Steel company mixing carbon emissions with poo to create useful chemicals
Carbon emissions from Tata Steel blast furnaces are being converted to chemicals in a project which could help large polluters lower their carbon footprint.The bacteria produce acetic acid, which is used to make chemicals for different industries."We are just taking them and using them in this way," the researcher from the University of South Wales, who runs the trial project, added.
The CO2 that comes from the chimneys of its two blast furnaces at Port Talbot, where it makes steel for use in its steelworks across the UK, is considerable. Dr Chalmers-Brown explains how the gases, CO2 and Carbon Monoxide from the blast furnace "feed" the microbes used for the project. For Tata Steel, the project is one of many ways in which it is trying to make steel production cleaner.
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