ECIC 2011 Technical Focus
The Congress will focus on recent developments in the following areas:
- Coke making
- Future supply of coal
- Usage of cheap carbon sources to produce coke
- Stock yard operation
- Coal preparation practice
- Coke plant operation, instrumentation and automation
- Coke quality for blast furnaces
- Coke oven repair techniques and life prolongation
- New coke making technologies
- Iron ore production and handling
- Iron ore beneficiation technologies
- Materials transportation and handling logistics
- Sintering
- Sinter plant operation and automation
- Sinter quality
- Pelletising
- Pellet plant operation and automation
- Pellet quality
- Blast furnace iron making
- Efficient blast furnace operation: high productivity, low coke rate
- Life extension of blast furnaces
- Blast furnace liquid management and casting practice
- Future developments in hot metal and slag quality
- Future slag composition: answers to changing raw materials
- New blast furnaces
- Modern blast furnace design including refractories, cooling and tuyeres
- Plating, casting and granulating of hot metal
- Hot stoves and energy saving
- Blast furnace charging technologies
- Recovery of blast furnaces from abnormal production situation
- Injection coal preparation and grinding
- Process safety
- Direct reduction: production and use of DRI
- Smelting reduction: commercial and emerging processes
- Environmental control in iron making
- CO2 reduction and energy saving
- Recycling of in-plant waste and residual materials