7TH EUROPEAN COKE AND IRONMAKING CONGRESS - ECIC 2016

The transfer of our fast growing society from a carbon based to a low carbon based economy/production within the next decades is the global megatrend which is discussed now for 15 years. The minus 80 % target can only be achieved by a transfer of the global energy system. We have today a portfolio of technologies available to reduce the CO2 intensity further, but without consideration of the two limitations plant lifetime and carbon lean energy a successful transfer will not possible and every company and country has it's own timeline for this process. The forced use of natural gas can act as a bridge technology for the transfer between the energy systems. HBI and DRI allow a broad flexibility for the EAF steel production route as well for the integrated BF/BOF steel production. The start-up of the voestalpine DR plant in the US is an important step to meet the challenges of the next decades.