| Title |
Coking Coal in the European Green Deal Strategy |
| ID_Doc |
63129 |
| Authors |
Ozga-Blaschke, U |
| Title |
Coking Coal in the European Green Deal Strategy |
| Year |
2020 |
| Published |
Inzynieria Mineralna-Journal Of The Polish Mineral Engineering Society, 2, 2 |
| DOI |
10.29227/IM-2020-02-47 |
| Abstract |
Achieving climate neutrality in the EU economy by 2050 is a huge challenge to which all European Union plans and strategies have been submitted. Achieving the EU's climate and environmental goals requires, among other things, a profound transformation of the power sector, as well as decarbonisation and modernisation of energy-intensive industries such as steel production, for instance. The European steel industry has to face the challenges of reducing carbon emissions; the evidence suggests that hydrogen will play a major role in the decarbonisation of the sector, provided cheap renewable energy is available on a large scale. However, in the near future, most of the steel produced in the EU will continue to be produced using the BF-BOF route, which requires a stable supply of coking coal. The paper describes the structure of world steel production according to production technology and indicates the projects implemented by European companies, aimed at moving towards emission-free steel production. The European Commission has recognised the key role of coking coal in the EU economy by placing it on the 2020 list of critical raw materials. The list identifies those raw materials which need to be protected in the EU due to their high economic importance and high supply risk. The paper presents the results of the criticality assessment for coking coal included in the fourth technical review, which qualified it for the third time as a material to be kept on the list of critical raw materials. |
| Author Keywords |
EU; critical raw materials; coking coal; steel; decarbonisation |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000611957900013 |
| WoS Category |
Mining & Mineral Processing |
| Research Area |
Mining & Mineral Processing |
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