On 6.02?8.02.2023 in Newcastle (Australia) held International Symposium on Sustainable Cokemaking and Ironmaking (ISSCI 2023), organized by The Center for Ironmaking Materials Research at the Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources (NIR).
The steel industry around the world is one of the largest carbon dioxide emitters and this is about 7% of total emissions. Globally, regulatory authorities, investors and consumers push to increase pace in industrial decarbonization requirements. The growing requirements for real emission reduction plans cause the need to take specific actions to obtain high efficiency, while low harm to the environment, along with decreasing emissions, in particular carbon dioxide.
The seminar was a forum for discussing the best practices and the latest achievements, innovative ideas and research results, with sustainable scientific and implementation themes, in the area of decarbonization of ironmaking and cokemaking.
Over 120 experts from 11 countries participated in the meeting, including dr Bartosz Mertas from the Cokemaking Technologies Department of the Institute of Energy and Fuel Processing Technology. As part of the seminar, he presented the results of the work of the Biocoke4FAI project, entitled Bio-Coke for Ferroalloys Industry Production: The Influence of Charcoal Addition on Bio-Coke Quality Parameters. Participants also had the opportunity to visit the Metallurgical Material Research Center, which is part of the Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources (NIR).
Prepared by Bartosz Mertas
Department of Cokemaking Technologies