Electric process
gas heaters
Together, Danieli and Kanthal will make possible the achievement new, challenging targets for greener DRI production and blast furnace operation.
DRI and blast furnace operation will be greener thanks to the development and implementation of electric process gas heaters.
This will be possible because of the strategic partnership between Kanthal –a world leader in electric industrial heating technology– and Danieli, to jointly scale up Kanthal’s demonstrated high-temperature, electric process gas direct-heating solution registered as Prothal® DH. Under the Kanthal and Danieli partnership, Prothal® DH will be advanced and industrialized to full scale, which will mean up to hundreds of megawatts of electricity, and become a new pillar for the decarbonization of DRI plants and blast furnaces.
Prothal® electric-heating solution will be developed for hydrogen, natural gas, and their combination, thereby also enabling retrofitting of existing plants.
The installation of electric process gas heaters will make green DRI processing performed by Energiron plants –making use of hydrogen as reducing gas– even greener, meaning totally CO2-emissions free.
The introduction of Prothal® DH technology in the blast furnace operation will reduce CO2 emissions also in ironmaking.