HILT CRC Public Webinar: Technology pathways for green iron and low-carbon steelmaking

Speakers from Primetals Technologies, Metix, Tenova and Hatch will each provide a technical deep dive into their technologies, alongside a broader view of future green iron and low-carbon steelmaking pathways.

For Primetals, Gerald Wimmer will provide a technical overview of its work supporting lower-emissions iron and steel production. The presentation will consider practical pathways for integrating new process technologies into future green iron and steel value chains, including the implications for feedstocks, energy supply, plant configuration and scale-up.

Gerhard Terblanche will present for Metix. As SMS group’s centre of competence for reduction furnace applications, Metix brings deep expertise in pyrometallurgical furnace technologies, submerged arc furnaces, high-temperature process engineering and advanced electric smelting solutions.

Tenova will provide a multi-speaker overview of its technologies across the iron and steel value chain. Markus Dorndorf will introduce the company’s direct reduced iron (DRI) and electric arc furnace (EAF) technologies; Andre Esterhuizen will discuss submerged arc furnace technology, including iBLUE® (which combines direct reduction with arc furnace-based hot metal production), residual valorisation and slag granulation; and Alessandro Della Rocca will address downstream technologies, including reheating furnaces.

For Hatch, Simon Nitschke, Managing Director, Equipment Technology, will present on Hatch’s work in green iron and steel, including the NeoSmelt electric smelting furnace (ESF) design.

Presentations from each company will include an audience Q&A after each session, with a panel discussion to close.

Agenda:

Welcome/introduction – HILT CRC

Primetals inc. Q&A (15 min)

Metix inc. Q&A (15 min)

Tenova (10 min) + Q&A (15 min)

Hatch (10 min) + Q&A (15 min)

Joint panel (20 min).