Description
Date: 16 October, 2024, 13.00 UTC. Webinar
Estimated Time: 1 hr
Language: English
Summary of the lecture
Sustainability and reduction of fossil CO2 emissions is a very important topic these days. Everyone is talking about decarbonizing the steel industry. However, sustainability covers more aspects than just CO2 emissions of a process. But what does it mean for EAF steelmaking and its future?
To answer the question this course will touch upon topics like energy efficiency, resource efficiency and carbon footprint of EAF steelmaking. The concepts will be defined und factors influencing the sustainability will be discussed. Finally, options to increase the sustainability of EAF steelmaking and future steelmaking concepts including the EAF like fossil carbon substitutes, energy efficiency improvements and circular economy approaches will be discussed.
What you will learn:
Speaker Introduction
Thomas Echterhof
Senior Researcher, RWTH Aachen University
Thomas Echterhof is academic director at the Department for Industrial Furnaces and Heat Engineering at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. He has a background in metallurgical engineering from RWTH Aachen University and received his doctorate in engineering science in 2010. Since 2009 he is leading the research group on circular steelmaking.
Thomas was project manager in charge of the RWTH contribution to several EU funded projects related to EAF steelmaking and was coordinator in five of them. His main research interests include the optimisation of energy and resource efficiency and environmental impact of the EAF steelmaking. Thomas has authored or co-authored more than 70 journal and conference papers. He is also involved in teaching with a lecture on electric arc furnace technology at RWTH Aachen University.
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