blast furnace
also referred to as: blast furnaces
5 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 8, 2022 by John O'Donnell · across every show →
Everything said about blast furnace, oldest first
Dec 8, 2022 positive
Jan 5, 2023 neutral
Aug 2, 2024 negative
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”
Aug 2, 2024 neutral
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.”
Aug 2, 2024 bearish
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 …”