Case Study: ThyssenKrupp Transrapid GmbH achieves renewable-energy-powered fuel and fertilizer production from steel mill gases with MathWorks (MATLAB & Simulink)

ThyssenKrupp Develops Framework to Generate Fuels and Fertilizers Powered by Renewable Energies

ThyssenKrupp Transrapid GmbH aimed to advance its Carbon2Chem project to convert steel mill gases into fuels and fertilizers using renewable energy, but faced enormous complexity across many processes, plants, and sites that required distributed cosimulation. To address this, the company used MathWorks products—primarily MATLAB and Simulink along with toolboxes such as Control System Toolbox and Simulink Control Design—to model and orchestrate the cross‑industrial system.

MathWorks helped implement a client/server cosimulation framework in MATLAB and Simulink that integrates diverse process and state models, material/data/control flows, and standardized interfaces with secure web‑based exchange; each plant runs as a client while the server cosimulates them together. The MathWorks solution enabled integration of existing models from various sources, modular extension via libraries, connectivity to discipline‑specific tools, and black‑box simulations to protect proprietary know‑how—outcomes that made it feasible for ThyssenKrupp Transrapid GmbH to simulate and evaluate CCU pathways across multiple sites.

ThyssenKrupp Transrapid GmbH

Henning Wagner

ThyssenKrupp Transrapid GmbH