SPIRE
Brokerage event
October 22nd
2013
SPIRE 2 – 2014:
Agricultural residues valorisation as alternative
fuels for energy intensive industries
Project Idea Presentation
Organizations
THIS PROPOSAL IS PRESENTED BY ESTEP, ON BEHALF OF ITS MEMBERS ET AL; LISTED
BELOW;
 ESTEP is the Steel Community's European Steel
Technology Platform
 etc.
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Concept
Previous experience in steel industry demonstrated the feasibility of utilization of
char from biomass into the steelmaking process (Blast Furnace, EAF, Sintering
Plant as substitute of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas).
The project goal is the increase of utilization of renewables (biomass) as fuel
or reducing agent in the industry as part of an integrated approach in energy
intensive industries in which steel can use C based solid residuals from the
biofuels production processes.
This approach should provide economically viable the use of biomass by synergy
between different industries that can:
 use both high value finished products, i.e. biofuel or biogas, and solid
residuals containing carbon (integration aspects)
 produce a positive effect on production costs and further reduced the green
house emission due to transportation of raw materials (biomass feedstock and
logistics)
 allow a more flexyble and scalable approach to be linked at different plant size
(biomass processing technologies)
This project idea will adress SPIRE KA 1.4: Advancing the role of sustainable
biomass/ renewables as industrial raw material
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Impact
1. Economically viable solutions and technologies
allowing partial or total substitution of coal in
steelmaking processes with C based residuals from
the biofuels production processes
2. Increased biomass utilisation yield used as
feedstock for the production of chemicals (and/or
intermediates) and/or fuels as part of an integrated
approach in intensive energy industry
3. A direct or indirect impact on rural areas, arising
from the increased use of biomass and residues
production locally.
4. Reduction of environmental impact reducing CO2
emissions
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Project Consortium
 ArceloMittal: provide experience in providing charcoal to BF & LCA
study (ULCOS)
 Tenaris: interested in investigating the availability of low cost biomass
for the production of charcoal to be used as a replacement of different
kinds of fossil coal and possibly to replace the natural gas that are now
used in its EAF. Tenaris could consider installing the necessary
equipment to perform industrial tests in its EAF rolling mill.
 Tata Steel: partial C replacement with available biomass (sintering
plant, BF)
 CSM: use of biomass char coal in EAF (local availability, cost, evaluation
of cola substitution rate, biomass characterization, pyrolysis test at lab
scale)
 ISQ & ULG: LCA & LCC studies for new biomass based production
processes
 SSSA: integrated sustainability assessment, modeling and simulation of
the solution for feasibility studies and integration analyses, support to
partners SME and industries for implementation of their solution and
integration within the standard production cycle.
 BFI: interest (no specification)
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Looking for partners…
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Chemical industry using biofuels and green chemical
building blocks
Biomass and agriculture residuals (local) supplier
Technology suppliers for production of char from
biomass and residuals. Examples of the key
technologies include the production of phenols and
aromatic hydrocarbons from lignin, as well as the
development of technologies, like gasification or
pyrolysis.
Institutions to establish the life cycle assessment
proving the sustainability of the solution and
comprehensive and critical analyses on different
scenarios related to the production and demand of
biomass by different industrial sectors
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Contact details
Enrico Malfa
ESTEP WG4 chairman
Centro Sviluppo Materiali S.p.A.
24044 Dalmine (Bg)- Italy – Piazza Caduti 6 Luglio 1944,1
Tel. +39035697939
Fax +39035607945
Mobile +393356682234
E_mail: e.malfa@c-s-m.it
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detailed presentation of consortium
partner
one page per partner
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