Wednesday 20 May | 15:00 - 17:00 | Room Central America
This workshop is organised in the framework of the projects BioRECAST (BIObased REsidues Conversion to Advanced fuels for sustainable STeel production) and H2Steel (Green H2 and circular bio-coal from biowaste for cost-competitive sustainable Steel).
The workshop on “Defossilizing the European Steel Sector” will took place on the occasion of the 2026 European Biomass Conference and Exhibition (EUBCE 2026) in The Hague. (Defossilizing the European Steel Sector – EUBCE 2026 | 34th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition).
Presentations available:
Agenda
15:00 Welcome to the Workshop
RAINER JANSSEN, WIP RENEWABLE ENERGIES, GERMANY
15:10 Hard to abate? Renewable Carbon and Hydrogen to defossilize the steel sector (PDF)
DAVID CHIARAMONTI, POLITECNICO DI TORINO, ITALY
15:30 Biorecast: how the integration of a slow pyrolysis plant into the EAF can defossilize the metallurgy sector (PDF)
DAVID CHIARAMONTI, POLITECNICO DI TORINO, ITALY
15:50 H2Steel: Production of green hydrogen and biogenic carbon for the European steel sector (PDF)
VIVIANA NEGRO, POLITECNICO DI TORINO, ITALY
16:10 The Industrial Deep Decarbonisation Initiative under CEM
ANKITA GANGOTRA, UNIDO
16:30 Panel discussion “Defossilising the European Steel / EII Sector”
16:55 Summary and Conclusions
RAINER JANSSEN, WIP RENEWABLE ENERGIES, GERMANY
