Asian Conversion to Hydrogen DRI Still Decades Away, Says BHP Executive
12/01/2022 - Wholesale replacement of Asia’s blast furnace fleet with hydrogen-fed direct reduction plants is likely decades away, a BHP executive told the South China Morning Post.
According to the Post, BHP chief development officer Johan van Jaarsveld said that the age of the fleet — the average Chinese blast furnace is 12 years old — makes it difficult to justify the cost of building new direct reduced iron plants.
“The adoption of hydrogen in steelmaking — the replacement of blast furnace iron with direct reduced iron — is something possible in the future,” he told the newspaper. “However, we don’t think that is something that is going to happen in material quantities in this part of the world for another few decades. The reason is just costs.”
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“The adoption of hydrogen in steelmaking — the replacement of blast furnace iron with direct reduced iron — is something possible in the future,” he told the newspaper. “However, we don’t think that is something that is going to happen in material quantities in this part of the world for another few decades. The reason is just costs.”
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