SoCalGas: Decarbonizing Steel Production with Green Hydrogen
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4 AT 10:00AM PACIFIC. SoCalGas® and the University of California, Irvine (UCI) invite you to a seminar to learn about a new $5.7 million effort with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop novel, renewable and more efficient manufacturing processes for producing green steel. The collaboration with Italy's Politecnico di Milano and Laboratorio Energia Ambiente Piacenza (LEAP), U.S. companies FuelCell Energy, Hatch and SoCalGas® will integrate solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOEC) with direct reduced iron (DRI) technology to completely decarbonize steel production. Steel production is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, contributing 6.7% of carbon dioxide emissions worldwide. The project seeks to prove that renewable hydrogen, produced via high-temperature electrolysis using SOEC that are powered by wind and solar resources, can successfully be integrated into steel manufacturing processes.
Jack Brouwer: Dr. Brouwer is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Director of the Advanced Power and Energy Program (APEP) at UCI. Dr. Brouwer is an expert in high temperature electrochemical systems dynamics for complementing and converting renewable energy with a Ph.D. from MIT and B.S. and M.S. degrees from UCI.
Luca Mastropasqua: Dr. Mastropasqua is a Senior Scientist at APEP who is co-leading the effort with Dr. Brouwer and who has Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degrees from the Politecnico di Milano.