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SMS group and Tata Steel join forces to showcase decarboniza- tion technology on industrial scale
T.V. Narendran (left) CEO, Tata Steel and Burkhard Dahmen (right) CEO, SMS group, celebrate the signature of the MoU with their delegations at the METEC trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany
• SMS group and Tata Steel have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to make arrangements for conducting a joint industrial demonstration of SMS’s innova- tive EASyMelt technology
• EASyMelt (Electric-Assisted Syngas smelter) technology is a cutting-edge metallurgical solution that can be implemented in exist- ing integrated steel plants
• The objective is to cut CO2 emissions by more than 50 percent from the blast fur- nace’s baseline operation
• The EASyMelt concept will be implemented at Tata Steel’s blast furnace E in Jamshed- pur, India.
SMS group and Tata Steel have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to make arrangements for conducting a joint industrial demonstration of SMS’s innovative EASyMelt technology at Tata’s blast furnace E in Jamshedpur, India. The signing took place at the prestigious METEC trade fair, marking a significant milestone in the partnership between SMS and the steel giant Tata Steel.
Both parties already signed a MoU in Novem- ber 2022 to jointly explore opportunities for decarbonizing steel production and have now identified EASyMelt as a key CO2 emission-re- duction technology to be implemented at Tata’s steelworks. The main objective of this demonstration project will be to cut CO2 emissions in a first intermediate step by more than 50 percent from the blast fur- nace’s baseline operation.
The EASyMelt (Electric-Assisted Syngas smelter) technology, developed by SMS group company Paul Wurth, is a cutting-edge metallurgical solution that can be imple- mented in existing integrated steel plants and used to accelerate decarbonization. The core of the technology utilizes blast furnace top gas recycling for syngas production by reforming the coke oven gas. The resulting
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Paul Wurth EASyMelt technology
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