The future production base will be equipped with a direct reduced iron furnace and an electric arc furnace fueled by natural gas, which is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 60% compared to conventional blast-furnace-based steelmaking processes.

未来的生产基地将配备一个直接还原铁炉和一个以天然气为燃料的电弧炉，与传统的高炉炼钢工艺相比，预计这将减少60%以上的二氧化碳排放。

The agreement's focus areas include low-carbon sintering technology, blast furnace and basic oxygen furnace optimization, and carbon capture and utilization, it said.

该协议的重点领域包括低碳烧结技术、高炉和碱性氧气炉的优化以及碳捕获和利用。

After entering the steel industry 23 years ago, he returned to work at a blast furnace.

23年前进入钢铁行业后，他回到高炉工作。

Now, however, the onetime furnace man is leading the exploration of the world's most advanced low-carbon steel manufacturing process.

然而，现在，这位曾经的钢铁工人正在领导世界上最先进的低碳钢铁制造工艺的探索。

Tian, 44, is head of the first hydrogen-enriched carbon recycling blast furnace production project.

田，44岁，是第一个富氢碳循环高炉生产项目的负责人。

When a technological upgrade of the 430-cubic-meter blast furnace is completed, the carbon consumption of the furnace will be reduced by nearly one-third.

当430立方米高炉的技术升级完成时，该炉的碳消耗将减少近三分之一。

The average carbon intensity of the blast furnace's process is 1 metric ton for every ton of iron produced, and Baowu aims to reduce that by 30 percent with the new facility.

高炉工艺的平均碳强度为每吨铁1公吨，宝武的目标是通过新设施将碳强度降低30%。

This agreement is a milestone for BHP and HBIS to implement the collaboration inked in a memorandum of understanding signed in March 2021, under which BHP intends to invest up to $15 million over three years to fund research and pilot projects including hydrogen-based direct reduction technology, processing and recycling of steelmaking slag, as well as enhanced lump utilization in the blast furnace.

该协议是必和必拓和HBIS实施2021年3月签署的谅解备忘录中签署的合作的一个里程碑，根据该谅解备忘录，必和必拓打算在三年内投资高达1500万美元，用于资助研究和试点项目，包括氢基直接还原技术、钢渣加工和回收，以及提高高炉中的块状物利用率。

While the disposed pods can be fully recycled and reused after mixing them into the raw materials for cement, the procedure largely reduces the amount of ash and furnace slag compared to conventional methods of processing the pods.

The project is mainly intended to convert recycled blast furnace gases into electricity, which can cut emissions and save energy.

This very place where I am standing－a modern convention and exposition center－was converted from a blast furnace," said Chen Derong, chairman of China Baowu Steel Group, at a groundbreaking ceremony for the new projects.

The project calls for restructuring and renovating the site of an old blast furnace in Shanghai's Baoshan district into a modern convention and exposition center.

A worker takes samples of molten iron from a furnace of the China Baowu Steel Group in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province.

At the same time, the country cancelled the temporary control on five kinds of low-sensitivity graphite items such as furnace carbon electrodes that are mainly used in steel, metallurgy, chemical and other basic industries, said a notice jointly issued by the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs.

Within workshops of Qixian Dongyu Glassware Co Ltd where the glass furnace remains heated at a scorching 1,500 C, no molds are employed in the creation of distinctively shaped glassware, said Li Hu, head of the company.

Electrification in the steel sector, like the deployment of the electric arc furnace, which heats material by means of an electric arc, can also significantly enhance the energy efficiency of the steel industry, and reduce emissions of major air pollutants, such as nitrogen dioxide, by more than 80 percent by 2060.

On the technological front, the document highlights transition towards a high-end, green and intelligent path and pledges support for the development of electric furnace steel.

Fan said as Chinese steel enterprises are stepping up utilization of short-process steelmaking technologies like the electric furnace, the country's demand for iron ore will decline slightly.

The industry needs to further phase out outdated capacity, strengthen the construction of smart systems to make good use of digital transformation and promote short-process steelmaking technologies like electric furnace steelmaking, Gan said, who is also honorary chairman of the CSM and former deputy head of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

The MoU's focus areas include low-carbon sintering technology, blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace optimization, and carbon capture and utilization, it said.

In 2020, electric arc furnace steel only accounted for about 10 percent of China's total output, while worldwide the figure was 30 percent, and in the United States, about 70 percent.

On Friday, power rationing led to the shutdown of an exhaust system of a foundry company in the province's Liaoyang city, resulting in blast furnace gas poisoning.

Industry insiders said because the majority of Chinese steel enterprises use blast furnace method of steelmaking, which relies on carbon as fuel and agent for iron ore reduction, it is imperative that they upgrade their production technologies and optimize processing procedures to reduce carbon emissions.

The industry should also promote short-process electric furnace technologies and strengthen scrap steel recycling to reduce energy and raw material consumption.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released a draft five-year plan for public comment in January on the high-quality development of China's steel industry, calling for more use of scrap metals, expanded electric arc furnace capacity and more Chinese ownership of iron ore supplies.

"The better-than-expected financial performance can be attributed to a daring decision by HBIS to persuade the previous management team to start running a second blast furnace, instead of only one, said Song Sihai, executive director of HBIS Group Serbia Iron & Steel.

The "green steel" is expected to be produced in a hydrogen-based electric arc furnace, which would help BMW reduce carbon dioxide emissions in its supply chain by more than 230,000 metric tons per year, the carmaker said.