End-of-season “Authors & Artists” show this weekend at Great Lakes Maritime Center
The Great Lakes Maritime Center is hosting its end-of-season “Authors & Artists” show this Saturday, October 14, in Port Huron, MI. See the gallery at the end of this post for a flyer with more information.
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Cleveland-Cliffs building multimillion-dollar hydrogen pipeline to East Chicago blast furnace
Integrated steelmakers like those along Northwest Indiana’s lakeshore in Northwest Indiana have faced mounting international pressure to curb carbon emissions as the world reckons with climate change.
Now a new technological breakthrough might help the Region’s steel mills clean up their act.
Cleveland-Cliffs is building a multimillion-dollar pipeline to pump hydrogen to Blast Furnace No. 7 at Indiana Harbor Works in East Chicago, said Traci Forrester, executive vice president of environmental and sustainability for Cleveland-Cliffs.
The steelmaker is looking to cut back its carbon footprint.
“We’re an industry leader in clean hydrogen as a foundation of advanced steelmaking,” Forrester said at Purdue University Northwest in Hammond. “We’re proud of the progress we have made, achieving a 32% reduction in emissions compared to a 2017 baseline.”
For centuries, blast furnaces have been fed with coke, a purified form of coal that’s burned to make the liquid iron that’s turned into steel for cars, appliances, buildings, bridges and many other end products. But now Cleveland-Cliffs is looking at burning carbon-free hydrogen as an alternative to coke.
Construction is already underway on the pipeline, Forrester said.
