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ORGANIZER;CN='8th ECIC & 9th ICSTI 2022':MAILTO:info@ecic-icsti.com
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SUMMARY:HBI: Steel’s most versatile metallic in the transition to the hydrogen economy
DESCRIPTION:The mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is becoming critical in the steel industry. The natural gas based MIDREX® Process paired with an electric arc furnace (EAF) has the lowest CO2 emissions of any ore-based steelmaking route with options to lower even further. As green hydrogen becomes available, it can be injected in the MIDREX process with minimal modifications, thus reducing emissions further. Ultimately, MIDREX H2™ can make use of hydrogen both as the energy source and the reductant to produce a near-zero carbon footprint metallic, which can then be used as feedstock for steelmaking. The ArcelorMittal Hamburg project will be the world’s first direct reduction plant on an industrial scale to demonstrate the technology readiness. Unfortunately, green hydrogen is not currently available at sufficient scale and low cost for rapid adoption. Additionally, the capital requirements to convert from BF to DR-EAF are enormous. Therefore, the rapid conversion to hydrogen steelmaking is unrealistic, so other ways to reduce CO2 emissions during the transition phase must be explored, such as the use of HBI in a BF/BOF.

Hot Briquetted Iron (HBI) is a compacted form of Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) that is manufactured with well-defined, consistent chemical and physical characteristics that make it very suitable for handling, shipping, and storage with minimal yield losses during those steps. HBI can be used in an EAF to produce high quality steel products and in Blast Furnaces to increase productivity and lower coke consumption, ultimately lowering CO2 emissions. As such, HBI produced outside of one’s facility should be considered in all steelmaking operations as a flexible metallic source during the hydrogen transition. As a merchant product, HBI can be produced in large scale operations at a location where logistics and reducing gas (including hydrogen) can be advantageous and transported in the right amount to 
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