decarbSTEEL: From classroom to conference debut

"Thanks to a Sustainable Technologies for Steel Manufacturing Grant from the Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST), Carnegie Mellon researchers spent the spring semester developing decarbSTEEL (Decarbonizing Steelmaking TechnoEconomic EvaLuation), an open-source, highly customizable Excel-based framework for assessing the cost and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of different steel decarbonization strategies. 

The faculty leads were Chris Pistorius, co-director of the Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research (CISR); and Valerie Karplus, associate director of the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation. 

Much like the annual Accelerating Green Steel Workshop, decarbSTEEL is another CISR-Scott Institute joint initiative to support decarbonization in the iron and steel industry. Whereas the workshop gathered global representatives to take stock of sustainability in the industry, decarbSTEEL is an open-access resource that makes it easy to crunch the numbers and choose design pathways for iron and steel production that are both financially viable and sustainable."

Read the full CMU Scott Institute news story here.