Hesham Saad Al-Sherbiny: Steelmaking Sustainable Development and Improvement
Arabian Steel Industries Technical Advisor
Technology is one of the four sciences orientations of the compass of sustainability, Economy, Ecology, Technology, and finally Sociology …
The technologies of the steelmaking stream are one of the important fields that currently have negatively affected the environment, starting from the upstream, or the ironmaking phase, moving to midstream, or the steelmaking phase, and finally ending with downstream, or the hot rolling and cold forming phase.
Based on the sustainability goals, the technological improvement or development targeted to achieve, 1st concerning the energy, energy recovery, and energy saving, 2nd concerning the material, material saving, and material recovery, and 3rd concerning the emission, low emission, and nowadays targeted to achieve zero emission.
Focusing on steelmaking up-stream, ironmaking, and green hydrogen is the key technology of the development, and focusing on the steelmaking mid-stream, Merging of steel scrap charging unit and steel scrap melting unit for Endless melting is the key technology of development and steelmaking mid-stream and steelmaking down-stream the Merging of a continuous casting machine unit, continuous casting and hot rolling mill unit, hot rolling for Endless casting and rolling is the key technology of the development,
The research study improves the merging of continuous casting and hot rolling by excluding the roughing phase of the hot-rolling process of hot rolling.
Focusing on downstream, hot rolling, and cold forming, the key technology of the development is to transform to be faded by 100% renewable energy.
And the main target is to achieve, GLC technology, which is Green, Lean, and Clean technology, Green, to achieve 100% recycled feedstock. Lean, to avoid all overprocessing and optimize the investment cost or, capital expenses, CapEX, and reduce the operation cost or, operation expenses, OpEX, finally, Clean to produce 100% high-quality Products.
Finally, the main objective and main pillar of technological improvement and development is the transform 100% from a linear to a circular economy or to a stable and sustainable economy.
