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GREEN
ENERGY
Steel production is going electric? No. The answer is yes: steel and metals will be produced with renewable energy in the future. We present how the industry is implementing the energy transition in concrete terms.
GREEN
METALS
Produce clean, act circular, transform to Green. Be inspired by sustainable best-in-class solutions along the metallurgical value chain.
GREEN
STEEL
The road to green steel is still long. The pioneers of the industry show their decarbonization plans. From thyssenkrupp to Salzgitter and ArcelorMittal, to Swiss Steel, SMS group, Primetals and TENOVA LOI Thermprocess.
GREEN
TRANSFORMATION
Reduce, reuse, recycle! The switch to renewable energies is also the entry into the Circular Economy. But this can only be achieved with a radically new approach to value creation.
GREEN
AUTOMATION
Digitalization is the booster of decarbonization. We demonstrate how digitization can best be used as an enabler for the green transformation.
HYDROGEN
All you need is hydrogen! Leading gas experts explain in which stages H2 as a green gas via direct reduction will lead the industry to complete decarbonization.
Opening Remarks

Mona Neubaur
Minister Minister of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Action of North Rhine-Westphalia
Keynote Speakers

Hans Jürgen Kerkhoff
President and Managing Director of Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl

Dr. Gunther Kegel
President of ZVEI & Vice-President of BDI
Schedule
9:00 am | Reception |
9:20 am | Welcome from Vulkan Verlag, VDEH and Messe Düsseldorf |
9:30 am | Official Welcome from Mona Neubaur, Minister of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Action and Energy of North Rhine-Westphalia |
9:45 am | Kick-Off: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, N.N. (requested) |
10:00 am | Keynote: Hans Jürgen Kerkhoff, President and Managing Director of Wirtschaftsvereinigung Stahl Title: A Carbon-Neutral Steel Industry – Political Strategies for the Future |
10:20 am | Keynote: Dr. Gunther Kegel, President of ZVEI & Vice-President of BDI Title: The “All-Electric-Society" |
10:40 am | Keynote: Dr. Timm Kehler, Managing Director of Zukunft Gas Title: Transition Now: How to Unleash Hydrogen for the Industrial Sector |
Green Steel
11:15 - 11:40 am
Dr. Frank Ahrenhold
Transformation of steel production: tkH2Steel - thyssenkrupp Steel's contribution to climate neutrality
thyssenkrupp Steel stands for high-quality products for demanding applications. In order to continue to meet these customer requirements in the future, special solutions are needed on the path to climate neutrality.
Dr. Frank Ahrenhold presents thyssenkrupp's climate concept based on direct reduction using hydrogen and green electricity: It is largely based on the existing structures of Europe's largest integrated steel site. Proven process stages of the steel mills and rolling will be retained and will continue to produce the grades that are tailored to the customers' product portfolio.
In this way, the Duisburg steelworks aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 30 per cent as early as 2030, in order to then achieve climate neutrality in 2045.
11:40 am - 12:05 pm
Jürgen Fries
Climate-neutral steel: ArcelorMittal transforms production technology
The world's leading steel producer has an ambitious plan to switch production to climate-neutral technologies. Green hydrogen plays a key role in this. Low-CO2 steel products from ArcelorMittal are already available today.
12:05 - 12:30 pm
Martin Zappe
SALCOS® - Transformations during Running Operations at Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH - Risks and Opportunities
One thing is certain: steel production plays an important role in the German economy and we should do anything to lead this industry into a green future. In his presentation, Martin Zappe (Program Manager at SALCOS®) will shed light on the opportunities and challenges of transforming the steel industry. He reports on core aspects of the new "Salzgitter AG 2030" strategy as well as on SALCOS®, Salzgitter AG's innovative "frontrunner" program working towards low CO2-emissions in steel production at the steelworks of Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH.
12:30 - 1:30 pm: Lunch Break
1:30 - 1:55 pm
Tim Kleier
Technology and Processes for Decarbonizing the Steel Industry
The steel industry is undergoing a fundamental reorientation to face the challenges of climate change. The SMS group offers a wide range of technologies, processes and know-how for all stages of this journey: Be it the planning and implementation of a step-by-step transition from a carbon-based route to a next-to-zero emissions plan or developing completely new plants using the most sustainable technologies throughout the entire value chain.
1:55 - 2:20 pm
Dr.-Ing. Markus Dorndorf
Hydrogen-based Technologies and Processes for Decarbonizing the Steel Industry
Direct reduction technology is central to the transformation of the steel industry, replacing coal and coke with natural gas or hydrogen. This, in combination with electric melters, makes it possible to produce steel in a virtually climate-neutral way. The ENERGIRON process, a direct reduction technology jointly developed by Tenova and Danieli, represents the state of the art in direct reduction processes. It is the only direct reduction process that allows the flexible use of reduction gases and charge materials as well as 100% utilization of hydrogen and the commercialization of by-products such as CO2. In combination with hydrogen-based burner technologies as well as hybrid solutions for heat treatment, a complete decarbonization of the entire process chain is thus feasible with plant technology already available today.
2:20 - 2:45 pm
Dipl.-Ing. Christian Böhm
Iron Ore for Direct Reduction – MIDREX, FINORED, HYFOR
Each direct reduction process requires unique iron ore qualities. In these processes, the grain size plays a major role due to different process technologies used. Other important properties are mineralogical structure and chemical analysis. The latter characteristic is less important for direct reduction, but rather for the subsequent processing of the DRI produced.
2:45 - 3:10 pm
Stefan Berger
Danieli Technologies for green steel production – A perspective for German steelmakers
Globally, the steel industry is responsible for ~7% of total global CO2 emissions and the target is to go to a near net-zero emissions by steps till 2050, at least for EU.
With the amendment to the Climate Change Act, the German Federal Government intends to tighten climate regulations and achieve greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045.
While Europe is a front runner in regulatory measures, steel industry could not move fast enough to implement all necessary modifications in steel plants. China, by far the largest steel-producing country and CO2 emitter by the way, is moving differently with strong investments in the EAF route and in green energy despite its net-zero emissions target is delayed to 2060.
Germany steel production is based by around 70% on integrated steel plant and this makes more difficult a fast transition time from BF-BOF route to other routes based on natural gas or even worse on hydrogen. An investment on EAF route is faster, more flexible in terms of input raw material and steel grade composition. Danieli presents a way to lower the steel carbon footprint while keeping capability for producing high-quality grades with low residual element contents using different charge materials.
3:00 - 3:30 pm: Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:00 pm
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Krüger
Electric Arc Furnaces as a Central Element of Transformation
This talk focuses on the performance and state of the art of electric arc furnaces using three-phase current and direct current. Challenges involved in switching to the elcetric steel route will also be discussed. An outlook on the two alternative concepts of reduction furnaces and electric arc furnaces will be provided.
4:00 - 4:30 pm
Till Schreiter
Induction and Digitalization – A Strong Alliance Fostering Competitive Carbon-Neutral Melting Operations in the Steel Mill
The presentation discusses today's challenges for small and medium-sized steel mills towards carbon-neutral production. Further, it shows how smaller steel mills can use digitalization to their advantage.
4:30 - 5:00 Uhr
Prof. Ulrich Krupp
Circular Steel – Application Challenges for Carbon-Neutral Steel
Steel is an excellent recyclable material and steel scrap is already a sought-after raw material starting on its way to new high-performance products in electric arc furnaces. As for the global expansion of infrastructure, mobility and the energy industry far more steel is needed than is available in scrap, around 70% of the approximately 2 billion tons of steel produced worldwide each year is now produced by primary smelting of iron ore. To meet climate targets, the CO2-intensive blast furnace route must be replaced by direct reduction processes. The porous sponge iron (DRI) produced is processed into the corresponding steel grades in the electric arc furnace. There are considerable challenges here, particularly with regard to slag metallurgy and the associated degree of purity. This is all the more true if a variable amount of scrap containing impurities is added. For example, copper or tin can hardly be removed from the melt, and there is a risk of impurities accumulating as the recycled content increases. To ensure that future steels meet the increasing requirements for strength, toughness, durability and carbon emissions, the chemical compositions and production processes must be reconsidered. Against the background of a circular steel economy, this article discusses important steps in the value chain, from the development of contamination-tolerant steels and resource-efficient heat treatment processes to concepts for service life extension, e.g. through re-use or re-manufacturing.
Green Gas
11:15 - 11:40 am
Samir Khayat
Climate Neutral Steel and Metal Industry - A Core Topic of the IN4climate.NRW think tank
As an initiative of the North Rhine-Westphalia state government, IN4climate.NRW is North Rhine-Westphalia's hub for carbon-neutrality in the industrial sector. The think tank brings together industry, science and politics to drive forward the transformation toward carbon-neutrality of energy-intensive industries. More than 40 partner companies are currently involved in various working groups for the central topics of transformation. Managing Director Samir Khayat introduces NRW.Energy4Climate and presents the work of the IN4climate.NRW think tank. He further elaborates on role the transformation of the steel and metal industry plays for the state organization. He also provides insights into the state's transformation strategies and the new findings of the accompanying science project SCI4climate.NRW.
11:40 am - 12:05 pm
Dipl.-Ing. Gert Müller-Syring
Competence Network of the German Gas Industry - The Current Status of Infrastructure Transformation
The talk will cover:
- options for importing hydrogen
- routes of transformation and scenarios in the gas infrastructure
- hydrogen database DVGW
12:05 - 12:30 pm
Gerrit Riemer
Routes, Obstacles and Opportunities for Future Green Steel Production
The talk will start with a short presentation by the HySteel Commission and introduce the different technology paths of green steelmaking. The current regulatory barriers to the transformation of the steel industry will be described and the opportunities that would arise from the rapid introduction of climate-friendly steelmaking technologies will be presented. Furthermore, there will be a brief overview of the impact the war in Ukraine has on steel producers.
12:30 - 1:30 pm: Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:00 pm
Dr. Michael Neupert
Pitfalls in Ramping-up a Hydrogen-Based Economy - Is the H2 Supply to Industry Legal?
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2:00 - 2:30 pm
Sable Huang
Cost-Effective Process for Producing H2 with CO2 Capture from Blast Furnace Gas
At the Leppe landfill site (in the area of Wuppertal-Solingen-Remscheid in Northrhine-Westphalia), the Chemical-Looping-Hydrogen (CLH) process developed by Rouge H2 Engineering AG (RGH2) demonstrated its excellent performance for the production of hydrogen from landfill gas. Long-term real gas operation (>1000 operating hours) of the CLH process confirmed stable production of high purity hydrogen from landfill gas. Rouge H2 would like to demonstrate its process at a steel making site to produce hydrogen and capture CO2 from blast furnace gas. Simulated experiments on blast furnace gas have shown up to 95% CO2 capture potential. If you are interested in participating in a revolutionary project to significantly decarbonize blast furnace gas, please join this presentation.
2:30 - 3:00 pm
Emanuel Henrich
H2Global: An instrument to promote the market ramp-up of "green hydrogen"
H2Global is a mechanism for the auction-based promotion of a timely and effective power-to-x market ramp-up on an industrial scale. The price is determined on the buying and selling side via a competition-based bidding process conducted by an intermediary, HINTCO GmbH. The implementation and further development of the instrument is carried out by the H2Global Foundation.
3:00 - 3:30 pm: Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:00 pm
Prof. Dr. Mario Ragwitz
TransHyDE - System Analysis of Transport Solutions for Green Hydrogen
The TransHyDE network system analysis examines the various means of transporting hydrogen with regard to efficiency, feasibility, necessary requirements and economic viability. The network's main goal is to create a roadmap bundling the generation potentials and requirements and presenting possible expansions for a hydrogen infrastructure up until 2045.
4:00 - 4:30 pm
Claus Meyer
The European & National H2 Backbone for Implementing Decarbonization Targets
Reconstructing the existing gas grid infrastructure is of great importance in the context of decarbonization goals. The talk presents the plans for the future European and German hydrogen network - largely based on the natural gas transmission network. Conversion plans, network sizes and costs as well as the industrial regions planned to be connected will be considered.
16:30 - 17:00 Uhr
Philipp Hauser
The importance of storage for the hydrogen value chain using the example of the Bad Lauchstädt Energy ParkTitle Follows
With the ramp-up of the hydrogen market, there is a need for storage in the medium term to compensate for the divergence between generation and demand. Hydrogen storage facilities are therefore indispensable for the security of supply and storage of renewable energies. At the Bad Lauchstädt Energy Park, cavern storage facilities are being integrated into the hydrogen value chain, thus enabling a supraregional hydrogen infrastructure in central Germany.
Green Economy
11:15 - 11:40 am
Dr. Claas Oehlmann
Circular Economy as a Model of Added Value for Climate Protection and Securing Raw Materials
Raw materials are the foundation of industrial creation of value. This became evident when recently, as a result of the pandemic and war in Europe, global supply chains were disrupted and a shortage in the supply of raw materials led to a significant rise in prices. Global competition for resources is expected to further increase. At the same time, it is challanging to shape our economy to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate protection and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations' 2030 Agenda . How can we optimistically and strategically meet these challenges?
11:40 am - 12:05 pm
Stephan Flapper
The Future of Steel is Green
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12:05 - 12:30 pm
Christian Blackert
TSR40 – State of the Art in Recycling Metals
TSR40 sets a new standard in steel recycling. Defined recycling raw material with low content of by-elements is produced from inhomogeneous scrap. This taps into new potential for reducing the corresponding CO2 emissions in the production of many steel grades, e.g. in the flat steel sector.
12:30 - 1:30 pm: Lunch Break
1:30 - 2:00 pm
Dr. Klaus Harste
The Next Level of Recycling
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2:00 - 2:30 pm
Prof. Dr. Dieter Wegener
The Atom for Green Transformation: The Digital Product Passport as a Carrier Medium for the Digital Carbon Footprint
The goal of the EU Commission's ecodesign proposal is to make sustainable products the norm at the EU market. The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is at the heart of this endeavor. In the future, it will allow products to be traced along their life cycle and labeled in terms of their environmental footprint. End result of these measures is a product that is both suitable for industrial use and sustainable.
2:30 - 3:00 pm
Wolfgang Linden
The Path to Green Energy Supply through DC ECO GRID by SMS group
The expansion of renewable energies requires a more flexible power supply system. The necessity of a constant balance of supply and demand for a secure power supply means that electricity storage systems are being used to a greater extent as the share of wind and solar energy increases. With the DC ECO GRID by SMS group, parts of a metallurgical plant can be connected to an economical power grid. The DC ECO GRID connects them to hybrid power grids (AC and DC), thus improving the energy efficiency of the plant. It functions as a link between a more environmentally friendly metal industry and new, green energy supply systems.
3:00 - 3:30 pm: Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:00 Uhr
Julian Kröger
Green Steel as a pioneer of a sustainable future
Global warming is leading to increasingly severe and frequent natural disasters. Climate change is mainly due to the very sharp increase in CO2 emissions over the last 60 years. The global steel industry, including the necessary upstream energy production, is responsible for around 10% of global CO2 emissions and therefore has enormous reduction potential which must be leveraged as quickly as possible. In the transformation to climate neutrality, the electric steel route based on scrap recycling in the sense of the circular economy can already make a major contribution. What is needed in the first instance is the competitive and continuous availability of green electricity. If politics, business and society pull together, Germany can become a real pioneer of the green steel industry and green steel made in Germany the next export hit
4:00 - 4:20 pm
Dr. Joachim G. Wünning
Electrical heating of high-temperature processes with gas burners
Today, high-temperature processes are mainly heated with natural gas. In combination with heat recovery through combustion air preheating, losses of exhaust gas can be significantly reduced. Both energy costs and CO2 emissions in Germany are significantly below an alternative electric resistance heating system. However, fossil natural gas is not an option for future energy supply. In addition to a small proportion of fuels of biogenic origin, the vast majority of regenerative energy will be provided as electrical energy in the future. The electricity generated in this way can either be used directly in load-flexible plants or stored to compensate for the differences between fluctuating generation and inflexible electricity demand, e.g. from plants in continuous operation. It is also expected that a considerable amount of energy will have to be imported to Germany in the future. Hydrogen or derivatives can be imported from regions where renewable electricity can be generated at low cost. This chemically stored electrical energy should then preferably be used directly, i.e. as a material or energy source, and only a small proportion should be converted back into electricity.
4:20 - 4:40 pm
Sergej Belik
Novel 1000 °C Induction Heater for Carbon Neutral Industrial Processes
The technological transformation of energy-intensive industrial processes towards a low CO2 heat supply and use is accelerated by the steadily increasing natural gas prices. One power-to-heat solution for substituting industrial processes fired by natural gas is the induction heater. Due to its high power density and the use of ceramic materials, this technology provides the basis for achieving high process temperatures of up to 1200°C at low cost.
4:40 - 5:00 pm Start-Up-Corner
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Green Steel
Dr. Frank Ahrenhold
Title requested
Jürgen Fries
Martin Zappe
SALCOS® - Transformations during Running Operations at Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH - Risks ans Opportunities
Tim Kleier
Technology and Processes for Decarbonizing the Steel Industry
Dr.-Ing. Markus Dorndorf
Hydrogen-based Technologies and Processes for Decarbonizing the Steel Industry
Dipl.-Ing. Christian Böhm
Iron Ore for Direct Reduction – MIDREX, FINORED, HYFOR
Stefan Berger
Danieli-Technologies for green steel production - A Perspective for German steelmakers
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Krüger
Electric Arc Furnaces as a Central Element of Transformation
Till Schreiter
Induction and Digitalization - A Strong Alliance Fostering Competitive Carbon-Neutral Operations in the Steel Mill
Prof. Ulrich Krupp
Circular Steel – Application Challenges for Carbon-Neutral Steel
Green Gas
Samir Khayat
Hydrogen in the Exes of Landesgesellschaft für Energie und Klimaschutz
Dipl.-Ing. Gert Müller-Syring
Competence Network of the German Gas Industry - The Current Status of Infrastructure Transformation
Gerrit Riemer
Routes, Obstacles and Opportunities for Future Green Steel Production
Dr. Michael Neupert
Pitfalls in Ramping-up a Hydrogen-Based Economy - Is the H2 Supply to Industry Legal?
Sable Huang
Emanuel Henrich
Market Incentives for Ramping-up a Hydrogen-Based Economy in the EU
Prof. Dr. Mario Ragwitz
TransHyDE – System Analysis of Transport Solutions for Green Hydrogen
Claus Meyer
The European & National H2 Backbone for Implementing Decarbonization Targets
Philipp Hauser
Green Economy
Dr. Claas Oehlmann
Circular Economy as a Model of Added Value for Climate Protection and Securing Raw Materials
Stephan Flapper
The future of steel is green
Bernd Fleschenberg
TSR40 – State of the Art in Recycling
Dr. Klaus Harste
The next level of Recycling
Prof. Dr. Dieter Wegener
The Atom for Green Transformation: The Digital Product Passport as a Carrier Medium for the Digital Carbon Footprint
Wolfgang Linden
The Path to Green Energy Supply trough DC ECO GRID by SMS group
Julian Kröger
Dr. Joachim G. Wünning
Emission-Free Heating in High-Temperature Processes
Sergej Belik
Novel 1000 °C Induction Heater for Carbon Neutral Industrial Processes
5:00 pm | Summary and Panel-Diskussion |
5:45 pm | Dinner Speech |
6:00 pm | Get-Together and Steel-House Party |
9:00 pm | End of Conference |
The Speakers

Martin Zappe
Program Manager at SALCOS, Salzgitter AG

Dr. Markus Dorndorf
Vice President Iron & Steelmaking at Tenova LOI Thermprocess

Jürgen Fries
CO2 Policy Manager at ArcelorMittal Bremen

Tim Kleier
Head of Green Steel at SMS group

Dr. Frank Ahrenhold
Head of Sustainable Steel Production at thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG

Stefan Berger
Managing Director at Danieli Germany

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Krüger
Head of Corporate Development at Max Aicher

Dr. Klaus Harste
Vice President Corporate Technology at Swiss Steel Group

Prof. Dr. Dieter Wegener
Spokesperson of ZVEI-Führungskreis Industrie 4.0; Head of Technology Sector Industry at Siemens

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Krupp
Head of Institute LS Werkstofftechnik der Metalle at RWTH Aachen

Dipl.-Ing. Gert Müller-Syring
Managing Director Engineering/Consulting; Spokesperson of DBI Group

Dr.-Ing. Joachim G. Wünning
Managing Director at WS Wärmeprozesstechik GmbH

Christian Blackert
Regional Manager at TSR Recycling GmbH & Co.

Till Schreiter
CEO of ABP Induction

Prof. Dr. Mario Ragwitz
Head of Institute at Fraunhofer-Einrichtung für Energieinfrastrukturen und Geothermie

Stephan Flapper
Commercial Development at H2 Green Steel

Dr. Michael Neupert
Lawyer at Kümmerlein Rechtsanwälte & Notare

Dr. Claas Oehlmann
Managing Director of BDI Initiative Circular Economy GmbH

Wolfgang Linden
Manager DC ECO GRID at SMS group

Sergej Belik
German Aerospace Center

Claus Meyer
Head of Technological Business Development at Open Grid Europe GmbH

Samir Khayat
Managing Director at energy4climate

Christian Böhm
Head of Sales Department for Direct and Smelting Reduction

Phillip Hauser
Referee Grüne Gase, VNG AG

Julian Kröger
Director Strategy & Communications, GMH Gruppe

Sable Huang
Chairman of the Supervisory Board Rouge H2 Engineering AG

Gerrit Riemer
Spokesman of the HySteel Committee, Deutscher Wasserstoffverband e.V. (DVW)

Emanuel Henrich
Projekt Manger H2Global Advisory GmbH
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