Steel industry explores C[O.sub.2]-reduced steel making.(BUSINESS TRENDS)(Brief article)

The American Iron and Steel Institute has announced research projects to reduce and eventually eliminate carbon dioxide emissions from the steel making process. "Despite strong achievements to date, America's steel industry is committed to continually working to improve our environmental performance," says AISI Chairman Ward J. Timken, chairman of the Timken Company.

As part of a joint program between AISI and the Department of Energy, research is currently underway at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to produce iron by molten oxide electrolysis, which woul