Steelworks power

The central power station on the British Steel works in Scunthorpe, UK, provides electricity for the site by burning exhaust process gases - waste gas from the BOS (basic oxygen steelmaking) plant and blast furnace gas, mainly nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. This is on a grand scale - there are six steam turbines generating up to 53 MW of energy for the facility. The balance of demand is drawn from the grid.