Open AccessRecovery Act: Waste Energy Project at AK Steel Corporation Middletown
Author(s) -
Jeffrey Joyce
Publication year - 2012
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/1088682
Subject(s) - corporation , waste management , engineering , work (physics) , electric power , architectural engineering , environmental science , business , power (physics) , mechanical engineering , finance , physics , quantum mechanics
In 2008, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (“Air Products”) began development of a project to beneficially utilize waste blast furnace “topgas” generated in the course of the iron-making process at AK Steel Corporation’s Middletown, Ohio works. In early 2010, Air Products was awarded DOE Assistance Agreement DE-EE002736 to further develop and build the combined-cycle power generation facility. In June 2012, Air Products and AK Steel Corporation terminated work when it was determined that the project would not be economically viable at that time nor in the foreseeable future. The project would have achieved the FOA-44 Statement of Project Objectives by demonstrating, at a commercial scale, the technology to capture, treat, and convert blast furnace topgas into electric power and thermal energy