India’s Jindal Steel Limited (JSL) has successfully deployed synthetic gas (syngas) derived from domestically sourced coal across multiple stages of its steelmaking operations, the company said in a statement on Monday, April 6.
Following this, JSL has emerged as the first company globally to use coal gasification-based technology at this scale within the steel industry, the statement said.
The company said it had established India’s first coal gasification-based direct reduced iron (DRI) plant, which uses syngas for iron-making.
It has now extended syngas use to galvanizing and color coating line furnaces - a first for the steel sector worldwide - and has also begun injecting syngas into its blast furnace to reduce reliance on imported coking coal and to cut carbon emissions per metric ton of steel produced, it said.
Syngas from domestic coal could substitute imported methanol, ammonia, ammonium nitrate and liquefied natural gas (LNG), and this coal gasification paired with carbon capture technology would help the company meet carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) compliance requirements in export markets, JSL said.
