Tata Steel looking for partners to produce hydrogen

Hyderabad : Tata Steel, the country's oldest and largest steel maker, today said it was at an advanced stage of securing partnerships for a R&D programme to produce hydrogen from water vapors generated in cooling process, and plans to sell the gas in the market. Sumitesh Das, Chief of Global Research Program at Tata Steel said the programme, if successfully commercialised, would get the company more revenue than the sale of steel.

"When water is sprinkled on molten slag, discharged at temperatures of over 1,500 degrees centigrade, it breaks down into hydrogen and oxygen molecules. You need a vessel to collect the captured hydrogen gas.