SectorsDirectly reduced iron

Directly reduced iron

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Iron reduced in the solid state rather than smelted, and the thing every European conversion is being built to make. It carries the sector's decarbonisation in one object: the same material is near-zero or not depending only on whether the gas that reduced it was hydrogen.

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Produced by

  • tkH2Steelsince 2023-07-202.5 Mt directly reduced iron per year thyssenkrupp“The 100% hydrogen-capable DR plant with two melters has a production capacity of 2.5 million metric tons of directly reduced iron per year” — data/transition/parameters.json
  • HYBRIT pilotsince 2021-06-21100 tonnes SSAB“Around 100 tonnes have been made so far.” — data/transition/parameters.json
  • SALCOS stage onesince 2023-04-18The release states the stage's crude steel capacity, not the direct reduction unit's own output, so no sourced volume attaches to this edge.“1.9 million tonnes of crude steel per year” — data/transition/parameters.json

Consumed by

  • Steelsince 2023-07-20“The 100% hydrogen-capable DR plant with two melters has a production capacity of 2.5 million metric tons of directly reduced iron per year” — data/transition/technologies.json · The melters are on the same site as the direct reduction unit: this sector makes the material and feeds it straight back in, which is why the same node is both an output and an input here. The two appearances rest on different edges.

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