Direct Reduction Iron

Advanced alloy solutions engineered for DRI processing environments.

Paralloy Group is a leading manufacturer of centrifugally cast reformer tubes for the direct reduction of iron (DRI), a supplier of high-quality fabricated assemblies for aerospace, petrochemical, syngas, nuclear, energy and defence industries but a technical solution provider for DRI and steel industry on different areas like:

Offline and online tubes performance evaluation
Destructive and non-destructive evaluation of reformer tube quality
Metallurgical and analytical evaluation of defective tubes Vs baseline quality
Reformer operation data evaluation and problem solving
Technical assistance during shutdown periods
Field welding and supervision
Material selection and operation conditions

What makes our DRI technology unique in the market?

High energy costs around the world and reduced industrial carbon footprints requirements is driving more energy-efficient and decarbonised steam reformers. Provide pivotal solution to the DRI and steel industry. Paralloy’s solution to these industrial and environmental challenges is to provide customers with our patented unique tube design (OMEGA® Technology) in conjunction with our innovative material chemistry (DRA). In comparison to conventional processing, our patented design and chemistry incorporate high thermodynamic stability to the process to resist high temperature creep and fatigue, high oxidation & carburization resistance and high corrosion resistance of the material in use.

The technical flexibility of our innovative technology provide following benefits:

A retrofittable option for DRI and petrochemical plants to move towards greener Hydrogen with increased plant efficiency and productivity.
Extend reformer tube life and lower life cycle costs.

How does energy consumption in DRI compare with traditional blast furnace methods?

In comparison to the blast furnace iron production, different process routes with different industrial, environmental and process-related benefits and challenges are available.

The iron produced using Coal-based Blast furnace, DRI using natural gas and H2 gas process routes use approximately 17 – 21GJ, 10.5GJ and 9.8GJ energy per ton of iron produced, respectively.

Similarly, comparing to traditional blast furnace–basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) ironmaking, CO2 emissions will be reduced by about 61% when using a combination of methane (CH4) and hydrogen (H2) gas and further reduced by 97% when natural gas is substituted by H2 to produce exclusively H2-based DRI.