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ORGANIZER;CN=ESTAD 2023:mailto:info@metec-estad.com
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SUMMARY:Next generation of pelletizing plants for sustainable and competitive steelmaking in the future
DESCRIPTION:Most forecasts for the global steel industry agree that the steel production will grow until 2050 by another 50%. Scrap smelting and the direct reduction route will account for the lions share of the growth, but the absolute amount of steel produced with the blast furnace route will remain almost the same. This shows that iron ore pelletizing will keep its paramount role to deliver high quality feed material for direct reduction shafts and blast furnaces. Amid the transition of the steel industry towards net-zero carbon, the pelletizing technology must also reduce their own carbon footprint and comply at the same time with the increasing quality requirement for the pellets. Metso Outotec as undisputed leader since the invention of pelletizing technology follows with the NextGen Pelletizing the clear vision to strive for the carbon neutral and fully autonomous pellet plants of the future.
 
For the CO2 reduction the focus is lying on a further increase of the energy efficiency and heat recuperation of the induration process, new combustion concepts as well as the replacement of fossil fuels by means of Hydrogen burners or the substitution of solid fuel by biocarbon. Energy efficiency is also improved by the further implementation of new digital solutions. Metso Outotec’s proven advanced process optimizer Optimus is constantly complemented by new modules like the online measurement and control of the green pellet size, the pellet mix plasticity or the quality of the hardened pellets. All this performance improvements have also significant effects on the process stability and flexibility, the plant productivity and the product quality and finally on the operational cost.

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