Overview
- Jindal Steel, which disclosed the news Monday in a BSE filing, said it has commissioned India’s first Direct Reduced Iron plant that uses synthesis gas made from domestic coal.
- To keep finishing lines running during shortages of natural gas, LPG, and propane, the company now fires its galvanising and colour-coating furnaces with syngas in what it calls a first for the steel industry.
- The company also reports injecting syngas into blast furnaces to trim reliance on imported coking coal and to cut carbon emitted per tonne of steel.
- Syngas is a fuel made by gasifying coal into a mix of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, and Jindal says this stream could replace imports of methanol, ammonia, ammonium nitrate, and LNG under India’s coal gasification push.
- Coverage is drawn from the company’s disclosures, with at least one outlet noting it did not independently verify the operational claims.