Download CALL Coordinator Type of action Acronym Title Duration (months

CALL
H2020-SILC-II2014
H2020-SILC-II2014
Coordinator
Organisation
Country
ALUMINIUM
PECHINEY
TATA STEEL
NEDERLAND
TECHNOLOGY
BV
France
Netherlands
Type of action
Innovation
action
Innovation
action
Acronym
AGRAL
LoCO2Fe
Title
Development of the
optimum AGRAL
cermet manufacturing
process for aluminium
inert anode
application and fuel
cell interconnect
plates
Development of a Low
CO2 Iron and
Steelmaking
Integrated Process
Route for a
Sustainable European
Steel Industry
Duration
(months)
36
36
EU contribution
Short description
5,232,146.13 €
The AGRAL (Advanced Green Aluminium anode) project will aim at
developing the manufacturing technologies of a specific cermet (called
AGRAL cermet within this proposal) that has shown at lab scale outstanding
properties in high temperature and corrosive media i.e. aluminium
electrolysis. Furthermore, this AGRAL cermet enables Aluminium Pechiney,
leader of this project, to consider the replacement of their current carbon
anode by this inert anode thus decreasing to zero the CO2 emission during
electrolysis process. Furthermore this AGRAL cermet will be tested for two
applications: aluminium electrolysis (for the manufacturing of an inert anode
up to industrial scale) and for protection of interconnect plates in hydrogen
and fuel cell application (up to pre-prototype scale). This AGRAL cermet will
be used as an inert anode in the Aluminium industry. Thanks to the inert
anode, it is expected to decrease by a minimum of 50% of CO2 emissions
compared to currently used carbon anode. Then, the transfer to the fuel and
hydrogen cell applications will be studied.
7,418,415.02 €
Over the past decade, the steel industry in Europe has been spending a lot of
effort in Research and Development of technologies that help in achieving
the EU’s CO2 emissions targets and reduce the cost of EU ETS compliance.
That has been done through a combination of large scale projects which were
part publicly funded with European funding and partly through smaller
privately funded research activities.
From the initial stages of feasibility studies, several technologies were put
forward for further development, one of which is the HIsarna smelting
reduction process.
The objective for the current proposal is to prove the capability of the
HIsarna ironmaking technology to achieve at least 35% reduction in CO2
emission intensity, compared to blast furnace operated site based on Best
Available Technology Currently Installed.