Green steel: a question of culture and Green steel:

By embracing new ideas and processes, steel manufacturers can future-proof their businesses ready for the hydrogen transition – while at the same time reducing their carbon footprint and optimizing production to meet demand. By Frederik

STEELMAKING is undergoing a radical transformation, primarily driven by the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions by replacing coal with renewable alternatives such as hydrogen, while at the same time optimizing production to meet increased

Esterhuizen, Mukesh Jain, and Tarun Mathur*.

demand using digital and automation technologies.

To address the former issue first, producing ‘green’ steel using hydrogen and deploying carbon capture solutions is the future of the industry, but high costs, limited resources and the absence of a unified policy framework all mean this is still some way off becoming a reality on an industrial scale.

*All authors work for ABB.

In the interim, the focus for steelmakers and technology providers like ABB must be