Predicting CO₂ Emissions from China's Full Scrap Electric Furnace Steelmaking Process Based on Different Carbon Reduction Scenarios for 2025–2030

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10.2991/978-94-6463-708-3_13How to use a DOI?

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iron and steel industry; total scrap; electric furnace steelmaking process; carbon dioxide emission

Abstract

To address climate change and achieve carbon neutrality goals, the electric arc furnace (EAF) short process, as one of the typical production processes in the steel industry, has the advantage of energy conservation and emission reduction. Currently, research on carbon emissions mainly focuses on the blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) long process, with less research on the EAF short process. In response, this paper takes the energy efficiency benchmark of the EAF short process steelmaking in the steel industry as the research object, adopts the carbon emission factor method, and based on three different carbon reduction scenarios, predicts the carbon dioxide emissions per ton of steel in the steelmaking process for the years 2025–2030. The results indicate that between 2025–2030, the reduction in carbon emissions from the EAF steelmaking process under different carbon reduction scenarios is roughly between 4.43% and 12.73%, indicating significant potential for carbon reduction.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yiyuan Zhang
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/05/09
TI  - Predicting CO₂ Emissions from China's Full Scrap Electric Furnace Steelmaking Process Based on Different Carbon Reduction Scenarios for 2025–2030
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 10th International Conference on Advances in Energy Resources and Environment Engineering (ICAESEE 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 103
EP  - 109
SN  - 2589-4943
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-708-3_13
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-708-3_13
ID  - Zhang2025
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