BFI VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut GmbH

Safe H-DRI - Safe transport of DRI from H₂-based direct reduction considering quality-related H-DRI reactivity, stability, the efficiency of passivation methods and health and recycling aspects

The project focuses on overcoming key challenges in the safe handling,...
Contact: Alexa Kala, B.Eng., Dr. Ralf Wolters

FeEnCap - Encapsulated iron materials for new type of iron slurry/air batteries

The increasing expansion of wind and solar power is leading to strong...
Contact: Dr. Andreas Bán

SCI4climate.NRW - Scientific support of the climate-neutral transformation of industry

SCI4climate.NRW stands for the scientific monitoring of industrial...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Gerald Stubbe

H₂II - Hydrogen sequence impulse injection into the Blast Furnace shaft

CO₂ emissions in the steel industry must be reduced by 55% by 2030. But...
Contact: Dr. Hauke Bartusch

H₂TransBF2030 - Minimisation of CO₂ Emissions from the BF by hydrogen containing injectants and use of HBI during transition to new Ironmaking processes until 2030

Targets set by the EU require a 55% decrease of CO₂ emissions until 2030....
Contact: Dr. Hauke Bartusch

SynErgie3 - Synchronized and energy-adaptive production technology for the flexible alignment of industrial processes to a fluctuating energy supply

Considerable efforts are required to adapt industrial processes to a...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Andreas Queck

H₂-HotRoll - Avoidance of CO₂ emissions in the steel industry by utilizing of hydrogen in continuous thermoprocess plants on the example of reheating furnaces

To avoid energy-related CO₂ emissions, the natural gas used in thermal...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Sebastian Bialek

SelGaKat - Method for increasing the energy efficiency by selective gas quality measurement taking into account the hydrogen content using a catalytic reference combustion chamber

Combustion control is crucial for the optimum operation of industrial...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Sebastian Bialek

AMIGDALA - Alliance for Modelling Industries towards the Green Deal’s objectives And circuLArity

The EU Green Deal aims to reach climate neutrality by 2050. Moving away...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Frank Mintus

BeRefCo - Operational testing of a reflective furnace wall coating and determination of the influence on energy requirements and CO₂ emissions

In this project the transferability of the results from the previous...
Contact: Dr. Wolfgang Adler

MemKoWI – Membrane processes for the separation of carbon dioxide and hydrogen from industrial gases

Process gases or combustion gases from the steel industry, for example,...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Steffen Möhring

DRI-smelter – Novel process for the production of pig iron by melting sponge iron from direct reduction in a DRI smelter

The objective of the project, which is funded by the state of North...
Contact: Daniel Adolphy, M.Eng.

ReInvent – Reduction of greenhouse gases

According to the German government's climate protection plan, the aim is...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Oliver Hatzfeld

HYDREAMS - Clean hydrogen combustion and digital tools for reheating and heat treatment for steel

The latest IEA roadmap states that global CO₂ emissions from the iron and...
Contact: Dr. Jessica Schindhelm

DissHEAT – Dissemination of the heating technology research results for emission minimization and process optimization towards todays fossil-free heating agenda

Over the past 30 years, the steel industry has reduced their emissions by...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Oliver Hatzfeld

InTEGrated – Development of innovative TEG systems

A huge amount of waste heat occurs during steel making processes which is...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Frank Mintus

InnoGuss – Development of innovative transformation paths for the decarbonization of the foundry industry in NRW

The German government aims to reduce the GHG emissions in Germany by at...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Frank Mintus

AeroRef – Reduction of energy demand in heating furnaces by new combination of aerogel and refractory

Despite continuous improvements in thermal insulation in industrial...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Andreas Queck

HyBeSt – Hybrid Heating in the steel industry

Optimal use of renewable energy in industry poses major challenges to...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Andreas Queck

FlexElectricSteel – Intraday Energy Management for Electric Steel Plants

Fluctuating energy supply requires new approaches to energy flexibility,...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Andreas Queck

VEIK – Improvement of heat treatment and heating in industrial furnaces by new innovative ceramic hot gas fans

Usage of metallic fans in thermoprocessing plants is limited to approx....
Contact: Dr. Wolfgang Adler

H₂-DisTherPro – Avoidance of CO₂ emissions in the steel industry by utilzing of hydrogen in batch-type thermoprocess plants on the example of batch annealing

The natural gas demand of German iron and steel production amounts to...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Sebastian Bialek

H₂Stahl – Hydrogen technologies for a successive decarbonisation of the steel industry

The "Reallabor H₂Stahl" is a collaboration between the BFI and tkSE for...
Contact: Theresa Overbeck, M.Sc.

InnoKon – Innovative non-stick surface to increase the service life of oxygen lances on the converter

In the converter process, pig iron is converted into crude steel with the...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Andreas Queck

Green Steel for Europe

The European Union set concrete targets for the reduction of greenhouse...
Contact: Dr. Thorsten Hauck

Me²H₂-Methane pyrolysis

Hydrogen has a steadily growing importance as an industrial feedstock in...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Steffen Möhring

ReflexRolle – Development of a reflecting, anti-adhesive Coating for furnace rollers

Within the planned research project a reflective and anti-adhesive coating...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Bernhart Stranzinger

STEBGUT – Furnace roller

The heating of fine plates for hot-dip galvanizing and / or heat treatment...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Emanuel Thienpont

OptiReg2 – Heat exchanger

Poor convective heat transfer in through-passages of ceramic honeycomb...
Contact: Dr. Wolfgang Adler

REKUKER – Ceramic heat exchanger

Steel recuperators are limited in the application temperature. Ceramic...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Bernhart Stranzinger

INCERV – Ceramic hot gas fans

Use of metallic fans is only possible to a limited extent due to high...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Bernhart Stranzinger

NEBS – Use of waste heat for electricity generation using ORC

In the iron and steel industry as well as other energy-intensive...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Frank Mintus

PowGETEG – TEG for high temperature waste heat recovery

Industries involve a huge amount of energy demand. A considerable amount...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Frank Mintus

INTEGA – Thermoelectric generators (TEG) for high temperature

In the iron and steel industry, large amounts of heat are lost as...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Frank Mintus

SimulEAF – Optimization of the processes in the electric arc furnace

The complete simulation of the complex processes in the electric arc...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Kersten Marx

PlantTemp – Plant wide control of steel bath temperature

The aim of steel bath temperature control is to prepare the melt such that...
Contact: Dr. Bernd Kleimt

PreventSecDust – Reduction of dust emissions in the furnace

Due to the wide range of material transports, the preparation of the fluff...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Kersten Marx

Longlife Tuyere – New improved blast furnace tuyeres

Burning of tuyeres is the most common cause of unplanned shutdowns of...
Contact: Dr. Jörg Adam

TransHyDE_FP1 - System analysis of transport solutions for green hydrogen

The National Hydrogen Strategy (NWS) envisages security of supply through...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Frank Mintus

REDERS – Reduced CO₂ emissions by increasing the recycling rate in steel production

The aim of the project, which was funded by the state of North...
Contact: Dr. Marten Lichte

H₂BF – CO₂-Mitigation through injection of H₂ into the blast furnace

This project is funded from the State of NRW and aims to technically...
Contact: Theresa Overbeck, M.Sc.

AdaptEAF – Adaptive EAF on-line control for improved energetic efficiency

Properties of scrap used as charge material for EAF steelmaking are...
Contact: Dr. Bernd Kleimt

AgiFlex - Agent-based models minimizing carbon usage in flexible and efficient future integrated steelworks

Comprehensive changes in the steel industry's production chains are...
Contact: Maximilian Bernds

SufConInspect - Enabling zero-defect manufacturing for flat steel production by means of optimized inspection results and a new level of online surface quality control

Resource-efficiency and competitiveness are main aims of the European...
Contact: Dr. Jens Brandenburger

SteamDry - Superheated steam drying for sustainable and recyclable web-like materials

The SteamDry project aims to significantly decrease energy consumption and...
Contact: Alexander Dunayvitser, M.Sc.

RoboInspect - Mobile Robots for Inspection of Steel Plants

The objective of ROBOINSPECT is to introduce novel robotic inspection...
Contact: Alexander Dunayvitser, M.Sc., Dr. Delphine Rèche

EnerMIND - Energy Management in the Era of Industry 4.0

Various successfully finished European research projects have remarkably...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Achille Fabien Nkwitchoua Djangang

OptDeslag - Increased yield and enhanced steel quality by improved deslagging and slag conditioning

The performance of many metallurgical operations is significantly...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Birgit Palm

DynStir - Dynamic stirring for improvement of energy efficiency in secondary steelmaking

Ladle stirring is of great interest to the steel plants, as it has major...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Birgit Palm

PRESED - Predictive Sensor Data mining

Some steelworks experiences problems with product deficiencies like...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Norbert Holzknecht

SitErk - Continuous optimisation of processes and systems in industrial production through the automatic recognition of process situations based on high-resolution system and process data

Process experts want to analyse sensorial data with regard to a specific...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Norbert Holzknecht

CheckSIS - Performance assessment for automatic surface inspection systems

In modern steel production, automatic surface inspection systems (ASIS)...
Contact: Dr. Jens Brandenburger

ALCHIMIA - Data and decentralized Artificial intelligence for a competitive and green European metallurgy industry

The Green Deal will make Europe the first climate-neutral continent in the...
Contact: Dr. Petri Kannisto

COCOP- Coordinating Optimisation of Complex Industrial Processes

Process industry faces a strong need to increase product quality and...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Norbert Holzknecht

SmartLadle - Smart consideration of actual ladle status monitored by novel sensors for secondary metallurgy process parameters and ladle maintenance strategies

The steelmaking ladle has a strong influence on the success of secondary...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Birgit Palm

SupportCast - Supporting Control by Inspection of Surface Quality and Segregation on Cast Products through integration of Novel Online Monitoring and Advanced Modelling into an Accessible Cloud Access Platform

Eine gute Oberflächenqualität und ein optimales Entmischungsverhalten im...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Birgit Palm

OpConDigiCast - Digital Twin Technology for Comprehensive Simulation, Optimization and Control of Continuous Steel Casting Process

Semi-finished products manufactured for quality steel grades by continuous...
Contact: Dr. Marc Köster

OMiAS - Optical online measurement method for in-situ analysis of the chemical composition of a steel melt during liquid steel production

The chemical composition has a major influence on the properties of steel....
Contact: Dr. Marc Köster

CAPRI - Kognitive Automatisierungsplattform für die digitale Transformation der europäischen PRozess-Industrie

The overall objective of CAPRI is to develop, test and experiment an...
Contact: Dr. Christoph Nölle

ConSolCast – Comprehensive modelling, monitoring and control of solidifcation for optimisation of continuous casting process

New steel grades, increasing casting speeds and quality requirements of...
Contact: Dr. Marc Köster

TrackOpt - TrackOpt - Consistent ladle tracking for optimization of steel plant logistics and product quality

Industry 4.0 will not become a reality in the steel industry until...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Birgit Palm

SMARTER - Steam and gas network revamping for the steelworks of the future

The steel industry is an Energy Intensive Industry and is therefore...
Contact: Dr. Andreas Wolff

DynReAct_PDP - Roll-out refinement of production scheduling through dynamic product routing, considering real-time plant monitoring and optimal reaction strategies

The optimised and targeted use of resources is mandatory today and a key...
Contact: Dr. Christoph Nölle

HatFlat - Holistic Assistance for Cross-Process Analysis and Prediction of Strip and Plate Flatness

Flatness plays an overwhelming role for both, the process quality and for...
Contact: Alexander Dunayvitser, M.Sc.

s-X-AIPI – self-X Artificial Intelligence for European Process Industry digital transformation

The overall objective of s-X-AIPI is to research, develop and experiment...
Contact: Dr. Zeinab Kargar

SafeDewPoint – Acid dew point and corrosion sensors for dynamic waste heat recovery from steel mill flue gases

During combustion of steel mill gases acid dew point temperature varies...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Pavel Ivashechkin

DroMoSPlan – Drones for autonomous Monitoring of Steel Plants

Drone technology is increasingly being used for civilian purposes and...
Contact: Dr. Andreas Wolff

Quality4.0 – Transparent product quality supervision in the age of Industry 4.0

Progressive digitalization is changing the game of many industrial...
Contact: Dr. Jens Brandenburger

MACO Pilot – Optimierung der Online-Konzentrations-Überwachung und Regelung an Edelstahl-Mischsäurebeizanlagen

Zunehmender wirtschaftliche Druck im europäischen Stahlsektor erfordert...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Matthias Werner

TotOptLis – Through-process optimisation of liquid steelmaking

Process control in secondary metallurgy is based on static operating...
Contact: Dr. Bernd Kleimt

stackMonitor – Online Blast Furnace Stack Status Monitoring

The decreasing and fluctuating quality of raw materials and the aim to...
Contact: Dr. Hauke Bartusch

DeepQuality – Use of robust deep learning methods for the automatic quality assessment of steel products

Deep Learning aims to improve the automatic quality assessment of steel...
Contact: Dr. Ahmad Rajabi

MeltCon – Determining process conditions for online monitoring of temperature and carbon content in the electric arc furnace to optimise end point control

Electric Arc Furnace has high demand of electrical and chemical...
Contact: Dr. Marc Köster

TopTemp – Shaft furnace analysis with acoustic gas temperature measurement

Shaft furnaces such as blast furnaces for pig iron production are highly...
Contact: Dr. Hauke Bartusch

FOMTM – Application of fibre optical thermal monitoring at CC-billet and slab mould for improved process control and product quality

The initial solidification of the molten steel is important for...
Contact: Dr. Marc Köster

EvalHD – High resolution process data for quality assessment

Plant-wide quality databases exist at many steel...
Contact: Dr. Jens Brandenburger

IConSys – Improved quality management in flat steel production

DSS developed during DECFLAQ project is successful running since 2007 at...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Norbert Holzknecht

I2MSteel – Software agents for a new automation paradigm

I2MSteel – Development of a new information and automation paradigm for...

FluoridSelektiv - Process development for selective fluoride separation from industrial process water

Process water from pig iron and steel production has fluoride contents of...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Matthias Werner

ZinkAtline - Development of an atline measuring method for rapid analysis of the total zinc content in process water

The process water occurring in steel production and surface treatment...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Pavel Ivashechkin

Konzentrat-Biozid - Development of a reliable process for cooling water desalination based on membrane-assisted capacitive deionization with production of monoconcentrates

The legal limits for cooling and wastewater discharge are continually...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Martin Hubrich

WEISS_4PN - Integrative application of innovations and digital cooling capacity management to reduce water consumption in steel production – Sub-project 2: Forecast of operational scenarios of cooling circuits due to climate-related bottlenecks and determination of disturbing influences when using the Capacitive Deionization (MCDI)

Ongoing climate change and the associated extreme weather events result in...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Martin Hubrich

ZHyRON - Valorisation of iron-rich & Zinc-containing steelmaking by-products via HYdrogen-based ReductiON

Every year, over 50 million tonnes of by-products from steel production...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Pavel Ivashechkin

IndiWater - Independent industrial water supply by digitalization, simulation and innovative treatment technologies

Increasing water stress leads to limited or insufficient availability of...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Martin Hubrich

TransZeroWaste - Upgrading of low-quality iron ores and mill scale with low carbon technologies

Conversion of the steel industry from coal to H₂ as a reducing agent by...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Martin Hubrich

DuMiCo - Dust minimisation and control at the blast furnace

Increasing need to use low quality raw materials and higher PCI rates...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Pavel Ivashechkin

CORNERSTONE - Combined technologies for water, energy and solute recovery from industrial process streams

In three case studies, CORNERSTONE is focussing on water, energy, and...
Contact: Dr.-Ing. Pavel Ivashechkin

RekCarb 2 – Recrystallisation of Carbon containing Residuals to Graphene-Nano-Platelets

Building on the positive results of the predecessor project ‘RekCarb’, in...
Contact: Simon Wölfelschneider, M.Sc.

InSGeP - Investigations of Slags from Next Generation Steel Making Processes

Within the InSGeP project five steelworks, six RTOs and two technology...
Contact: Daniel Adolphy, M.Eng., Simon Wölfelschneider, M.Sc.

MiningWater – Mining water recovery using innovative technologies for saving fresh water

Rising water demand due to population growth and industrial development is...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Martin Hubrich

RekCarb – Upcycle of carbon containing residuals and by-products through recrystallisation in molten metals

Viele Kohlenstoffhaltige Reststoffe werden derzeit thermisch verwertet...
Contact: Simon Wölfelschneider, M.Sc.

Slagreus – Reuse of slags from integrated steelmaking

In Europe about 10 Mio.t/year of BOF slag are produced at the steelmaking....
Contact: Simon Wölfelschneider, M.Sc.

DynaWater4.0 – Dynamic value creation networks through digital collaboration between industrial water management and production

Automation, networking and digital technologies are transformation drivers...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Martin Hubrich

BioCOnversion – Bioconversion of CO/syngas into a plastic precursor

Process gases from the steelworks are currently used thermally or are...
Contact: Theresa Overbeck, M.Sc.

SPOTVIEW – Sustainable Processes and Optimized Technologies for Industrially Efficient Water Usage in steel, dairy or pulp and paper industry

Wassereinsatz in der Stahlindustrie 1980 Mio. m³ für 169 Mio. t Rohstahl...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Martin Hubrich

HiJetRod Pilot – Resource-efficient hydromechanical descaling system for wire coils

Descaling of stainless steel wire requires several pickling steps with...
Contact: Dr. Matthias Kozariszczuk

INSPIREWATER – Innovative Solutions in the Process Industry for next generation Resource Efficient Water management

Process related intake of scale, formation of hardness and salting...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Martin Hubrich

WEISS – Efficient operation of cooling water circuits by integrated desalination at the example of the steel industry

Use of 2.3 billion m3 / a of water across industries for cooling purposes...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Martin Hubrich

UrbanNickel – Recovery and recycling of nickel from deposited neutralization sludge of the stainless steel industry

When pickling stainless steel large amounts of nickel-containing...
Contact: Dr. Andreas Bán

Schwermetall-Adsorber – Development of an adsorption material for selective heavy metal removal from industrial process waters

For the circulation of process water, dissolved heavy metals must be...

Schmelzinjekt2 – Recycling of zinc-containing filter dust

Quantity of zinc-containing filter dust from melting processes increases...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Gerald Stubbe

NickelRück – Recovery of nickel from process waters of phosphating

Processes and waste water containing nickel are produced during the...
Contact: Dr. Ralf Wolters

PSP-BOF – Removal of Phosphorus from BOF-slag

Increased cost for raw materials and for landfilling have forced European...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Roland Pietruck

REUSteel – Dissemination of results from European research projects on the reuse and recycling of by-products in the steel sector

Many EU-funded projects on by-products reuse and recycling have already...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Roland Pietruck

PerMonLiSt - Continuous performance monitoring and calibration of model and control functions for liquid steelmaking processes

Analytical process models are used as part of Level-2 automation for...
Contact: Dr. Bernd Kleimt

HydroPic - Analysis and control of hydrogen content during steelmaking

Hydrogen dissolved in steel can be interstitially embedded in the...
Contact: Dr. Bernd Kleimt

TriboSim - Experimental and simulative evaluation of wear on roll coatings

Because of increased wear on work rolls due to increased use of...
Contact: Dr. Andreas Bán

DESTINY - Development of an Efficient microwave System for material Transformation in energy INtensive processes for an improved Yield

Steel production is an energy-intensive process due to the chemical energy...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Kersten Marx

Rolloilfree II - Transfer of aqueous oil free lubricants into steel cold rolling practice

Based on the preceding project RollOilFree, oil-free lubricants (OFL) were...
Contact: Dr. Delphine Rèche

TailoredZA - Tailored structure of multi-layer zinc alloy coatings to improve forming and corrosion protection properties

Galvanised and passivated steel pipes are highly bent for many...
Contact: Dr. Andreas Bán

METACAST - Mapping, Educating, Training, Applying models in continuous CASTing

Modelling is a strategic tool for the success of all activities tackling...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Kersten Marx

SunShine – Sustainable new casting and rolling process monitoring / sensoring approach aimed at proper surface quality and shape in flat and long products

Non-uniform in-mould solidification in long term and flat products can...
Contact: Dr. Marc Köster

MaxH₂DR - Enrichment of Hydrogen in the direct reduction process

Hydrogen-powered direct reduction (DR) is the key technology for...
Contact: Thomas Piontek

REVaMP – Retrofitting of sensors and optimization tools for the efficient use of variable input materials in the metal-producing industry

In metal making processes, metallic scraps from end of life goods are...
Contact: Dr. Bernd Kleimt

DiGreeS - Demonstration of Digital twins for a Green Steel value chain

In the context of the transition to low-carbon, green and sustainable...
Contact: Dr. Bernd Kleimt

Nanocarbides II – Influence of deep cryogenic treatment on distortion, corrosion and fracture toughness

In a previous project, high-alloy steels from the hot work, cold work and...
Contact: Martin Wunde, M.Sc.

MinSiDeg - Minimisation of sinter degradation between sinter plant and blast furnace exploiting embedded real-time analytics

The Major objective of the project MinSiDeg from the economic and ecologic...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Emanuel Thienpont

RealTimeCastSupport- Embedded real-time analysis of continuous casting for machine-supported quality optimisation

Thermal and fluid-mechanical conditions in continuous casting moulds are...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Kersten Marx

Rolloilfree – Steel cold rolling with aqueous oilfree lubricants

Oil-based lubricants are state-of-the-art in cold rolling of steel and hot...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Volker Diegelmann

Reduwearguid – Reduction of wear on guiding components in hot rolling finishing and coiling line for improved service life time and product surface quality

The main requirements of wear components in hot strip mills are high...
Contact: Dr. Delphine Rèche

ReduHeatLoss – Reduction of Heat Losses during Hot Rolling of Long Products

The aim of ReduHeatLoss is to minimise heat losses of hot rolled long...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Tuncer Ümit

IntellCutProcess – Optimisation of cutting processes using intelligent cutting tools

The company Adient produces seat rails (by forming and punching of steel...
Contact: Dr. Delphine Rèche

iSLAG – Optimising slag recycling through on-line characterization devices and intelligent decision support systems

This project aims at improving slag valorization from electric steelmaking...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Gerald Stubbe

PROTEUS-RS – Long Product Quality Optimisation through Enhancement and Utilisation of Residual Stress minimising Process Strategies

During rolling, straightening and thermal processing of long products...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Volker Diegelmann

OptProKomp

In almost all industrial areas, economic objectives such as increasing...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Tuncer Ümit

non stick-FiReNi – Development of stress compatible coating systems for the optimization of cutting tools

Growing demands on cutting tools regarding cutting quality when processing...
Contact: Dr. Jessica Schindhelm

FlexGap – Industrial demonstration of novel adaptive flat bearing

With more and more need for high-strength-steel the rolling-mills have to...
Contact: Moritz Loos, M.Sc.

Electroless nickel dispersion coating for wear protection

Tool wear occurs during cutting and forming temperature gradients and...
Contact: Dr. Jessica Schindhelm

Infire – Strategy to increase the hot strip rolling performance in terms of surface quality, final properties and reproducibility

Achieving high surface quality of hot rolled high strength steel strip and...
Contact: Martin Wunde, M.Sc.

TempKorroSchu

During re-heating of material for the production of special long products...
Contact: Martin Wunde, M.Sc.

Optimal Residual Stress Control – ORSC

Trend in product development where higher quality standards with tighter...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Volker Diegelmann

CoolCut – Development of an innovative industrial cutting technique for highly abrasive web-type material

High tribological load on circular knives, resulting in high wear. Wear...

Nanocarbides – Enhancing technological properties of tool steels by cryogenic treatment

Cryogenic treatment – adjunctive treatment in hardening and tempering...
Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Tuncer Ümit

TriboCoat – Optimization of highly stressed sliding contacts by the use of innovative coating and surface concepts

Frequent malfunction in the case of sliding contacts in the boundary...

EfficientELO – Energy and resource efficient electro-galvanizing of steel strip

Large amounts of zinc top dross occur as low-grade residues in the hot-dip...
Contact: Dr. Andreas Bán

Mikrokaltschmieden – Application of machine hammer peening on profiled rolls for wear reduction and improvement of the surface quality and dimensional stability of hot-rolled profiles

Partially high wear rates can appear at hot rolling of profiles due to...

InnoZun – Development of a process combination to improve the surface quality of pickled stainless steel strip using additives for secondary scale conditioning in combination with new innovative descaling and pickling processes

The metalworking industry is faced with increasing demands in terms of...
Contact: Dr. Jessica Schindhelm

BOFdePhos – Control of Dephosphorisation in BOF process

The End-point control of the Oxygen Steelmaking Converter (BOF) process is...
Contact: Dr. Bernd Kleimt

OptiBlaFIns – Analysis of blast furnace hearth state

Bad hearth condition influences energy consumption, operational stability,...

NanoZunKonLub – Application of nanoparticle enhanced coatings for scale conditioning in die forging processes in order to optimize the tribological system

Scale formation of 1 to 2 % during reheating of the material for die...
Contact: Martin Wunde, M.Sc.

HiperScale – High performance hot rolling process through steel grade-dependent influencing of the scale formation and flexible descaling control

Scale formation during reheating leads to material losses. Poor...
Contact: Martin Wunde, M.Sc.

DissTec - Valorisation and dissemination of technologies for measurement, modelling and control in secondary metallurgy

The evolution of secondary steelmaking processes and its introduction to...
Contact: Dr. Bernd Kleimt

SUSTAINTAP – Blast furnace sustained tapping practice

Unknown position and voidage of the dead man. Uncertainty concerning...
Contact: Dr. Thorsten Hauck

S5 – Integrated thickness and flatness control

The regulations of the strip thickness and the strip planarity influence...

HEROLL – Prevention of hydrogen embrittlement of cold rolling rolls by improved work roll material and lubricant configuration

Increasing number of cold rolling work rolls failures, induced through...