Deep Learning aims to improve the automatic quality assessment of steel products by means of a holistic approach combining deep […]
Deep Learning aims to improve the automatic quality assessment of steel products by means of a holistic approach combining deep […]
Initial situation Increasing water stress leading to limited or insufficient water availability of ground and river water with negative effects […]
Initial Situation: Surplus of C-residuals Many carbon containing residuals are yet either burned or landfilled The chemical potential of carbon […]
Initial situation In Europe about 10 Mio.t/year of BOF slag are produced at the steelmaking. A main part is reused […]
Background In the future, hydrogen will be an important building block for achieving the climate targets in Europe A hydrogen […]
Initial situation Optimal use of renewable energy in industry poses major challenges to production flexibility Synchronizing fluctuating energy supply and […]
This project is funded from the State of NRW and aims to technically investigate a new, modified blast furnace process. […]
Background A huge amount of waste heat occurs during steel making processes which is given unused to the environment. Using […]
Initial situation: The decreasing and fluctuating quality of raw materials and the aim to maximise PCI and decrease coke rates […]
The overall objective of s-X-AIPI is to research, develop and experiment an innovative toolset of custom trustworthy self-X AI technologies […]
Initial situation Plant-wide quality databases exist at many steel producers Data-warehouses are optimized for per-coil data access For statistical analysis […]
Initial situation: Some steelworks experiences problems with product deficiencies like slivers and cracks. Several pre-studies indicated a relationship between the time […]
Situation: Oil-based lubricants are state-of-the-art in cold rolling of steel and hot rolling of aluminium. 2-phase character of emulsions and […]
Initial Position: Cryogenic treatment – adjunctive treatment in hardening and tempering process to improve wear resistance and toughness of tool […]
Initial situation: Scale formation during reheating leads to material losses. Poor descalability and scale residuals lead to surface impairments and […]
Situation: During rolling, straightening and thermal processing of long products internal stresses arise impairing the products material properties and causing […]