DissHEAT

This proposal has been set up to elevate and promote the knowledge in a research field of paramount importance for the European steel industry, related to The European Green Deal, the Paris Agreement, and the large amount of fuel and energy carriers used to reheat steel. Even if the steelmaking side has received the most attention, downstream processes are very large energy consumers. Almost half the industrial energy used in Europe is consumed in thermal processing plants, especially industrial furnaces, which correspond to an energy consumption of 1650 TWh/yr. The industrial furnaces on the metalworking side are responsible for about 6-8% of the total consumption of industrial furnaces, amounting to 99-132 TWh/yr. This project will bring forward and promote a large amount of EU/RFCS/ECSC project innovations and knowledge that has reached a smaller audience than it deserves and scale-up the important outcomes of those projects to reach various stakeholders from industry, suppliers, policymakers, and research.

In short, the project has the opportunity to perform:

• A critical review of past projects by the re-organisation of project results into selected groupings and valorising the findings.
• To share, promote, and discuss the knowledge. The findings will be presented in a clear way to new audiences. Expected feedback from discussions in planned workshops and seminars will provide important insights on reasons for success and failure of the past projects and indications of how to proceed.
• Develop a roadmap for future research activities.