**5. Conclusions**

An all-factors analysis approach on energy consumption for BFIMP in the iron and steel industry was proposed in this paper. Then, the all-factors analysis approach was successfully applied to a case BFIMP. The key influence factors on energy consumption were identified in this case BFIMP. Lastly, some suggestions on energy conservation were put forward. Generally, the major contributions of this paper are described as follows:


**Author Contributions:** Conceptualization: D.C. and B.L.; methodology, B.L.; validation, D.C. and S.W.; formal analysis, D.C. and S.W.; investigation, D.C., B.L. and S.W.; resources, D.C. and B.L.; data curation, B.L. and Kai Tang; writing—original draft preparation, D.C. and B.L.; writing—review and editing, Biao Lu; visualization, B.L., K.T. and S.W.; supervision, B.L. and S.W.; funding acquisition, D.C. and B.L.

**Funding:** This research was funded by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (Grant NO. 51804002) and the Scientific Researching Fund Projects for Young Teacher of Anhui University of Technology (Grant NO. QZ201614).

**Acknowledgments:** The authors would like to thank XuShi for help with administrative and technical support.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
