Resource efficient metal production from a clean industry
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Metal Production is an interdisciplinary Centre for Research-based Innovation (SFI). During the next decades, the Norwegian metal industry will need to achieve even higher-quality output with more efficient use of resources and energy.
The main goal of Metal Production is to enable industrial innovation and give the industry long term access to world class fundamental competence and candidates. This will enable the industry to maintain its position at the forefront of sustainable innovation.
3 may, 2022 - The SFI Metal Production spring meeting was held in Trondheim April 26th - 27th. 55 participants from industry and academia met at Lerkendal Hotel for a two-day-meeting. We started the meeting with interesting talks from the four members of the SFI Scientific Committee, who presented their perspectives on major challenges in metal production research and industry. Read more and see pictures from the Spring meeting here.
19 April, 2022 - Phd Candidate Sindre Gylver participated at PhD Grand prix in Trondheim. PhD Grand Prix is a dissemination contest hosted by the student organization for Chemical Engineering at NTNU. In this contest, candidates from several departments at the Faculty of Natural Sciences compete on explaining their research in an understandable and entertaining way. Read more here.
05 April, 2022 - The TMS 2022 150th Annual Meeting and Exhibition conference, Furnace Tapping 2022 and REWAS 2022 were all co-located and organized in Anaheim, California from February 27th to March 3rd. NTNU and SINTEF were represented in all three conferences with more than 30 researchers and master students. Read more here.
04 April, 2022 - In February 2022, the Norwegian Ferroalloy Producers Research Association (FFF), together with NTNU and SINTEF, participated in Bellona's mini-seminar «Charcoal - an important climate solution». Invited guests were Minister of Climate and Environment Espen Barth Eide and representatives of Stortinget’s energy and environment committee, as well as the industry committee. Bellona presented the report "Biocarbon as a climate solution in industry" to the Minister of Climate and Environment. Read more here.
29 March, 2022 - SFI Metal Production has now published the annual report for 2021. In the report you can read about recent scientific activity and results from our five research domains. The report is available online here.
22 February, 2022 - The Gas Purging of Metals Seminar, held on Thursday the 17th of February, had a good turn out with 30 people. 10 different companies attended: Elkem, Eramet, Wacker, Hydro, Hycast, Alcoa, Reel alloys, GKS Engineering Services, SINTEF and NTNU. The seminar gave background theory for refining of molten metals with practical examples from aluminium, silicon and steel. Read more here.
4 February, 2022 - Jamey Davies is the first exchange student in SFI metal Production and the Intpart project Thanos since Covid started. It is hence with great pleasure we wish her welcome to NTNU for 6 months. Jamey Davies is on her second MSc -year at North West University in South Africa. Read more here.
14 January, 2022 - Dr. Håkon Myklebust successfully defended his thesis January 14th. The topic of Håkon’s presentation at the trial lecture was “Application of hydrogen as reducing agent in metal production”. The trial lecture was followed by an excellent presentation of his PhD thesis “Fume Formation and Measurements in the Metal-Production Industry”. Read more about Håkon's thesis here.
