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Green Steel Centre
Steelmaking is one of the most carbon intensive industries in the world, responsible for 7% of global CO₂ emissions. But its future is Green.
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Section 1.10.32 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", written by Cicero in 45 BC
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1914 translation by H. Rackham
"But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?"
Section 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum", written by Cicero in 45 BC
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1914 translation by H. Rackham
"On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains."
Pre-Project Appraisal
Steelmakers assessing process efficiency and decarbonisation improvements, through investment or through changes in production practices, can benefit from the Institute’s independent technoeconomic and practical expertise for increased confidence in their next steps:
- Feasibility studies to optimise CAPEX and operational performance.
- Assessment of routes to reduce carbon footprint.
- Commercial, operational, technical assessment, and qualification of the supply chain, including trial 7 tonne EAF melts:
- Scrap metal
- HBI
- Hydrogen reduced iron pellets
- Biochar
- Recycled fluxes
- Identify and win public funding to assist and accelerate improvements.
Project Development
- Utilising a demonstrator 7 tonne EAF steel production plant, slab and ingot casting, rolling mill, and laboratory assets to develop, optimise and de-risk EAF operational performance before scaling up to commercial plants.
- Supported by a comprehensive range of analytical assets to provide critical data assessments with integrated AI capabilities.
- Optimisation of EAF performance, covering materials, chemistry, value in use, life cycle assessment, digitisation, operations, and maintenance.
- Optimisation of operational process flow including ladle fleet tracking and management.
- Providing support to engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractors with EAF production facilities design and specification, and in finalising technology specifications and assessing technology options and technology providers to support decarbonisation of steel production.
- Providing decarbonisation solutions and monetisation of slag into valuable carbon neutral steel composite materials.
- Bespoke operational and steelmaking metallurgy training programmes during the pre-project, project delivery and post project operations phases.
Post Project Implementation and Support
Ongoing support for steelmaking and casting quality, data model refining, feedstock assays, steel grade development, staff training, and carbon reporting.
- Plant start-up, troubleshooting and ongoing operational optimisation including melting design.
- Specialist analysis of operational performance to assure ‘cleanness’ of production.
Supply Chain Innovation Partnerships
Support for the research, development and commercialisation of innovative materials and processes to decarbonise steelmaking, with confidential research partnerships.
- From fundamental laboratory studies to pilot plant trials, we work with partners at every step to understand, demonstrate and analyse innovative processes and materials.
- Generate and use reliable data to develop life cycle assessments (LCA), value in use models, and predictive experimental designs.
- Build the business case for internal, private or public funding to take products to the next step of commercialisation.
World Class Assets, Scientists and Engineers
We combine differentiated capabilities including laboratory and plot scale production, testing, analysis, process, and materials development with industry leading analytical assets and steel industry expertise to deliver significant value across the EAF value chain.
We have a diverse team of scientists and engineers with commercial scale EAF operational and technical expertise, capable of managing and optimising EAF performance and its auxiliary equipment, including refractory performance, ladle fleet management and operational safety.
Sector leading capability in steel grade development and the detailed characterisation of melts through the analysis of microstructures and the optimisation of chemistry and system thermodynamics using cutting edge modelling capabilities and state of the art smart digital and electron microscopy.
Our technical expertise enables the optimisation of the EAF and its auxiliary equipment to minimise energy consumption, CO₂ emissions along with full life cycle analysis, and experience in developing solutions for rapid smart scrap characterisation, decarbonised heating, fuel conversion, routes to low carbon fuels and feedstocks including biochar and hydrogen reduced iron, and the monetisation of waste materials.
CONTACT
To find out more about the Green Steel Centre or to make an enquiry, please email enquiries@mpiuk.com
