The CAESAR project, funded under Horizon Europe programme is successfully running into its final year.
AZTERLAN joined other members of the consortium of the Horizon Europe project CAESAR in its 7th Periodic Meeting, held on 29th and 30th October at the ArcelorMittal Office Building in Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxemburg). There, the participating partners had the opportunity to share and review the latest achievements in the ongoing tasks and to organise the schedule of activities for the final seven months of the project implementation.
On this occasion, three topics dominated the technical discussions:
- The optimisation of the sorting routes followed to obtain valorisable concentrates of non-ferrous materials from various rejected streams arising in the steel scrap cleaning processes, with a focus on sensor-based sorting.
- The participants dealt with the findings of the lab-scale valorisation tests on samples of those non-ferrous concentrates, either metallic or minerals or C-containing.
- The promising results of a series of industrial melting trials using upgraded low-quality old scrap in the EAF to produce steel flat products. In the next months, the group will assess the economic and environmental viability of the upgrading operations to increment the ratio of cleaned low-quality scrap grades in the furnace charge for flat steel making.
The meeting agenda included a visit to the ArcelorMittal production site of Differdange, where the partners were introduced to the operational intricacies of the scrapyard management and toured the electric arc furnace and ladle furnace facilities and the continuous casting area.
CAESAR consortium representatives at the ArcelorMittal facilities.
CAESAR project is aimed at improving the quality of low quality scrap and to to this end, it is studying and optimizing processes for separating and eliminating impurities from this industrial waste, both through the development of new technologies and the updating of existing ones not currently applied for the recycling of ferrous scrap.
CAESAR project (CirculArity Enhancements by Low quality Scrap Analysis and Refinement) is funded by the EU (GA: 101058520). The Consortium Centre de Recherches Métallurgiques, ArcelorMittal Basque Country Research Centre, ArcelorMittal Maizières Research, Rolanfer Recyclage, OTUA Group (Reydesa Recycling, INATEC), ArcelorMittal Belgium, ArcelorMittal Belval & Differdange, AZTERLAN Metallurgy Research Centre, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ArcelorMittal Sestao, ArcelorMittal France and TOMRA Sorting.
