Simplified physico-chemical modeling for the Classical Iron and Steelmaking Route and ULCOS Breakthrough Processes Life Cycle Inventory

Life Cycle Assessment Is a powerful method to compare the full environmental burden assignable to products, services or processes. In the framework of ULGOS project, this method was chosen to assess the environmental burden of future Iron and steel making processes. We propose here a novel methodology which consists in replacing the traditional data collection by a rigorous physico-chemical calculation. Such an approach allows precise environmental assessment of existing or future processes.