after the completion of the project, the daily treatment of converter gas is 650,000 standard cubic meters, and the annual production of ethanol can reach more than
30,000 tons.

Fermentation ethanol production is the use of microbial technology to convert converter gas into fuel ethanol
.
The American Hasco Group is a multinational group company mainly providing industrial products and services, operating services in more than 50 countries and regions around the world, and has the patent right and mature technology
of converter gas fermentation ethanol.
Based on Tang Steel's leading position in cleaner production and green manufacturing and successful cooperation precedents with world-class enterprises, the two sides decided to comprehensively strengthen cooperation in the energy field and carry out commercial cooperation
on converter gas to ethanol projects.

Compared with most domestic steel enterprises that mainly use surplus converter gas for power generation, this new gas utilization method has the advantages of being cleaner and more efficient, and can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 50% and increase benefits by 1.
8 times
compared with the previous use of converter gas for power generation.
Hebei province produces 130 million tons of steel, accounting for about a quarter
of domestic steel production.
The application of this new technology has opened up a new way for the domestic steel industry to achieve energy conservation and emission reduction with the help of chemical technology, and will have a revolutionary impact
on the comprehensive utilization of energy in China's traditional steel industry.
(Wang Meng)