Prospective scenarios on energy efficiency and CO2 emissions in the European Union Iron & Steel Industry
The Iron & Steel industry is one of the biggest industrial CO2 emitters in the European Union. The present work analyses the potential for improvement in the energy efficiency and CO2 emission reduction for this sector up to 2030. Three scenarios are analysed: baseline scenario (BS) representing the current evolution of this sector and two alternative scenarios (AS1 and AS2) studying respectively 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 represented in the alternative scenarios.
PARDO GARCIA Nicolas;
MOYA RIVERA Jose Antonio;
2013-06-17
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
JRC73438
0360-5442,
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544213001928,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC73438,
10.1016/j.energy.2013.03.015,
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