Title

Perspectives of CO₂ Emissions Reduction in Iron & Steel European Industries

Perspectives of CO₂ Emissions Reduction in Iron & Steel European Industries

Authorship

HANROT, FRANÇOIS; BIRAT, JEANPIERRE; DANLOY, GÉRARD

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BIRAT, JEANPIERRE

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DANLOY, GÉRARD

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DOI

10.5151/2594-357x-34Red-1019-1030

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Abstract

Global Warming presents an enormous challenge to the Steel Industry, which is both carbon-intensive and energy efficient. Lean production can provide some short-term emission mitigation, at the level of Kyoto requirements. In the middle term, more use of scrap will also help alleviate emissions. But to reach much larger reductions in GHG emissions, on a par with the likely targets that will be set after the Kyoto period, the European Steel Industry will have to imagine new production paradigms, which constitutes its most formidable challenge for the years to come. Carbon capture and storage, processes leaner in carbon use, vegetal biomass, electricity and hydrogen from green sources will have to be added together in a patchwork of process routes, which will have to be developed at great risk in the next decade, hopefully through broad European and worldwide cooperation.

Global Warming presents an enormous challenge to the Steel Industry, which is both carbon-intensive and energy efficient. Lean production can provide some short-term emission mitigation, at the level of Kyoto requirements. In the middle term, more use of scrap will also help alleviate emissions. But to reach much larger reductions in GHG emissions, on a par with the likely targets that will be set after the Kyoto period, the European Steel Industry will have to imagine new production paradigms, which constitutes its most formidable challenge for the years to come. Carbon capture and storage, processes leaner in carbon use, vegetal biomass, electricity and hydrogen from green sources will have to be added together in a patchwork of process routes, which will have to be developed at great risk in the next decade, hopefully through broad European and worldwide cooperation.