A review of CO2 emissions reduction technologies and low-carbon development in the iron and steel industry focusing on China

L Ren, S Zhou, T Peng, X Ou - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
The iron and steel industry (ISI) is energy-intensive and is responsible for approximately
25% of the global direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from industrial sectors. As the …

[HTML][HTML] Major metals demand, supply, and environmental impacts to 2100: A critical review

T Watari, K Nansai, K Nakajima - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2021 - Elsevier
Sustainable metal supply requires well-coordinated strategy and policy packages based on
a sound scientific understanding of anticipated long-term demand, supply, and associated …

[HTML][HTML] Prospects for a saturation of humanity's resource use? An analysis of material stocks and flows in nine world regions from 1900 to 2035

D Wiedenhofer, T Fishman, B Plank, A Miatto… - Global Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Material stocks in infrastructure, buildings and machinery shape current and future resource
use and emissions. Analyses of specific countries and selected materials suggest that …

Tracking carbon flows in China's iron and steel industry

K Wang, S Liu, K Liu, M Dan, X Ji, Y Lu… - … Science & Technology, 2023 - ACS Publications
Accurately tracking carbon flows is the first step toward reducing the climate impacts of the
iron and steel industry (ISI), which is still lacking in China. In this study, we track carbon flows …

Price forecasts of ten steel products using Gaussian process regressions

X Xu, Y Zhang - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - Elsevier
Addressing price forecasting problems is an important exercise to policymakers and market
participants in the resource business sector. In this work, we build Gaussian process …

China's bulk material loops can be closed but deep decarbonization requires demand reduction

L Song, S van Ewijk, E Masanet, T Watari… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
China, as the largest global producer of bulk materials, confronts formidable challenges in
mitigating greenhouse gas emissions arising from their production. Yet the emission savings …

Steel price index forecasting through neural networks: the composite index, long products, flat products, and rolled products

X Xu, Y Zhang - Mineral Economics, 2023 - Springer
Forecasting commodity prices is a vital issue to a wide spectrum of market participants and
policy makers in the metal sector. In this work, the forecast problem is investigated by …

Contributing to regional decarbonization: Australia's potential to supply zero-carbon commodities to the Asia-Pacific

PJ Burke, FJ Beck, E Aisbett, KGH Baldwin, M Stocks… - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Asia-Pacific has experienced prodigious growth in energy use and is by far the
world's largest greenhouse-gas emitting region. Australia has played a leading role in …

Scrap steel price forecasting with neural networks for east, north, south, central, northeast, and southwest China and at the national level

X Xu, Y Zhang - Ironmaking & Steelmaking, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
There is little doubt about importance of forecasting commodity prices to policy makers and
diverse varieties of market participants. In this present work, we analyse price forecasting …

Mining the built environment: telling the story of urban mining

F Aldebei, M Dombi - Buildings, 2021 - mdpi.com
Materials are continuously accumulating in the human-built environment since massive
amounts of materials are required for building, develo**, and maintaining cities. At the end …