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Sector-coupling Green Hydrogen to Electrify Steel Production - A Case Study at Ovako Hofors
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  • Teodor Elmfeldt,
  • Yasir Arafat,
  • Lina Bertling Tjernberg,
  • Anders Lugnet,
  • Göran Nyström
Teodor Elmfeldt
Electrical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm

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Yasir Arafat
Electrical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm
Lina Bertling Tjernberg
Electrical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm

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Anders Lugnet
Ovako Sweden AB Hofors
Göran Nyström
Ovako AB Stockholm

Abstract

With a global energy system in rapid transformation from fossil fuels, Green Hydrogen is one of few solutions to hard-to-abate emissions within industry. While most hydrogen projects are in a planning phase, the Ovako hydrogen facility in Hofors, with a scrap-based Electric Arc Furnace process, was inaugurated in September 2023. This project studies wider system benefits of the electrolyser such as power grid support, oxygen byproduct, providing hydrogen to external actors, and district heating. This is analysed both with current capacity and in regards to possible future development. Replacing fossil fuel with hydrogen produced by an atmospheric alkaline electrolyser is an indirect electrification with the potential to decrease Green House Gas emissions. Industry-wide electrification increases the demand for electricity, affecting all existing users. Therefore, system benefits and sector couplings such as enabling ancillary services to the grid, producing low-marginal cost hydrogen for hydrogen-powered trucks, and using waste heat for district heating, are important to ascertain system-wide improvements.
15 Jan 2024Submitted to TechRxiv
26 Jan 2024Published in TechRxiv