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Resources, Conservation and Recycling 87 (2014) 191–199 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Resources, Conservation and Recycling j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e: w w w. elsev /locate/res conrec Quantification of Chinese steel cycle flow: Historical status and future options Peng Wang a , Zeyi Jiang a,b,∗ , Xinyi Geng c , Shiyu Hao a , Xinxin Zhang a,d a School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China b Beijing Engineering Research Center of Energy Saving and Environmental Protection, Beijing 100083, China c Dongling School of Economics and Management, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China d Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Saving and Emission Reduction for Metallurgical Industry, Beijing 100083, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: China is the largest steel producer and consumer around the world. Quantifying the Chinese steel flow Received 2 September 2013 from cradle to grave can assist this industry to fully understand its historical status and future options on Received in revised form 27 March 2014 production route transformation, capacity planning, scrap availability, resource and energy consumption. Accepted 7 April 2014 With the help of the systematic methods combined dynamic MFA (material flow analysis) with scenario Available online 10 May 2014 analysis, the Chinese steel cycle during the first half of the 21st century was quantified and several