RE:Client A Vale has decades and decades of over 15 of worldwide iron plants which are were massive undertakings to build and operate. Plasma torches for induration furnaces are plug and play swap out unlike other possible alternatives. Pyrogenesis has the patents for plasma torches applications for induration furnaces as well.
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@Namazon Correct me if I’m wrong (lol… do I really need to say that here ) but biomass is basically green wood… then they turn it into biochar which is basically charcoal. What heat source makes that charcoal?
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@Namazon So are we talking about potentially using a plasma heat source in the making biochar… along with plasma heat source in the pelletizing as well 500 torches won’t be enough
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@cashbag2.0 the basic oxygen blast furnace will dominate the iron industry for a long time to come,and they are taking steps to clean it up some,
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@Beach..Bum Seems to me torches are a much easier way for green heat?
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@deedeemgee @Beach..Bum 100% - cutting down forests and shipping the wood to the other side of the globe for combustiion as biochar or pellets is not, in any sense, helpful for the climate or environment except in some twisted subsidized ponzi scheme. There is increasing pushback. Why level a forest when you can put up a windmill… https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/wood-pellets-bc-forests-green-energy-1.6606921
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@Namazon Right about what... that is works? OK it works. Do you really think Vale, produce of 320,000,000 metric tonnes of ore in 2021, is going to hang it's hat on cutting down forests, transporting it, and converting it with solar to produce enough biochar to support this ever increasing level of ore production? It's a nice "well, we are trying it and it works... but seriously?