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2025 ECerS - FIRE Summer School - Paul van Beurden
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Enabling the Steel Industry's Energy Transition: The Impact of Refractories and Digital Technologies
Paul van Beurden
Tata Steel, IJmuiden, The Netherlands
The integrated steel industry, marked by its inherent complexity and the imperative to reduce CO2 emissions, relies on advanced digitalization tools to transition towards a more sustainable, integrated, and agile operating model. It is possible to enhance decision-making in production processes, logistics, refractory maintenance, and energy efficiency by utilizing digital twins with artificial intelligence-based optimization and scheduling models.
This lecture explores Tata Steel Netherlands' energy transition, highlighting the role of refractories and digitalization through a use case that enhances circularity by optimizing hot metal process logistics with a digital twin and AI-driven optimization.
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