The steel industry is an important basic industry of the national economy and also a key area for energy conservation and carbon reduction in China. At the 2025 HBIS Digital Green and Low-Carbon New Product Launch Conference held on the 22nd, the participating guests stated that the current deep integration of "energy + AI" has brought opportunities for the development of the steel industry. The steel industry should actively embrace AI technology to promote its own green and low-carbon transformation and development, and help achieve the "dual carbon" goals.
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Jiang Wei, Vice President and Secretary General of the China Iron and Steel Association, introduced that data shows that the carbon emissions of the steel industry account for about 16% of the total national carbon emissions, making it the industry with the largest carbon emissions in the industrial field. According to incomplete statistics, at least 60 cutting-edge low-carbon technology research and development projects of 22 enterprises, scientific research institutions and universities across the country are being carried out simultaneously, which will provide effective technical reserves for the green and low-carbon development of the steel industry. Among them, low-carbon technology innovations such as hydrogen-based shaft furnaces, near-zero carbon emission electric furnaces, and hydrogen-rich carbon cycle blast furnaces carried out by steel enterprises such as Baowu and HBIS have successively entered the demonstration and application stage, laying the foundation for the low-carbon transformation of the steel industry.
Wu Haidong, Director of the Big Data Development Center of the Information Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said that the deep integration of "energy + AI" has given rise to a series of new industries, new business forms and new models, bringing changes to the traditional energy production and consumption patterns of enterprises. It is necessary to promote the widespread application of AI technology in the energy and industrial fields, develop green productivity, and accelerate the high-end, intelligent and green development of traditional industries.
The participating guests said that in March this year, the steel industry was officially incorporated into the national carbon emission trading market, and the newly released accounting guidelines have put forward higher requirements for carbon emission management. At the same time, the low-carbon transformation of the steel industry is expanding from single-point emission reduction to the coordination of the entire industrial chain. Carbon footprint accounting needs to cover the full-chain and full-life cycle assessment. Through the comprehensive collection and in-depth analysis of data from all links of the industrial chain, the coordinated management and reduction of carbon emissions in the industrial chain can be achieved.
"The upgraded carbon neutral digital platform we released introduces artificial intelligence algorithms and models, constructs scenario simulations under different emission reduction strategies, and provides carbon quota trading strategies; by embedding the underlying industrial know-how, it constructs a professional knowledge graph in the dual carbon field, realizes intelligent diagnosis of carbon footprint emissions, and generates multiple optimized carbon reduction paths; based on blockchain + knowledge graph, it realizes end-to-end estimation, diagnosis and optimization of the carbon footprint of the supply chain." Li Yiren, Deputy General Manager of HBIS Group and Chairman of HBIS Digital, introduced that building an integrated management and control platform for the whole process of energy, environment and carbon is helpful to extend from end-of-pipe treatment to efficient and precise management and control at the source and throughout the whole process, and jointly promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion and economic growth.
