10 years of progress in R&D for the steel
industry within the RFCS programme
Bertrand de Lamberterie, Secretary General
ESTEP
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The steel production process
2 main production routes :
-Blast Furnace & converter
- Scraps + Electric Arc Furnace
The EU 27 production is around
200million tons /y with 60%
through the BF/BOF route and
40% through EAF
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Main features of the RFCS for Steel
• Steel represents 72.8% of the RFCS budget
• For the 9 years ( 2002-2010) the average funding is 40.5 M€/y
with an average of 44 granted projects/y
• The maximum financial contribution is
– Up to 60% for research projects
– Up to 50% for pilot and demonstration projects
– Up to 100% for accompanying measures
• On average research projects ( the main part) receive a funding
of 1million €, comprise 6 partners and have a duration of 36
months
• The Steel programme is managed by the Steel Advisory Group
(SAG) and 9 Technical groups.
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The 9 Technical Groups for the steel sector
TG
Topic
TGS1
Ore agglomeration and Ironmaking
TGS2
Steelmaking processes
TGS3
Casting, reheating and direct rolling
TGS4
Hot and cold rolling processes
TGS5
Finishing and coating
TGS6
Physical metallurgy and design of new generic steel grades
TGS7
Steel products and applications for automobiles, packaging and home appliances
TGS8
Steel products and applications for building, construction and industry
TGS9
Factory-wide control, social and environmental issues
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Distribution of the funded Budget for the different Technical Goups Steel
Funded Budget in Million €
45.0
40.0
35.0
TGS9
30.0
TGS8
25.0
TGS7
TGS6
20.0
TGS5
TGS4
15.0
TGS3
10.0
TGS2
TGS1
5.0
0.0
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Average
Year of the Call closure
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Proposal Success Rates of proposals in Technical Groups Steel
100%
90%
80%
70%
TGS1
Success Rates
TGS2
60%
TGS3
TGS4
50%
TGS5
TGS6
40%
TGS7
TGS8
30%
TGS9
Average per year
20%
Average for 9 years
10%
0%
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Year of the Call closure
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Funded Budget Steel 2002 - 2010
100
86.9
90
80
70
Million €
60
50
40
36.4
35.1
32.9
28.9
30
26.1
20
15.8
14.3
14.8
9.1
10
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
1.6
0.6 0.1
6.1
4.6
3.3
0.4 0.0
0.0 0.1
0.0 0.0
0.0
1.6
0.5
0.9 0.1 0.0
0
AT BE BU CA CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES
FI
FR GR HU IE
IT
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LT LU LV MT NL NO PL PT RO SE
SI
SK TR UK
Countries
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Distribution of Participants in RFCS Programme Steel
SMEs
4%
Big Industry
38%
Research Centers
40%
Others
1%
High Education
17%
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Projects for steel by Instrument
Accompanying
Measures
6%
Pilot/Demonstration
5%
Research
89%
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Steel Projects by Objectives over the past 9 years
No area
4%
Conservation of
resources and
improvement of
working conditions
9%
New and improved
steelmaking and
finishing techniques
47%
RTD and the
utilisation of steel
40%
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Objectives and priorities for Steel projects
• Through the 3 objectives defined for the Steel programme (
previous slide) , the annual calls process is driven by a bottomup approach.
• For the last years, The European Steel Technology Platform
has contributed to the definition of RTD priorities in order to
achieve a sustainable competitiveness through innovation in a
global context. In cooperation with the TGs, ESTEP supports
the Commission in finding yearly priorities . If a proposal
addresses an annual priority it brings 1 point on a total of
maximum 26 points.
• On average over the last 3 years , 43% of the proposals
addressed one priority, and the success rate with projects
addressing a priority is 40% versus 26% for the others.
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Examples of annual priorities (2012)
• On a total of 11 priorities , some examples:
– Improved energy efficiency compared to present technologies in high
temperature processes by recovery of waste heat
– Adaptation of the iron & steel making processes to low quality of raw
materials
– Solutions for minimizing the ecological footprint of the Steel works
– Development of new steel grades or applications for surface
transportation with improved life cycle assessment results
– Steel solutions for improved renewable power generation installations
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Major outcomes of the steel projects(1)
• The Technical Groups follow the progresses of all the projects
of their domain and make a final assessment of the completed
projects.
• The types of achievement are ( by decreasing order)
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–
–
–
Scientific ( for around 80% of the projects)
Technical ( for 75%)
Economical ( for 50%)
Social ( for 30%)
• The results are exploited in the project itself in 90% of the
cases and quite systematically at company level and quite well
at sector level. There are also benefits for the Society ,
especially for Knowledge, European Competitiveness and
Working Conditions
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Major outcomes of the steel projects(2)
• The benefits generated by the projects are identified according
15 different criteria . The top 10 criteria are
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–
–
–
–
–
–
–
–
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Knowledge
Economical and Cost reduction
New / improved process of production
Improvement of product quality
New applications
New products
Energy
Environment
Working conditions
Health & safety
• At present time, an assessment exercise is carried out,
according the legal basis of the RFCS in order to provide a
deep analysis of the achievements and benefits of completed
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