Hyundai Steel, a leading player in the global steel industry, has announced a $5.8 billion investment in a sustainable steelmaking plant as part of its commitment to carbon neutrality.
This ambitious project will include a direct reduction plant featuring the cutting-edge Energirontechnology, jointly developed by Tenova and Danieli, to be fully integrated with a steel mill on approximately 1,700 acres within the River Plex Mega Park, near Donaldsonville, Louisiana.
The Energiron direct reduction plant will be the second of its kind in the United States, with an annual capacity of 2.5 Mtpy of hot and cold direct reduced iron (DRI). It will feature Zero Reformer Energirontechnology, and it will deliver DRI with 94 percent metallization and 2.5 percent carbon content. Designed to be future-ready, the plant will also be equipped with carbon capture technology and is prepared for the use of hydrogen as a reducing gas, making it the most sustainable steelmaking solution currently accessible on the market.
The plant will convey hot DRI through the HYTEMP pneumatic transport system to the adjacent steelmaking shop and charge the hot product into two EAFs at temperatures exceeding 600°C, optimizing thermal energy utilization and significantly reducing steel production operating costs (OpEx).
“This important order confirms the choice of the market,” said Stefano Maggiolino, CEO of Tenova HYL, “showing the technological advantages of Energiron and its capacity to meet the requirements of steel makers in the USA in terms of OpEx and sustainability.”
“It is an important technological achievement for us to provide a system that is flexible for the use of gas and capable of feeding two EAFs with an intrinsically safe and reliable solution such as HYTEMP,” said Marco Lapasin, Danieli VP Centro Metallics.
ENERGIRON, jointly developed by Tenova a Energiron, jointly developed by Tenova and Danieli, is an innovative and sustainable directreduction (DR) technology that has been consistently improving steel production efficiency and quality since 2006. It is designed to use different types of reducing gas sources or pure H2 to reduce iron ores into metallic iron for its use in melting facilities for producing a wide set of high-quality steels.
By promoting green technology for the safeguard of the environment, Energiron continues tosupport the competitiveness of the steel producers and to enhance raw material quality and availability.
More info: www.energiron.com
