Finland’s University of Oulu has received EUR 1.6 million supports from The Tiina and Antti Herlin Foundation’s to expedite emission free steel industry. The four-year funding will be allocated to steel research and the promotion of carbon neutrality in the steel industry, which is important for Finland. The objective is to create a completely emission-free steel mill. The Advanced Steels for a Green Planet AS4G project funded by the Tiina and Antti Herlin Foundation will begin in January 2023. The project will focus on processing the end results of an emission-free steel mill – the utilisation of side streams and the manufacturing of ultra high-strength steels, in particular. University of Oulu’s Professor Jukka Kömi said “It’s important to focus research on the themes where emissions can be decreased the most and where the strengthening of expertise creates the most benefits. The aim is to enable expertise for a completely emission-free steel mill in 2050. We study and review on an atomic level how high- strength steel works. We have to know how atoms interact and what makes steel high-tensile. Steel always has a lot of impurities, which is why it must be understood exactly what can be alloyed into it to make the end result even stronger.” University of Oulu’s Dean of the Faculty of Technology and Professor of inorganic materials in circular economy Mirja Illikainen added “In terms of carbon dioxide, achieving an emission-free steel mill in the Nordics will be realistic as early as 2035. It’s also important that future steel mills will not generate waste, but that all created side streams will be utilised as raw material in different sectors. Slag from current steel production is utilised well, but we still need development for the slag that will be created in carbon-free steel production.” The new AS4G project will be a unique combination of multidisciplinary expertise from the research of advanced steels, basic physics, metallurgy and the utilisation of industrial side streams. In addition, emission-free steel production is being developed with the help of ground-breaking hydrogen innovations, for example, in producing hydrogen directly with sunlight without massive energy consumption. The use of hydrogen as a reductant in steel production could cut Finland’s emissions by up to seven per cent. Read more about the research on future hydrogen economy and sustainable steel production. The AS4G project is committed to the development of sustainable solutions and principles of circular economy, which will create new business opportunities for many sectors connected to the steel industry.
Finland’s University of Oulu has received EUR 1.6 million supports from The Tiina and Antti Herlin Foundation’s to expedite emission free steel industry. The four-year funding will be allocated to steel research and the promotion of carbon neutrality in the steel industry, which is important for Finland. The objective is to create a completely emission-free steel mill. The Advanced Steels for a Green Planet AS4G project funded by the Tiina and Antti Herlin Foundation will begin in January 2023. The project will focus on processing the end results of an emission-free steel mill – the utilisation of side streams and the manufacturing of ultra high-strength steels, in particular. University of Oulu’s Professor Jukka Kömi said “It’s important to focus research on the themes where emissions can be decreased the most and where the strengthening of expertise creates the most benefits. The aim is to enable expertise for a completely emission-free steel mill in 2050. We study and review on an atomic level how high- strength steel works. We have to know how atoms interact and what makes steel high-tensile. Steel always has a lot of impurities, which is why it must be understood exactly what can be alloyed into it to make the end result even stronger.” University of Oulu’s Dean of the Faculty of Technology and Professor of inorganic materials in circular economy Mirja Illikainen added “In terms of carbon dioxide, achieving an emission-free steel mill in the Nordics will be realistic as early as 2035. It’s also important that future steel mills will not generate waste, but that all created side streams will be utilised as raw material in different sectors. Slag from current steel production is utilised well, but we still need development for the slag that will be created in carbon-free steel production.” The new AS4G project will be a unique combination of multidisciplinary expertise from the research of advanced steels, basic physics, metallurgy and the utilisation of industrial side streams. In addition, emission-free steel production is being developed with the help of ground-breaking hydrogen innovations, for example, in producing hydrogen directly with sunlight without massive energy consumption. The use of hydrogen as a reductant in steel production could cut Finland’s emissions by up to seven per cent. Read more about the research on future hydrogen economy and sustainable steel production. The AS4G project is committed to the development of sustainable solutions and principles of circular economy, which will create new business opportunities for many sectors connected to the steel industry.
