Renewable Energy and Green Metallurgy Technology

Dear Colleagues,

With the development of the metallurgical industry, enormous challenges in energy and environment have come forth. Switching traditional industry into green metallurgical industry is of great value. The production process in traditional metallurgical industry uses large amounts of fossil fuels, which consume energy and emit CO₂ intensively. The industry is in urgent need of advanced techniques for replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy, and decreasing energy consumption and CO₂ emission. Renewable energy contains biomass energy, wind energy, solar energy, etc. Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy is the trend in future energy utilization in the metallurgical industry. Furthermore, about 70% of the energy in the metallurgy process is discharged via slag, blast furnace gas, converter gas, etc. The efficient disposition of slag, blast furnace gas, and converter gas has played a critical role in emission reduction in the metallurgy industry. Additionally, advanced technology steers the upgrading of green metallurgical industry. Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy, energy recovery, and advanced technology lead to the development of green metallurgical industry.

Recent advances in renewable energy, energy recovery, and advanced technology in the metallurgy industry have gained great attention, including the topics of the utilization of renewable energy replacing fossil fuels, resource utilization of metallurgical slag, low-carbon smelting technology in the steel industry, smelting mechanism and control process of non-modulated high-strength steel for automobiles, etc. This Special Issue targets researchers and technologists interested in all aspects of the science, technology, and applications of renewable energy and green metallurgy technology. It will feature original research papers and reviews about renewable energy replacing fossil fuels, energy recovery, and advanced technology of the metallurgy industry. We invite scientists working in the area of renewable energy and green metallurgy technology to contribute to this Special Issue.

This Special Issue on “Renewable energy and Green Metallurgy Technology” aims to curate novel advances to reduce fossil fuel consumption and CO₂ emission in the metallurgical industry. Topics include, but are not limited to:

1. Biomass energy and solar energy replacing fossil fuels;
2. Resource utilization of metallurgical slag;
3. Low-carbon smelting technology in steel;
4. CO₂ resource utilization;
5. Strengthening mechanisms and smelting processes of non-quenched and tempered steel for automobiles;
6. High-nitrogen steel smelting technology;

Dr. Xin Yao
Dr. Huaqing Xie
Guest Editors

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