MECON Ltd is looking for offers to use green hydrogen for steel production

The National Green Hydrogen Mission is organizing pilot projects in the steel sector. Budget outlay in the amount of PLN thousand Under the Mission, an amount of ₹455 crore has been allocated for the steel sector until FY 2029-30.

As part of the government’s efforts to replace fossil fuels with green hydrogen in steel production, MECON Limited has invited bids from potential bidders for the use of hydrogen at the DRI pilot plant, the existing blast furnace and the existing DRI vertical shaft.

The request for proposal (RfP) document was sent via e-tender to Tenderwizard, the MECON website and the Central Procurement Portal, for which the deadline for submitting offers is July 8.

The Ministry of Steel said applications have been invited from central public sector undertakings, state-owned PSUs, private sector undertakings, Indian R&D institutions/research laboratories/academic institutions, indigenous design and manufacturing companies, as well as joint ventures and consortiums of such entities. Thursday. Steel production has enormous potential to replace fossil fuels with green hydrogen.

Given the rapidly evolving technological scenario of renewable energy and electrolysers for hydrogen production, it is expected that green hydrogen-based steel can become cost-competitive in the next few years, the steel ministry said.

To assess the potential of using green hydrogen in the steel industry, the National Green Hydrogen Mission under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is supporting and organizing pilot projects in the steel sector. Under the Mission, a budgetary outlay of Rs 455 crore has been allocated for the steel sector until FY 2029-30.

The pipeline areas under the program to consider support for the development/selection/validation of commercially viable technologies for the use of hydrogen in the steel sector fall into the following three categories:

*Pilot project to produce DRI using 100% hydrogen using a vertical shaft.

*Use of hydrogen in blast furnace to reduce coal/coke consumption (Scheme-B).

*Hydrogen injection into a vertical shaft DRI generating unit to partially replace NG/other reducing gas and gradually increase its proportion to utilize the maximum amount of hydrogen.

The aim of the programs is to develop technology and expertise in the use of hydrogen in the steel production process.