Scope
The 9th ECIC will address both fundamental research work and evaluation and plant operational results and plant construction.
The Conference will bring together a wide range of experts, coming from plant operation, plant suppliers, universities and research institutes, who share expertise in:
• Cokemaking
• Production of Biocoal/biochar
• Industry 4.0 in ironmaking
• Sintering, pelletising, briquette production
• Direct reduction and Smelting reduction
• Blast furnace ironmaking
• Blast Furnace muds
• CCS/CCUS (Carbon Capture, Use and Storage)
• Impact of Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)
• H2 and Syngas exploitation
The event will provide a forum for best practise and state-of-the-art technology, new developments, new ideas and research results.
Topics
Cokemaking
• Fundamentals in cokemaking
• Coal blending practise
• Latest developments in slot oven plant technology and design
• Latest developments in heat recovery oven plant technology and design
• New cokemaking technologies
• Coke oven repair techniques and life prolongation
• Measures for improving coke quality
• Measurement of wall displacement and pressure of coke oven chamber
• Coke plant operation, instrumentation and automation
• Improving productivity and safety
• Stamp charging technology
• Coke oven gas cleaning and utilization of by-products
• Graphite formation at coke ovens
• Coke quenching technologies
• Coke oven refractories
Production of Biocoal/biochar
• Coal from biogenic source
•Pyrolysis devices to obtained biocoal/biochar
• Biocoke
Industry 4.0 in ironmaking
• Cyber Physical Systems
• Horizontal Integration
• Vertical Integration
• End-to-end engineering
• Big Data
• Self organisation
• Material tracking, material genealogy
• Through Process Quality Control
• Predictive Maintenance
• IT- Aspects (Cyber Security, ITNetwork, Standardisation, etc.)
• Application examples in steel industry
Sintering, pelletising, briquette production
• Fundamentals in sintering
• Sinter plant construction and layout
• Sinter process optimisation
• Sinter plant operation and automation
• Use of concentrates in sinter mix
• Sinter quality
• Sinter cooling
• Sinter plant waste gas cleaning
• Energy recovery and use in sinter plants
• Pellet plant construction and layout
• Pellet plant operation and automation
• Production of acid and fluxed pellets
• Use of hematite and/or magnetite pellet feed for pellet production
• Pellet qualities
• Reduction of pellets under different conditions
• Reduction of briquettes under different conditions
Direct reduction and smelting reduction
• Fundamentals in direct reduction and smelting reduction
• Production and use of DRI and HBI
• Gas-based DRI processes and new developments
• Hydrogen based DRI processes
• Coal-based DRI processes and new developments
• Transport and charge of hot DRI to electric arc furnaces
• Shipment of DRI and HBI
• Current status of Corex and Finex processes
• Status of HIsarna process
• Other smelting reduction processes
• Smelting by exploitation of biocoke/biochar
Blast furnace ironmaking
• Fundamentals in blast furnace ironmaking
• Blast furnace construction and design
• Blast furnace process optimization and automation
• Modern process control techniques
• Blast furnace relinings
• Blast furnace campaign life extension
• Blast furnace refractories and cooling
• Blast furnace charging
• Blast furnace productivity
• Blast furnace hearth management
• Hot metal and slag quality
• Coke quality requirements and reduced coke rates
• Injection of auxiliary reductants (coal, oil, gas, plastics) and oxygen
• Hot blast stoves
• New blast furnaces
• Blast furnace liquid management and casting practice
• Gas cleaning devices
• Top gas expansion and recovery turbines
• Oxygen and top gas recycling blast furnace
• Alternative blast furnace processes
• Recovery of muds from blast furnaces
• CO2 Capture system
