Following six years of research on the HYBRIT initiative, Vattenfall, SSAB and LKAB have submitted a final report to the Swedish Energy Agency as they aim to advance to an industrial scale.
Led by the energy, steel and mining firms, HYBRIT targets replacing coal and coke in iron production with hydrogen and electricity. H2 View understands the report shows that direct reduced iron produced via HYBRIT’s process has “beneficial properties” compared to conventional production.
A widespread transition across Sweden to HYBRIT’s technology could potentially reduce the country’s total CO2 emissions by over 10%. The initiative has already received several patents and will now continue to the next phase in which the technology is implemented on an industrial scale.
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