World’s first hydrogen-enriched gas-based DRI plant comes online

The first phase of HBIS Group’s 1.2 million-tonne-per-year hydrogen metallurgy demonstration project in Zhangjiakou of northern China’s Hebei province has finished construction and came on line on Friday December 16.

The project is the first direct-reduced iron (DRI) production plant powered by hydrogen-enriched coke oven gas in the world.

The start-up marked a “disruptive, demonstrative and crucial” step for China’s...

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Zihuan Pan

December 16, 2022

13:17 GMT

Shanghai