Best Available Techniques (BAT) for Steel Plants: Checklist.

Steel Plant BAT Checklist

Implementing best available techniques (BAT) across steel plant operations offers significant opportunities for enhancing energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. These improvements span the entire production chain including cokemaking, iron ore preparation, sintering, blast furnace operations, BOF processes, EAF steelmaking, casting, and both hot and cold rolling.

The steel industry has developed numerous best available techniques over the years to optimize these production processes. When implemented effectively, these measures deliver substantial benefits in the form of reduced energy costs and lower CO₂ emissions, making them valuable investments for steel producers.

In MCI's experience, the checklist below is a useful guide for technical personnel to review when considering future capital investments. Implementation of these BAT modernisations can markedly influence a plant's scope 1 emissions, and thus the potential CO₂ cost penalties arising under the Emissions Trading Scheme or CBAM.