Salzgitter Selects Builder for Planned Electrolysis Plant
11/18/2019 - Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH has contracted Siemens Gas and Power to build a 2.2 mW hydrogen plant that will fill all of the mill’s current demand for the gas.
According to an announcement Monday, the proton exchange membrane electrolysis plant, which will be built at the mill, will produce 400 Nm3 of hydrogen. The plant will run on electricity generated by a 30 mW, seven turbine windfarm, also to be built at the mill. All told, the project is expected to cost EUR50 million.
“We are proud to be pioneers in the industrial application of hydrogen in the steel industry. As our SALCOS project has demonstrated, we are technologically in a position to achieve significant reductions in CO2 with the aid of hydrogen," said Salzgitter executive board chairman Heinz Jörg Fuhrmann.
“The Salzgitter wind hydrogen project is an important building block on the way towards climate-friendly steel production,” he added.
The plant is to enter service in the fourth quarter of next year.
