If three fourths of steel production were to switch to
electric arc furnaces using scrap, energy use in the steel industry could be cut by almost 40 percent.
From blast furnaces, basic oxygen furnaces,
electric arc furnaces, pickling and rolling operations, to galvanizing - coating, coke and sinter plants, copper and aluminum production facilities — we have worked with all types and sizes of operations.
One can use an electric vehicle and other electric equipment for all aspects of mining and ore transportation, certainly; for manufacturing of steel, silicon, etc., there's
the electric arc furnace and so on, and as far as installing wind turbines, use electric cranes.
Steel recycling started climbing more than a generation ago with the advent of
the electric arc furnace, a technology that produces steel from scrap using only one fourth the energy it would take to produce it from virgin ore.
While the present shortage of scrap limits the ability to switch entirely to
electric arc furnaces, more scrap will be available in 2020 when developing economies begin retiring aging infrastructure.