A collaboration between
Snam (one of Europe’s main energy infrastructure operators),
TenarisDalmine (a leading pipe manufacturer for the energy industry), and
Tenova (a developer of sustainable solutions for the ‘green transition’ of the metallurgical industry), recently started the first trial in Italy of using hydrogen at a steel plant to process steel products. The trial will last six months and aims to ‘evaluate the performance and reliability of using hydrogen in the steel industry and, more broadly, the hard-to-abate sectors that are the most challenging to decarbonise’.
The goal of the trial is to use hydrogen produced on-site to fuel an H
2-ready burner recently developed by Tenova and installed in a reheating furnace to hot-roll seamless pipes at the TenarisDalmine plant in Dalmine (Bergamo), Italy. The test will also help to define and implement safety guidelines and plant management procedures, and thereby develop integrated solutions that can ‘significantly lower CO
2 emissions produced by the manufacturing processes of hard-to-abate industries’.
TenarisDalmine will provide the site and reheating furnace, Snam will provide TenarisDalmine with an alkaline electrolysis system that will produce the hydrogen needed for the test, while Tenova will ‘complete the value chain’ by pooling its know-how on combustion systems designed to be fuelled with hydrogen.
The project also includes input from
Techint Engineering & Construction, a company that provides design and project management services and is continuously expanding in the energy transition field with the development of general and detailed installation engineering, the development of risk analysis, and verification of compliance with legal requirements and safety standards.