Chinese steelmaker cuts emissions via DRI production

With a metallization ratio currently at 94%, these DRI products could replace high-quality steel scrap, and feedstock of electric arc furnace-based steelmaking, ‘representing an important milestone for the transition to hydrogen metallurgy from the traditional carbon metallurgy in the steel industry’, the North China-based steel producer said.

Compared with the same scale of traditional blast furnace-based steelmaking, the phase-one hydrogen metallurgy project will reduce emissions of CO₂ by 800kt/yr, according to HBIS.