Speakers 2022 - ECIC & ICSTI Conferences

I work as an associate professor at the process metallurgy group, Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Sweden. In 2010, I have obtained my PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. Earlier on, I have received my Masters and Bachelor degrees from Al-Azhar University, Egypt.

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Born - Odessa
Live: USA
Graduated from MISA- M.S., 1985 - Ph.D., Metallurgical Engineering
Now: CEO & Expert @ Alter BF Consulting
Was: BF Expert @ ArcelorMittal
Hold
• Silver medal @ “Exhibit of Achievements of National Economy USSR”,
• Honorable sign “Inventor of USSR”,
• Joe Kapitan award for Best Paper (2013),
• 12 patents and 40+ papers

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Nicholas is a Process Metallurgist with an education in Chemical Engineering and Management from McMaster University. Since joining Hatch, he has had the opportunity to work on multiple iron and steel operation projects focusing on benchmarking, emissions reduction, modelling, optimization and continuous improvement.

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Prof. Dr. Mohamed Bahgat
Cheif scientist , Ironmaking field.

PhD degree on CFD simulation
Working in Paul Wurth for more than 3 years as a Computational engineer

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Hauke Bartusch holds a PhD in industrial production. Since 2012 he works at VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut as senior expert and deputy head of the process optimisation iron and steelmaking department. His expertise is data analytics, machine learning, root cause analysis of non-ideal process states and development of process guidance tools.

Mr. Baumann has been working nearly 30 years in the field of wet-mechanical processing technologies, especially on international projects for classification and processing of ores, minerals and other raw materials. He is in charge of the process design for individual processing steps up to complete treatment plants and their practical realization.

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Brett Belford, BEng (Mech), Pr. Eng
Senior Divisional Specialist Green Steel, SMS group GmbH
Employed in the pyrometallurgical industry for 14 years. Experienced in the design, analysis, fabrication, installation and commissioning of ferroalloy and non-ferrous furnaces and associated technology equipment.

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Presenter: Dieter BETTINGER
Birthplace (State, Country): Germany, Saarbrücken; 1963
Present Home (State, Country): Austria in Europe, Linz
Education: Master of Physics
Present Job Title: Product Manager Ironmaking Automation and Optimization
Current Company and Plant Location:
Primetals Technologies, Linz
Previous Job Titles:
Expert Energy Efficie

Sean Boyle is the Key Account Manager for North America and Europe at Midrex Technologies, Inc. where he develops and closes opportunities for new plant projects and maintains relationships of existing clients. Sean has worked at Midrex since 2013 in various roles including Global Solutions Mechanical Engineer, Project Engineer, and Lead Mechanical Engineer for the Toledo, Ohio HBI Plant.

Sean earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Geschäftsführendes Vorstandsmitglied STAHLINSTITUT VDEh

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Brody Brooks is a recent graduate of the University of Newcastle and has been employed as a research assistant with the University of Newcastle's Centre for Ironmaking Materials Research (CIMR) for the past two years, contributing to a number of industry-funded projects. Brody is currently enrolled in a PhD of Chemical Engineering with the CIMR.

After his PhD, Rénard obtained 13 years of experience in the iron and steel industry, and 16 years as Manager Technical Marketing with Rio Tinto/IOC and recently Baffinland. He published numerous papers on pelletizing, sintering and burden behaviour in the Blast Furnace and DR process and has co-authored the book “Modern Blast Furnace Ironmaking”.

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Guanjun Chen specializes in hot stove technology, metallurgical energy-saving research. A visiting researcher in KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden in 2007. He has published more than 70 papers, had 30 patents, and drafted 11 national and industrial standards in China.

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Kyle is a Mechanical Engineer at Hatch with 15+ years experience in specialized engineering, technology design, equipment redesign, and project development in a range of industries, with a focus on ironmaking and steelmaking . Kyle is the iron and steelmaking technologies market manager for Hatch (responsible globally).

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Since 2008 Schwelgern Coke Plant , Duisburg
Manager Mechanical Maintenance

Bart de Graaff works as a Process Technologist at the Technology Department of Danieli Corus in IJmuiden, The Netherlands. He holds a Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering of Delft Technical University. His main focus is on the blast furnace process and the green transition of the ironmaking section of integrated plants.

2009-2015
Studies for Mechanical Engineering with focus on Mechatronics at the Technical University of Munich
2015-2020
PhD in automatic control at the Technical University of Munich
2020-now
Employed at Paul Wurth with focus on Condition Monitoring and the DataXpert platform.

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Xue Feng is a research fellow in ARC Research Hub for Australian Steel Innovation based at the University of Wollongong. His research practices cover multiple disciplines including multiphase flow, heat and mass transfer, computational fluid dynamics and metallurgical engineering, which have been conducted in both industrial and academic settings.

04/2021 – today: Vice President Iron-& Steelmaking Tenova Germany
03/2020 – 03/2021: Business Development Iron & Steelmaking / Director Vacuum Degassing Technologies Tenova Germany
04/2015 – 02/2020: Business Development Iron & Steelmaking Tenova Germany
02/2008 – 03/2015: Head of R&D for Electric Steelmaking / Secondary Metallurgy
Siemens VAI

MSc Mohamed Efetürk studied mechanical engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen and has been with HKM since 2017. He leads projects with a focus on reducing CO2 emissions, process optimization and cost reduction.

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Richard Elliott is a Process Metallurgist within the Pyrometallurgy practice at Hatch with experience working in direct reduction, decarbonization, briquetting, and modeling of slag and metal systems.

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Dr. Alexander Fleischanderl joined Primetals Technologies Austria in 1997.
His current position is Head of Green Steel and CTO Upstream. He is a recognized expert in the field of sustainable iron and steel production.
He holds more than 100 single patents and was honored as Siemens Inventor 2013 and received the MHI Best Innovation Award in 2019.

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Hot Blast Stoves Product Owner within the Primetals Technologies Blast Furnace group, with twenty years experience in the design, commissioning and investigation of stove operation, also responsible for Blast Furnace Blow-In of particular projects.

Dr Maarten Geerdes (71) PhD in chemistry
- Blast furnace technical manager Hoogovens until 2002
- 20 years consultant BF operations at steelplants all over the world (China, Mexico, Argentina, USA)
- process optimisation, high coal injection, blow-down, blow-in, chill recovery.
- Author of Modern Blast furnace Ironmaking (4th edition 2020)

Since 2008 researcher ironmaking at Tata Steel IJmuiden
Work areas:
- Cokemaking - coal blending, pilot ovens, (coke) petrography
- Blast Furnace - modelling, coke requirements, coke dissolution in iron
- Site wide model for CO2 emission reduction
- Hisarna - Process operator at plant start up

Metallurgical Engineer, Ph.D, Doctor of Science, Professor – UrFU, Russia. Technical Director – Ironmaking, Hatch, Canada – 1996. Expertise: iron and coke making, direct reduction, agglomeration. 2 monographs, 7 textbooks, 250 papers and 27 International Patents. AIST’s “Howe Memorial Lecture Award” – 2015; “Distinguished Member and Fellow” - 2019

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July 2017 until today
Sales Manager at Beck u. Kaltheuner GmbH & Co. KG

April 2014 until June 2017
Account Manager at Vesuvius GmbH

2014
Graduated as Master of Science Mechanical Engineering

2012
Graduated as Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering

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2003-2009 Studies at Montanuniversität Leoben

2010-2014 Doctoral Theses, Chair of Ferrous Metallurgy; Title: "Characterization of Ferrous Burden Material for Use in Ironmaking Technologies"

Since 2015 Senior Metallurgist at Mettop GmbH

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Priyanthi Hapugoda is a Senior Research Scientist in the CSIRO Energy Coal Mining Research Program. She has over 22 years’ experience in mineral processing and coal petrography. Priyanthi has a Master of Philosophy in the Field of Mining Engineering from the JKMRC, University of Queensland, Australia.

From April 2015 to May 2021: study of business engineering with specialisation in process engineering

Since June 2021: Researcher at the Institute of Thermal-, Environmental- and Resources' Process Engineering in the working group of Resources' Process Engineering

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1991 Graduated from Kyushu Univ. and joined Sumitomo Metals
1991-1995 Research on blast furnace operation technology
1996-2011 Research on sinter making process using low grade iron ore
2011 Ph.D.
2015-2017 Research on blast furnace operation technology
2018- Research on hydrogen utilization technology for blast furnace

Senior researcher at Hyundai Steel Company since 2018.
Research activities in the field of physicochemical simulations with expertise in computational thermodynamics modeling and machine learning algorithms.
Master's and Ph.D. from Mining and Materials Engineering department at McGill University.

Volodymyr Kuskov - technical manager from Paul Wurth Luxembourg for Coke Oven Machines Dep.
I have been working for Metallurgical Industry already 20 years. My focus is smart engineering, erection and commissioning of different metallurgical Units, especially Coke Oven machines. Innovation through experience is a main priority in this direction.

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Dr.-Ing. Jan Lampke
Head of Sales and Projects / HAVER ENGINEERING GmbH, Freiberg/Germany
Global Technology Unit Manager Pelletizing – HAVER & BOECKER NIAGARA

Focus
• Global sales of mineral processing equipment in Iron Ores, Fertilizers and Recycling
• Digitalization of Mineral Processing Equipment – Industry 4.0 in harsh industrial environment

Dr.-Ing. Rongshan Lin made his bachelor degree in 1982 at USTB in Beijing. Afterwards, he finished his Diplom degree of Ferro-Metallurgy in 1985 at TU Berlin and his PhD-thesis in 1991. Since 1992, he has been working for Dillinger Huette. Currently he is a senior manager and the head of department of technology of coke making and iron making

Hannah Lomas is a Research Associate at the Centre for Ironmaking Materials Research, NIER, University of Newcastle. Since 2013, she has worked at the centre on BHP- and ACARP-funded research projects. Her major interest is to enhance understanding of the fundamental factors that impact coke strength to enable better prediction of coke quality.

Joined Primetals Technologies Ltd in 2008 as a process engineer. Currently the Product Owner for blast furnace cooling which includes responsibility for their stave technology portfolio.

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I work as a senior researcher at Swerim AB, a metallurgical research institute in Sweden since 2010. I obtained my PhD in 2011, in the subject coal and coke properties in the blast furnace, Process Metallurgy at Luleå University of Technology.

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CV Dr.-Ing. Hans Bodo Lüngen für ECIC & ICSTI 2022
Age 66
Study of Metallurgy RWTH Aachen, Germany
With Steel Institute VDEh for 37 years from March 1985 to December 2021.
Last position: Executive Member of the Managing Board.
Today retired and consultant

As of 29 July 2022

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Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University.
Major research area is raw materials and PM emission in sintering process and reduction ds\isintegration of sinter.

M.Sc Process Metallurgy,

Development engineer, Ironmaking
SSAB Europe Oy, Raahe Finland

2013 - 2020
Mechanical Engineering studies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Fields of specialization: mechatronics and power plant technology.
2020 - Now
Engineer at Paul Wurth in Luxembourg.
Focusing on condition and performance monitoring of the Paul Wurth Bell Less Top blast furnace charging system.

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PostDoc at the K1-MET GmbH Linz, Austria, working on the sinter process optimization. PhD in metallurgy from the Technical University of Košice (2019) focused on blast furnace ironmaking, particurarly preparing the BF charge materials.

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Senior scientist in Metallurgy Department at Swerim in Sweden. Experience for more than 22 years in the scope of Ironmaking Reduction Technology, Recycling, and Agglomeration. Project manager for several projects in Swerim focus on sustainability of ironmaking and steelmaking using H2 and biocarbon.

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Sales manager in Paul Wurth (SMS group) with more than 10 years experience in Direct Reduction Plants.
Master Degree in Metallurgy and PhD in Electrochemistry.

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Thomas Nanz works as PhD researcher at K1-MET and TU Wien on the development of a system for testing the reactivity of alternative reducing agents for ironmaking.

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Professor at Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University.
Taking in charge of Collaborative Research Division of Advanced Analysis of Iron and Steelmaking Processes with JFE Steel.
Major research area is thermal fluid analysis of material processes.

Florian is a Senior Process Expert for Agglomeration Technology. His Doctor for Metallurgy he gained at Montanuniversität Leoben in the field of steelmaking. Since joining Primetals, he worked on multiple pelletizing and sintering projects and studies. In 2020 he was commissioning manager of the successful start-up of the 1st CPT plant in India.

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Fabian currently works as a PhD Candidate and Research Associate in the field of materials engineering/metallurgy of iron and steel at RWTH Aachen University.
His research aims to optimize the blast furnace process in order to reduce CO2 emissions.

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Georges Rassel is CEO of SMS group Region Europe, the sole shareholder of Paul Wurth since 2021. He is acting as CEO of Paul Wurth since 2015.
He joined Paul Wurth in 1988 as civil engineer and became head of the Metallurgy Department in 1995. In 2011, he was appointed COO, before taking over the management of the worldwide Paul Wurth group.

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Afshin is a consultant in non-destructive testing and evaluation (NDT & E) of coarse-grained materials and structures such as concrete, refractories, wood, and rocks. He has been working in applied geophysics and NDT of materials and structures since 1988. He has been involved in the research, development, and design of various stress and electro

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Project Manager in K1-MET GmbH since 2017.
Main topics: investigation of technologies for CO2 direct avoidance and/or valorization in the steel industry, study of hydrogen as decarbonization agent in the steelmaking process, management and execution of research projects for CO2-mitigation technologies in steel making processes

Blast Furnace Senior Specialist in ArcelorMittal Brazil (Tubarão). Experience also as Sintermaking Process Specialist and Raw Materials Supply Specialist. Graduation and Master Degree in Metallurgy and Materials Science. Focused on processes deep analysis and optimization, strategical planning and costs reduction.

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Henrik Saxén is Professor in Heat Engineering at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. He has M.Sc. and Dr. degrees (Chem. Eng.) from the same university. His main interests are mathematical modeling, optimization and soft computing, particularly focused on sustainable ironmaking processes and energy systems.

Born 1973 in Limburg, Germany.

Degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Applied Science Wiesbaden and Technical
University Darmstadt

Working since 1996 for Paul Wurth Deutschland resp. predecessors.

Responsible for Technical Sales of Paul Wurth Deutschland GmbH and Technology Director for Hot Blast Stoves of the Paul Wurth Group.

Marc Schulten is a group leader at the Technology Coal & Coke department, thyssenkrupp Steel Europe. Since 2013, he has worked at the pilot cokemaking oven group. Main subject of his work is to obtain reliable data out of the pilot ovens.

Mr. Igor Shepetovsky is the Head of the Technical Department at Kosaya Gora Iron Works (Tula, Russia). Igor’s main industrial research interests include blast furnace ironmaking with production of high purity pig iron and ferromanganese in the conditions of operation of non-integrated iron works.

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1999-2003: University of Cambridge, UK - MSci in Natural Sciences (Geology)
2003-2007: University of Bristol, UK - PhD in Geology (Igneous Petrology)
2007-present: Tata Steel, IJmuiden, The Netherlands - Principal Researcher
Research topics of interest:
Applied petrology in iron- and steelmaking processes

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Dipl. Ing. Michael Specht

area sales director industrial furnaces and precast shapes

Refratechnik Steel GmbH
Am Seestern 5
Düsseldorf, Germany

Refratechnik Steel GmbH is a supplier of refractory products, specializing in macarbon bricks and monolithic / precast alumina materials

Thomas Steinparzer is working for Primetals Technologies since 2010 in the area of energy and environmental technolgies. Since 2016 he is heading the technology and innovation department for ECO Solutions and is therefore responsible for gas cleaning, waste heat recovery and by-product management.
He holds a PhD in process engineering.

Damien Streiff
38 years old
Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering
8 years as Engineer in R&D + Coke plant technical support at CPM (Centre de Pyrolyse de Marienau)- Forbach, France
Since Sept. 2015 Manager By-Product Plant Coke plant ZKS ( Zentral Kokerei Saar ) - Dillingen, Germany.

Dr Arash Tahmasebi is the Co-Director of the Centre for Ironmaking Materials Research (CIMR) at the University of Newcastle Australia, managing the coal and cokemaking research activities at the centre. His research focuses on sustainable and low-carbon ironmaking technologies, clean coal technology, and biomass and hydrogen utilisation.

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Wim Van der Stricht is partof the ArcelorMittal Group Chief Technology Office. He supports the development of the technology roadmap to carbon neutrality and calculating the group CO2 reduction targets. He has coordinated various demonstration projects and partnerships to define key technologies in the area of carbon capture utilization and sto

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Reinoud van Laar - Senior Technology Manager

Education: Delft University of Technology - M.Sc. Applied Physics

Employed for 25 years at Danieli Corus in The Netherlands

Expert in Ironmaking Plant Engineering, Technology and Consultancy

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Rob van Opbergen is the manager of the Blast Furnace Operational Assistance Department at Danieli Corus. Since 1980, he has worked at the IJmuiden integrated steel plant as an operator, supervisor and shift manager before starting his support activities for blast furnace ironmaking for steel producers around the world in 2015.

Metallurgical Engineer graduated at Minas Gerais Federal University in 2010 and Mechanical Engineeer Master Degree graduated at Rio de Janeiro State University at 2021 (Transport Phenomena).

Blast Furnace Operation Consultant at Ternium Brasil.

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Olli Vitikka has his background in both Process Engineering (MSc) and Energy Engineering (BEng). He finished his master's degree last year and currently works as a doctoral researcher in the Process Metallurgy research unit at the University of Oulu. His current research focuses on the recycling of by-products of the steelmaking cycles.

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Peter Warren (1962) has worked in blast furnace research and technical operations for most of his career. He was Technical Manager at Redcar Blast Furnace under SSI, manager circular economy group at Materials Processing Institute, has consulted internationally with Danieli-Corus, and is now a Senior Technologist at Scunthorpe blast furnaces.

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Master's degree industrial logistics at montanuniversity leoben
PhD in industrial logistics/metallurgy at montanuniversity leoben
since 2020: K1-MET GmbH (metallurgical competence center) project manager for R&D sinterplant and blast furnace at voestalpine Stahl Donawitz GmbH

Bernd Weiss has over 12 years of experience in the ironmaking industry after graduating as a chemical engineer at TU Vienna. His experience covers being process engineer for smelting and DR plants abroad, process safety coordinator and R+D project manager. Now he is senior process simulation expert and coordinates the m.simtop development.

HDT Leading chief engineer, Head of research group.
KHD Project Manager Cement Plants
SMS Group Senior Project Manager environmental department
Environmental solutions
Responsible for India
Chief technologist nonferrous environmental
Lechler GmbH Key Account Manager in environmental worldwide

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2004-2009 Wuhan University of Science of Technology (Metallurgy Engineering: Bachelor and 1. Year of Master)
2009-2012 TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Material Science and Technology: Diplom)
2012-2014 AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke in R&D Ironmaking Department
2014-now AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke as Production Engineer in Iron Producing Department

Prof. Tianjun Yang specializes in new ironmaking technology, metallurgical processes and integrated use of energy. He obtained PhD from RWTH Aachen University. He is the honorary chairman of the Branch of ironmaking of the Chinese Society for Metal and former president of USTB. He has published 10 monographs and more than 100 papers.

Yale Zhang is Global Director at Hatch Digital, leading advanced analytics and decision solutions. Prior to joining Hatch, Yale has worked in both manufacutring and management consulting roles for 20+ years, including ArcelorMittal Dofasco and Vale. He received his Bachelor and PhD degrees in Process Control from Tsinghua Univ. China.

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