Indian consortium offers country's first hydrogen-based steelmaking pilot project

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Indian consortium offers country's first hydrogen-based steelmaking pilot project

Business 17 Jul 2024 11:38 AM IST Steel Orbis

A consortium led by India's Institute of Minerals and Materials Technology (IMMT) has expressed interest in launching India's first green steelmaking effort utilising a 100% hydrogen-based DRI production technique, according to Indian government sources. According to the sources, the Steel Ministry will provide some help to the consortium.

The process of direct reduction of iron (DRI) utilising hydrogen, which is used to make iron on an industrial scale, involves extracting oxygen from the iron ore. However, hydrogen is used instead of fossil fuels with large carbon emissions, with water serving as the waste gas. The resulting DRI, also known as sponge iron, is put into an electric arc furnace, where electrodes generate a current to convert it into steel.

Earlier in June, India’s steel ministry floated tenders under the National Green Hydrogen Mission with an outlay of $55 million, seeking industry participation to pilot green steel making, that is steel made where carbon emissions or carbon content is substantially lower. The sources added that the pilots will use hydrogen as an alternative to conventional coking coal.

So far, a consortium-based pilot for an H2-based DRI facility has received a bid. They said IMMT, a government agency under the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and some other stakeholders have submitted bids that are now under consideration for funding. The last date for submitting bids was July 12, and only one bid has been received under the funding plan, the sources said.

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