Under the National Green Hydrogen Mission, the government has approved three pilot projects to use hydrogen in steel production. The three projects authorised by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy are Matrix Gas and Renewables (Consortium members: Gensol Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Metsol AB, Sweden) with capacity of 50 tonnes per-day (TPD), Simplex Castings (Consortium members: BSBK, Ten Eight Investment, IIT Bhilai) with a 40 TPD pilot project capacity and Steel Authority of India (Ranchi) with a 3,200 TPD project capacity.
Financial support amounting to Rs 3.47 billion will be provided to the pilot projects by the government. The projects are expected to be commissioned in the next three years. These are the first projects approved under the National Green Hydrogen Mission.
Under the Mission, proposals had been called for three components: to produce Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) using only hydrogen using a vertical shaft, use of hydrogen in blast furnace to reduce coal/coke consumption by using hydrogen in a blast furnace and injecting hydrogen into vertical-shaft based DRI production unit
MNRE had issued guidelines for implementing pilot projects in the steel sector under the National Green Hydrogen Mission with the objective of identifying advanced technologies to use green hydrogen in steelmaking, validate the technical feasibility and performance of green hydrogen and its derivatives, evaluate the performance of green hydrogen and its derivatives based on low-carbon iron and steel, support the deployment and demonstrate the safe operations of green hydrogen and its derivatives on low-carbon iron and steel.
