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The 3rd Review Meeting with the Project Officer and Technical Expert will take place on the 30th of June and the 1st of July in Brussels.
Valentine WEBER-ZOLLINGER replaces Hervé LAVELAINE as project coordinator
The 3rd Review Meeting with the Project Officer and Technical Expert has been postponed. However, the Consortium maintains the date of the 23rd and 24th of May, and they will visit the pilot plant.
The 3rd Review Meeting with the Project Officer Lucia Fernandez Macia will take place on 23rd and 24th of May 2022, at ArcelorMittal Maizieres facilities. During the meeting, it is planned a visit to the SIDERWIN Pilot Plant.
Released Siderwin newsletter N.7. Link
The timelapse video showing the SIDERWIN pilot plant erection is now available in our YouTube channel.
During last webinar a lot of questions arose from attendes and could not be answered in live.
All these questions were gathered in a document, and they are now available for download.
SIDERWIN: A breakthrough technology to decarbonize primary steel production through direct electrification
24th November from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. CET
The webinar is freely accessible for registered participants.
Registration is available here
Agenda:
This time our colleague Efthymios Balomenos, who works at Mytilineos, explains in this interview his point of view about the SIDERWIN project.
Works at the SIDERWIN pilot are about to finish. First tests will take place in early September.
Our colleagues at the University of Aveiro published in open access “Alkaline Electrochemical Reduction of a Magnesium Ferrospinel into Metallic Iron for the Valorisation of Magnetite-Based Metallurgical Waste” .
This research work ...
The SIDERWIN webinar will be held on November 24, 2021.
Save the date in your agenda and keep an eye on website and social media to register.
Public Deliverable 7.1 "Framework of the Techno-Economic and Environmental Assesment" is now available through Documents section.
Work continues in the SIDERWIN building. Maintenance equipment is being delivered and electricity works are going on.
Our colleagues Sevasti Koutsoupa and Stavroula Koutalidi from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) show in this interesting video https://youtu.be/cPZfal7I0-o,
Last 5th May local politicians visited the SIDERWIN pilot.
Cédric Flandre and Andrea Baldini of John Cockerill are the Technical Project Manager and ...
Last week our colleagues from NTUA participated in the Hydrometec Learning Course
Recoy enters officially in the siderwin consortium in April 2021, after N-Side phased out the project due to business core organizational changes.
The electrowinning cell was mounted this Tuesday. And most of the mechanical and piping work will be completed this week.
Dr. Daniela Lopes is a research fellow at CICECO – University of Aveiro Institute of Materials, Portugal.
Dr. Daniela Lopes is a research fellow at CICECO – University of Aveiro Institute of Materials, Portugal, seeking steel production by electrochemical reduction within the scope of the SIDERWIN project. CICECO...
Now available at our YouTube channel
After 1 month of work, the framework erection is now completed.
The 5th edition of SIDERWIN newsletter is now available in documents/others section.
In February 2021 started SIDERWIN pilot plant erection.
The General Assembly in Lausanne will be replaced by a teleconference due to Covid19.
SIDERWIN coordinator, Hervé Lavelaine, participated in the SET Plan Action 6 NETWORKING EVENT that took place in Brussels on 4th of December 2019.
Direct Electrolysis steelmaking is one of the Clean Power Steelmaking routes stablished in the ArcelorMital's roadmap to achieve the 30% target that have the potential to deliver a significant reduction in carbon emissions.
https://corporate.arcelormittal.com/news-and-media/news/2019/news-month/13-12-2019
SIDERWIN Webinar, planned for the end of 2019, is postponed.
Visiting the alumina and aluminium plant of Mytilineos, Metallurgy BU during the M24 Steering Committee.
The bauxite residue produced there, as a by-product of the alumina refinery, has proven to be a promising raw material for iron production through the SIDERWIN process. An exciting and rare chance for industrial symbiosis between two traditional competitive metal sectors!
With the participation of Hervé Lavelaine (SIDERWIN Project Coordinator) taking part of the breakout session 3B “Decarbonizing Industry” of Track B “Decarbonizing Buildings and Industry” held on Oct. 17th, 9:00am – 12:30am
More information are available on the website : https://www.electrificationeurope.com/
SIDERWIN video will be shown at John Cockerill's stand during METEC 2019 (25-28 of June), where our project coordinator, Hervé Lavelaine de Maubeuge, will present his lecture “SIDERWIN project: electrification of primary steel production for direct CO2 emission avoidance” during the session Efficiency increase and CO2 mitigation in iron and steelmaking: Carbon direct avoidance (27 June / 09:00 - Room 13).
The work for the building that will host the SIDERWIN pilot has sarted.
The Project Coordinator, Hervé Lavelaine de Maubeuge, will attend the METEC - ESTAD 2019 in Dusseldorf with his lecture “SIDERWIN project: electrification of primary steel production for direct CO2 emission avoidance”
A webinar will be organised at the end of 2019. The date will be communicated after summer.
POSTPONED due to a general strike of the French railway company.
