June 2022
The MaxH2DR project started in June 2022. In order to raise awareness of the project and to engage relevant stakeholders, also beyond the steel industry, the project took part to EU Green Week Partner Event - CSP webinar , where ESTEP hold a webinar with focus on "The Clean Steel Partnership: a driver to net zero, from research to deployment of ground-breaking technologies for steel" on 1 June 2022. See here project presentation
The project also took part to the ESTEP Dissemination event 2022 ‘Beyond steel research projects’, which was held by ESTEP on 22 June 2022. Presentation can be found here
October 2022
The Kick-off meetings took place on 18-19 October 2022 in Brussels.
November 2022
The MaxH2DR project was presented at the second international conference dedicated on hydrogen "H2 for Green Steel - Hydrogen route for a green steelmaking process and applications", organised by the ESTEP Focus Group Low Carbon & Energy Efficiency on 30 November 2022 in Versailles (France).
March 2023
The Consortium had its second General Assembly meeting on 27 & 29 March 2023 in Pisa at SSSA.
June 2023
Université de Lorraine presented the project at a national conference “ La métallurgie, quel avenir ! » (Metallurgy, what a future !) in Grenoble from 5 to 9 June 2023.
September 2023
Abo Akademi presented some preliminary results of the project on the 10th International Conference on Modelling and Simulation of Metallurgical Processes in Steelmaking (SteelSIM 2023), which took place from 11 to 13 September 2023 at Warwick (UK). Preliminary results were also presented at the 14th European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE2023), which was scheduled on 17-21 September 2023 in Berlin (Germany).
October 2023
The Consortium had its third General Assembly meeting on 19 & 20 October 2023 in Nancy at the Institut Jean Lamour.
November 2023
A workshop entitled “La decarbonizzazione dell’industrial siderurgica: un passo avanti” (“The decarbonisation of the steel industry: one step forward”) took place on 16 November 2023 in Taranto (Italy). SSSA presented the MaxH2Dr project.
Université de Lorraine presented the MaxH2DR on 27 November 2023 at a National seminar organized by the French Ministry of Research entitled “ Les financements européens pour la décarbonation de l’industrie” (European funding for the decarbonization of the industry).
December 2023
Université de Lorraine presented the different paths for decarbonising the steel industry, in which it explained the MaxH2Dr project at the annual French national conference “Rencontres Matériaux et société – SF2M” on 1 December 2023 in Paris (France).
February 2024
An abstract entitled “A Digital toolkit to investigate and guide the transition towards H2-based DRI-based steelmaking considering the effects on energy management” and authored by SSSA was submitted and accepted for presentation at the ESTEP Digital4Environment workshop, which was held in Bardolino (Italy) on 20-21.02.2024.
March 2024
BFI, represented by Thorsten Hauck, presented the MaxH2DR project at the ESTEP Spring Dissemination event, held on 14 March 2024 in Brussels.
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This project has received funding from the European Union under grant agreement NUMBER — 101058429 — MaxH2DR