Tata Steel’s blast furnaces in the UK are utilizing billions of microscopic bacteria to change over its emissions into stock materials for different ventures to make recycled items, for example, food-packaging to animal feed, the Indian steel major has said. A pilot project, led by the University of South Wales, has been set up at the two Tata Steel UK Port Talbot ironmaking furnaces in Wales. The project, while still in its earliest stages, has proactively shown promising outcomes, the specialists included said the week before. Tata Steel said it is creating detailed plans for this progress to future steelmaking based on low CO2 technologies.
“The process we are testing here bubbles off-gases from the blast furnaces through sewage sludge, which contains a certain type of bacteria able to consume both carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide (CO2),” she said.