Australian resource company TNG (ASX: TNG) has engaged Finnish engineering firm Metso Outotec to assess the use of hydrogen reduction in minimising carbon emissions from processing operations at the Mount Peake vanadium-titanium-iron project in the Northern Territory.
Metso will complete a study considering the use of hydrogen gas as a single reductant within TNG’s proprietary TIVAN hydrometallurgical process.
The gas would be added after titanomagnetite concentrate from Mount Peake has been entered a rotary kiln, replacing coke which is traditionally used to reduce iron oxides in the concentrate to metallic iron.
As part of its brief, Metso will investigate the integration of its own Circored hydrogen-based technology to the TIVAN flowsheet with the aim of reducing the project’s net carbon footprint.
It will also prepare preliminary capital and operating costs for a…