Iron and its alloys, such as steel and cast iron, dominate the modern world, and there's growing demand for iron-derived products. Traditionally, blast furnaces transform iron ore into purified ...
For iron ore miners, it could be considered an inconvenient truth that the carbon emissions of steel (which account for around 8% of the global total), and iron ore (the key ingredient in steelmaking) ...
UNSW expert Professor Yansong Shen explains why it is so important to find a way to produce iron and steel in a more environmentally friendly and feasible way. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...
Moving hot metal to a basic oxygen furnace to make steel.Seong Joon Cho/Worldsteel—Getty Images The basic process for making steel hasn’t changed a whole lot in the past few hundred years. Into the ...
EUGENE, Ore. — In a potential breakthrough for one of the world's most carbon-intensive industries, researchers at the University of Oregon have developed a cleaner method for producing iron, an ...
Cleveland Works currently relies on two blast furnaces, which use coal to refine iron ore that is later processed into steel. Credit: (The Center For Land Use Interpretation; CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) ...
The push comes amid forecasts that the global iron‑ore market will expand from $313 billion in 2026 to $425 billion by 2034.
It’s the shape and porosity, not the size, of metal oxide particles that matter for efficiency in electrochemical ironmaking. Iron and its alloys, such as steel and cast iron, dominate the modern ...