C C U T E C H N O L O G I E S I N E N E R G Y I N T E N S I V E I N D U S T R I E S

A F R e S M e w o r k s h o p

Dec 3, 2019

Pilot Plants

Swerim in brief

Independent research institute

Around 190 employees

Located in Luleå and Stockholm

Approx. 250 million kronor in turnover

40 test & demonstration facilities

Customers from all over the world

Long tradition – the oldest

part was established in

1921 (Metallografiska

institutet).

Luleå

Stockholm

Expertise areas

Iron and steelmaking, ferro alloys and base metals

Material properties

System analysis, process integration

Recycling and circular economy

Additive manufacturing, atomization

Measurement technology

Joining, machining, heat treatment, corrosion

Modelling and simulation

Agglomeration – mineral technology

Carbon-free production/industry

Pilot scale= minimizing risks

Lab scale = small investment

Industrial scale = large investmentsTRL

Time

Our niche − Faster to the goal

• Designing, building,

rebuilding and adapting

facilities to match customer-

specific conditions.

• Running processes or

process solution that no one

else has done before − with

safety first.

Location + Network + SizeOpportunities For Gas Processing of Works Gases

1. SEWGS – Methanol

2. EBF – SEWGS

• Experimental Blast Furnace

3. SEWGS – NH3

• Multi-column SEWGS-BOF

4. Reheat – Oxy-Stepwise

• CO2 from walking beam

5. SEWGS-Reheat

• N2/H2 for chamber furnace

6. R-WGS, DME and many more

Access to Industrial Gases

Europe’s Largest BFG facility

BFG pipeline

Initial Catalysis and Separation

WGS Single Column SEWGS Syngas Cooler

Clean-up and Buffering

CO2 Clean-Up CO2 buffer Vessel

N2/H2 and H2 production

H2 Buffer Electrolyser

Catalyst Station and Product Tank

Methanol Production Methanol Storage

Infrastructure

ATEX classed buildings Compressor

Location + Network + SizeOpportunities For Gas Processing of Works Gases

1. SEWGS – Methanol

2. EBF – SEWGS

• Experimental Blast Furnace

3. SEWGS – NH3

• Multi-column SEWGS-BOF

4. Reheat – Oxy-Stepwise

• CO2 from walking beam

5. SEWGS-Reheat

• N2/H2 for chamber furnace

6. R-WGS, DME and many more

EMPOWER: e.g. via methanol

requires additional CO2 solution if fuel is to be burned in a carbon neutral manner

EMPOWER150 MW

Off-gas

40 MW

renewable

15 MW

biofuel

Continuous Process

Renewable Input

Low Cost

Storage

Dispatchable

GenerationLow quality

High CO2

Base Load Today

60 MW300-600 MW

Creating future-proof, high-value, CO2-free dispatchable power from today’s base-load

power by introducing renewables and power-to-X technology

CO2 available

for use

No CO2

Intermittent Process

Infrastructure

Decarbonising Downstream Processes

Chamber Furnace on N2/H2 Walking Beam Furnace of BFG with CO2 capture

LPB-SCALE- : Luleå-Piteå-Boden Smart City Area Large Evaluation

Status

• FReSMe is running campaign 1

• Campaigns 2 and 3 are in the new year

This project has received funding from the European Union´s

Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under

grant agreement No 727504.

Thank you