As part of the National Green Hydrogen Mission, the union government has sanctioned three pilot projects for use of hydrogen in steel production. These include a 50 ton-per-day (tpd) plant by Matrix Gas and Renewables Ltd (in consortium with Gensol Engineering Ltd, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Metsol AB, Sweden), a 40 tpd plant by Simplex Castings Ltd (consortium members: BSBK, Ten Eight Investment, IIT Bhilai), and a 3,200 tpd by Steel Authority of India Ltd (Ranchi).
These projects will receive a total of INR 347 crore from the government of India. These pilot projects are likely to be commissioned in the next three years.
Earlier, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy had issued guidelines for the implementation of pilot projects in steel sector under the National Green Hydrogen Mission.
The objectives of the scheme were to identify advance technologies for utilizing green hydrogen in steelmaking, through pilot projects. These pilot projects can demonstrate safe and secure operations of green hydrogen-based steel making processes, validating technical feasibility and performance, evaluating their economic viability thereby leading to low-carbon iron and steel production.
Accordingly, proposals were invited for three components: (i) Pilot project to produce direct reduced iron (DRI) using 100% hydrogen using vertical shaft, (ii) use of hydrogen in blast furnace to reduce coal/coke consumption and (iii) injection of hydrogen in vertical shaft based DRI making unit.
Based on the evaluations of the proposals received, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy sanctioned total three pilot projects in the steel sector.
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