U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Industrial Technologies Program – Steel Industry of the Future

Active R&D Projects

E3M and a team of industry partners are developing and testing a heating system to reduce scale formation during steel reheating and associated energy costs.

Development of Next Generation Heating System for Scale Free Steel Reheating, Phase II (PDF 1.1 MB)

The following projects are currently underway to improve the energy efficiency, environmental performance, and productivity of the steel industry. Project factsheets for each project are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. Download Adobe Reader.

Advanced Process Development

  • Minimization of Blast Furnace Fuel Rate by Optimizing Burden and Gas Distributions (PDF 1.2 MB)
  • Thermochemical Recuperation for High-Temperature Furnaces (PDF 1.1 MB)

Cokeless Ironmaking

  • Next Generation Metallic Iron Nodule Technology in Electric Furnace Steelmaking (PDF 1.1 MB)
  • Paired Straight Hearth Furnace (PDF 1.1 MB)

Next Generation Steelmaking

  • Development of Next Generation Heating System for Scale Free Steel Reheating, Phase II (PDF 1.1 MB)

Emerging Technologies are defined as technologies that are likely to be commercially available in the next two years.