Solutions
Decarbonise the furnace you already run.
New ironmaking routes will take decades to scale. The blast furnaces operating today need lower emissions now — without gambling with production.
01
Ore-source and blend changes
- Challenge
- Switching ore sources — to Australian ores, lower-grade or new-mine ores — or changing blend and pellet ratios alters burden behaviour, permeability and the cohesive zone — and the furnace finds out first.
- How Agent X helps
- Agent X predicts the in-furnace response to each candidate blend and shows the operating window that keeps the furnace stable.
- Outcome
- Choose blends on evidence and stage the transition with fewer surprises.
02
Hydrogen-rich gas and COG injection
- Challenge
- Injecting hydrogen-rich gas or coke-oven gas cuts carbon but alters raceway temperature, combustion and gas flow.
- How Agent X helps
- Compare injection rates and conditions in the model and see their thermal effect before trying them on the furnace.
- Outcome
- Higher substitution with confidence that heat balance and stability hold.
03
Fuel rate and stable operation
- Challenge
- Fuel rate is the largest lever on CO₂, but every adjustment shifts the thermal reserve zone and internal heat distribution.
- How Agent X helps
- Agent X tracks how the thermal reserve zone and in-furnace dynamics evolve, and ranks operating moves by their quantified effect.
- Outcome
- Lower fuel and coke rate per tonne of hot metal, backed by numbers your team can review.
04
New low-carbon burden materials
- Challenge
- Advanced burden materials and emerging technologies are hard to trial on a production furnace.
- How Agent X helps
- Evaluate them in the physics-constrained model first, with the same in-furnace views as any other change.
- Outcome
- A clear go / no-go before committing a live asset.
Who it serves
One model, three teams.
Operations
Furnace engineers who need to understand today's conditions and the next move.
Technical management
Leaders deciding which decarbonisation levers to pull, and how fast.
R&D and decarbonisation
Teams evaluating ores, injection and new materials before plant trials.
Working together
From first question to first answer.
- 01
Discovery call
We listen to the question your furnace is asking.
- 02
Furnace review
We review furnace design and operating data, under confidentiality.
- 03
Model calibration
Agent X is calibrated to your furnace and operating range.
- 04
Scenario study
Candidate changes are compared, with quantified results.
- 05
Deployment
On-premise, cloud or managed — whichever fits your site.
Contact
Bring one furnace question. We'll show you what the model sees.
Steel plant, research partner or investor — leave a short message and an engineer from our team will reply within one business day.