Tag: China: Baosteel Zhanjiang starts world’s first hydrogen-based shaft furnace

Baosteel Group subsidiary Baosteel Zhanjiang Iron and Steel’s all-hydrogen, zero-carbon green demonstration plant, with a 1 million tonne (mn t) hydrogen-based shaft furnace was inaugurated on 23 Dec’21. The project will build China’s first self-integrated shaft furnace, and the world’s first shaft furnace that directly adds hydrogen for the reduction process. It is expected to…