A project to turn Australia’s low grade iron ore into high grade magnetite at very low temperatures is out of the lab and ready for real world testing, with a government-funded trial proving the ...

The report recommends regional steel plants modernize and use direct reduction and electric arc furnace technologies, among other ideas.

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Instead, you use green hydrogen in a direct reduction process, both as your reductant and to power an electric arc furnace to supply the heat. Instead of tons of carbon dioxide, this process emits ...

Metso has positioned its Grate Kiln pelletising system as a key enabler of higher-quality iron ore pellets for direct reduction (DRI) and low-carbon steelmaking pathways.

Dr Tessa Leach works for Climateworks Centre. She is a member of the Australian Industry Energy Transitions Initiative, which received funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. Dr Tyra ...

WHYALLA, Australia - For more than a century, Australia has fed the world’s hunger for iron ore. Vast swaths of the rusty red Outback have been dug up and delivered overseas to make the steel that ...

Efforts to reduce the carbon emissions from car manufacturing are multi-pronged, and a significant component of that effort is a move to green steel made using low-carbon processes. In the process of ...

Steel production accounts for around seven per cent of humanity’s greenhouse-gas emissions. There are two reasons for this startling fact. First, steel is made using metallurgic methods that our Iron ...