Manufacturing iron and steel is an extremely energy-intensive process, and the industry is one of the highest greenhouse gas-emitting sectors.
Luca Mastropasqua, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is hoping to upend those emissions. With a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office, he’s pioneering technology for using clean hydrogen to decarbonize steel production.
Mastropasqua and his collaborators will implement their technology at the Cleveland Cliffs steel plant in Toledo, Ohio, to demonstrate the viability of their approach. “This project is an exciting opportunity to show this technology not just in the lab but in a real steel plant, which will be impactful for advancing decarbonization efforts in a hard-to-decarbonize sector,” Mastropasqua says.
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