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ORGANIZER;CN=ESTAD 2023:mailto:info@metec-estad.com
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SUMMARY:Tecnored - Sustainable low carbon technology for steel waste recycling
DESCRIPTION:As an energy-intensive and waste-generating, the traditional iron and steelmaking industry is challenged to find pathways to meet climate change mitigation and sustainability demands from modern societies and governments. In this sense, the steel industry is trying to meet the challenge of a fully circular economy in a near future. The minimization of solid waste sent to landfill and the mitigation of CO2 emissions are seen as key points for the sector. Tecnored is a smelting reduction process for hot metal production based on self-reduction agglomerates (SR briquette), flexible to use iron-bearing and carbonaceous wastes from steel plants, such as sludges and dust in an efficient way. Due to the Tecnored compact design, the process can operate without coke, using a broad range of carbonaceous materials in agglomerated form (fuel briquette), allowing the technology to heavily rely on sustainable biomass-based fuels, promoting drastic CO2 reduction during hot metal production. The validation of the Tecnored process and its flexibility for raw materials has been done in the last 10 years through many campaigns in a 40 kta demonstration plant. Now the technology is being scaled up to the first commercial plant, which has its start-up schedule 2026 in Brazil. In this work, we present the basics of the technology when operating with residues, including the recycling performance during the last two campaigns in the demonstration plant. Also, an economic evaluation of crude steel production using Tecnored and a comparison with other potential routes for waste recycling.  The objective of this publication is to highlight the role that Tecnored can play in the future to contribute to a sustainable low-carbon circular economy iron and steelmaking. 
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