HYBRIT Launch Event

Primary steel making is one of the highest CO2-emitting industrial processes, with iron and steel industry as a whole, accounting for 4 to 7 per cent of CO2 emissions globally. Growing global population and expanding urbanization are expected to trigger a rising global steel demand by 2050. Reducing steel industry's carbon footprint is thus a major challenge for Europe and the world.

The joint venture project Hydrogen Breakthrough Technology (HYBRIT), a cooperation of the swedish steel company SSAB, the swedish mining company LKAB and the swedish energy group Vattenfall, will be presented at the European Parliament in Brussels on 21 February 2018. Its aims at introducing a novel a process of primary steel making using hydrogen instead of coal consumption. If the hydrogen is produced based on reneable electricity, which is also part of the project, CO2 emissions can be completely avoided. This process can make a significant contribution to a decarbonised and climate-friendly steel industry.

Adina-Ioana Valean, Member of the Romanian Group of the European People's Party and chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) will host the opening ceremony of the HYBRIT project. In the course of the event, Professor Dr. Stefan Lechtenböhmer, Wuppertal Institute's Director of the Division Future Energy and Mobility Structures, will participate in the panel discussion.

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