Development and progress on hydrogen metallurgy

Jue Tang; Man-sheng Chu; Feng Li; Cong Feng; Zheng-gen Liu; Yu-sheng Zhou

doi:10.1007/s12613-020-2021-4

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Jue Tang, Man-sheng Chu, Feng Li, Cong Feng, Zheng-gen Liu, and Yu-sheng Zhou, Development and progress on hydrogen metallurgy, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 27(2020), No. 6, pp. 713-723. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-020-2021-4

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Jue Tang, Man-sheng Chu, Feng Li, Cong Feng, Zheng-gen Liu, and Yu-sheng Zhou, Development and progress on hydrogen metallurgy, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater., 27(2020), No. 6, pp. 713-723. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12613-020-2021-4

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Development and progress on hydrogen metallurgy

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Jue Tang E-mail: tangj@smm.neu.edu.cn

Man-sheng Chu E-mail: chums@smm.neu.edu.cn
Received: 25 November 2019; Revised: 11 February 2020; Accepted: 16 February 2020; Available online: 20 February 2020

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Hydrogen metallurgy is a technology that applies hydrogen instead of carbon as a reduction agent to reduce CO₂ emission, and the use of hydrogen is beneficial to promoting the sustainable development of the steel industry. Hydrogen metallurgy has numerous applications, such as H₂ reduction ironmaking in Japan, ULCORED and hydrogen-based steelmaking in Europe; hydrogen flash ironmaking technology in the US; HYBRIT in the Nordics; Midrex H₂^TM by Midrex Technologies, Inc. (United States); H₂FUTURE by Voestalpine (Austria); and SALCOS by Salzgitter AG (Germany). Hydrogen-rich blast furnaces (BFs) with COG injection are common in China. Running BFs have been industrially tested by AnSteel, XuSteel, and BenSteel. In a currently under construction pilot plant of a coal gasification–gas-based shaft furnace with an annual output of 10000 t direct reduction iron (DRI), a reducing gas composed of 57vol% H₂ and 38vol% CO is prepared via the Ende method. The life cycle of the coal gasification–gas-based shaft furnace–electric furnace short process (30wt% DRI + 70wt% scrap) is assessed with 1 t of molten steel as a functional unit. This plant has a total energy consumption per ton of steel of 263.67 kg standard coal and a CO₂ emission per ton of steel of 829.89 kg, which are superior to those of a traditional BF converter process. Considering domestic materials and fuels, hydrogen production and storage, and hydrogen reduction characteristics, we believe that a hydrogen-rich shaft furnace will be suitable in China. Hydrogen production and storage with an economic and large-scale industrialization will promote the further development of a full hydrogen shaft furnace.
- hydrogen;
- hydrogen metallurgy;
- blast furnace;
- shaft furnace;
- low carbon

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