Prospective scenarios on energy efficiency and CO2 emissions in the European Iron & Steel industry

Nicolás Pardo and José Antonio Moya

Energy, 2013, vol. 54, issue C, 113-128

Abstract: The Iron & Steel industry is one of the biggest industrial CO2 emitters in the European Union. The present work analyzes the potential for the improvement of the energy efficiency and CO2 emission reduction for this sector up to 2030. Three scenarios are analyzed: baseline scenario (BS) representing the current evolution of this sector and two alternative scenarios (AS1 and AS2) to study the sensitivity of fuel and resource prices and CO2 emission prices. In the integrated production route all the scenarios highlight the importance of breakthrough technologies, such as Top Gas Recycling, to obtain performance improvement in energy consumption and CO2 emissions. In the secondary production route conditions under BS scenario are enough for a suitable incorporation of the best technologies in this route making insensitive the possible incentives due to higher prices in fuel and resources or CO2 emissions.

Keywords: Iron and Steel industry; Energy and CO2 simulation model; Technology innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2013.03.015

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