The research fund for coal and steel was established 2002 to support the competitiveness of the European Coal and Steel sectors by supporting research, pilot and demonstration projects. This brochure contains a small selection of running and closed projects which highlight some of the innovative...

The BiogaSS project explores stainless steel for cost effective design for the fabrication of biodigesters. Although concrete is extensively used, it is not necessarily the most economic choice despite its low purchase cost. To prove stainless steels' cost-efficiency, three aspects are...

Theoretical and experimental investigations have confirmed that ferritic stainless steel, due to its unique properties in terms of thermal expansion, is the best commercial metal to be bonded with glass, to form high-performance unitized cells. The testing activity on reduced-scale specimens has...

The production of ultra-light, economical and ecologically oriented component structures with high contour complexity in the automotive industry necessitates the use of profiles and tubes made of innovative high-strength steel grades. The torque superposed spatial (TSS) profile bending process,...

The objective of manufacturing steel by continuous casting with homogeneous dispersion of very fine oxides (oxide dispersion strengthening) encountered the difficulty of not being able to disperse the oxides during the casting process : this difficulty was due to different technological aspects...

The project aimed at developing a new gasification process by the use of an innovative gasifier named DIRK (differentiated injection rotary kiln), based upon CSM technology (patent 0001352001, 19 January 2009), fed by coals and co-fuels (i.e. waste/biomass) in order to produce a syngas suitable...

The objective of Freeze was to develop a new process consisting of cryo-concentration, metal salt crystallisation and pure metal recovery, with a focus on the reduction of waste water quantities and metal salt loads from mixed acid pickling processes (HF/HNO3). During investigation of the...

Materials applied in automobile exhaust system have to sustain various mechanical and corrosive impacts. The magnitude of these impacts strongly depends on positioning within the exhaust system, since there is a severe thermal grad from the hot-end to the cold-end. The manifold at the hot-end...

This project aims to address the surface quality problems associated with descaling efficiency through the development of new integrated routes involving the use of new water-free descaling techniques and optimisation of current water-based descaling processes. The focus of the project was...

The complex system consisting of a flux in a mould during steel continuous casting has been represented by a set of concepts and modelling tools. The concepts concern some aspect that are not usually considered for the choice of a mould flux such as the NBO/T index, whereas the modelling tools...