Carbon-Circulating Green Industrial System

As the first step of social implementation of GX technology for building a carbon neutral (CN) society, we are working on the idea of a carbon-circulating green industrial system. key materials for CN realization include carbon, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and ammonia, and energy systems include nuclear energy, renewable energy, and energy transportation and storage.

In order to achieve zero carbon (ZC) in the steel industry, which accounts for 15% of japan's CO2 emissions, we are focusing on the "carbon cycle" and introducing a group of demonstration test equipment to "achieve carbon-neutral steelmaking by using CO2 decomposed and generated by ZC energy to reduce iron oxide.

In the process, the raw iron oxide is reduced with CO, the resulting CO2 is recovered at high liquid temperature and transported, converted to co as a resource by electrolysis of CO2 using ZC energy, and then returned to the steelmaking process. We aim to make key industrial technologies carbon neutral through the direct contribution of ZC energy to manufacturing.

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GXI-Ookayama Laboratory
Active Carbon Recycling Industrial System Demonstrative Research Facility
(ACRES Labo ) (FY2022 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Fundamental Facilities min)

GXI Ookayama Labo, Inc.
Ookayama North Experimental Building 3A, Completed in 1960