Power Engineering and Ecology
ArticleName
Continuous improvement of technologies for achieving the best performances
ArticleAuthor
G. Nova.
ArticleAuthorData
Tenova:
G. Nova, General Director, redaktion@stahleisen.de
Abstract
In the last 35 years the steel industry has reduced its energy consumption per tonne of steel produced by 50%. A similar reduction has also been achieved in the impact on the environment. The worldwide economy will have to make a major effortto just be able to get close to the ambitious Kyoto Protocol and Copenhagen Conference target. Tenova’s R&D approach isoriented to a continuous improvement of its technologies for achieving the best performances, in energy consumption and greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions reduction.
keywords
Direct reduction, electric steel making, energy consumption, greenhouse gases, Kyoto Protocol
Language of full-text
russian
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