SUSTAINABLE PROCESS INDUSTRY

1. SPIRE-1 SPIRE Brokerage event October 22nd 2013 SUSTAINABLE PROCESSINDUSTRY EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL COMPETTIVENESS THROUGH Resource and energyefficiency “New inline measurements and closed loop process control of high temperature processes”

2. Organization VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut (BFI) is one of the leading European providers of application-focused R&D in the field of steelmaking and neighbored industries loca-ted in Düsseldorf, Germany, with a staff of 130 people.BFI's field of activities covers the entire production process chain, from charged materials to the final products. Core competences lie in the fields of process engineering, energy and resources and measurement techniques / process automation. Division “Measurement & Automation”: Measurements in the liquid phase Measurements in the solid phase Process automation in liquid phase Process automation in solid phase Quality Control and Information technology VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut GmbH Sohnstrasse 65 40237 Düsseldorf Germany www.bfi.de • Measuring, testing(processandproduct, mechatronics, always online) • Control (setup, open loop, closedloop, manualsupport) • Monitoring, supervision, diagnosis, optimisation • HMI, communication, protocols, dataacquisition, Data Mining, etc. • especially „through-process“ ….

3. Project Idea Concept Please use 2 slides to Summarize the main concept of your project idea and link it to the relevant Key Component / Key action as reflected in the SPIRE roadmap available at http://www.spire2030.eu/ . Indicate as well the call topic you will address. • Relevant Call: SPIRE 1 “Integrated Process Control” • High temperature processes (> 500°C; in steel area e.g. sinter process, blast furnace, scrap melting, secondary metallurgy; in other industries ….) • Local and distributed processes with uncertainties regarding quantity and quality of input materials; sometimes long dead times, non-linear process behaviour • Inline measurement and modelling of properties of input materials (in steel area e.g. chemical composition and metallic yield of scrap, bulk density of scrap or coke, etc.; in other industries….) • Fast inline measurement of product properties (in steel area e.g. continuous fiber-optical temperature measurement at high accuracy, etc.; in other industries: …) • Continuous process monitoring by analysing results from new measurement techniques (“Sensor Fusion” if necessary) in combination with dynamic process models, application of soft-sensors if necessary • Advanced closed loop process control (e.g. control under uncertainties) for optimisation of product quality and resource efficiency, based on the above measurements, monitoring tools and predictive models • Demonstration of new integrated process control solutions in process industries

4. Project Idea Concept Please use 2 slides to Summarize the main concept of your project idea and link it to the relevant Key Component / Key action as reflected in the SPIRE roadmap available at http://www.spire2030.eu/ . Indicate as well the call topic you will address. closedloop control intelligent monitoring online, closedloopcontrolactions new / fast inline measurements complete descriptionofinput material • improvedresourceefficiency • betterproductquality • increasedproductivity • lowerproductioncosts otherindustries … raw material, input material anykindof high temperatureprocesses

5. Idea Impact Please use 2 slides to highlight the main expected impact of the idea related to the call topic you will address as well as the SPIRE roadmap available at http://www.spire2030.eu/ Indicate as well the cross-sectorial character of the idea. • New real-time measurements and closed-loop control tools in the field of high temperature processes • New solutions for monitoring of input materials as well as properties of final products in high temperature processes • Improved process operation with respect to resource and energy efficiency • Improved quality of final product and at the same time reduced production costs • Strengthening of European industry

6. Idea Impact Relation to SPIRE roadmap: • SPIRE keycomponent 2, Process • Key action 2.3: Processmonitoring, controlandoptimization Realisation areas: • Implementingmeasurementdevicesfor all aspectsof intermediate/final productqualityandtheirintegrationintoprocesscontrol • Robust optimizationmethodstolocaltargetedprocesscontrolandenergysupply • Cross-sectorial aspects: • Applicable in all industries with high temperature processes and the necessity to describe better the input materials and to measure online additional product features to optimise process control

7. Existing Project Consortium Please use 1 slide to indicate the existing project consortium as well as the main role of the partners. • BFI as applied research institute • Industrial partners from steel industry • Research partners from steel industry • Supplier of measurements devices (SME)

8. Looking for partners… Please use 1 slide to indicate the profile of the partners you will be looking for and their envisioned role • Industrial partners from outside steel industry with similar tasks in the field of high temperature processes (e.g. non-ferrous metals, glass, cement, ….) • Suppliers of measurement devices to monitor input materials or product properties outside steel industry (SME) • Supplier of Automation solutions

9. Contact details Head of Division Measuring Techniques and Automation Member of ESTEP WG1 Prof. Dr.-Ing.Harald Peters Tel: 0049 211 6707 311 harald.peters@bfi.de General Manager of the Research Institute: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralph Sievering Member of AIAG in SPIRE, Tel: 0049 211 6707 200, ralph.sievering@bfi.de VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut GmbH, Sohnstrasse 65, 40237 Düsseldorf, Germany