K1-MET nahm an der Konferenz „7th European Steel Technology and Application Days (ESTAD)“ teil. Die Konferenz brachte Expert:innen, Forscher:innen und Ingenieur:innen der Stahlindustrie zusammen, um über technologische Fortschritte, Veränderungen in der Lieferkette, digitale und ökologische Transformationen sowie Innovationen in den Bereichen Roheisen- und Stahlerzeugung, Walztechnik, Werkstoffe und wasserstoffbasierte Prozesse zu diskutieren.
K1-MET war zudem mit mehreren Vorträgen und Beiträgen vertreten:
- Johann Wachlmayr: Vortrag (Co-Autorin Christine Gruber) „AI-Powered Cohesive Zone Optimization: Enhancing Efficiency and Stability in Blast Furnaces“
- Hamideh Hassanpour: Posterpräsentation (Co-Autor:innen Manuel Farkas, Bernhard Adami, Michael Zarl, Magdalena Schatzl und Christine Gruber) „Advancing Hydrogen Plasma Smelting Reduction: Process Simulation and technical and environmental assessment“
- Christine Gruber: Vortrag „The use of image data in steelmaking – a short guide to promises and pitfalls“
- Saeid Bakhtiari: Vortrag „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: Vortrag (Co-Autoren Michael Zarl und Manuel Farkas) „Advancing hydrogen plasma smelting reduction: Experimental insights from a pilot plant“
- Pedro Paulo da Silva Cruz: Vortrag „Machine learning model for mould powder consumption in continuous steel casting“
- Mohammad Jafarzadeh: Vortrag (Co-Autor Michael Zarl) „Hydrogen plasma smelting reduction of Cr2O3/Chromite: the first step to direct and sustainable production of stainless steel“
- Samuel Pucher: Vortrag „A blast furnace tapping simulator to better understand dead man flotation scenarios“
- Cameron Quick: Vortrag (Co-Autoren Alexander Jelinek und Michael Zarl) „Challenges and solutions for process characterisation of hydrogen plasma smelting reduction (HPSR) at pilot scale and beyond“
- Nina Schlemmer: Vortrag (Co-Autorin Irmtraud Marschall) „Electrical conductivity modelling of molten slag based on viscosity data – A mechanistic approach“
- Monika Seidl: Vortrag „Hybrid solution for local heat transfer coefficients in a transient solidification model for continuous casting“
- Johann Winkler: Vortrag (Co-Autor:innen Lina Kieush und Johannes Gabl) „Reaction behaviour of different carbon sources in FeO containing slags for electric smelting furnaces“
- Wolfgang Reiter: Vortrag (Co-Autor Johannes Rieger) „Zinc flexible RecoDust process“
- Lina Kieush: Co-Autorin von „Recent achievements of Industrial Symbiosis in the steel sector based on the Symbio-Steel project“
- Johannes Rieger: Co-Autor von „Recent achievements of Industrial Symbiosis in the steel sector based on the Symbio-Steel project“ und Co-Autor von “Sensor solutions for online analysis of post-consumer scrap“
- Irmtraud Marschall: Co-Autorin von „Electrical conductivity modelling of molten slag based on viscosity data - A mechanistic approach“ und Co-Autorin von „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-Autor von „Flow and solidification modeling in continuous casting of steel: an European expertise mapping at a glance and positioning at a global level“ (weitere K1-MET Co-Autorin Christine Gruber)
- Melanie Leitner: Co-Autorin von „Sensor solutions for online analysis of post-consumer scrap“ (weiterer K1-MET Co-Autor Johannes Rieger)
Hamideh Hassanpour von der K1-MET GmbH erhielt den Best Poster Award für ihre Posterpräsentation mit dem Titel „Advancing Hydrogen Plasma Smelting Reduction: Process Simulation, Technical and Environmental Assessment“. Die Arbeit entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit den K1-MET Co-Autor:innen Manuel Farkas, Bernhard Adami, Michael Andreas Zarl, Magdalena Schatzl und Christine Gruber.