More than half of those emissions (58%) are chemically released from the limestone as it breaks down. Most of those emissions come from roasting limestone (calcium-carbonate ) to form the active ingredient of cement, quicklime (calcium-oxide ). Making cement is the source of most of these emissions. Common concrete used in buildings is made up of 60% to 75% of sand, gravel, and crushed rock (called aggregates), 7%-15% cement, the rest from water and air. In 2019, approximately 7% of global emissions came from the concrete used in buildings and roads. This is now being tested at pre-commercial scale, but transforming the whole industry will likely be slow and expensive. Only steam is released into the atmosphere. Today, one of the most promising non-fossil carbon approaches is to use hydrogen gas produced by splitting water with electricity generated from non-carbon energy sources (hydro, wind, solar, and nuclear). If the charcoal is sustainably produced, the resulting is considered biogenic. This is how iron was historically produced, including iron smelted in Lake Oswego, Oregon in the second half of the 1800’s. However, biogenic carbon in the form of charcoal can be used. Since virtually all the carbon is fossil coal, the is also a GHG. The carbon-dioxide is released into the atmosphere.Ĭarbon-monoxide + Iron-ore → Iron + Carbon-dioxide And it is one of the most challenging to decarbonize.Ĭommercially, the oxygen in the ore is removed by using coal (essentially pure carbon) to first produce carbon-monoxide ( ), and then reacting it with iron oxide to produce metal iron and. Processing iron ore into iron metal is one of the most energy and carbon intensive parts of the iron and steel making process. Virtually all the naturally occurring iron in the crust of the earth is in the form of iron oxide (primarily and ) - basically rust. Stainless steel alloys have an additional 10%+ of chromium. Steel is a metal alloy of iron (around 99%) and carbon (around 1%). The iron and steel sector are responsible for more than 7% of global GHG emissions - mostly from the direct and indirect use of fossil fuels for heat, electricity, and processing.
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