Steel city sets 2050 carbon neutrality goal
Wollongong, home to Bluescope Steel’s Port Kembla operation, has set a goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Chemistry means low-emission steelmaking alternatives remain a challenge: Bluescope boss
Widespread adoption of breakthrough low-emission steelmaking was a “considerable way off,” the CEO of Bluescope has said. According to The Australian Financial Review, Mark Vasella said the steelmaking industry was striving to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, and there were alternatives to using fossil fuel-based energy, but the traditional use of carbon required to…
Steel breakthrough – thyssenkrupp makes steel using hydrogen
By Peter Roberts Steelmaking has always been the one area where even in the most carbon constrained industrial future imaginable, the world might just need to use Australian coking coal. But now, thanks to an industrial breakthrough of truly massive proportions, the world may be left with very few critically important uses for coal. German…
Australia could be “top exporter of zero-carbon steel and renewable hydrogen”
Climate change think tank Beyond Zero Emissions has said it supports a strong, low-emissions industrial sector, but further support for renewable energy and R&D in alternative steelmaking technologies is needed.
Low carbon economy can spur Australian “manufacturing boom”: Albanese
Anthony Albanese will seek to marry a strong commitment to a low carbon economy that can fuel a “manufacturing boom”, with firm support for coal, in his first “vision statement”, to be delivered in Perth.
Our ability to manufacture minerals could transform the gem market, medical industries and even help suck carbon from the air
By Anita Parbhakar-Fox, Senior Research Fellow in Geometallurgy/Applied Geochemistry, The University of Queensland and Paul Gow, Principal Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Last month, scientists uncovered a mineral called Edscottite. Minerals are solid, naturally occurring substances that are not living, such as quartz or haematite. This new mineral was discovered after an examination of the…
Slag, sustainability and steel
Metal manufacturers around the world are trying to lessen their greenhouse gas output. Brent Balinski spoke to the CSIRO’s Dr Mark Cooksey about some of his organisation’s work regarding green steelmaking, and why he believes the de-carbonisation trend is an opportunity for Australian metal producers.
BlueScope steel cuts carbon emissions, but not from steelmaking
BlueScope Steel managed a 1.2 per cent reduction in overall greenhouse gas emissions per tonne of steel produced in the 2019 financial year, above ts target of a yearly one per cent reduction in emission intensity to 2030. However the drop in production of gases which are affecting climate, revealed in its 2019 sustainability report,…
The era of making steel without carbon emissions is here
Analysis by Peter Roberts One of the biggest issues about moving to a carbon-free future has been how to eliminate dangerous emissions from products such as cement and steel that are absolutely vital to the economy. In a sense electricity production was an easy problem to solve using clean renewables compared to the greater industrial…
Liberty Steel sought government loan guarantee: report
There have been media reports that Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance approached federal and state governments for a government guarantee to aid the Whyalla smelter’s restructure and expansion. Todays’s report, in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, reported sources who claim an informal approach was made to a joint Commonweath/South Australian taskforce about the possibility of…