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Programme and Registration

Programme and Registration

May14

Steel Ladle Lining - Fully Booked

NH Hotel Düsseldorf City

May 14th, 2024 – May 16th, 2024seminar in english

• Trends in clean steel technology and steel ladle lining
• Demands on refractories for secondary metallurgy
• Salzgitter Flachstahl: Improvements of the steel ladle linings
• DEW: Refractory lining for varying operating conditions
• thyssenkrupp Steel: Current lining innovations
• Tata Steel Port Talbot: Thermal efficiency of teeming ladles
• Tata Steel Ijmuiden: Steel ladle lining for flat steel production
• SSAB Finland: Monolithic lining in a 3-converter-shop
• PAHAGE: Purging plugs in steel ladles
• Teamwork: Optimization of economics in refractories
• Steel Plant Tour at thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG

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June11

Oxygen Steelmaking

Intercity Hotel Duisburg

Jun 11th, 2024 – Jun 13th, 2024seminar in english

• History, developments and types and of oxygen converters
• Thermodynamic and kinetic basics in the converter process
• Tramp elements
• Hot-metal pretreatment
• Computational Fluid Dynamics in the converter
• Design and construction of modern oxygen converters
• Chemical reactions kinetics:
Refining reactions and slag forming in the BOF process
• Mass balance and heat balance
• Converter process modelling
• Steel scrap for the converter
• Refractory materials for BOF
• Comparison of different converter operation practices:
US – Europe – Japan
• Environmental aspects: Dedusting
• Process of CO2 neutral steelmaking
• The role of the converter in CO2 neutral steelmaking

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September24

Reduction of heat losses during hot rolling of long products

Seminar with TEAMS meeting

Sep 24th, 2024 – Sep 24th, 2024seminar in english

Hot rolling mills strive to produce as efficiently as possible. For this reason, hot rolling mills take high production costs into account. High heat losses during the whole hot rolling process play one major role. Heat losses are caused by heat sinks related e.g. to descaling, work roll cooling, cross sprays and conveyer rolls. The seminar gives an overview of proposing solutions that can be implemented with limited efforts in terms of design or process engineering to reduce heat losses and to increase their economic efficiency. They are mandatory for the future perspective to achieve better product quality, to improve work roll performance, to save energy costs and thus, to in-crease economic efficiency in hot rolling of long products.

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November05

Hydrogen-based transformation of the steel industry

NH Düsseldorf City North

Nov 5th, 2024 – Nov 7th, 2024seminar in english

▪ Ways to CO2 neutral steel production
▪ Iron ores for (hydrogen-based) direct reduction
▪ Technologies of current direct reduction concepts
▪ Reduction technologies of iron ore fines with hydrogen
▪ Green ironmaking with hydrogen and ammonia
▪ Hydrogen as a challenging atmosphere for refractories
▪ Electric arc furnace technology - AC and DC
▪ Technology of the OBF (Smelter)
▪ Melting of DRI and HBI in the EAF
▪ Future importance of steel scrap
▪ Project SALCOS: Steelmaking route DR - EAF
▪ Project tkH2Steel: Steelmaking route DR - OBF - Converter
▪ Slags of CO2 neutral steel production
▪ Hydrogen production, transport and storage – case study Germany
▪ Green power production and availability
▪ Decarbonisation of downstream processes – H2 burner

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