Rio Tinto and Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo Corporation have secured a $32.1 million grant from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency to advance a hydrogen pilot project aiming to decarbonise alumina refining. An existing calciner at Rio Tinto’s Yarwun refinery in Gladstone used to refine bauxite into the aluminium precursor alumina will be retrofitted with a hydrogen…

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