Worldwide, we produce more than two gigatons of steel a year, the vast majority of which is produced in blast furnaces. In order to make the blast furnace process more sustainable—less energy ...

Commissioned on Sept 15, 1985, Baoshan Iron and Steel Co's No 1 Blast Furnace — with a capacity exceeding 4,000 cubic meters ...

POSCO Holdings and Hyundai Steel, which have declared a transition to a 'low-carbon production system,' still have not reduced the proportion of blast furnace operations that emit a large amount of ...

Researchers from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom say they have designed an adaptation for existing iron and steel blast furnaces that could reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions by ...

Cleveland-Cliffs, one of Middletown’s largest employers, has submitted an air permit to expand operations at its Middletown ...

Steelmaking is an energy intensive industry, whose heavy reliance on fossil fuels creates significant pollution. Using renewable, clean energy sources for steel production is one approach to reduce ...

A lumpy disc of dark-gray steel covers a bench in the lab space of Boston Metal, an MIT spinout located a half-hour north of its namesake city. It’s the company’s first batch of the high-strength ...

As the era of the ‘Goro (blast furnace)’ comes to an end, the steel industry is accelerating the arrival of the ‘carbon-free steel’ era. According to the industry on the 7th, POSCO began construction ...

Blast furnaces are an indispensable part of the iron industry. After iron ore is mined, it goes directly to the furnace to be smelted, or refined. But blast furnaces produce an incredible amount of ...