The World Steel Association, along with the OECD, agreed to jointly organise a workshop on Future Priorities for the Global Steel Industry. This is a report of the contribution to be presented by the Russian Federation on greenhouse gas emissions. THE Russian State scientific centre TSNIIchermet (named after I P Bardin) has estimated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from steelmaking in Russia for 1990-2009 (estimated using the standard principles of the World Steel Association). The value calculated is 1.639tCO_2eq per tonne of hot metal. This figure for 2009 is down 17.4% on 1990 (Table 1). During the period 1990-2009 considerable work was undertaken to re-structure inefficient steelmaking capacities to improve energy efficiency in the steel sector and decrease GHG emissions. In particular, in 2009, in comparison with 1990, the share of converter steelmaking plus electric arc steelmaking increased from 46.6% to 91.4%, ie doubled in its contribution, while the share of OHF steelmaking decreased from 53.4% to 8.6%, ie a six-fold decrease (Fig 1). The share of continuous cast steel for this period increased from 23.1% to 81.0%, ie an increase of 3.5 times. As a result, in 2009 absolute CO_2 emissions compared with 1990 levels decreased from 177.6Mt to 97.0Mt a reduction of about 45%. Of this, 34.0% was due to a reduction in the volume of output of crude steel and 11.4% due to structural reorganisation of the sector. Specific CO_2 emissions per metric tonne of crude steels have decreased from 1.983t in 1990 to 1.639t or by 17.4% in 2009.
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