{"id":286,"date":"2022-01-19T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/?p=286"},"modified":"2022-01-19T13:32:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T13:32:23","slug":"startup-shorts-boston-metal-is-using-electricity-to-produce-steel-without-co2-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/2022\/01\/19\/startup-shorts-boston-metal-is-using-electricity-to-produce-steel-without-co2-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup Shorts: Boston Metal is Using Electricity to Produce Steel Without CO2 Emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steel is the most common structural material used in everything around us; buildings, cars, and machinery to name a few.\u00a0It is a necessary, but hazardous industry. Steel production\u00a0accounts for 7-9% of all global CO2 emissions annually.<\/p>\n<p>While technology has seen major advancements across industries, the process of steelmaking has remained much the same for thousands of years. Mix iron and coal within a blast furnace to create molten iron. Followed by a process to remove impurities, which results in a significant amount of carbon byproduct. With the continuing growth of steel production, a major contributor to the climate crisis, we are left to wonder who will be tackling the next generation of changes in this industry?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonmetal.com\/\">Boston Metal<\/a> is a startup with the answer. The team is transforming the steel industry with their groundbreaking technology aimed at producing steel in a greener and cheaper way. Spun out of MIT, the patented technology, Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE), replaces the traditional processes by using direct\u00a0electric current to separate chemical compounds. The method produces liquid iron with a byproduct of oxygen instead of carbon, a cleaner, and simpler process.<\/p>\n<p>The engineering team at Boston Metal is no stranger to the challenges startups face, limited time and resources, with huge milestones to hit. A Model-Based Design approach with MATLAB and Simulink enables the small team to work efficiently. By building a full dynamic model of the system the controls team can model and test the system against the digital twin, ensuring that when the team is ready to turn the system on, it works.<\/p>\n<p>Hear more from the Boston Metal team in this month\u2019s startup short!<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-xs-12 containing-block\"><div class=\"bc-outer-container add_margin_20\"><videoplayer><div class=\"video-js-container\"><video data-video-id=\"6285584085001\" data-video-category=\"blog\" data-autostart=\"false\" data-account=\"62009828001\" data-omniture-account=\"mathwgbl\" data-player=\"rJ9XCz2Sx\" data-embed=\"default\" id=\"mathworks-brightcove-player\" class=\"video-js\" controls><\/video><script src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/62009828001\/rJ9XCz2Sx_default\/index.min.js\"><\/script><script>if (typeof(playerLoaded) === 'undefined') {var playerLoaded = false;}(function isVideojsDefined() {if (typeof(videojs) !== 'undefined') {videojs(\"mathworks-brightcove-player\").on('loadedmetadata', function() {playerLoaded = true;});} else {setTimeout(isVideojsDefined, 10);}})();<\/script><\/div><\/videoplayer><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overview-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/files\/2022\/01\/Boston-Metal.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Steel is the most common structural material used in everything around us; buildings, cars, and machinery to name a few.\u00a0It is a necessary, but hazardous industry. Steel production\u00a0accounts for 7-9%&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/2022\/01\/19\/startup-shorts-boston-metal-is-using-electricity-to-produce-steel-without-co2-emissions\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/startups\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}