You stop using fossil-fired blast furnaces to release the oxygen from iron ore, and you stop using baked coal, or coke, as a reductant to add the critical small percentage of carbon to your iron.
A pioneering pilot project in Lulea, Sweden, designed to produce “fossil-free” steel has successfully completed test production of sponge iron, demonstrating it is possible to use hydrogen made with ...
Finland-based Metso Corp. has opened a direct-reduced iron (DRI) smelting furnace pilot facility in Pori, Finland. The company says the new facility will allow customer-specific pilot-scale testing to ...
The Direct Reduced Iron Market is estimated to reach USD 105.44 billion by 2031, expanding at a CAGR of 9.3% from 2024-2031. The DRI market was USD 51.68 billion in 2023. The shift towards DRI is ...
Nippon Steel Corp. and Kobe Steel Ltd. have started construction of a plant that will be capable of recycling steel mill dust into direct reduced iron. The two companies have decided to carry out the ...
PERTH, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Australia’s two largest iron ore producers and its biggest steelmaker have partnered in their efforts to accelerate the decarbonisation of steelmaking by agreeing to ...
Dr Tessa Leach works for Climateworks Centre. She is a member of the Australian Industry Energy Transitions Initiative, which received funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. Dr Tyra ...
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto has entered into definitive agreements with GravitHy, an early-stage industrial company, to help accelerate GravitHy’s steel decarbonisation project in France. As ...