Abstract
Increasingly, there is concern that Western economies must find a path to near complete decarbonisation. In recent decades, many heavy industries have been off-shored, but increasingly this is recognised to be problematic at several levels. There is a need to find a path to low-carbon activity in hard-decarbonise sectors. One such prominent sector is steel-making, and this chapter examines the role that might be played by hydrogen in a low-carbon steel industry.
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Nuttall, W.J., Bakenne, A.T. (2020). Deep Decarbonisation—The Role of Hydrogen. In: Fossil Fuel Hydrogen. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30908-4_10
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