Blast Furnace
topic on 2 shows · 6 statements across 4 episodes
6 statements about Blast Furnace, every show
Dell: Over 90% of Virgin Iron Is Made in Blast Furnaces
“So, the iron making process, that's really where the major driver of all the greenhouse gas emissions from the, ah, the steel industry come from, and more than 90% of iron made today is made with a single piece of equipment, which is called the blast furnace.”
Dell: Current DRI Technology Requires Higher-Grade Iron Ore Than Blast Furnaces
“The current DRI technology requires a higher quality iron ore than a blast furnace does, and so it, we could not take, if we were just gonna use the iron ore that we are currently mining, we can't straightforwardly just put all of that in a shaft furnace”
Dell: No steel company is commercializing large-scale blast furnace carbon capture
“There's very little going on in the world of carbon capture in the steel industry right now. There are a there are no large-scale efforts to commercialize this technology. Like, there isn't a single steel company anywhere in the world that's like, we're gonna …”
The steel industry accounts for up to 9% of global carbon emissions
“So the steel industry is responsible for as much as nine percent of CO₂ emissions worldwide every year, and the majority of those emissions come from the, sort of, the blast furnaces and the basic oxygen furnaces, which heat and process coal products, fossil f…”
Friedmann: Injecting hydrogen into blast furnaces caps out at 20% decarbonization
“So if you take an existing blast furnace and put hydrogen into it, you can get about 20% decarbonization. Okay, that's worth doing, but you can't get 50% decarbonization with hydrogen.”