Pan Shu-Yuan, Chung Tai-Chun, Ho Chang-Ching, Hou Chin-Jen, Chen Yi-Hung, Chiang Pen-Chi
Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10673, Taiwan.
Carbon Cycle Research Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10674, Taiwan.
Sci Rep. 2017 Dec 8;7(1):17227. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-17648-9.
Both steelmaking via an electric arc furnace and manufacturing of portland cement are energy-intensive and resource-exploiting processes, with great amounts of carbon dioxide (CO) emission and alkaline solid waste generation. In fact, most CO capture and storage technologies are currently too expensive to be widely applied in industries. Moreover, proper stabilization prior to utilization of electric arc furnace slag are still challenging due to its high alkalinity, heavy metal leaching potentials and volume instability. Here we deploy an integrated approach to mineralizing flue gas CO using electric arc furnace slag while utilizing the reacted product as supplementary cementitious materials to establish a waste-to-resource supply chain toward a circular economy. We found that the flue gas CO was rapidly mineralized into calcite precipitates using electric arc furnace slag. The carbonated slag can be successfully utilized as green construction materials in blended cement mortar. By this modulus, the global CO reduction potential using iron and steel slags was estimated to be ~138 million tons per year.
通过电弧炉炼钢和生产波特兰水泥都是能源密集型和资源开发型过程,会产生大量二氧化碳(CO)排放和碱性固体废弃物。事实上,目前大多数二氧化碳捕获与封存技术成本过高,无法在工业中广泛应用。此外,由于电弧炉渣碱度高、有重金属浸出潜力且体积不稳定,在利用之前进行适当的稳定化处理仍然具有挑战性。在此,我们采用一种综合方法,利用电弧炉渣使烟气中的二氧化碳矿化,同时将反应产物用作辅助胶凝材料,以建立一条面向循环经济的废弃物到资源的供应链。我们发现,利用电弧炉渣可使烟气中的二氧化碳迅速矿化为方解石沉淀。碳酸化后的炉渣可成功用作混合水泥砂浆中的绿色建筑材料。据此估算,全球使用钢铁炉渣每年的二氧化碳减排潜力约为1.38亿吨。