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Too busy to mention it this morning but the new kid on the block is electric smelting

Originally Posted by DDG

Making iron without coal or carbon dioxide - News - The ...
https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/...bon-dioxide-1/
Conventional iron-making setups use hydrogen and carbon monoxide from natural gas or coal to remove the oxygen from iron oxide pellets, producing CO 2. The consortium instead plans to reduce the iron using only hydrogen, produced by splitting water with electrolysis powered by clean electricity, an SSAB spokesperson told The Chemical Engineer.
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Can you produce steel without coal or oil? - Quora
https://www.quora.com/Can-you-produc...or-oil?share=1
Sure, if you have non fossil fuel sources of electricity. You will need some carbon (as much as 2%) to turn the iron into steel, but that can easily come from renewable resources. Set up an electric arc furnace to supply the heat, and if you use c...

The era of making steel without carbon emissions is here ...
https://www.aumanufacturing.com.au/t...ssions-is-here
The company's molten oxide electrolysis produces steel using electricity instead of coal. Gates said: "Boston Metal is working on a way to make steel using electricity instead of coal, and to make it just as strong and cheap.