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With 97 papers presented at the first International Conference on Energy Efficiency and CO2 Reduction in the Steel Industry it is impossible to do justice to all in this review. Instead this report summarises the keynote papers dealing with emerging technologies and the session on bio-fuels, which are becoming serious contenders as a means of alleviating CO2 emissions.
THE 1st International Conference on Energy Efficiency and CO2 Reduction in the Steel Industry (EECRsteel2011) was one of four steel conferences held during the first three days of Metec 2011 in Düsseldorf. Under the banner 'Metec InSteelCon 2011' over 1000 delegates attended this or conferences on Coke & Ironmaking, Continuous Casting and Modelling and Simulation - each conference in turn having parallel sessions. The German Steel Institute VDEh organised the technical content of the conferences while Tema Technologie Marketing provided the administration. Plant tours were also available on 1 July. As the event was held at the conference centre in Mess Düsseldorf during 28-30 June it was convenient for delegates to also visit the Metec and accompanying shows which ran from 27 June to 2 July (see report at www.steeltimesint.com/features}.
Only EECRsteel201 1 will be reviewed in this article as the most relevant to developing a sustainable steel industry. Some of the presentations such as strip casting and Arvedfs Endless Strip Production, also overlapped with the subject matter from other conferences where they addressed significant energy saving measures.
Proceedings started with a common opening session for all four conferences on the Monday morning hearing six papers addressing the prospects of the European Steel Industry. This was preceded by a welcome by 10ifolfgang Eder, Chairman METEC InSteelCon® 2011, President of Eurofer and CEO of voestalpine Stahl; Austria and an address by Svenja Schulze MdL, Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of the German State of North RhineWestphalia; Germany.
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97 papers were presented in EECRsteel in 15 Sessions (see Box) with up to three parallel tracks. The first session was common to all, reviewing the three major CO2 reduction programmes currently under way; the AISI CO2 breakthrough programme in USA, the ULCOS programme in Europe and COURSE-50 in Japan.
Joseph Vehec of the American Iron and Steel Institute reviewed the AISI CO2 Breakthrough Programme - A technology-driven...