Since 2016, 17 partners from science and industry have been working on the large scale project <link https: www.thyssenkrupp.com de carbon2chem _blank external-link-new-window internal link in current>Carbon2Chem®. The project aims at developing a technology that can make economic use of up to 20 million tons of the annual CO2 emissions of the German steel industry.
A laboratory tailored to the project has now been inaugurated in Oberhausen. Here, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion and the <link https: www.umsicht.fraunhofer.de en.html _blank external-link-new-window internal link in current>Fraunhofer UMSICHT Institute are working together to use gases from steel production as raw materials for the chemical industry.
In order to produce methanol or higher alcohols from CO2, special processes for gas purification are used in the laboratory. The results will later be used for tests with real slag gases in the Carbon2Chem® pilot plant in Duisburg.
Further information on the laboratory inauguration and the project can be found in the <link https: www.umsicht.fraunhofer.de de presse-medien pressemitteilungen carbon2chem-laboreinweihung.html _blank external-link-new-window internal link in current>press release of the Fraunhofer UMSICHT Institute, and in the <link https: www1.wdr.de mediathek audio wdr5 quarks topthemen-aus-der-wissenschaft audio-huettengas-zum-wertvollen-rohstoff-machen-100.html _blank external-link-new-window internal link in current>WDR media library.