Iron and its alloys, such as steel and cast iron, dominate the modern world, and there's growing demand for iron-derived products. Traditionally, blast furnaces transform iron ore into purified ...

For iron ore miners, it could be considered an inconvenient truth that the carbon emissions of steel (which account for around 8% of the global total), and iron ore (the key ingredient in steelmaking) ...

UNSW expert Professor Yansong Shen explains why it is so important to find a way to produce iron and steel in a more environmentally friendly and feasible way. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Moving hot metal to a basic oxygen furnace to make steel.Seong Joon Cho/Worldsteel—Getty Images The basic process for making steel hasn’t changed a whole lot in the past few hundred years. Into the ...

EUGENE, Ore. — In a potential breakthrough for one of the world's most carbon-intensive industries, researchers at the University of Oregon have developed a cleaner method for producing iron, an ...

Cleveland Works currently relies on two blast furnaces, which use coal to refine iron ore that is later processed into steel. Credit: (The Center For Land Use Interpretation; CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) ...

MELBOURNE, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rio Tinto has proven the effectiveness of its low-carbon iron-making process using ores from its mines in Australia in a small-scale pilot plant in Germany, and ...

SINGAPORE, May 29 (Reuters) - There is a conundrum in plans to decarbonise the steel sector. It's entirely feasible with current technologies, but also wholly unlikely because of the massive cost of ...

It’s the shape and porosity, not the size, of metal oxide particles that matter for efficiency in electrochemical ironmaking. Iron and its alloys, such as steel and cast iron, dominate the modern ...