DOE Funding Opportunity - Collaborative Energy Efficiency Research in Iron-Making and Steel-Making

The solicitation seeks to develop transformational ironmaking and steelmaking processes to reduce the energy intensity of the steel industry. The technical areas of interest are as follows: (1) new or improved alternative ironmaking technologies, including Direct Reduced Iron technologies, and new steelmaking technologies that significantly reduce the use of energy, (2) technologies to improve the energy efficiency of equipment currently used in the most energy-intensive process steps of blast furnace ironmaking, scrap melting, and reheating, (3) technologies to minimize the generation of scrap and oxides, including improved processes for recovering and upgrading low-grade scrap, (4) applicants may also submit proposals for analytical studies on the issues of displacing natural gas in ironmaking by the gasification of alternative fuels. Read more