Consortium and role in the project
CROSSCUT consortium is formed by nine partners and 1 affiliated entity coming from five different EU countries, namely Italy (RINA-CSM; Pittini Group represented by FENO and CSI; and ADI), France (LME), Spain (SID and SID I+D), Sweeden (Swerim and Vargön alloy) and Poland (Łukasiewicz - GIT).
Four of the main EU steelmakers, namely Feno, ADI, LME and SIDENOR, will be involved in the technical activities and in industrial trials to validate CROSSCUT approach. Moreover, they also be involved in the transferability evaluation, so to maximize the impact of CROSSCUT results on EU whole steel sector.
The utilization of SCCs is also tested for FeCr production, that is one of the main iron alloys used for steel production.
Three largely recognized EU research institutes, namely RINA-CSM, Swerim and Łukasiewicz - GIT, will be involved in all activities to test the materials and needed process adaptations, definition of materials pretreatment (e.g briquetting) in the development of fundamental digital platform and digital twins, as well as the evaluation of the final results and products.
Project coordinator, characterization of materials., support during the industrial trials (in ADI e LME), D & E activities, LCA and LCC analysis.
EAF steel production; rental and installation of injection system, long term industrial trials with single injection point.
Sidenor and SID I+D will provide a detailed study on the Sidenor EAF facility, to evaluate the impact of injecting and adding different alternative materials (looking for lower carbon footprint) in EAF process.
SID I+D supports SID in analysing, demonstration, dissemination and reporting tasks.
Feno will tests different types of SCCs in EAF for slag foaming purposes. This will allow the reduction of coal injected.
Łukasiewicz – GIT will perform thermodynamic calculations and investigations of the impact of alternative fuel with the focus on biomass on both sinter quality and phase composition and usability in the metallurgical process, as well as environmental emissions. Moreover, Łukasiewicz GIT will support the market and techno-economic analysis for transferability actions.
Swerim will support the utilization of SCCs for iron alloys production, with main focus on developing briquettes for FeCr production. Swerim will perform the definition of materials pretreatment, design and optimizing the recipe for developing SCC-chromite briquette production and will support the industrial trials with the production plant of Vargön. In addition, Swerim will contribute to WP9 by conducting LCA & TEA in close collaboration with RINA-CSM.
Integrated route steelmaker; lab characterization of SCCs, feasibility study for utilization of SCCs in integrated route-based steelmaking, Digital Twin and Digital platform co-development with RINA-CSM.
Vargön will study the SCCs as coke substitute for FeCr production. Vargön will perform an industrial campaign and the 20% of coke substitution will be determined.