GreenIron has secured an environmental permit for its first full-scale production site set to produce direct reduced iron (DRI) using hydrogen.
H2 View understands that the Swedish start-up’s furnace can produce up to 28,000 tonnes of DRI per year when hydrogen is used as a reducing agent. GreenIron told H2 View Linde will be its local hydrogen supplier.
The Land and Environment Court in Östersund approved the permit for GreenIron’s site in Sandviken, Sweden. The company will now be able to establish and operate a facility for the recycling and production of iron and other metals in the region.
With the permit agreed, the Sandviken Industrial Park can now process 30,000 tonnes of input material per year, which could result in a reduction of approximately 42,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions when compared to traditional fossil-based metal production.
“When we start production in Sandviken this year, it [will] mark an important milestone in the transition of the hard-to-abate mining and metal industries that have significant emissions,” explained Edward Murray, GreenIron’s CEO.
Speaking to H2 View, GreenIron said, “Initially, the input materials will be iron ore, but over time the material can vary, since our technology process is batch-based. We have successfully produced fossil-free metal from iron, copper, nickel, manganese and zink among others in our demonstration furnace.”
Green iron and steel – safe DRI shipping
The modern maritime industry relies on gas and flame detection for safe operations. LNG tankers, LPG tankers, crude oil tankers and refined products tankers carry thousands of tonnes or flammable, volatile hydrocarbons. The requirement for flammable gas detection and flame detection with these cargoes is clear.
As shown in Table 1, bulkers transport thousands of tonnes of coal and iron ore daily. Fertilisers and food grains are also common bulk cargoes. Many bulk cargoes, such as cement, present a low degree of hazard with minimal gas detection requirements. Others such as coal, DRI and ammonium nitrate granules present hazards that must be monitored using gas detection equipment.
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