Speaker
Description
The transformation toward sustainable green production is focusing on hydrogen technologies and recycling of scrap.
The constraints of resources availability are known (green H2/electricity, high grade DRI, scrap volume and quality).
Therefore, the BOF process technolgoy will remain for the next 25 years the prominent technology benefitting from a couple of process advantages to overcome futures challenges:
• Economic aspects on increasing P levels will define applied process solutions with optimized slag control.
• Synthetic hot metal will require adapted process control.
• Maximised scrap rates are in contradiction to tramp element control.
Integration of digitilization approaches and applying AI/ML for process optimization will provide further performance gains.
Solutions and perspectives will be presented to keep the BOF technology fit for the future.