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Onshore - Carbon Capture
Project Heracless
> 95%

decarbonization with full electrification

Application

of world-class sized heat pumps

Scope
IPMT Services
Location
The Netherlands
Highlights
  • Represents an expansion of McDermott’s world-class industrial electrification capabilities into a new steel decarbonization market 
  • Using direct reduced iron (DRI) plant and reducing electric furnace (REF) technology in combination with sustainable hydrogen led to more than 95 percent decarbonization

DRI is a relatively new production technology in which iron ores are directly reduced using natural gas or hydrogen rather than coal. The reduced iron is then processed into hot metal in an electric furnace (REF). One major advantage of the technology is that by using green electricity and a predominant hydrogen stream, the CO2 emissions from the process are much lower than when using blast furnaces.