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Rio Tinto and BlueScope to explore low-carbon steelmaking pathways

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Rio Tinto and steel producer BlueScope will work together to explore low-carbon steelmaking pathways using Pilbara iron ores, including the use of clean hydrogen to replace coking coal at BlueScope’s Port Kembla Steelworks. This MOU aligns with the last potential pathway and shows Rio Tinto’s commitment to each of them.

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Sasol-Tata CTL JV Expects to Be In Production in 2018

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Sasol Synfuel, which has entered into a joint venture with Tata Steel to build a US$10-billion, 80,000 barrel per day coal-to-liquids (CTL) plant in the Indian state of Orissa ( earlier post ), expects the venture to be operational by 2018. The project is India’s first major CTL project. “In

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DOE to award $9M to promote consensus on future fossil energy technologies

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turbines, fuel cells, hybrids, novel power generation cycles); coal conversion (e.g., The information created will be used at seminars, conferences and workshops attended by various stakeholders, as well as disseminated domestically and internationally, as appropriate. gasification) and beneficiation; advanced combustion (e.g.,

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