In order to promote the green and low-carbon development of the industry, the steel industry has been working hard. China's steel industry has established a unified EPD (Environmental Product certification) platform, and introduced the "EPD Platform General Platform Rules (GPI)" and "Product Type Rules (PCR) Ordinary steel products and special steel products".
According to the information conference held by the Steel Association in the first quarter of 2023, it will orderly promote the "capacity replacement", "ultra-low emission" and "extreme energy efficiency" three steel transformation projects covering the whole industry as planned, cooperate with national ministries and commissions to carry out steel capacity replacement projects, and strictly supervise and inspect illegal capacity.
Continue to promote the ultra-low emission transformation of steel enterprises (since January 2020, 107 steel enterprises have carried out this action);
Promote the implementation of the "Steel Industry Energy Efficiency Benchmark Three-year Action Plan" to guide the steel industry to carry out extreme energy efficiency work;
Promote the research and development, promotion and application of common low-carbon technologies in the industry, and build energy consumption data governance system;
Promote the mutual recognition of EPD industry and international mutual recognition, and strive for the acceptance and use of EPD reports.
At present, 17 third-party certification bodies are approved to independently verify the LCA reports submitted by EPD applicants to be verified and the EPD/ Product carbon footprint (CFP) reports to be verified.
The development of low-carbon, zero-carbon and even carbon-neutral steel technology is an important link to achieve the national dual-carbon goal, and is also the key direction of industrial green transformation.
Carbon neutral technology in steel industry case
April 25, Shenzhen Carbon neutral Bio-gas Co., LTD. (referred to as "Shenzhen Carbon neutral") in the new steel Group Fujian Dingsheng Steel Co., LTD. Carbon neutral steel project.
The winning project is to use the relevant system engineering based on negative carbon emissions, pyrolysis and gasification of biomass to obtain biomass gas and biochar, completely replace the fossil energy originally used in the production of all scrap green electricity short-process steel with biomass gas, and replace all or part of the fossil auxiliary materials in the production of all scrap green electricity short-process steel with some biochar. After deducting the remaining biochar as fossil auxiliary materials from biochar, biochar fertilizer is made and applied to the soil to carry out the long-term carbon cycle on the 100-year time scale of biochar, and the greenhouse gas removal amount brought about by the certification of the long-term carbon cycle according to the internationally recognized standard is fully deducted to remove the inevitable residual greenhouse gas emissions from the short-process steel production. Achieve carbon neutrality throughout the life cycle of all scrap green electric short process steel.
It is believed that more and more carbon neutral technologies will be applied to the steel industry in the future, which will help steel foreign trade enterprises effectively cope with the EU carbon Border Adjustment mechanism (CBAM), so that carbon barriers will not break themselves.