Roles of electricity: Electric steelmaking

Technical Report · Tue Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:6950471

Burwell, C C

Electric steel production from scrap metal continues to grow both in total quantity and in market share. The economics of electric-steel production in general, and of electric minimills in particular, seem clearly established. The trend towards electric steelmaking provides significant economic and competitive advantages for producers and important overall economic, environmental, and energy advantages for the United States at large. Conversion to electric steelmaking offers up to a 4-to-1 advantage in terms of the overall energy used to produce a ton of steel, and s similar savings in energy cost for the producer. The amount of old scrap used to produce a ton of steel has doubled since 1967 because of the use of electric furnaces.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Inc., TN (USA); Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76OR00033
• OSTI ID: 6950471
• Report Number(s): DOE/OR/00033-T269; ON: DE87004888
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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