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

Scrap management and quality improvement

11 May 2026, 14:10

Porta room

Conveners

Scrap management and quality improvement

• Silvia Barella (Politecnico di Milano)

121. Image-Based Steel Scrap Mixture Recognition Using Deep Neural Networks

Giovanni Misso (Regesta spa)

11/05/2026, 14:10

EEC 2.B Optimization of raw material usage, including scrap metal and direct reduced iron (DRI)

Keynote Presentation

Steel scrap recognition plays a crucial role in energy consumption optimization in the electric arc furnace (EAF) steel production process. Scrap picking for basket loading is traditionally in charge of the operator, who operates based on the expected charge mix. This process is prone to human operator errors. Scrap loads typically consist of heterogeneous mixtures of metal waste with diverse...

39. Next Generation Raw-Material and Process Optimization in Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking

Maximilian Kern (qoncept)

11/05/2026, 14:30

EEC 2.B Optimization of raw material usage, including scrap metal and direct reduced iron (DRI)

Oral Presentation

Electric arc furnace (EAF) steel making is increasingly impacted and challenged by volatile scrap markets, scrap quality, energy prices and supply chains. This makes it extremely hard to optimize the operational costs, because of constant daily changes in framework conditions. These dynamics limit the effectiveness of traditional heat-by-heat optimization, particularly when real production...

119. Conclusions of CAESAR HEU project - CirculArity Enhancements by low quality Scrap Analysis and Refinement

Jean-Christophe Pierret (CRM Group)

11/05/2026, 14:50

EEC 3.A Sourcing and quality of scrap metal

Oral presentation (paper for Ironmaking & Steelmaking special issue)

Scrap plays a crucial role in steelmaking in order to enhance processes sustainability, as it reduces the reliance on virgin raw materials and supports the circular economy, while lowering CO₂ emissions and energy demand. However, current trends in the EU scrap market show a slight decline in pre-consumer scrap streams (E2, E6, E8, turnings, etc.) and a short- and long-term increase in...

101. Engineering Rapid Automotive Materials Sustainability (e-RAMS): Upstream conditioning of ELV scrap for high-quality steelmaking

Masoud Ahmadinia (Coventry University)

11/05/2026, 15:10

EEC 3.A Sourcing and quality of scrap metal

Oral Presentation

Steel decarbonisation is accelerating an infrastructural shift from Basic Oxygen Furnaces to scrap-based Electric Arc Furnace steelmaking. This shift places far greater reliance on post-consumer scrap streams, particularly end-of-life vehicles (ELVs), which supply 1.5-2 Mt of scrap annually in the UK and 8-9 Mt across Europe. Blending high-grade automotive steels with mixed co-materials can...

170. Process Intensification of EAF-A New Perspective with Plasma

Haijuan Wang (University of Science and Technology Beijing)

11/05/2026, 15:30

EEC 2.B Optimization of raw material usage, including scrap metal and direct reduced iron (DRI)

Oral Presentation

Against the backdrop of the steel industry’s low-carbon transition, short-route production centered on the electric arc furnace (EAF) is attracting increasing attention because it can couple with renewable electricity and reduce CO₂ emissions substantially. However, current EAF operations face several challenges, when melting materials such as direct reduced iron (DRI), especially DRI from...