K1-MET participated in the 7^th European Steel Technology and Application Days (ESTAD). This conference brought together steel industry experts, researchers, and engineers to discuss technological advances, supply chain changes, digital and ecological transitions, and innovations across ironmaking, steelmaking, rolling, materials, and hydrogen-based processes.

K1-MET also contributed with presentations and contributions:

• Johann Wachlmayr: Presentation (Co-author Christine Gruber) “AI-Powered Cohesive Zone Optimization: Enhancing Efficiency and Stability in Blast Furnaces”
• Hamideh Hassanpour: Poster presentation (Co-authors Manuel Farkas, Bernhard Adami, Michael Zarl, Magdalena Schatzl and Christine Gruber) “Advancing Hydrogen Plasma Smelting Reduction: Process Simulation and technical and environmental assessment”
• Christine Gruber: Presentation “The use of image data in steelmaking – a short guide to promises and pitfalls”
• Saeid Bakhtiari: Presentation “Influence of different C, Ti, B, Mn, and Al content on hot ductility behavior of two micro-alloyed steel at different strain rates”
• Bernhard Adami: Presentation (Co-authors Michael Zarl and Manuel Farkas) „Advancing hydrogen plasma smelting reduction: Experimental insights from a pilot plant”
• Pedro Paulo da Silva Cruz: Presentation “Machine learning model for mould powder consumption in continuous steel casting”
• Mohammad Jafarzadeh: Presentation (Co-author Michael Zarl) “Hydrogen plasma smelting reduction of Cr2O3/Chromite: the first step to direct and sustainable production of stainless steel”
• Samuel Pucher: Presentation “A blast furnace tapping simulator to better understand dead man flotation scenarios”
• Cameron Quick: Presentation (Co-authors Alexander Jelinek and Michael Zarl) “Challenges and solutions for process characterisation of hydrogen plasma smelting reduction (HPSR) at pilot scale and beyond”
• Nina Schlemmer: Presentation (Co-author Irmtraud Marschall) “Electrical conductivity modelling of molten slag based on viscosity data – A mechanistic approach”
• Monika Seidl: Presentation “Hybrid solution for local heat transfer coefficients in a transient solidification model for continuous casting”
• Johann Winkler: Presentation (Co-authors Lina Kieush and Johannes Gabl) “Reaction behaviour of different carbon sources in FeO containing slags for electric smelting furnaces”
• Wolfgang Reiter: Presentation (Co-author Johannes Rieger) “Zinc flexible RecoDust process”
• Lina Kieush: Co-author of “Recent achievements of Industrial Symbiosis in the steel sector based on the Symbio-Steel project”
• Johannes Rieger: Co-author of “Recent achievements of Industrial Symbiosis in the steel sector based on the Symbio-Steel project” and co-author of “Sensor solutions for online analysis of post-consumer scrap”
• Irmtraud Marschall: Co-author of “Electrical conductivity modelling of molten slag based on viscosity data - A mechanistic approach”and co-author of “Thermophysical property measurement of selected Nickel based superalloys by voestalpine BÖHLER Edelstahl GmbH & Co KG using a gas-tight Furnace Rheometer System and an Electromagnetic Levitation Apparatus”
• Alireza Atf: Co-author of “Flow and solidification modeling in continuous casting of steel: an European expertise mapping at a glance and positioning at a global level” (further K1-MET co-author Christine Gruber)
• Melanie Leitner: Co-author of “Sensor solutions for online analysis of post-consumer scrap” (further K1-MET co-author Johannes Rieger)
   

Hamideh Hassanpour from K1-MET GmbH won the Best Poster Award for her poster presentation entitled “Advancing Hydrogen Plasma Smelting Reduction: Process Simulation, Technical and Environmental Assessment”. The work was conducted in collaboration with K1-MET co-authors Manuel Farkas, Bernhard Adami, Michael Andreas Zarl, Magdalena Schatzl and Christine Gruber.