Skip to content

Steel Plant BAT | Best Available Techniques 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 steel 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 optimise 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.

Checklist of Best Available Techniques (BAT) for steel production showing energy efficiency and CO2 reduction measures organised by process area
Steel Industry BAT: Comprehensive Checklist by Process Area

Source: Figure above is taken from Prospective Scenarios on Energy Efficiency and CO2 Emissions in the EU Iron & Steel Industry.
See Table 4 in Section 3.2.

Back to Knowledge Base Index knowledge base index



Related Content

Scope 1 emissions

Direct GHG emissions data by steelmaking process step

Carbon dioxide emissions

Typical emission levels from coke, sinter, BF, BOF and EAF plants

Net zero timeline

Key milestones in steel industry emissions reduction

Technology film clips

Videos of steelmaking processes and innovations