Challenges and Opportunities of CO₂ Capture and Storage for the Iron and Steel Industry

Publication Overview

The main objectives of the workshop were:

To address and discuss the difficulties of the iron and steel industry to enable the implementation of CCS.
To understand the various issues and factors in the evaluation of the cost of CCS in an integrated steel mill.

Publication Summary

The key messages from the workshop were:

Technologies using CCS to reduce CO₂ emissions from an integrated steel mill are technically feasible.
Large scale demonstration projects are needed to validate performance and cost.
Public acceptance, market competitiveness and project financing should be part of the discussion when implementing CCS to the steel industry sector.
More engineering work on techno-economic evaluation is necessary to understand the cost dynamics of producing steel with CCS.

For CCS in the steel sector to be viable, an international commitment is required to establish a level playing field to guarantee competitiveness in the global steel market

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