Main production equipment
From Global Energy Monitor
The main steelmaking processes used in the GEM Global Steel Plant Tracker are defined as follows:
integrated: plants producing pig iron and crude steel on site, generally through a blast furnace/basic oxygen furnace configuration electrical: plants producing crude steel in melt shops, using electric arc furnaces oxygen: plants producing crude steel, but no pig iron through a basic oxygen steelmaking process like a basic oxygen furnace
The most common production equipment used in these processes includes:
- blast furnace (BF)
- basic oxygen furnace (BOF)
- open hearth furnace (OHF)
- electric arc furnace (EAF)
- direct reduced iron plant (DRI).
