Cutting emissions in the processing industry
HTTECH has developed a game-changing production process that could transform the metallurgy and other processing industries.
The process industry is energy and carbon-intensive and accounts for a substantial part of the world’s carbon emissions. With new emissions standards, plant owners worldwide need to reduce the use of carbon in existing production processes and invest in entirely new production technology.
Turning waste into new products
HTTECH has developed a game changing production process that could make the process industry more environmentally and commercially sustainable. The process exploits methane emissions from organic waste to produce PyroBioCarbon (PBC), hydrogen and heat.
In the short term, PBC could replace traditional fossil coke and coal as reduction agents in a range of production processes. In the long term, PBC could be an integrated part of new production technology in the metallurgy and other industries.
The traditional production process:
The HTTECH production process:
Concrete benefits
HTTECH’s production process is cost-efficient and producing PBC on site could make a full metallurgical production cycle entirely emission free.
PBC has properties as a future material, custom-fit for use in high-growth markets. It has high product quality, high flexibility and low production costs.
Market potential
HTTECH targets process industries, such as steel and silicon, that use carbon as a reduction agent in their production processes. The global market potential for selected metallurgical industries are: steel: EUR 43.2 billion; ferromanganese: EUR 1.35 billion; ferrosilicon: EUR 990 million; and silicon: EUR 360 million.
HTTECH is a small tech company established in 2017. It was nominated for a Green Award at the 2019 GreenTech Festival and has won several Norwegian awards. It is a member of two strategic Norwegian regional innovation clusters: NCE Eyde and Renewable cluster in Trøndelag.
At a glance
Game-changing production process for metallurgy
Replaces coal with biogas
Reduces municipal waste while lowering carbon emissions
Status
Sectors
Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals
- Industry, innovation and infrastructure
HTTECH could help the metallurgical industries to stop using fossil hydrocarbons.
- Sustainable cities and communities
HTTECH could help to reduce municipal waste by using the waste as a raw material in industrial production.
- Responsible consumption and production
HTTECH could facilitate less carbon-intensive production processes in a range of processing industries.
- Life below water
HTTECH could help to reduce dramatically the major emissions of toxic materials and heavy metals to the sea from production of metallurgical coal.