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COMMUNICATION
The Reslag Workshop “Turning
steel waste into value” was
successfully held in Spain
CIC energiGUNE, the coordinator of the RESLAG project, 1. High value and critical metal extraction from slag. The
hosted the 1st Workshop of the European project at recovery of metallic raw materials, such as Cr, Mn and
Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain) on the 14th and 15th of November. others is one of the European Commission priorities for
More than 60 people attended the Workshop from 11 better exploitation of the available resources.
countries, and 14 technical talks and 10 posters were
presented. 2. Waste heat recovery. A cost effective heat recovery
concept to capture and store the heat content of the
The Workshop brought together an interdisciplinary panel exhaust gases from the electric arc furnace in the
to present RESLAG project results and current efforts, steelworks is proposed by using the steel slag as heat
challenges and future directions for eco-innovation and storage media. .
circular economy initiatives in the field of waste recovery.
It included talks from institutions (EUROSLAG, SPIRE), 3. Heat storage systems for the concentrated solar power
companies (Optimum Cement, Renotech, Life Cycle (CSP) industry. The use of steel slag using molten salts
Engineering, FEHS, Max Aicher) and research centers and and air as heat transfer fluids is being tested to promote
universities (CIC energiGUNE, IK4-Azterlan, DLR, ENEA, greener and cost-effective storage solutions for the CSP.
VTT, Fraunhofer IWKS, Tecnalia, SINTEF). The next project
Workshop will be hosted by the project partner MASEN in 4. Production of innovative refractory ceramic compounds.
Morocco on 2019. The inclusion of the steel slag as an aggregate in
innovative refractory recipes will decrease the overall
cost of the produced material without any interference
on the required material performance.
All these demonstrations have been led by a well-
balanced project consortium conformed by leading
industries and also research centers and universities
involved in the European material, energetic efficiency and
technological scenario
The RESLAG project is aligned with the challenges Contact information
outlined in the call WASTE-1-2014: Moving towards a
circular economy through industrial symbiosis of the Project website links: http://www.reslag.eu/
European Horizon 2020 programme. The main aim of https://twitter.com/reslag_eu
RESLAG project is to prove that there are industrial https://www.linkedin.com/company/reslag
sectors able to make an effective use of the 2.9 Mt/y of Project video link: http://bit.ly/REslagYoutube
landfilled steel slag, if properly supported by the right CIC Energigune – Project Coordinator
technologies. In making this proof, the RESLAG project http://www.cicenergigune.com/
is also proving that there are other very important
environmental benefits coming from an active use of the
slag in industrial processes.
To achieve this ambitious goal, four demonstration pilot
systems have been built within the RESLAG project
targeting the following industrial applications:
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