The materials science behind sustainable metals and alloys

D Raabe - Chemical reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Production of metals stands for 40% of all industrial greenhouse gas emissions, 10% of the
global energy consumption, 3.2 billion tonnes of minerals mined, and several billion tonnes …

Carbon capture utilization and storage in review: Sociotechnical implications for a carbon reliant world

H McLaughlin, AA Littlefield, M Menefee… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
The decarbonization of industry and industrial systems is a pressing challenge given the
relative lack of low-carbon options available for “hard to decarbonize” sectors such as …

Combustion, chemistry, and carbon neutrality

K Kohse-Höinghaus - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Combustion is a reactive oxidation process that releases energy bound in chemical
compounds used as fuels─ energy that is needed for power generation, transportation …

Decarbonizing the iron and steel industry: A systematic review of sociotechnical systems, technological innovations, and policy options

J Kim, BK Sovacool, M Bazilian, S Griffiths, J Lee… - Energy Research & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The iron and steel industry is the largest coal consumer and the most greenhouse gas
intensive industry. It consumes about 7% of global energy supply, and conservative …

Global green hydrogen-based steel opportunities surrounding high quality renewable energy and iron ore deposits

A Devlin, J Kossen, H Goldie-Jones, A Yang - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
The steel sector currently accounts for 7% of global energy-related CO2 emissions and
requires deep reform to disconnect from fossil fuels. Here, we investigate the market …

Global iron and steel plant CO2 emissions and carbon-neutrality pathways

T Lei, D Wang, X Yu, S Ma, W Zhao, C Cui, J Meng… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The highly energy-intensive iron and steel industry contributed about 25%(ref.) of global
industrial CO2 emissions in 2019 and is therefore critical for climate-change mitigation …

Future demand for electricity generation materials under different climate mitigation scenarios

S Wang, Z Hausfather, S Davis, J Lloyd, EB Olson… - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
Achieving global climate goals will require prodigious increases in low-carbon electricity
generation, raising concerns about the scale of materials needed and associated …

An integrated analysis of China's iron and steel industry towards carbon neutrality

X Wang, B Yu, R An, F Sun, S Xu - Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The iron and steel industry is a critical sector for achieving China's carbon neutrality goal.
However, existing studies lack considering the multiple constraints including limited …

Closed-loop systems to circular economy: A pathway to environmental sustainability?

S Kara, M Hauschild, J Sutherland, T McAloone - CIRP Annals, 2022 - Elsevier
The global society faces an existential threat if it fails to meet current and future material
needs of its populations, while staying within the carrying capacity of our planet. An …

[HTML][HTML] Trends in the global steel industry: Evolutionary projections and defossilisation pathways through power-to-steel

G Lopez, J Farfan, C Breyer - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Steel production is a carbon and energy intensive activity, releasing 1.9 tons of CO 2 and
requiring 5.17 MWh of primary energy per ton produced, on average, globally, resulting in …