Mitsubishi Kakoki Kaisha announced that it received an order for seven units of small-sized on-site hydrogen generator from JFE Steel, which will be supplied for JFE’s test blast furnaces for carbon recycling.

The ordered hydrogen generator is a small-sized HyGeia-A made by the company having an hydrogen output capacity of 300NM3/h which is mainly used by hydrogen stations and industrial purposes.

JFE Steel is going to implement the development of low-carbonization technology utilizing CO2 contained in external hydrogen and waste gases from blast furnaces in connection with the NEDO’s Green Innovation Fund Project for Government’s realization of carbon neutral in 2050.

Transforming (methanation with hydrogen) CO2 contained in the waste gases from the blast furnace, the company is going to develop a carbon-recycling blast furnace to be used repeatedly as a reducing agent. An order for the methanation device (a methane output capacity of 500Nm3/h) has been placed with IHI, and it has also been decided to adopt 7 units of Mitsubishi Kakoki’s HyGeia-A to be used in the methanation.
　
The test blast furnace has already been planned to be set up in JFE Steel’s East Japan Works in Chiba Area and the company will make delivery by the end of 2024.