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  1. Mr Helmut Schwarz (voestalpine Texas LLC)
    Process operations in gas based direct reduction technologies (MIDREX, HYL etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    Since hot commissioning in the fall of 2016, voestalpine Texas LLC has been producing high quality Hot Briquetted Iron (HBI) for both internal and external use. The following paper provides a review of the major technical features of the 2 million tons per year HBI plant inclusive of raw materials unloading and handling, iron ore reduction and gas reforming, water treatment and the handling...
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  2. Mr Schlemminger Alexander (Secopta analytics GmbH)
    Iron ore production and processing
    Oral Presentation
    Higher demands for resource and process efficiency have led to increasing requirements on slag making and analysis. But today's technology to homogenize and analyse slag samples takes 7 minutes at the very minimum. With LIBS up to 1000 measurements per second instantaneous slag analysis becomes possible. This presentation displays how LIBS based slag analysis systems not only analyze slags...
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  3. Prof. Deqing Zhu (Central south university)
    Raw materials for DRI and Alternative Ironmaking
    Oral Presentation
    The short process of electric furnace steelmaking with the burden of direct reduced iron (DRI), is an important process to produce high-quality and special steel, which is characteristic of low energy consumption. Meanwhile, coal-based rotary kiln is one of the most competitive processes for DRI production. In this paper, the high-grade magnetite concentrates with an iron grade of up to 68% is...
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  4. Mr Ian Cameron (Hatch Ltd.), Dr Mitren Sukhram (Hatch Ltd.)
    DRI as an alternative raw material for iron and steelmaking (applications in blast furnace, EAF etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    Addition of DRI to blast furnaces has known benefits for increasing productivity and decreasing coke rate. DRI additions to the blast furnace have been revisited to reduce blast furnace CO2 emissions. Carbon taxes may motivate DRI additions to reduce CO2 emissions. Technology changes are needed to overcome the challenges of low top gas temperature. We estimate the maximum amount of DRI that...
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  5. Mr Hamidreza Tavallai (Persian Gulf Saba Steel)
    Process operations in gas based direct reduction technologies (MIDREX, HYL etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    Saba steel HBI plant, stated in 2018, has faced some uneven problems in plant operation since start up in 2018. The problems recognized to so that requires very careful investigation and study. We in our presentation will show the audience how we have analyzed two of main problems that could be said to be a real HAZOP study. The investigation includes the problem description narratively...
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  6. Dr Lina Kieush (National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine)
    Iron ore production and processing
    Oral Presentation
    In metallurgy, it is essential to obtain and use high quality fuel and reducing agents with low environmental impact. The use of biomaterials as a fuel might help to solve technological and environmental issues of sinter production. Biomass has enormous renewable carbon potential and CO2 neutrality. The main advantages of biomass are the low mineral composition and almost complete absence of...
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  7. Mr Daniel Spreitzer (Montanuniversitaet Leoben / Chair of Ferrous Metallurgy)
    New technologies under research and development with a promise to change the future (H2 based, in-bath technologies etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    Hydrogen based direct reduction by the means of fluidized bed technology is one possibility for sustainable ironmaking in the future. On the one hand, the exclusive use of hydrogen as a reducing agent allows an almost CO2 free reduction procedure; on the other hand, iron ore fines can be used directly without a prior agglomeration step. Because of the endothermal character of hydrogen-based...
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  8. Dr Rainer Bertling (PowerMill GmbH)
    New technologies under research and development with a promise to change the future (H2 based, in-bath technologies etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    This paper will discuss the possibilities to reduce energy consumption and CO2 emissions in the BF process by hot coke, sinter or DRI charging, injection of alternative fuels and potential consequences on the overall process. Such revolutionary changes would have major impacts on the ironmaking process and the respective equipment. After verification with various involved technology and...
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  9. Mr A. Hossein Madadi Najafabadi (Mobarakeh Steel Company)
    Process simulation and modelling
    Oral Presentation
    DRI pellets vulnerability to successive collisions and the fine generation is a major concern of iron making industries. During the DR process, transportation, and buffer storage, DRI pellets are subjected to successive pellet-pellet and pellet-wall collisions. Depending on the impact conditions (i.e., angle, velocity, and force) and the characteristics of the pellets, various kinds of...
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  10. Dr Mansour Alharbi (Hadeed), Mr Mohammed Al-Zayer (Hadeed)
    Process simulation and modelling
    Oral Presentation
    The objective of this study was to investigate the gases flow behavior at the oxygen enrichment unit. In addition, to evaluate the natural gas partial combustion efficiency and carbon deposition rate. To identify the optimum operation parameters that can lead to achieve the minimum natural gas consumption with the highest possible reformed gas temperature and also eliminate and/or reduce the...
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  11. Mr John Atherton (International Iron Metallics Association)
    CO2 Reduction and environmental aspects in the DRI industry
    Oral Presentation
    Many steel industry roadmaps toward the very significant reduction of CO2 emissions required by the political agenda in many countries envisage the DRI/EAF system as a key component along the pathway to carbon neutrality in steelmaking. In this respect, IIMA is putting together a white paper on some key practical issues that need to be considered beyond the macro-level issues such as...
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  12. Dr Alesander Fleischanderl (Technology Officer Upstream, Head of ECO Solutions, Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH)
    Oral Presentation
    Steel industry accounts for a substantial share of our global carbon footprint. To date this hard-to-abate industry requires still a significant amount of carbon for reduction and heating purpose. The target of the Industry is to achieve latest by 2050 an 80% carbon emission reduction vs. the 1990 baseline. Some major industry players target even a climate neutrality at earlier dates....
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  13. Mr Ashton Hertrich G. (Danieli)
    CO2 Reduction and environmental aspects in the DRI industry
    Oral Presentation
    The last two decades have been marked by significant political changes with a view to slowing global warming and therefore CO2 emissions. Within this context, the European Union is on the front line in promoting a policy to gradually reduce CO2 emissions, thus becoming the first carbon-neutral continent. It aims to cut CO2 emissions by 20%, 40% and 100% compared to 1990 levels, by the years...
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  14. Dr Guenter Harp (Harp Process Chemistry Consulting)
    CO2 Reduction and environmental aspects in the DRI industry
    Oral Presentation
    CO2 lean making of DRI needs normally a combination of natural gas and CCS or green hydrogen as reductant. The properties of methanol makes it an ideal reductant for DRI production. Methanol contains about 12.5 % hydrogen and is after NH3 the best hydrogen storage material. The hydrogen content corresponds to a hydrogen density at a pressure of more than 1000 bar. It is liquid with a boiling...
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  15. Dr Jian Pan (Central South Univsrsity)
    Raw materials for DRI and Alternative Ironmaking
    Oral Presentation
    Vanadic titanomagnetite, as a kind of polymetallic symbiosis iron ore, is widely distributed all over the world which has high comprehensive utilization value. Coal-based direct reduction pellets can provide high-quality raw materials for electric furnace smelting. In this paper, the coal-based direct reduction behavior and mechanism of oxidized pellets prepared from imported V-Ti magnetite...
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  16. Dr Yury Kapelyushin (South Ural State University (National Research University))
    Recycling of in-plant residues
    Oral Presentation
    The copper industry at different operational stages produces large volume of wastes. During matte smelting stage slag becomes one of the waste materials that occupies significant territories causing environmental issues. The matte smelting slag contains Si, Fe, Cu, Zn and S. The technological scheme for recycling of copper smelting slags with subsequent obtaining valuable products was provided...
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  17. Dr Koji Saito (Nippon Steel Corporation)
    New technologies under research and development with a promise to change the future (H2 based, in-bath technologies etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    Since 2008,four Japanese blast furnace steelmakers and one engineering company have been working on an innovative ironmaking process using hydrogen. The main research activities of the project consist of two parts. One is the development of hydrogen utilization technology for iron ore reduction using coke oven gas that contains a large amount of hydrogen. The other is the development of CO2...
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  18. Mr Stefan Einfalt (voestalpine Texas LLC)
    DRI as an alternative raw material for iron and steelmaking (applications in blast furnace, EAF etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    voestalpine has ramped up its 2 Mio. mt p.a. HBI plant in Corpus Christi, Texas end of 2016 and has since then gathered extensive experience not only on the production and use of HBI in its own BOF based steel making operations but also on the products´ supply to its mostly EAF-based international customers. This paper will provide insight on the current and future value-in-use and importance...
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  19. Mr Mohammed Alzayer (HADEED SABIC)
    Process operations in gas based direct reduction technologies (MIDREX, HYL etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    One of the challenges faced by steel producers employing direct reduction technology is the deterioration of DRI metallization before being charged into the electric arc furnace (EAF) negatively affecting the metallic yield of produced heats. The present study considers organic materials that might have the ability to “deactivate” DRI if used as coating agents. These include silicone oil,...
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  20. Dr Felix Firsbach (Lhoist S.A.)
    Process operations in gas based direct reduction technologies (MIDREX, HYL etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    A novel atmosphere-controlled furnace was successfully developed by Lhoist, which allows the company to take active part in the process transformations of iron and steel making towards a CO2 emission free industry. This furnace is designed to perform qualitative metallurgical research on e.g. reduction behaviors of iron ore feedstocks in controlled mixed-gas atmospheres (CO, CO2, H2, N2, O2,...
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  21. Prof. Ko-ichiro Ohno (Kyushu University)
    Process operations in coal based smelting reduction processes (COREX, FINEX etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    Toward to “Zero carbon emission” from steel industry, suppression of greenhouse gas emission from ironmaking process should be one of the most important issue. Although one of the promising technologies is hydrogen ironmaking, produced iron should be melted for refining process. Especially, slag-metal separation is necessary for purification. From this point of view, a certain amount of carbon...
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  22. Dr TAICHI MURAKAMI (Tohoku University)
    Process operations in coal based smelting reduction processes (COREX, FINEX etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    Many researches on the reduction of carbon-iron ore composite have been reported to decrease carbon dioxide emission from ironmaking process. There are many types of carbonaceous materials such as coke, dust, coal, and biomass char. Some of them have a certain amount of sulfur which affects the reduction behavior. In this study, effect of sulfur contents, its form, and CaO addition on the...
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  23. Dr Alexander Fleischanderl (Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH)
    New technologies under research and development with a promise to change the future (H2 based, in-bath technologies etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    To achieve the ambitious goal set by the Paris Climate Action members for CO2 reduction to achieve minimum 80% emission reduction by latest 2050, radical changes to current production technologies for iron and steel are required. More and more governments worldwide demand carbon-neutral production routes for the heavy industries. One of the visionary innovations is based on the unique and...
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  24. Dr Bernd Weiss (Primetals Technologies GmbH)
    Plant management and economics
    Oral Presentation
    Iron and steel making requires a wide range of different raw materials significantly influencing process performance which demands a continuous optimisation of process routes also with respect to energy efficiency as well as environmental emissions. Steadily changing raw material prices and qualities, market situations and product variations are challenging integrated steel plant operators in...
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  25. Dr Thomas Steinparzer (Primetals Technologies Austria)
    CO2 Reduction and environmental aspects in the DRI industry
    Oral Presentation
    Direct reduction technologies move more and more into the spotlight due to their significant reduction of carbon dioxide emissions compared with other ironmaking technologies. This fact as well as their suitability for upgrading to hydrogen based ironmaking routes make direct reduction technologies a corner stone for future sustainable steelmaking business. Even though considering their...
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  26. Prof. Marc Hölling (HAW Hamburg)
    New technologies under research and development with a promise to change the future (H2 based, in-bath technologies etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    The steel industry, especially in Europe, is under strong pressure to reduce its $\rm CO_2$-emissions to fulfill the required climate protection goals. Even a change from the BF/BOF-route to the DRI/EAF-route is not sufficient, if the DRI-production is still based on natural gas. Thus, hydrogen-based reduction is under strong investigation and first pilot projects will be installed. However,...
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  27. Mr Chris Barrington (International Iron Metallics Association)
    Shipping and logistics of DRI
    Oral Presentation
    As the industry association for the Ore-based Metallics industry IIMA is very much concerned with the safe handling and transportation of DRI. With the expected growth in DRI production and shipment as part of the pathway to carbon-neutral steel production, it is important that best practice in this area is shared as widely as possible. The presentation will cover the regulatory framework...
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  28. Mr Richard Elliott (Hatch Ltd.)
    CO2 Reduction and environmental aspects in the DRI industry
    Oral Presentation
    The total CO2e footprint of all ironmaking technologies is linked to their material inputs. The CO2e embedded in the production of these feed materials and the logistics of their supply are non-trivial, and complete accounting of these costs – from mine or well head to hot metal – is necessary for a holistic comparison of the emissions footprint of the available ironmaking technologies. Thanks...
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  29. Ms Katharina Rechberger (K1-MET GmbH)
    CO2 Reduction and environmental aspects in the DRI industry
    Oral Presentation
    The iron and steel industry accounts for approximately 30 % of the global industrial CO2-emissions. As the reduction potentials of the current steelmaking routes are rather low, the transfer towards breakthrough-technologies is essential to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement which means a reduction of CO2 by 80 %. The hydrogen-based direct reduction (DR) is one of different approaches to...
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  30. Mr Michael Andreas Zarl (Montanuniversität Leoben / Chair of Ferrous Metallurgy)
    New technologies under research and development with a promise to change the future (H2 based, in-bath technologies etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    The steel industry contributes with around 6% to the worldwide anthropogenic emissions of CO2. Therefore, it is clear that new ways of steel production need to be investigated. One promising technology is the so-called Hydrogen Plasma Smelting Reduction (HPSR), which not only produces steel without the usage of fossil fuels but also is a one-step process from iron ore towards steel. In this,...
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  31. Mr Hanspeter Ofner (Primetals Technologies Austria), Mr Norbert Rein (Primetals Technologies Austria)
    New technologies under research and development with a promise to change the future (H2 based, in-bath technologies etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    Due to the increasing amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and the associated climate change new technologies for reducing CO2 emissions in iron making processes are inevitable. Therefore, the steel industry is pushed to make further progress towards higher energy and resource efficiency as well as environmental protection. Under these boundary conditions the HYFOR technology is being developed by...
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  32. Dr Alessandra Spaghetti (Sandvik)
    CO2 Reduction and environmental aspects in the DRI industry
    Oral Presentation
    Environmental regulations in the steel and iron world are becoming more stringent during the last years and heat recovery is becoming of central importance. There are several designs of recuperators and the one we’re going to discuss is made by tubes bundle. The selection of a high alloyed grades for such pipes would allow you to increase the heat recovery by increasing the temperature of the...
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  33. Mr Frank Dr. Ahrenhold (thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG)
    DRI as an alternative raw material for iron and steelmaking (applications in blast furnace, EAF etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    Session: DRI as an alternative raw material for iron and steelmaking (applications in blast furnace, EAF etc.) Integration of DRI plants into classical BOF production sites The production of quality flat steel products is commonly linked to highly integrated sites which include Hot metal generation via the Blast Furnace route, Oxygen Steelmaking (BOF), Continuous Casting, and subsequent...
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  34. Dr Debanik Mitra (Tata Steel Limited)
    Process simulation and modelling
    Oral Presentation
    Importance of air flow through the sinter bed has been a challenge to sinter makers for a long time. This is widely used as a measure of permeability of sinter bed. Measurement of sinter bed permeability was attempted by many in the past, but without much success. The authors have developed a novel technique to measure it successfully and reliably. Based on a novel concept the device has been...
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  35. Mr Gyu Wan Kim (Chosun University)
    CO2 Reduction and environmental aspects in the DRI industry
    Oral Presentation
    The reduction of CO2 emission is one of important issue for the sustainable production of steel in EAF(Electric Arc Furnace). The way to decrease CO2 emissions can be achieved by reducing the use of electrical energy, and by increasing the use of chemical energy without carbon based materials. In general, the chemical energy of EAF can be improved by the heats of oxidation reaction and the...
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  36. Mr Robert Millner (Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH)
    Process operations in gas based direct reduction technologies (MIDREX, HYL etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    Since the iron and steel industry is responsible for a portion of 7-10% of the global CO2 emissions, it has to reduce its CO2 emissions drastically during the next 30 years. The EU target is a reduction of CO2 emissions by 80% until 2050, which can only be achieved by switching to different iron & steel production processes. This can be either the scrap-EAF route for certain quality grade...
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  37. Dr Yakov Gordon (HATCH)
    Process operations in gas based direct reduction technologies (MIDREX, HYL etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    Gas dynamics and gas distribution in cross-section of shaft furnace play crucial role in increase of furnace productivity, reduction in natural gas rate and DRI quality improvement. Optimum design parameters of gas distribution devises were investigated by means of mathematical modelling, pilot plant and industrial installation studies. New heat transfer co-current schematics of gas and...
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  38. Mr Emmauel Abotar (Minerals Engineering Department, University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa, Ghana)
    Iron ore production and processing
    Oral Presentation
    This research work investigated the nature of a nonmagnetic ore from Pudo and its fluxing effect on the extent of reduction of the Pudo titaniferous magnetite ore using pulverised samples of charred carbonaceous materials generated from end-of-life vehicle tyres (ELT) as reductants. Reduction studies were conducted on composite pellets of the Pudo titaniferous magnetite iron ore containing...
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  39. Prof. Chenguang Bai (Chongqing University), Prof. Shengfu Zhang (Chongqing University)
    Process operations in coal based smelting reduction processes (COREX, FINEX etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    Non-blast furnace iron-making technology is one of the advanced emerging routes for the development of iron and steel industry. At present time, although the conventional blast furnace process is still the dominant route for the pig iron production in China, but it is also facing the unprecedented pressure of environmental protection, energy conservation, and shortage of raw materials. The...
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  40. Prof. Dieter Senk (RWTH Aachen University)
    New technologies under research and development with a promise to change the future (H2 based, in-bath technologies etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    Recently a special attention is being paid on the Hydrogen Direct Reduction (H-DR) process to minimize the CO2 emissions in ironmaking processes. Despite the fact that many components of the H-DR/EAF setup have been tested in industrial settings, key challenges, such as the high cost of renewable electricity still remain for the process. Biomass, as a renewable source of heating and reducing,...
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  41. Prof. Mohamed Saddik (SABIC)
    Recycling of in-plant residues
    Oral Presentation
    One of the challenges facing steel producers that rely on direct reduction technologies is the sticking tendency of iron ore pellets, which might lead to disrupting operational procedures. In an effort to reduce the sticking tendency of iron ore pellets, suppliers apply inactive coating materials and steel producers apply an additional coating in the form of slurry prior to charging pellets to...
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  42. Dr Rudolf Zauner (Head of Hydrogen Programme, Innovation & New Business, VERBUND AG)
    Oral Presentation
    Today, the majority share of energy demand for steelmaking is provided by fossil energy sources. Future energy scenarios based on significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions by introducing increasing shares of renewable energy sources call for new energy concepts for steelworks. Green energy, such as renewable electricity and renewable gases, needs to substitute fossil process gases and...
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  43. Mr Tobias Stefan (Outotec GmbH & Co KG)
    New technologies under research and development with a promise to change the future (H2 based, in-bath technologies etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    30 years ago, Outotec and its predecessor Lurgi started the development work on reduction of iron ore fines in a fluidized bed with a gaseous reductant. This work culminated 10 years later in the commissioning of the Circored plant in Trinidad as the first industrial operation of direct fine iron ore reduction with only hydrogen as the reducing gas. At the time, hydrogen as the sole reductant...
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  44. Dr Yakov Gordon (Technical Dkirector, Ironmaking, Hatch)
    Process operations in gas based direct reduction technologies (MIDREX, HYL etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    Beginning of development of gas based direct reduction processes goes back to the end of 19 century. The first industrial application was Wiberg-Soderfors DRI shaft furnace process. The history of development and implementation of various gas based direct reduction processes was studied. The strength and week features of this processes were evaluated. It was shown that economics of the direct...
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  45. Mr Volker Hille (Salzgitter AG)
    CO2 Reduction and environmental aspects in the DRI industry
    Oral Presentation
    Today, primary steel worldwide is predominantly produced via carbon based processes as the BF/BOF route. Consequently, steelmaking is responsible for more than 7% of global anthropogenic CO2 emissions, leaving the decarbonization of this industrial sector as challenging as societally important. Luckily, nature offers an alternative to carbon: It can be replaced by hydrogen as chemical...
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  46. Prof. Joonho Lee (Korea University)
    New technologies under research and development with a promise to change the future (H2 based, in-bath technologies etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    As global warming became a serious social issue, the steel industry has become a social obligation to reduce carbon dioxide emission. In South Korea, the utilization of In-House H2 gas as a reducing agent in BF operation has been considered one of the promising solutions (COOLSTAR). With increasing H2 gas utilization rate, it is expected that the coke consumption rate as fuel and reductant...
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  47. Dr Rahul Sarkar (University of Utah)
    New technologies under research and development with a promise to change the future (H2 based, in-bath technologies etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    Recent work by the authors on the interaction of MgO-14.5 wt.% C refractory with Fe/FeO under the conditions of the novel flash ironmaking technology (FIT) developed in the University of Utah showed the formation of a magnesiowustite ((Fe,Mg)O) solid solution. In this work, interdiffusion in the (Fe,Mg)O solid solution has been discussed by analysing the experimental data for two different...
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  48. Dr Wim VAN DER STRICHT (ArcelorMittal)
    New technologies under research and development with a promise to change the future (H2 based, in-bath technologies etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    Technological solutions, to utilize process gases from the iron and steel industry for production of fuels and chemicals, are an attractive sustainable and economic approach for industries today. This innovative approach converts carbon and hydrogen-rich off-gases, such as coke oven gas, blast furnace top gas and also converter gas into liquid based energy sources through a biological gas...
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  49. Dr Michael Skorianz (Danieli Corus)
    New technologies under research and development with a promise to change the future (H2 based, in-bath technologies etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    As a result of declining raw materials, environmental pollution and increasing public pressure, countries are urged to deal with the topic of an energy system transformation. Especially fossil energy intensive industries – such as the steel industry – have to revise or change their business models and technology portfolio. Technical developments showed that a sustainable steel production based...
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  50. Mr Alexander Rimser (K1-MET GmbH)
    New technologies under research and development with a promise to change the future (H2 based, in-bath technologies etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    The climate change, mainly caused by gaseous emissions like CO2, is globally one of the most important subjects. Big efforts are required to solve this problem within the next decades. The European Commission´s low carbon roadmap suggests a reduction of CO2 emissions of 80 % by 2050 compared to 2005 levels. The steel industry, which contributes around 6 % to the worldwide anthropogenic...
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  51. Dr Vincent Chevrier (Midrex Technologies, Inc.)
    CO2 Reduction and environmental aspects in the DRI industry
    Oral Presentation
    The steel sector is one of the largest industrial sources of global CO2 emissions. The mitigation of CO2 emissions is becoming critical in many countries for environmental and taxation reasons. While the natural gas-based MIDREX® Process paired with an electric arc furnace (EAF) has the lowest CO2 emissions of any steelmaking route, there is room to further decrease emissions using hydrogen as...
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  52. Mr ANILKUMAR SEEMON (HEG LIMITED), Mr BIPIN RICHHARIA (HEG LIMITED)
    Process simulation and modelling
    Oral Presentation
    An Optimization model for mass and energy balance has been developed including all the metallurgical and electrical variable parameters influencing the EAF using DRI as charge. Energy required for melting a DRI based charge is dependent on the type of DRI i.e Coal based or Gas based. It also depends on the Metallization along with the Carbon %, gangue and FeO content. During melting of DRI,...
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  53. Mr Ingo Both (Paul Wurth)
    New technologies under research and development with a promise to change the future (H2 based, in-bath technologies etc.)
    Oral Presentation
    Climate change and international agreements are calling for radical CO2 emission reduction. Already now, Europe’s benchmark (of CO2 emitted for the production of one ton of hot rolled product) for the Emission Certificates Trade Scheme is about 20% lower than the average of well performing European integrated plants’ current actual output. Scrap based EAF steel has certainly potential to...
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