The alkaline water electrolysis technology used to produce green hydrogen for the direct reduction of iron enables H2 Green Steel to reduce carbon emissions by up to 95% compared with conventional steelmaking, thus almost zero.
"The electrolysis plant in Boden will be many times bigger than most existing electrolyzer plants today. Combining our own strong technical expertise with that of a proven high-performance and high-efficiency electrolyzer like thyssenkrupp nucera's gives us a solid head start in the growing green hydrogen economy, which we will use to transform heavy industry with its difficult-to-degrade process emissions. We're starting with steel in Boden, Sweden, but that's just the beginning," says Maria Persson Gulda, Chief Technology Officer of H2 Green Steel.
H2 Green Steel aims to help offset manufactured emissions and combat climate change. To do so, it wants to drive the necessary decarbonization quickly. That's why the industrial start-up focuses on areas where the most impact can be made, i.e. hard-to-abate industries.
In realizing this ambitious climate-friendly project, H2 Green Steel has chosen an industrial partner with a proven history in chlor-alkali and various other projects under contract with a similar or even larger production capacity in alkaline water electrolysis. These include green hydrogen projects around the globe, such as installing a 2+ GW electrolysis plant for Air Products in Saudi Arabia, delivering a plant for Unigel in Brazil and a 200 MW hydrogen plant for Shell in the port of Rotterdam.
