Indian steelmaker Tata Steel Limited has announced that it has initiated a trial for injecting hydrogen gas at its blast furnace in the company’s flagship plant in Jamshedpur city, in an attempt to reduce metallurgical coke usage and cut carbon emissions. The company states that the trial is expected to run a continuous course of four to five days.

Tata Steel Limited has initiated a trial for injecting hydrogen gas at its blast furnace in the company’s flagship plant in Jamshedpur using 40% of the injection systems, in a bid to reduce metallurgical coke usage and cut carbon emissions. 

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Tata Steel stated that the trial is expected to run a continuous course of four to five days, and has the potential to reduce coke rate by 10%, resulting in a 7% to 10% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions per ton of crude steel produced. The company said the trial will provide insights into operating blast furnaces with greener fuel injectants, reducing fossil fuel consumption and subsequent CO2 emissions from the blast furnace. “This is the first time in the world that such a large quantity of hydrogen gas is being continuously injected in a blast furnace,” an official from Tata Steel shared. said.