AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke Dillingen

Where AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke Dillingen is

AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke Dillingen is at Dillengen, Germany, and this register holds no position for it. The company has confirmed the site and no citable source places the works: it is being built where nobody has yet drawn it. The row is held anyway — position is not a condition of being on file — and what was searched, and what was found instead, is below.

NO POSITION SOUGHT BY THIS PASS. Brief 8 forbids geocoding in a census — a municipality is not a point — and position is not an admission leg. The works is named by its owner and by GEM's own plant record; a position is a later task and the row does not wait on it.

Status

1. Announced
2. Funded
3. FID taken
4. In construction2023
5. Operating

• 2023In construction“Construction began in 2023 on a direct reduction plant (DRI) and on one electric arc furnace (EAF) each in Dillingen and Völklingen.” The status is the owner's own word and the date is the year it gives.source

Technology and measures

• Direct reduction with an electric furnacedemonstrationIron ore is reduced in the solid state with gas rather than smelted with coke in a blast furnace, and the resulting iron is melted in an electric furnace. It is the route Europe's integrated sites are converting to, and it is being built to run on natural gas first and hydrogen later, which is why the conversion and the fuel are two different questions with two different timetables.
• Hydrogen direct reductionpilotThe reducing gas is hydrogen rather than natural gas, so what leaves the furnace is water rather than CO2. It is the only route that takes the chemistry of ironmaking to near zero, and it is separated from the conversion itself because every European unit under construction is being commissioned on natural gas and switched later.

Funding

No public capital recorded for this project.

Sources

• Power4Steel — SHS Stahl-Holding-SaarSHS / Dillinger · 2023