Steelmaking – Toward Symbiotic Metallurgy

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contents <p>This short technical note applies <strong>inchoative design</strong> to steelmaking and argues that the dominant blast-furnace/basic-oxygen route constitutes a <strong>resistive insertion</strong>: a continuous, coal-fired, high-temperature regime that coerces its milieu, generates pollution, and entrenches long-lived carbon lock-ins. In Simondonian terms, the system exhibits <strong>low technicity</strong> and <strong>overadaptation</strong>—narrow operating envelopes that deliver output at the cost of lost adaptability. By contrast, <strong>Electric Arc Furnace</strong> pathways using scrap and <strong>H-DRI</strong> coupled to renewable electricity are read as <strong>intensive insertions</strong> that begin to align operations with surrounding flows, yet remain partial and non-systemic. The note contends that decarbonising primary production and raising system-level technicity require <strong>industrial symbiosis</strong> and new governance: standardising scrap quality, sharing real-time data with grids, and clustering plants in “green industrial hubs” to exchange materials and energy. Transitions will also reshape geographies and skills, demanding coordination across energy, waste, and manufacturing. The result is a design-philosophical program for <strong>symbiotic metallurgy</strong>: de-concretise coal-bound infrastructures and re-concretise steel systems as open, adaptive ensembles embedded in their milieus—shifting from intervention to participation.</p>
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Garattini, Ludovic
<p>This short technical note applies <strong>inchoative design</strong> to steelmaking and argues that the dominant blast-furnace/basic-oxygen route constitutes a <strong>resistive insertion</strong>: a continuous, coal-fired, high-temperature regime that coerces its milieu, generates pollution, and entrenches long-lived carbon lock-ins. In Simondonian terms, the system exhibits <strong>low technicity</strong> and <strong>overadaptation</strong>—narrow operating envelopes that deliver output at the cost of lost adaptability. By contrast, <strong>Electric Arc Furnace</strong> pathways using scrap and <strong>H-DRI</strong> coupled to renewable electricity are read as <strong>intensive insertions</strong> that begin to align operations with surrounding flows, yet remain partial and non-systemic. The note contends that decarbonising primary production and raising system-level technicity require <strong>industrial symbiosis</strong> and new governance: standardising scrap quality, sharing real-time data with grids, and clustering plants in “green industrial hubs” to exchange materials and energy. Transitions will also reshape geographies and skills, demanding coordination across energy, waste, and manufacturing. The result is a design-philosophical program for <strong>symbiotic metallurgy</strong>: de-concretise coal-bound infrastructures and re-concretise steel systems as open, adaptive ensembles embedded in their milieus—shifting from intervention to participation.</p>
title Steelmaking – Toward Symbiotic Metallurgy
url https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17080163