Hydrogen as key for low-emission steel making in cross industrial networks 22nd October 2018 | Dr. Markus Oles, Dr. Wiebke Lüke, thyssenkrupp AG
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Electric Power
H2C
Natural Gas
Based DR
Electric Power
Carbon Hydrogen
Maturity/availability
CO2 Emissions
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Three main approaches are known to produce steel
• Well established worldwide process
• Almost all steel plants use C as a reducing agent
• Process is close to thermodynamic optimum
• First demo plants show feasibility
• Process needs new installation of assets
• H2 must be produced without CO2-footprint
• If CO2 free energy is used
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The high energy demand is the reason for the origin of CO2 in the atmosphere
A Steel Plant needs
approximately as much … as the city of
Energy… Berlin.
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Steel production is coming with huge amounts of top gas
2 Mio. Nm3 top gas per hour
Daily amount of top gas:
~300.000 m³ Gas
CO2 21%
CO 25%
N2 43%
Ar < 0.1%
CH4 2%
H2 8%
Other < 0.1% Steel mill Blast furnace Coke oven
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Natural Gas, Coal, Ore Fossil Resources Natural Gas, Oil
Coking Plant
Kohle, Erdgas, Erz Blast Furnace
Converter
Kohle, Erdgas, Erz SGA
Kohle, Erdgas, Erz Finishing
Kohle, Erdgas, Erz Coils
Energy production
Kohle, Erdgas, Erz Power
Reformer
Kohle, Erdgas, Erz Methanation
Methanol-Synthesis
Kohle, Erdgas, Erz Fischer-Tropsch-Synthesis
Kohle, Erdgas, Erz Ammonia -Synthesis
Kohle, Erdgas, Erz SNG, Fuels, NH3
Chemical Steel Energy
Value chains in different industries are highly optimized in terms of CO2 emissions & energy demand
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Hüttengas
H2
Chemical Steel Energy
Digital Data
17 billion Nm³ top gas per year
Based on huge amounts of top Gas Carbon2Chem creates a cross-industrial network to produce steel, energy and chemicals
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Today: ammonia/urea and methanol plants are technical feasible!
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Illustrative: available power from wind energy
No renewable energy for H2 production necessary
Average amounts of renewable energy for H2 production available
Hypothetical future scenario: high amounts of renewable energy for H2 production necessary and available
Amount of top gas with sufficient internal Hydrogen for urea production
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Operating experience
2 MW water electrolysis and
gas cleaning unit in operations since April 2018
First product: 20th September 2018
real top gases in use
Research in Carbon2Chem® Carbon2Chem® Pilot plant Commercial implementation
Basic research
with academia and industrial partners
based on synthetic gases
Contribution to the commercial implementation
Phase II: Industrial scale-up Start: 2020
Carbon2Chem®: From idea to commercial implementation
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Carbon2Chem®: Pilot plant
Water electrolysis Gas cleaning
H2 Syngas Methanol
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Carbon2Chem®: Products in cross-industrial network are aligned with market needs
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Main addressed markets
Agriculture Synthetic fuels
Polymers / Chemicals
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ZBT
Fraunhofer MPI RUB
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RUB RWTH
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Fraunhofer KIT
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