EEC 2026 - 14th European Electric Steelmaking Conference & EMECR 2026 - 5th International Conference on Energy and Material Efficiency and CO2 Reduction in the Steel Industry

Session

Ongoing Research in Electric Steelmaking II

11 May 2026, 16:10

Washington room (ground floor)

Conveners

Ongoing Research in Electric Steelmaking II

• Susanne Michelic (Montanuniversitaet Leoben)

156. Sustainable steelmaking route for mitigation of CO2 emissions: Transition from blast furnace (BF) to electric smelting furnace (ESF)

Prof. Joohyun Park (Hanyang University)

11/05/2026, 16:10

EEC 6.C Future directions and emerging technologies in the field

Keynote Presentation

It has been known that approx. 7% emissions of CO2 arises from the steel industry sector. Hence, many steel companies are trying to develop the electric arc furnace (EAF) and/or electric smelting furnace (ESF) steelmaking processes instead of blast furnace (BF) and basic oxygen furnace (BOF) integrated routes by employing high amounts of hydrogen gas direct-reduced iron (H2-DRI) to mitigate...

30. Integrated Multi-institutional Approach to EAF bottom blowing technology development: Scaled Physical Model Verification, CFD Simulation, and Industrial Application

Sun-Joong KIM (Chosun University)

11/05/2026, 16:30

EEC 6.B Collaboration between academia and industry

Oral presentation (paper for Ironmaking & Steelmaking special issue)

Electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking represents a critical pathway toward achieving carbon neutrality in the steel industry by 2050, as it significantly reduces CO₂ emissions compared to blast furnace and basic oxygen furnace processes. However, the localized heating from the electric arc limits the stirring efficiency of molten steel, necessitating enhanced mixing strategies. Bottom blowing...

152. Recent research, planned equipment upgrades and future work at the pilot EAF at RWTH Aachen University

Thomas Echterhof (RWTH Aachen University)

11/05/2026, 16:50

EEC 6.A Ongoing research in electric steelmaking

Oral Presentation

Several European steelmakers currently plan to transform integrated steel mills based on the BF-BOF route towards the DRI/HBI-EAF/ESF routes of steelmaking. This planned transformation goes hand in hand with the need to optimise the new process routes in order to produce the same high-quality products on these different and, for the steelworks concerned, new process routes.

The optimization...

49. A Time-based Pellet Melting Approach to Model Feed Pile Formation in Electric Smelting Furnace

Mr Saeed Tavakoli (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology)

11/05/2026, 17:10

EEC 6.B Collaboration between academia and industry

Oral presentation (paper for Ironmaking & Steelmaking special issue)

Tata Steel Netherlands (TSN) produces approximately 7 million tonnes of steel annually, which is equivalent to the national consumption, resulting in about 12 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions per year, which accounts for around 7% of the Dutch total. Nearly 90% of these emissions originate from producing hot metal in blast furnaces.

To reduce emissions by 70% by 2035, TSN, under the Groeien...