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Smelters

Industrial smelters underscore the world’s ongoing economic dependency on abundant cheap and efficient sources of energy – for smelters give us metals and other essential manufacturing commodities without which production of most kinds would necessarily cease.

Whilst nuclear, wind, solar, wave and geo-thermal energy supply technologies offer incremental opportunities to reduce the current high levels of dependency on fossil fuels as a source of electricity production – many smelters must necessarily be fuelled by fossil fuels including coal, coking coal and gas.

This ongoing dependency of burning fossil fuels for the production of essential metals and other commodities – and the large number of smelters in virtually all developed and developing countries of the world – means that sustainable emissions reduction technologies that will help smelters cut their CO2 emissions must be found and deployed.

After-burner technologies that help remove pollutants from emissions before they reach the atmosphere have been developed and are being continuously improved. However, until now, no sustainable means has been found for significant abatement of CO2 emissions from smelters and other large-scale fossil fuel dependent stationary emitters.

MBD’s Algal Synthesis technology offers retro-fit solutions to current and new smelter facilities. Captured greenhouse gas emissions – including CO2, NoX and SoX – serve as essential nutrients in the prolific production of algal biomass.

This biomass, in turn, may be used for a variety of purposes ranging from the production of dry fuel replacement briquettes for recycling into the smelters furnaces – or the production of other biofuels or nutritious animal feed or various forms of fertiliser.

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