Descrizione del progetto
Modelli refrattari migliorati per la produzione sostenibile dell’acciaio
L’industria siderurgica ha detenuto a lungo un ruolo strategico nell’economia dell’UE, favorendo innovazione e crescita e fornendo opportunità di lavoro. Per stare al passo con la crescente domanda per prodotti in acciaio, risulta fondamentale ridurre l’impatto ambientale della produzione di acciaio. L’obiettivo principale del progetto RE-FRACTURE2, finanziato dall’UE, è lo sviluppo di nuovi modelli computazionali per materiali refrattari che dovrebbero permettere di simularne per la prima volta il comportamento nell’arco dell’intero intervallo di temperatura di esercizio. I modelli fungeranno da dati per la progettazione di componenti, quali ugelli refrattari, piastre, siviere e sistemi a saracinesca per paniera, generando un maggiore risparmio energetico e minori rifiuti di produzione. Il progetto si occuperà della formazione di una nuova generazione di progettisti che aiuteranno l’Europa a raggiungere una crescita sostenibile in una società a basse emissioni di carbonio.
Obiettivo
Population growth is combined with unprecedented improvements in standards of living for developing countries so that a massive demand for steel is expected for the construction of new infrastructures. This is going to produce a massive waste of energy and CO2 emission which cannot be tolerated by the world’s ecosystems. Indeed, steel production requires enormous amounts of energy and resources and consequently is a major source of pollution in terms of CO2 emission and waste production.
Therefore, improvement and optimization of steel production targeted to sustainability and to the reduction of its eco-footprint are of crucial importance, if Europe is to maintain on the one hand its own steel industry and the environmental challenge on the other.
In this sector (and others which deal with high-temperature liquids, e.g. aluminium, glass, molten salts in thermal solar power stations) the performance of refractory materials and related components plays a key role in energy efficiency, waste reduction and processing times.
In order to drastically reduce the overall CO2 emissions from the production of steel, the development of breakthrough technologies is crucial.
The overarching objective of the RE-FRACTURE2 project is to derive new computational models for refractory materials, which will make possible for the first time to simulate in-silico their behaviour over the whole of working temperature range. These models will be a breakthrough in the design of components like refractory nozzles, plates, ladle and tundish slide gate systems, which will directly translate to energy savings, waste reduction and decreases in pollution and CO2 emission, together with safety improvements.
This goal will be achieved by the training of a new generation of “environment enthusiast designers” who will keep Europe to be the leading country in sustainable growth for a low carbon society.
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MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)Coordinatore
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