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Jamie-Ross Landeg
Sustainability and Steel
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Agenda
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1 Introduction
2 What is Sustainability?
3 Ecological Footprint
4 Sustainability at Home
5 Sustainability in Industry
6 Conclusion and Questions
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Introduction
Jamie-Ross Landeg
Background
BSc Environmental Geoscience at Cardiff University
Tata Steel Strip Products UK
Environmental Graduate – Environmental Engineer
MSc Sustainability Planning and Environmental Policy (SPEP)
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What is Sustainability?
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Google sustainability:
1998 - <250k hits
2008 - 4.8million hits
2014 – 11 million hits!
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What is Sustainability?
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If we look up sustainability/ sustain in the dictionary
Sustainable (adjective):
Able to be maintained at a certain rate or level
Sustain (verb)
To supply with nourishment
To keep up/ prolong
Dictionary
But what exactly is it?!
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What is Sustainability?
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The common definition – The Brundtland Commission 1987
World leaders across the globe
Raise awareness for the need for sustainable development
The Brundtland Commission
“Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”
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The Three Pillars of Sustainability
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The Three Pillars of Sustainability
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Ecological Footprint
Measure of human demand on earths ecosystems
Standardised measure for natural capital demand
Represents the amount of land taken up
Our needs
Our waste
Describes how many earths would be used
Widely accepted and researched
Calculate your own usage:
www.myfootprint.org
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Ecological Footprint – My Demand
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Ecological Footprint – My Demand Vs. Country Average
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Ecological Footprint – My Demand on Biomes
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How Does This Affect the Earth?
Fossil fuel usage
Non renewable/ finite
C02 release
Cattle farming
10x more damaging than other agriculture
28x more land 11x more water than pork, poultry, eggs or dairy
Population increase
2014 7bn+
80m increase each year
2050 11bn
More people = More housing + mouths = = Less green space and food = unsustainable
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Why Are We Now Doing Things Different?
Industrial Revolution – 1760 – 1820/40
From hand to machines
Increased efficiency with power
Swansea – most polluted city in the world
Water pollution
Air pollution – 1873 700 killed, 1952 4000 killed
1956 first major environmental legislation Clean Air Act
Since then a massive amount of legislation
Water Framework Directive
Habitats Directive
Industrial Emissions Directive
Landfill Directive
Environment Act
Awareness
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Industrial Revolution
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Industrial Revolution
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Industrial Revolution
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Sustainability at Home – The Waste Hierarchy
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Sustainability at Home
What are you doing differently?
Recycling
Food, paper, tins, glass, plastic
Energy Saving
Energy saving lights/ appliances
Turning off lights/ appliances
Washing at 40°
Grow your own
Wise consumer choices
Sustainable sourced foods
Rainforest alliance
Fair trade
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Sustainable Development – Housing and Buildings
New development in housing market
BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology)
Code for sustainable homes (CSH) run by BRE int.
Energy and CO2 emissions (M),
Water (M),
Materials (M),
Surface Water Run-off (M),
Waste (M),
Pollution,
Health and Wellbeing (M),
Management,
Ecology.
Design stage and post construction
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Sustainable Housing
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Sustainability and Steel
Steel making historically unsustainable
Energy
Raw materials
Carbonaceous material – coal, coke
Iron ore
Limestone
Oil
Gas
Multiple locations
Multiple processes
Harbour – Sinter Plant/ Coke Ovens/ Blast Furnace – BOS Plant – Concast – Hot Mill – Cold Mill – Annealing
4.5m t steel
2.2t CO2!
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Steel Making – The Conventional Blast Furnace
Where iron ore (FeO) is reduced to make iron (Fe)
Use of coal, coke, gas, iron ore and sinter, limestone
Series of chemical reactions
Hot iron 1500 °
Temperatures up to 2500 °
Used to use oil
Waste incineration directive (WID)
Produces wastes (historically)
Gas
Slag
Now recycled
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Steel Making – HIsarna Blast Furnace
Part of ULCOS
New method of sustainable steel making
Cuts out coke and sinter
Less material use and CO2 production directly and indirectly
1. Use of preheated coal – twin screw reactor – improved thermal efficiency
2. Use of Iron ore fines – cyclone – hits walls – partial reduction
3. Converter reduces not melts iron oxide - reactor
4. Iron ore is tapped off as usual
5. CO and CO2 gasses off the top
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Steel Making – HIsarna Blast Furnace
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Thank You
Any Questions