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Industrynews
Nucor Corporation, the premier steel
producer in the United States, has
signed a contract with Tenova HYL for
the world’s largest single DR module
ever to be constructed.
Nucor will install a 2.5 million ton per
year Energiron ZR plant using Tenova
HYL’s state-of-the-art reformerless
process design.
The plant will be built in Louisiana, and
will supply highly metallised, high
carbon DRI to Nucor steel plants.
The plant will be designed to produce
cold-discharge DRI of 96%
metallisation and 3.0% carbon in the
form of iron carbide, which will be
shipped to the various Nucor producing
facilities that will use the DRI in their
steel making process. Nucor, which
has a long history of leading the
industry in its innovative practices,
continues to solidify its position with
this new project and to further advance
in its commitment to secure its
long-term supply of quality iron
feedstock.
The Energiron ZR process provides
significantly low plant operating costs
and through intrinsic characteristics of
the process, allows the selective
capture of CO2 which can be
commercialised as a valuable
by-product.
The DR plant will also comply with the
strictest environmental regulations by
the EPA in terms of NOx, SOx and
other pollutants, having already been
granted the corresponding air permit in
Louisiana.
This new project covers the full supply
of the DR plant, licence, training and
technical assistance in commissioning
and start-up. With the support and
backing of the Tenova Group, Tenova
HYL will supply the full DR plant
equipment manufacture and delivery to
the client, mainly from USA and NAFTA,
and will supervise the project
implementation in the USA.
Roberto Pancaldi, chief executive of
Tenova HYL, said: “This is a perfect fit
in terms of providing the vanguard steel
company in the US with what we feel is
the vanguard technology in production
of direct reduced iron for steelmaking.”
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World’s largest
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