Integrated Iron Ore Production Plant
To accelerate the deployment of innovative industrial applications, the project team’s first pursuit is the construction of an integrated iron hydrogen-based production plant that can accommodate alternative reducing agents (including hydrogen and hydrogen gas blends). Success of this production will result in a derisked, financeable one-gigawatt iron/steel production plant and create a proof of concept for parallel efforts across the other industrial verticals that require affordable energy and energy storage solutions.
The fully functioning plant will:
- Develop a process for producing iron using alternative reductants (including hydrogen and hydrogen gas blends) and local energy resources, achieving cost-competitiveness with traditional methods.
- Collect over 1,000 hours of continuous operational pilot data, enabling industry to design full-scale manufacturing facilities of the future.
Derisking challenges for the production plant include:
- Technology integration
- Financial viability
- Regulations, compliance, and permitting
- Supply chains and resources