Tenova and the Chinese industrial services provider Sinosteel have completed the performance test for the Energiron direct reduction plant (DRI) at the Baosteel site in Zhanjiang, China. The hydrogen-based DRI plant is designed for the production of sponge iron up to 1 million tonnes/year.
The plant, designed by Tenova using Energiron, the innovative DRI technology jointly developed by Tenova and Danieli, and completed with the engineering by Sinosteel Engineering & Technology (Sinosteel E&T), is installed in the Zhanjiang Economic and Technological Zone, Guangdong Province. During the performance test, the plant achieved a milestone production of a total of 21,620 tonnes of direct reduced iron, after 168 hours of continuous full-load production, with a metallization rate of more than 94% and using a 70% hydrogen-based reducing gas. The plant installed at Baosteel, a Baowu Group company, has the flexibility to use different reducing gases, like Hydrogen (H2), Natural Gas (NG), and Coke Oven Gas (COG), in any combination or proportion, using the same Energiron Zero Reformer (ZR) scheme.
The full plant capacity is 1,000,000 tonnes/year, making it the largest and first-of-its-kind hydrogen-based DRI facility in China. It has been additionally designed to capture CO2 that can be sold commercially, further reducing the plant’s overall CO2 emissions and providing an added revenue stream for the plant operations.
“Thanks to our Energiron technology we have provided Baosteel with the first direct reduction iron production line integrating hydrogen, natural gas, and coke oven gas for industrial production”, declared Stefano Maggiolino, President and CEO at Tenova HYL, the company center in direct reduction technology.
Source: Tenova
