📋 Tender Overview
HYDREAMS is a European flagship that aims at total CO2 emissions reductions of 4.5 MtCO2/year by partners by 2032. HYDREAMS will demonstrate clean H2 oxycombustion at TRL7 with minimal NOx emissions. Partners include 3 steel producers; 1 clean H2 electrolyser manufacturer; 2 burner manufacturers; 1 gas producer/distributer; 1 refractories manufacturer; plus public research organisations with expertise in modelling and materials for combustion, burners and furnaces. The steel annealing furnace demonstrator will be supplied with the most OPEX-competitive and energy-efficient H2, which will use waste heat from the steel factory to produce CO2-free clean hydrogen, at a target cost lower than 2 €/kg H2. The clean hydrogen for the demonstration will be provided free of cost for HYDREAMS, as its production is funded elsewhere. The solutions’ competitive OPEX and CAPEX enable H2/O2 combustion to be cheaper than business as usual natural gas/air combustion at electricity prices below 56.5€/MWh, for a typical use-case for a carbon tax of 150€/tCO2 and natural gas price of 30€/MWh. We will demonstrate an increase in combustion energy-efficiency by 10 to 47% with no loss in steel properties. Modelling and demonstration will enable to elucidate stable combustion conditions, identify hot spots, and limit NOx. Partners will contribute to emerging ISO and CEN norms. To ensure broad replication, they aim to obtain investment decisions by the end of the project for industrial-scale deployment in 5 steel plants and commitments from 8 brand-owners to adopt green steel in their products. Further replication is planned to reach the maximum possible market size with clean H2 combustion via solid exploitation plans and clear paths to clean hydrogen.
