According to Carbon Clean, the three will examine the feasibility of using Carbon Clean’s CycloneCC modular technology at JSW’s Vijayanagar site in India’s southern state of Karnataka. The goal is to annually capture 100,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide using the technology. It would be a milestone for the technology, marking the largest deployment of the CycloneCC equipment to date.

“We believe CCUS could be a financially viable decarbonization lever which would be crucial to achieve near-zero emissions in the steel sector and this collaboration for a scale-up application would help pave the way forward,” said JSW Steel joint managing director and chief executive officer Jayant Acharya. 

Carbon Clean said the project is an important step toward the scale-up of carbon capture technology, including understanding the potential performance, costs, and carbon abatement outcomes. The feasibility study is to be completed in 2026. 

The project will include a CO2 use component as JSW Steel intends to liquefy captured carbon dioxide so that it can be sold locally.

Carbon Clean chairman and chief executive officer Aniruddha Sharma said the potential impact of carbon capture in decarbonizing the steel industry will be huge. 

“First-of-a-kind projects are key to advancing technical innovation, providing valuable learnings that will benefit the entire steelmaking sector, as well as other hard-to-abate industries. Decarbonization pioneers and early adopters of our modular CycloneCC solution will play a vital role in accelerating,” Sharma said.