Nucor and University of Kentucky Awarded DOE Grant for Carbon Capture Pilot Study
04/22/2022 - The steelmaker announced Friday that it has received a U.S. Department of Energy grant in partnership with the University of Kentucky to install and pilot a new carbon emissions capture system at Nucor Steel Gallatin in Kentucky.
According to Nucor, the collaborative research project will study “the costs and effectiveness of carbon capture technology for flue gas with low CO2 content and the feasibility of replication of this technology at other electric arc furnace steel mills.”
The project is one of 12 carbon capture and storage–related research projects to be awarded funding through the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, Nucor said.
“Nucor teammates, along with researchers at the University of Kentucky (UK) Research Foundation, recognized that to reach specific carbon reduction goals at industrial facilities, technologies like carbon sequestration need to become economically feasible,” commented Scott Laurenti, general manager for Nucor Steel Gallatin, in a statement. “We are very excited to work with the experts at UK to pilot and evaluate carbon capture technology at Nucor Steel Gallatin."
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