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

Renewable gases and CO2 mitigation in steel industry I

12 May 2026, 15:00

Parini room

Conveners

Renewable gases and CO2 mitigation in steel industry I

• Filippo Cirilli (Rina Consulting Centro Sviluppo Materiali)

105. Circular Carbon and Electrified Heat: Carbon neutral Syngas heated by Paul Wurth Tempra to reduce Blast Furnace CO₂ Emissions

Cristiano Castagnola (SMS Group)

12/05/2026, 15:00

EMECR 3. Emission avoidance, renewable gases and CO2 mitigation in steel industry

Oral Presentation

Decarbonizing existing Blast Furnaces is a critical challenge for integrated steel plants aiming for climate neutrality. This paper introduces a technological pathway that uses thermal dry reforming of coke plant by-products and Paul Wurth Tempra for electric gas heating in a top gas recycling Blast Furnace scheme.
SMS group has developed the OXYTAR technology, which converts the...

79. Effect of hydrogen oxyfuel combustion on oxide scale descalability by thermal shock in low-carbon steels

Dr Susanna Airaksinen (University of Oulu)

12/05/2026, 15:20

EMECR 3. Emission avoidance, renewable gases and CO2 mitigation in steel industry

Oral Presentation

Steel industry is in transition concerning heating methods due to requirement to reduce CO2 emissions. Use of hydrogen as a fuel in combustion for heating makes the reheating furnace a possible method to reduce use of fossil fuels. Furthermore, oxyfuel combustion increases efficiency of the heating process compared to air-fuel method. The complete combustion of the fuel is ensured by excess...

165. Assessment of Biochar Production and Integration into HIsarna Ironmaking

Nirmal Madhavan (TU Delft)

12/05/2026, 15:40

EEC 4.A Carbon footprint reduction strategies.

Oral presentation (paper for Ironmaking & Steelmaking special issue)

HIsarna ironmaking is a breakthrough smelting reduction technology with the potential to reduce CO₂ emissions by about 50% when operated with coal. However, further decarbonisation of the process requires replacing fossil carbon with carbon neutral alternatives like biochar. This study evaluates biochar production integration to the HIsarna pro-cess operations from the perspective of raw...