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Tool
Date
16 December 2022

Steel Transformation Cost Calculator

This tool estimates the cost premium of climate-friendly hydrogen- or natural gas-based steelmaking compared with the blast furnace route.

About this tool

This online tool allows one to calculate the incremental and CO2 reduction costs of low-carbon or climate-neutral production of crude steel with natural gas or green hydrogen-based direct reduction of iron compared with the conventional blast furnace route.

The project goals are:

  • To identify and quantify the incremental costs of low-carbon or climate-neutral climate-friendly crude steel production.
  • To develop a tool with which an assessment and discussion of specific projects, possibly as a first step towards awarding carbon contracts, becomes possible.
  • To create a transparent basis for the discussion of the costs and benefits of the transformation of a production plant and the necessary infrastructure.
  • To create a basis for estimating the total investment and financing requirements for the transformation of the steel industry to climate neutrality.

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Bibliographical data

Authors
Thomas Mühlpointner (Future Camp Climate CmbH); Alexander Scholz, Alexander Jülich (Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie GmbH)
Version number
1.1
Publication date

16 December 2022

Suggested Citation
Agora Industry, Future Camp, Wuppertal Institut (2022): Carbon Contracts for the transformation of industry: Calculator for the assessment of transformation costs for low-CO2 primary steel production. Model version 1.1, Berlin, 16.12.22
Project
This publication was produced within the framework of the project Carbon Contracts for the industrial transformation.

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