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The Swedish HYBRIT consortium — the steelmaker SSAB, the iron ore miner LKAB and the utility Vattenfall — delivers steel made from hydrogen-reduced sponge iron produced at its Luleå pilot plant to the truck manufacturer Volvo. The quantity is small and the delivery is a demonstration rather than a commercial supply. Its importance is that it converts hydrogen direct reduction from a proposal into a demonstrated process chain, and it establishes northern Sweden — hydropower, iron ore and grid capacity in one place — as the location where the economics were least unfavourable.

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  2. The Swedish HYBRIT consortium — the steelmaker SSAB, the iron ore miner LKAB and the utility Vattenfall — delivers steel made from hydrogen-reduced sponge iron produced at its Luleå pilot plant to the truck manufacturer Volvo. The quantity is small and the delivery is a demonstration rather than a commercial supply. Its importance is that it converts hydrogen direct reduction from a proposal into a demonstrated process chain, and it establishes northern Sweden — hydropower, iron ore and grid capacity in one place — as the location where the economics were least unfavourable.
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  4. Heavy industry (steel, cement and chemicals)
  5. Hydrogen direct reduction of iron
  6. Electrolytic (green) hydrogen
  7. HYBRIT delivers the first hydrogen-reduced steel
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  9. Hydrogen direct reduction of iron
  10. Heavy industry (steel, cement and chemicals)
  11. Electrolytic (green) hydrogen
  12. Stegra green steel plant, Boden
  13. Heavy industry (steel, cement and chemicals)
  14. Electrolytic (green) hydrogen
  15. HYBRIT delivers the first hydrogen-reduced steel
  16. The electrified share of final energy
  17. Process emissions from calcination
  18. Hydrogen direct reduction of iron
  19. HYBRIT delivers the first hydrogen-reduced steel
  20. Hydrogen direct reduction of iron
  21. Photovoltaic solar generation
  22. HYBRIT delivers the first hydrogen-reduced steel
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  24. Supports the account of blast-furnace reduction chemistry, the clinker calcination process emission and its approximate share of cement emissions, the process heat temperature requirements, and the abatement option set of hydrogen direct reduction, scrap-based electric arc steelmaking, clinker substitution and carbon capture. V55 verification basis: neither roadmap was retrieved in this session; publication years are stated as the author recalls them and should be confirmed, and all quantitative shares in the citing objects are given as ranges.
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