ESTEP annual event 2024

ESTEP is pleased to present you with its annual event H2 for Green Steel meets A Circular Economy driven by the European Steel in Linz (Austria).
The event will start on 29 October 2024 with a visit of voestalpine’s facilities. It will be followed on 30 & 31 October 2024 with a two-days technical conference (in person).  

The ESTEP annual event 2024 aims at bringing together the European steel community to discuss two pillars of the Clean Steel Partnership towards C-lean processes: the hydrogen exploitation and the circular economy application.

Achievements, challenges and future expectations will be analysed thanks to contributions from different European steelmaking actors and to the presentations of current CSP projects. The event will allow the steel sector to meet other industrial sectors involved in the European Green Deal which are active actors in industrial symbiosis (e.g. cement, water and aluminium)

The event will include a tour of voestalpine Stahl Linz steelmaking plant and a celebration of 20^th year of ESTEP foundation.

Call for abstracts

The call for abstracts is open.  Authors wishing to present a contribution are asked to prepare maximum 500 words or two-page abstract including figures and references, by also indicating the topic and the intention (or not) to submit a paper for the dedicated special issue.

Deadline: 8 September 2024 to be sent via e-mail to Delphine Snaet: D.Snaet@estep.eu

The conference will focus on the following topics:

o   Hydrogen based steelmaking

•        Opportunity and limits

•        Operating conditions challenges and optimization

o   Hydrogen heating technologies in downstream metal processes

o   Hydrogen exploitation safety and permitting

o   Renewable energy and hydrogen integration

o   The new challenges for the circular economy due to the transition from traditional to C-lean production processes

o   Industrial Symbiosis and sector coupling

o   Residue management and valorization

o   Circular economy regulations

• Digitalization, upskilling and social innovation

 Optional: There is also a possibility to submit a paper, which will be peer reviewed for publication in a special issue.