BioReSteel Workshop at EUBCE 2025

In two and a half hours, Electric Arc Furnaces and Cupola Furnaces will be presented and their role for industry described. At present, both industrial processes use fossil-coal derived products which are a burden for the carbon dioxide balance. In future, biomass-derived coal products will have to close the gap. In this context, the workshop will look at biochar from the pyrolysis process and hydrochar from hydrothermal carbonization (HTC). Presenters come from Industry and Academia.

After the workshop, the organizers offer a visit, free of charge, to an industrial pilot plant for hydrothermal carbonization which is a 20-minutes bus trip away from the congress venue. The tour will end again to the congress center and will take two hours.

Agenda
First session

13:45 – 15:00

• Development and Utilization of Hydrothermally Carbonized Biomass for the Cupola Furnace
  Frank Wondra, Herp Gießereitechnik GmbH, Germany
• Use of biogenic carbon carriers in self-reducing agglomerates as a secondary raw material for iron foundries
  Carsten Gondorf, RWTH, Germany
• Utilization of secondary carbon for the steelmaking
  Valentina Alemanno, RINA-CSM, Italy

Panel discussion

Second session

15:00 – 16:15

• BIORECAST, 3 t of biocoal from biowaste streams to be used in EAF
  Andrea Salimbeni, Re-Cord, Italy
• Standards for solid biofuel and pyrogenic biocarbon
  Martin Hitzl, Ingelia, Spain
• Production of hydrochar on industrial scale and its application in the BioReSteel project
  Chuan Wang, Swerim, Sweden

Panel discussion

Registration

Conference or visitor pass registration is mandatory.
Please note that this programme may be subject to alteration and the organisers reserve the right to do so without giving prior notice. Registration >

Questions please contact Chuan Wang from Swerim or Michael Renz from UPV.