Project description
Innovative recycling technology for exhausted refractory from the steel industry
Steel production is a major emitter of CO2. Treatment of exhausted refractory makes it possible to reduce the industry's CO2 footprint. Today, no technology achieves recycling rates higher than about 50 %, performed in situ and permitting the use of nearly all treated waste within the same production cycle. Researchers are now developing a solution that achieves a 95 % recycling rate with 80 % reuse in the same production plant. The EU-funded ReStoRe project will optimise and adapt its patented technology to all types of steel production cycles and levels. The project includes large-scale trials and demonstrations with at least seven big steel producers for result validation, protocol and design standardisation and ETV verification.
Objective
The steel industry is a strategic production sector, however it puts strong pressure on the environment because of the nature and quantity of material involved, gas emissions and waste. Of particular concern are 1) the huge volume of landfilled spent refractory, about 80-90% of total ladles and furnaces demolition material; and 2) the massive lime consumption, generating large amounts of CO2 emissions.
To date no technology existed in the steel industry that achieved recycling rates higher than about 50%, can be performed in situ and permit the use of the vast majority of treated waste within the same production cycle. These assets would significantly reduce economic and environmental costs of steel production.
Deref S.p.a. ( ‘DEmolizione REFrattari’) has a solid and long-lasting experience in the steel sector, and even more in steel refractory demolition, industrial waste management and metallurgical additives production. It developed a proper solution, tested it industrially at an Electric Arc Furnace plant for stainless steel production, and achieved a 95% recycling rate with 80% reuse in the same production plant and very high cost savings. It now sees a high potential to capitalise these huge achievements by focusing the entire steel production market - consisting in more than 18 relevant sized steel plants in EU and much more in the rest of the world.
Hereto, Deref will optimise and adapt its patented and proven technology to all types of steel production cycles and steel grades and validate results within large-scale trials and demonstrations, performed with at least 7 big steel producers, to obtain confirmation on the suitability of the treatment cycles in different use cases and to provide for evidence to the market. It will also standardise protocols and designs, and obtain an ETV certification. Lastly, it will widely inform and convince the market by a well targeted communication and dissemination strategy and update the commercialisation plan.
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16129 GENOVA
Italy
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