Hydrogen-based steel making heading to France

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Hydrogen-based steel making could be coming to France following an agreement between Paul Wurth, Stahl-Holding-Saar and GFG Alliance member Liberty Steel to assess the establishment of an industrial scale facility.

A Memorandum of Understanding will see the companies evaluate the building and operation of a hydrogen-based steel making plant in Dunkirk, making it one of the first operations of its type in France.

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The partnership will incorporate a two million tonne Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) plant, with an integrated 1GW capacity hydrogen electrolysis production unit, next to GFG’s ALVANCE Aluminium Dunkerque site.

The DRI plant will initially use a mix of hydrogen and natural gas as the reductant to produce DRI and hot-briquetted iron (HBI), before switching to hydrogen when the electrolysis production unit is complete. The DRI/HBI produced will primarily be used in the electric arc furnace of Liberty Ascoval in France but any surplus will be used at Liberty’s Ostrava and Galati integrated steelworks as well as the SHS-group’s Dillinger and Saarstahl plants in Germany,

Liberty has been working with Paul Wurth and SHS on the technical and economic viability of the project since early last year. The MoU moves the project forward in two phases.

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