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You don't target cheap steel market with this, you go after VAR, and ESR steel. > Among other benefits, you're now only heating the material once instead of 2-
by baybal2 5y ago
You don't target cheap steel market with this, you go after VAR, and ESR steel.
> Among other benefits, you're now only heating the material once instead of 2-3 times, and as a result, you actually consume less total energy in this process even though you have to reach a higher temperature in the single heating.
Combined steel+iron plants were around 60+ years
- scythe 5y agoThe key development that allowed this was the 2013 development of chromium anodes that tolerate the insane conditions of the process: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23657254/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23657254/ So, that's why MOE wasn't around before 2013.
- baybal2 5y agoMOE wasn't, but colocating blast furnaces with steel converters is a very old idea.