Hurricane
Sector-coupling hub for circular use of thermal and industrial waste (Hurricane)
Objectives
The main objective of HURRICANE is to create a sector-coupling circular hub centered around the ArcelorMittal Ghent site. HURRICANE will target efficient resource management together with the recovery and utilization of squandered industrial waste heat and water coming from the different steel mill processes. CRM group will be involved in designing and testing new heat exchangers concepts to recover the heat from the product during the hot rolling process (hot strip) and after coiling (hot coils).
Circular hubs are centralized locations that facilitate the sharing and reuse of resources, energy, and waste among multiple organizations. These hubs are designed to optimize the use of resources and minimize waste by creating a closed-loop system in which materials are continuously cycled back into the economy, rather than being discarded as waste. An opportunity lies in incorporating large steel making sites as a hub for circularity which tailor many stakeholder needs. ArcelorMittal has expressed the ambition to become the number one sustainable steel company of the future. Therefore, the company wants to play a central role in a sustainable circular economy where materials are reused repeatedly reducing the consumption of primary raw material sources and the fossil fuel-based energy that is used to transform them.
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Partners
ArcelorMittal Gent (Project Coördinator), VITO, Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum (DBFZ), University Polytechnic of Marche (UPM), PDMFC, Enertime, City Zelzate, POV, SJB, WARM Kelvinsolutions, BlueXPRT
Funding Bodies
