 Energy use and carbon dioxide emissions from steel production in ChinaL Price, J Sinton, E Worrell, D Phylipsen, H Xiulian and L Ji Energy, 2002, vol. 27, issue 5, 429-446 Abstract: In 1996, China manufactured just over 100Mt of steel and became the world's largest steel producer. Official Chinese energy consumption statistics for the steel industry include activities not directly associated with the production of steel, ‘double-count’ some coal-based energy consumption, and do not cover the entire Chinese steelmaking industry. In this paper, we make adjustements to the reported statistical data in order to provide energy use values for steel production in China that are comparable to statistics used internationally. We find that for 1996, official statistics need to be reduced by 1365PJ to account for non-steel production activities and double-counting. Official statistics also need to be increased by 415PJ in order to include steelmaking energy use of small plants not included in official statistics. This leads to an overall reduction of 950PJ for steelmaking in China in 1996. Thus, the official final energy use value of 4018PJ drops to 3067PJ. In primary energy terms, the official primary energy use value of 4555PJ is reduced to 3582PJ when these adjustments are made. Date: 2002 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:energy:v:27:y:2002:i:5:p:429-446 DOI: 10.1016/S0360-5442(01)00095-0 Access Statistics for this article Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser More articles in Energy from Elsevier |
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