Process Metallurgy's Research Projects Process metallurgy research unit's research groups are: a) Reductants and reduction metallurgy b) Primary and secondary metallurgy c) Recycling and sustainable metallurgical processes d) New measurement and treatment methods in metallurgy Project 2024 – 2028 ZEROSTEEL - Decarbonized Steel Production with Novel Processes Project 2024 – 2027 Hydrogen plasma reduction for steelmaking and circular economy - H2PlasmaRed Project 2024 – 2026 Heat Battery – Utilization of industrial side streams for sustainable energy storage Project 2024 – 2026 Kotimaisten malmien vetypelkistys - Hydrogen reduction of domestic ores Project 2024 – 2026 Towards Carbon Neutral Metals 2 Project 2024 – 2025 Towards Fossil-free Steel 2 Project 2023 – 2027 Digital TWINs for Green HYdrogen transition in steel industry Project 2023 – 2027 Sustainable digitalized metallurgy for a climate neutral and resource efficient planet Project 2023 – 2026 Hydrogen technologies for decarbonization of industrial heating processes Project 2023 – 2025 Eco-friendly and sustainable method for recycling of spent lithium-ion batteries Project 2022 – 2027 Advanced Steels for the Green Planet Project 2022 – 2027 Sustainable recycling of steelmaking wastes by innovative combining microwaves and biomass Project 2022 – 2026 Advanced Steels for the Green Planet (AS4G) - (I) Project 2022 – 2025 Minimisation of CO2 Emissions from the BF by hydrogen containing injectants and use of DRI/HBI during transition to new Ironmaking processes until 2030 Project 2021 – 2023 Towards Fossil-Free Steel Project 2020 – 2023 Towards Carbon Neutral Metals Project 2019 – 2023 Slagreus – Reuse of slags from integrated steelmaking
Project 2024 – 2026 Heat Battery – Utilization of industrial side streams for sustainable energy storage
Project 2023 – 2027 Sustainable digitalized metallurgy for a climate neutral and resource efficient planet
Project 2022 – 2027 Sustainable recycling of steelmaking wastes by innovative combining microwaves and biomass
Project 2022 – 2025 Minimisation of CO2 Emissions from the BF by hydrogen containing injectants and use of DRI/HBI during transition to new Ironmaking processes until 2030