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Swedish H2 Green Steel eliminates climate-damaging carbon by using green hydrogen

Issued at 2023-05-30



Swedish H2 Green Steel eliminates climate-damaging carbon by using green hydrogen in the direct reduction process of iron

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The green hydrogen will power a new, fully integrated, digitalized and cycle-oriented steel plant in Boden, northern Sweden. Operations are planned to start at the end of 2025.

BY BART BROUWERS

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In steelmaking, the Swedish industrial start-up H2 Green Steel eliminates climate-damaging carbon by using green hydrogen in the direct reduction process of iron. For steel production, H2 Green Steel uses green hydrogen produced in the electrolysis plant directly at the Boden plant, where it has a constant supply of renewable (hydro- and wind power) electricity.

This process no longer produces liquid pig iron but a solid iron sponge refined into crude steel in a so-called electric arc furnace. Thyssenkrupp nucera partners with H2 Green Steel in constructing this large-scale green steel plant. The standardized 20 MW electrolysis modules to produce green hydrogen will enable an installed capacity of more than 700 MW. This will also create one of the largest water electrolysis plants in Europe.

High demand

The green hydrogen will power a new, fully integrated, digitalized, and cycle-oriented steel plant in Boden, northern Sweden. Operations are planned to start at the end of 2025, with a scheduled ramp-up in 2026. In the initial phase, the site will produce 2.5 million tons of green steel and, by 2030, is planned to have increased to around 5 million tons. Green steel products are already in exceptionally high demand from the automotive industry, which will thus be able to reduce its carbon footprint so decisively.


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