In the third story of the Carbon Search 2.0 award-winning team series, Jason Song, an industrial decarbonization researcher, shared an interesting story: how a pot of burnt noodles prompted him to rethink steel manufacturing, the world's most challenging carbon emissions challenge.
A few years ago, Jason Song burnt a pot of noodles while cooking. In frustration, he poured out the noodles and casually calculated that this pot of noodles had produced about 200 grams of carbon emissions for nothing.
Later, he thought about the carbon footprint of the pot itself. For every kilogram of steel produced, approximately 2.3 kilograms of carbon dioxide are produced. In contrast, that pot of noodles is not the biggest source of carbon emissions in the kitchen.
在碳寻计划2.0获奖团队系列的第三篇故事中，工业脱碳研究员Jason Song分享了一件趣事：一锅烧糊的面条如何促使他重新思考钢铁制造这一全球最棘手的碳排放挑战。
几年前，Jason Song做饭时把一锅面条烧糊了。懊恼之余，他把面条倒掉，顺手算了一笔账：这锅面条白白产生了约200克碳排放。
随后，他又想到了那口锅本身的碳足迹。每生产一公斤钢材，大约会产生2.3公斤二氧化碳。相比之下，那锅面条反而不是厨房里最大的碳排放来源。
The dilemma of steel
Steel is almost everywhere: kitchen appliances, bridges, cars, and wind turbines that support the transition to clean energy all rely on it. With the continuous growth of global demand, how to reduce emissions in the steel manufacturing process has become an increasingly urgent issue.
Traditional blast furnaces use high carbon coke as fuel, and their production process accounts for approximately 8% of global carbon dioxide emissions. At present, there are still about 1400 blast furnaces in operation worldwide. Jason is a researcher at VITO, a Belgian clean technology research institution, who is developing retrofit technologies to significantly reduce emissions from existing blast furnaces.
钢铁的两难
钢铁几乎无处不在：厨房电器、桥梁、汽车，以及支撑清洁能源转型的风力发电机，都离不开它。随着全球需求持续增长，如何降低钢铁制造过程中的排放，也成为越来越迫切的问题。
传统高炉以高碳焦炭为燃料，其生产过程约占全球二氧化碳排放量的8%。目前，全球仍有约1400座高炉在运行。Jason是比利时清洁技术研究机构VITO的研究员，他正在开发改造技术，帮助现有高炉大幅减少排放。
Instead of waiting for old blast furnaces to gradually retire in the coming decades, it is better to help the blast furnaces that are still operating today immediately reduce emissions - this is precisely Jason's research focus.
Let carbon cycle
Traditional carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technologies often have high energy consumption. Jason began to think: Can carbon capture and conversion be integrated into the same process instead of being divided into multiple steps?
与其等待老旧高炉在未来数十年逐步退出，不如帮助今天仍在运行的高炉立即减排——这正是Jason的研究重点。
让碳循环起来
传统的碳捕集与利用（CCU）技术往往能耗很高。Jason开始思考：能不能把碳的捕集和转化整合到同一个流程中，而不是分成多个步骤完成？
He developed a technology that can capture carbon dioxide from blast furnace emissions and convert it into valuable reducing gases using renewable energy, which are then sent back to the blast furnace for use. The carbon that would have been released into the atmosphere is circulating in the system like this. This technology is called CYCO2STEEL.
Carbon is not waste, but a resource that can be reused. It should not be emitted into the sky, but returned to the cycle
From laboratory to blast furnace site
他开发出一套技术，可以从高炉排放中捕集二氧化碳，并利用可再生能源将其转化为有价值的还原性气体，再送回高炉使用。原本会排入大气的碳，就这样在系统中循环起来。这项技术名为CYCO2STEEL。
"碳不是废弃物，而是可以重新利用的资源。它不该排向天空，而应回到循环中。"
从实验室到高炉现场
This technology has already left the laboratory. The electrodes developed by VITO have been running stably for over 2000 hours, and the next step is to expand the scale.
With the funding and cooperation support provided by Carbon Search 2.0, the team is building a 500 kW pilot plant at HBIS steel plant in Serbia. The project is designed to process 1000 tons of carbon dioxide annually, which is an important step in verifying the industrial application potential of this technology.
Jason hopes that the next time he accidentally burns dinner, there will be a carbon emission story worth telling, with only noodles and no steel pot.
这项技术已经走出实验室。VITO开发的电极已稳定运行超过2000小时，下一步是扩大规模。
在碳寻计划2.0提供的资金与合作支持下，团队正在塞尔维亚HBIS钢厂建设一套500千瓦试点装置。该项目设计每年可处理1000吨二氧化碳，是验证这项技术工业化应用潜力的重要一步。
Jason希望，下次不小心烧糊晚餐时，值得一讲的碳排放故事，只有面条，没有钢锅。
(Using AI translation)
（使用AI翻译）
