On the 29th and 30th March was held the third follow-up meeting of the RESLAG Project “Turning waste from steel industry into a valuable low cost feedstock for energy intensive industry”, seeking valorization of steel industry slag.
This ambitious research project has foreseen the valorisation of steel slags by means of four pilot experiences oriented to the development of new technologies: as feedstock for refractory ceramics (1), as feedstock for Thermal Energy Storage systems in industrial waste heat recovery applications (2) and in Concentrated Solar Power applications (3), as feedstock to extract high added-value metallic elements present in the slags. (4). Over the 42 planned months for the complete development of the Project, the feasibility of each of the technologies will be studied and also market analysis will be carried out in order to facilitate its subsequent exploitation.
This working meeting has allowed an assessment of different developed tasks during the last 6 months of the Project execution and the results so far achieved. Being now almost half-way of the Project, the thermal unit configuration (shape and size) has been already developed, selecting those that show better operational results in terms of storage and utilization of the captured energy.
At the same time, IK4-AZTERLAN has led the characterization of slags and the production of these units, defining and showing the followed two manufacturing methods, both for pilot 2 (residual heat recovery), and for pilot 3 (concentrated solar power). As a result, the first tons of material have been already manufactured to be used in the pilots.
On the other hand, the design and the construction of the 4 pilot plants is ongoing, whose completion is scheduled for August of the present year 2017.
The working team also visited the Renotech Oy facilities, focusing their attention to those equipments, prototypes and projects related to the reclamation of industrial waste.
With a total budget over 8.700.000€, the RESLAG project is funded by the European Union under Horizon 2020 Programme and brings together an international consortium formed by 18 participant entities from 8 countries, leaded by CIC-ENERGIGUNE. Besides CIC-ENERGIGUNE and IK4-AZTERLAN, other three organizations from the Basque Country are part of the working consortium. ARCELOR MITTAL in Sestao supplies slag materials for the research and will pilot some of the solutions developed within the project.
RESLAG working team in Renotech Oy (Finlandia)
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