ThyssenKrupp Steel Duisburg steel plant

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ThyssenKrupp Steel Duisburg steel plant, also known as Integriertes Huttenwerk Duisburg, is a steel plant in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany that operates blast furnace (BF), basic oxygen furnace (BOF), and direct reduced iron (DRI) technology.

Location

The map below shows the exact location of the plant in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany:

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  • Location: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse 100, 47166 Duisburg, Germany
  • Coordinates (WGS 84): 51.491649, 6.733051 (exact)

Background

The ThyssenKrupp Steel Duisburg steel plant consists of two plants operating as one location in Duisburg.[1]

Thyssenkrupp is going to build a direct reduced iron plant with an integrated melting unit run on hydrogen and green power at its Duisburg works to produce green steel.[2]

The plant is expected to be completed by 2025 and have a capacity of 1.2 million mt a year. If hydrogen is not available in sufficient quantities by then, the plant will be operated using natural gas.[2]

The solid material produced in the direct reduction plant will be liquefied in an integrated melting unit, and the "blast furnace 2.0" will produce "electrical hot metal," processed in the existing metallurgical plant.[2]

Thyssenkrupp has set itself the target to reduce its CO2 emissions by 30% by 2030 and plans to complete the main part of the plant by 2025 and produce 400,000 mt of green steel. For 2030, the company's target is 3 million mt of green steel.[2]

Thyssenkrupp is Germany's largest steelmaker, and the company's Duisburg steel production site alone accounts currently for 2% of Germany's CO2 emissions.[2]

"The potential for reducing CO2 is also of this magnitude if these emissions can be reduced to zero in the long term," said Thyssenkrupp in a press note.[2]

In the short term, tests are being run using hydrogen in conventional blast furnace operations before the DRI plant is finished.[2]

Low-emissions/green steelmaking

This steel plant is associated with a green steel project tracked in the Green Steel Tracker. Details about the project are included below.

Table 1: Green Steel Project Details

All references for the above data are available in the Green Steel Tracker.
Project 1 Project 2 Project 3
Project name tkH2Steel HydrOxy Hub Walsum tkH2Steel
Company Thyssenkrupp Thyssenkrupp Thyssenkrupp
Company has climate goals? Yes Yes Yes
Location Duisburg, Germany Duisburg, Germany Duisburg, Germany
Project website Site Site Site
Project scale Full scale R&D partnership Full scale
Project status Construction Announced Announced
Year to be online 2028 2027 2026
Technology to be used NG-DRI to H-DRI H2 production NG-DRI to H-DRI
Technology details MIDREX Flex Green electricity electrolysis H-DR - MIDREX
Iron production capacity (million tonnes per year) 2 Not applicable 2
Steel production capacity (million tonnes per year) 2 Not applicable Not applicable
CO2 capture (million tonnes CO2 per year) Not applicable Not applicable Not applicable
Hydrogen generation capacity (MW) Not applicable 157 Not applicable
Investment size (m USD) 3100 600 2000.4
Partners Midrex Technologies, Inc., Paul Wurth & SMS group, VINCI Iqony, Thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers, Steag –
Date of announcement 2020-08-28 2021-02-24 2022-09-08

Plant Details

Table 2: General Plant Details

Start date Workforce size
1891[3] 26303[4]

Table 3: Ownership and Parent Company Information

Parent company Parent company PermID Parent company GEM ID Owner Owner company PermID Owner company GEM ID
thyssenkrupp AG 4295869754 E100000004212 thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG[5] 4297366394 E100001000542

Table 4: Process and Products

Steel product category Steel products Steel sector end users ISO 14001 ISO 50001 Main production equipment
crude, semi-finished, finished rolled[6] sheet, plate, strip, electrical, coated[6] automotive, building and infrastructure, energy, steel packaging, tools and machinery, transport[7] 2022[8] 2022[8] BF; DRI; BOF

Table 5: Plant-level Crude Steel Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

1Please see our Frequently Asked Questions page for an explanation of the different capacity operating statuses.
Capacity operating status1 Basic oxygen furnace steelmaking capacity Nominal crude steel capacity (total)
operating pre-retirement 11000[9] 11000[9]

Table 6: Plant-level Crude Iron Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

1Please see our Frequently Asked Questions page for an explanation of the different capacity operating statuses.
Capacity operating status1 Blast furnace capacity Sponge iron/DRI capacity Nominal iron capacity (total)
announced – 2500[10][11] 2500[10][11]
operating pre-retirement 11400[12][13][14][15][16] – 11400[12][13][14][15][16]

Table 7: Upstream Products Production Capacities (thousand tonnes per annum)

Ferronickel Sinter Coke Pellets
0[17] >0[17] 2500[18] 0[17]

Table 8: Actual Plant-level Crude Steel Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)

Year BOF production Other/unknown steel production
2019 unknown unknown
2020 unknown unknown
2021 unknown unknown
2022 unknown unknown
2023 unknown unknown

Table 9: Actual Plant-level Crude Iron Production by Year (thousand tonnes per annum)

Year BF production Other/unknown iron production
2019 unknown unknown
2020 unknown unknown
2021 unknown unknown
2022 unknown unknown
2023 unknown unknown

Unit Details

Table 10: Blast Furnace Details

Unit name Status Start date Retired date Furnace manufacturer and model Current size Current capacity (ttpa) Decarbonization technology Most recent relining
BF 1 operating pre-retirement[14][16] 1973[19] 2045[20] ThyssenKrupp; Saint-Gobain (hearth)[21][22] 4200.0 m3[19] 3650[14][16] Coke oven gases recycled in BFs[21] 2021-10[23]
BF 2 operating pre-retirement[14][16] 1993[24] 2045[20] Paul Wurth; ThyssenKrupp; Saint-Gobain (hearth)[21][25][22] 5513.0 m3[26] 4050[13] Coke oven gases recycled in BFs[21] 2014-10[27]
BF 8 operating pre-retirement[14][16] 2007[12] 2045[20] Paul Wurth[12] 2120.0 m3[12] 2000[12] Coke oven gases recycled in BFs[21] –
BF 9 operating pre-retirement[14][16] 1962[28][15] 2025[20] – – 1700[15] Pilot project for hydrogen use in steelmaking; completed the first test phase in 2021[29][30] 2012-05[31]

Table 11: Direct Reduced Iron Furnace Details

Unit name Status Announced date Start date Furnace manufacturer and model Furnace type Current capacity (ttpa)
unknown DRI (1) announced[11] 2022-09[32] 2026[33][10] TS Elino midrex[33][10] shaft furnace[10] 2500[11][10]

Table 12: Basic Oxygen Furnace Details

Unit name Status Start date Current capacity (ttpa)
unknown BOF (1) operating pre-retirement[11] 2013[34] 5500[9]
unknown BOF (2) operating pre-retirement[11] 2014[34] 5500[9]

Articles and Resources

Additional data

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References

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