At the end of July 2023, ArcelorMittal Gent’s new coke gas desulfurization installation was started up. It involved an investment of €29 million.
The new desulfurization installation, which is a copy of the existing plant, ensures that during maintenance outages of one of the two desulfurization installations, the other installation guarantees the purification of the coke oven gas. Until previously, the backup of the existing installation did not have the same performance level as the desulfurization installation itself, leading to higher emission levels. With this investment, emissions, as last seen in the spring of 2023, will be completely avoided.
