Decarbonizing China’s iron and steel industry from the supply and demand sides for carbon neutrality

Ren, Ming; Lu, Pantao; Liu, Xiaorui; Hossain, M.S.; Fang, Yanru; Hanaoka, Tatsuya; Ó’Gallachóir, Brian; Glynn, James; Dai, Hancheng

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.117209

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“…During steel production in China, coke and coal are used as reduction agents to cleave the oxygen from iron ore to produce molten iron. Except for the steel produced from carbon-based reducing agents, steel can be also produced by using electric furnaces which is typically used for scrap steel [ 40 ]. Scrap steel with low carbon emissions will grow rapidly in the coming decades.…”

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China’s energy transitions for carbon neutrality: challenges and opportunities

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The pledge of achieving carbon peak before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060 is a strategic decision that responds to the inherent needs of China’s sustainable and high-quality development, and is an important driving force for promoting China’s ecological civilization constructions. As the consumption of fossil fuel energy is responsible for more than 90% of China’s greenhouse gases emissions, policies focusing on energy transition are vital for China accomplishing the goal of carbon neutrality. Considering the fact that China’s energy structure is dominated by fossil fuels, especially coal, it is urgent to accelerate the low-carbon transition of the energy system in a relatively short time, and dramatically increase the proportion of clean energy in the future energy supply. Although China has made notable progress in the clean energy transition in the past, its path to carbon neutrality still faces many significant challenges. During the process of energy transformation, advanced technologies and greater investment will play essential parts in this extensive and profound systemic reform for China’s economy and society. In the meantime, these changes will create immense economic opportunities and geopolitical advantages.

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China’s energy transitions for carbon neutrality: challenges and opportunities

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“…This is in line with the internationally promoted rules of 3R (reducing, reusing and recycling). Especially in our country, China, the widespread use of this technology is meaningful for achieving the goal of Carbon Neutrality [18] in the future. Hence, a thorough study of the EH-WSN routing algorithm design has practical value for constructing IoT systems.…”

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An Energy-Efficient Routing Algorithm Based on Greedy Strategy for Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks

Sheng

Yong

2022

Sensors

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Energy harvesting wireless sensor network (EH-WSN) is considered to be one of the key enabling technologies for the internet of things (IoT) construction. Although the introduced EH technology can alleviate the energy limitation problem that occurs in the traditional wireless sensor network (WSN), most of the current studies on EH-WSN fail to adequately consider the relationship between energy state and data buffer constraint, and thereby they do not address well the issues of energy efficiency and long end-to-end delay. In view of the above problems, a brand new greedy strategy-based energy-efficient routing protocol is proposed in this paper. Firstly, in the system modeling process, we construct an energy evaluation model, which comprehensively considers the energy harvesting, energy consumption and energy classification factors, to identify the energy state of node. Then, we establish a channel feature-based communication range judgment model to determine the transmission area of nodes. Combining these two models, a reception state adjustment mechanism is designed. It takes the buffer occupancy and the MAC layer protocol into account to adjust the data reception state of nodes. On this basis, we propose a greedy strategy-based routing algorithm. In addition, we also analyze the correctness and computational complexity of the proposed algorithm. Finally, we conduct extensive simulation experiments to show that our algorithm achieves optimum performance in energy consumption, packet delivery ratio, average hop count and end-to-end delay and acceptable performance in energy variance.

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“…Regarding energy saving technology, Zhang et al [6] affirmed that accelerating the promotion of advanced energy-saving technology and encouraging innovation would improve production efficiency. Quader et al [7] and Ren et al [8] discussed related energysaving technologies to reduce CO 2 emissions. Tang et al [9] systematically analyzed the application of energy efficiency optimization technology in the iron and steel industry, focusing on energy saving technologies, such as production process energy saving and waste heat and energy recycling.…”

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“…Table 1 shows the actual data provided by a steel enterprise in China. Table 2 shows the energy saving calculated, according to Equations (4)- (8).…”

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Calculation Method of Energy Saving in Process Engineering: A Case Study of Iron and Steel Production Process

2021

Energies

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The effect of the traditional energy saving mode on process engineering is decreasing, so the idea of system energy saving is developing vigorously. This paper summarizes the existing studies on energy saving from three aspects—energy saving technology, energy management, comprehensive evaluation or analysis—and clearly finds that related studies on energy saving have been gradually promoted to promote the development of system energy saving in the whole process engineering process. Among them, the calculation of energy saving brought by energy saving technology is a difficult point in the research. This paper proposes a novel calculation method of energy saving by taking the iron and steel production process (ISPP) as an example. According to the actual data provided by a steel plant in China, the calculation method is validated effectively.

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Decarbonizing China’s iron and steel industry from the supply and demand sides for carbon neutrality

Cited by 183 publications

References 31 publications

China’s energy transitions for carbon neutrality: challenges and opportunities

China’s energy transitions for carbon neutrality: challenges and opportunities

An Energy-Efficient Routing Algorithm Based on Greedy Strategy for Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks

Calculation Method of Energy Saving in Process Engineering: A Case Study of Iron and Steel Production Process

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