Decarbonized Hydrogen in the US Power and Industrial Sectors ...
Using zerocarbon power causes a total reduction of 280 kgCO2/ton steel, of which 222 kgCO2/ton steel is from substituting for average US grid power in the EAF and 58 kgCO2/ton steel is from replacing natural gas as a heat source in the DRI. Note that natural gas acts as a heat source as well as a reductant in DRI. Since hydrogen replaces ...