The Emsteel plant produces quality long products – heavy sections, bars and wire rods – and features an Energiron DRI plant. Now the company will take another step towards making this low-emission plant even more environmentally friendly by installing a 1MW-size electric process gas heater, supplied by Kanthal and Danieli.
Prothal® DH has been developed and tested by Kanthal and is now being prepared for commercialization together with the company’s strategic partner Danieli. The technology has the potential to completely remove the CO2 emissions from the heating process while enhancing energy efficiency.
Simon Lile, President Business Unit Heating Systems at Kanthal.“We’re pleased to see the technology that we have developed now being implemented in an end-user production setting. To enable industrial decarbonization, electric preheating of gas will become a significantly important application in the next few years, and we are getting ready to meet that demand”, says Simon Lile, President Business Unit Heating Systems at Kanthal.
In 2024, Kanthal and Danieli signed a strategic partnership agreement to develop and industrialize full-scale electric process gas heaters for DRI and other ironmaking applications. The heating solution is being developed for hydrogen, natural gas and combinations, thereby enabling retrofitting of existing DRI plants. By installing this technology in Energiron hydrogen-ready DRI plants, fully emission-free DRI production can be achieved. Even for natural gas based DRI plants, a more than 30% reduction of CO2 emissions will be achieved when electrifying the heating system.
For more information, please contact:
Kanthal: Yvonne Edenholm, Press and Media Relations Manager
yvonne.edenholm@alleima.com
+46 72-145 23 42
About Kanthal
Kanthal is an Alleima company and a world-leading brand for products and services in the areas of sustainable industrial heating technology and resistance material. The company develops innovative solutions in creative partnerships with its customers, and with a strong commitment to reducing the environmental impact. With skilled people and pioneering technology, Kanthal supports some of the world’s biggest and most exciting projects. For more information, visit www.kanthal.com.
About Danieli
Danieli designs, manufactures and installs metal producing plants and equipment worldwide, either on a turnkey basis or supplied as individual units, covering, with company-owned technology, the whole process cycle, from ore and scrap processing to finished flat, long, tube and extruded products, for ferrous and non-ferrous metals.
Danieli plants are run by Danieli Automation process control, power and instrumentation systems, robotics, and include DIGI&MET smart manufacturing solutions (Industry 4.0).
Sustainable production is guaranteed by energy-saving processes, hybrid plants using renewable energies, and hydrogen-based processes, as well as Danieli Environment solutions. For more information, visit www.danieli.com