NRRI gets $1.5M to study replacing fossil fuels in steelmaking

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NRRI gets $1.5M to study replacing fossil fuels in steelmaking

DULUTH The U.S. Department of Energy awarded nearly $1.5 million to the University of Minnesota’s Natural Resources Research Institute to develop carbon-free methods of readying iron mined in the state for steelmaking.NRRI, which has labs in Hermantown and Coleraine, received $575,000 as part of a $2.8 million grant to work with the University of Minnesota to develop a microwave hydrogen plasma process to replace blast furnaces. It also receive…