ThyssenKrupp Steel Duisburg steel plant

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ThyssenKrupp Steel Duisburg steel plant, also known as Integriertes Huttenwerk Duisburg, is a 13000 thousand tonnes per annum (TTPA) blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steel plant operating in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Location

The map below shows the location of the steel plant in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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  • Location: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse 100, 47166 Duisburg, Germany[1]
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 51.491649, 6.733051 (exact)

Background

The ThyssenKrupp Steel Duisburg steel plant consists of two plants operating as one location in Duisburg.[2]

Thyssenkrupp is going to build a direct reduced iron plant with an integrated melting unit run on hydrogen and green power at its Duisburg works to produce green steel.[3]

The plant is expected to be completed by 2025 and have a capacity of 1.2 million mt a year. If hydrogen is not available in sufficient quantities by then, the plant will be operated using natural gas.[3]

The solid material produced in the direct reduction plant will be liquefied in an integrated melting unit, and the "blast furnace 2.0" will produce "electrical hot metal," processed in the existing metallurgical plant.[3]

Thyssenkrupp has set itself the target to reduce its CO2 emissions by 30% by 2030 and plans to complete the main part of the plant by 2025 and produce 400,000 mt of green steel. For 2030, the company's target is 3 million mt of green steel.[3]

Thyssenkrupp is Germany's largest steelmaker, and the company's Duisburg steel production site alone accounts currently for 2% of Germany's CO2 emissions.[3]

"The potential for reducing CO2 is also of this magnitude if these emissions can be reduced to zero in the long term," said Thyssenkrupp in a press note.[3]

In the short term, tests are being run using hydrogen in conventional blast furnace operations before the DRI plant is finished.[3]

Low-emissions/green steelmaking

This steel plant is associated with a green steel project tracked in the Green Steel Tracker. Details about the project are included below.

  • Company: Thyssenkrupp
  • Stated company climate target for 2030: 30% reduction (baseline 2018)
  • Stated company climate target for 2050: climate neutral
  • Location: Germany
  • Coordinates: 51.491649, 6.733051 (exact)


Project 1

  • Project name: Blast Furnace 2.0
  • Project website: N/A
  • Project scale: full scale
  • Technology category: NG-DR --> H-DR
    • Specific technology: NG-DR --> H-DR
    • Hydrogen type: Green electrolytic
  • Year online: 2025
  • Size (m USD): Not stated
  • Steel production capacity (Mtpa): N/A
  • Iron production capacity (Mtpa): 1.2
  • Hydrogen capacity generation (MW): N/A
  • Carbon capture capacity (Mtpa CO2): N/A
  • Partners: N/A
  • Date of announcement: 08/28/2020


Project 2

  • Project name: HydrOxy Hub Walsum
  • Project website: https://www.steag.com/en/news/current-projects/hydroxy-walsum
  • Project scale: full scale
  • Technology category: Hydrogen production
    • Specific technology: Hydrogen production (green hydrogen)
    • Hydrogen type: Green electrolytic
  • Year online: 2025
  • Size (m USD): 600
  • Steel production capacity (Mtpa): N/A
  • Iron production capacity (Mtpa): N/A
  • Hydrogen capacity generation (MW): 520
  • Carbon capture capacity (Mtpa CO2): N/A
  • Partners: Thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers, Steag
  • Date of announcement: 02/24/2021


Project 3


Project 4

  • Project name: H2morrow
  • Project website: https://oge.net/en/us/projects/h2morrow
  • Project scale: full scale
  • Technology category: Hydrogen
    • Specific technology: Hydrogen production (blue hydrogen with carbon capture and offshore storage)
    • Hydrogen type: Blue
  • Year online: 2027
  • Size (m USD): Not stated
  • Steel production capacity (Mtpa): N/A
  • Iron production capacity (Mtpa): Not stated
  • Hydrogen capacity generation (MW): 1400
  • Carbon capture capacity (Mtpa CO2): Not stated
  • Partners: Equinor, OGE
  • Date of announcement: 1/12/2021


All references for the above data are available in the Green Steel Tracke r. "



Plant Details

Table 1: General Plant Details

Plant status Start date Workforce size
operating[4] 1891[5] 26303[6]

Table 2: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Owner Owner company PermID
thyssenkrupp AG [100%][1] 4295869754 [100%] Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG[1] 4297366394

Table 3: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users ISO 14001 ISO 50001 Main production equipment Detailed production equipment
crude; semi-finished; finished rolled[7] hot strip; precision steel strip; sheet; heavy plate; coated products; electrical steel; byproducts[7] automotive; building and infrastructure; energy; steel packaging; tools and machinery; transport[8] 2019[9] 2020[10] blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF)[11] coking plant (Bruckhausen/Schwelgern plant); sinter plant (plants 2, 3, and 4 in Bruckhausen/Schwelgern plant); BOF (BOF shop 1 in Bruckhausen/Schwelgern plant; BOF shop 2 in Beeckerwerth plant)[12][13][14][11]

Table 4: Crude Steel Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):

Basic oxygen furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
13000 TTPA[15] 13000 TTPA

Table 5: Crude Iron Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):

Blast furnace capacity Nominal iron capacity (total)
11600 TTPA[13] 11600 TTPA

Table 6: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

Sinter Coke
>0 TTPA[14] 2500 TTPA[16]


Blast Furnace Details

Table 7: Blast Furnace Details:

Unit name Status Start date Stop date Current size Current capacity Decarbonization technology
1 operating[15][17] February 1973[15][17] 2045[18] 4200 m³[19] 3650 TTPA[15][17] Coke oven gases recycled in BFs[20]
2 operating[15][17] October 1993[15][17] 2045[18] 5513 m³[21] 4050 TTPA[22] Coke oven gases recycled in BFs[20]
8 operating[15][17] December 2007[15][17] 2045[18] 2120 m³[23] 2000 TTPA[23] Coke oven gases recycled in BFs[20]
9 operating[15][17] 1962[15][17] 2025[18] 1700 TTPA[24] Pilot project for hydrogen use in steelmaking; completed the first test phase in 2021[25][26]

Articles and Resources

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Additional data

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