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ity strategy services , Felix manages large projects for private sector clients . Last year , supporting a global German machinery producer (+ 14k employees ), Felix led a nine-month strategy process and succeeded in guiding the organisation to co-create ambitious targets , KPIs and shortterm roadmaps . Prior to his current role , Felix worked in the sustainability departments of Vestas Wind Systems , Volkswagen Group , and Flying Tiger Copenhagen . Felix holds BA and MSc degrees in philosophy , economics , and business administration from the University of Bayreuth and Copenhagen Business School . |
Dr . Joachim von Schéele , Linde GmbH , Germany
Plenary lecture 4 . Solutions towards carbon-neutral stainless steel production Wednesday , 27 September , 10:00
Many steelmakers have set carbon neutral goals over the 2030-2050 timeframe . Naturally shorter-term approaches are focused on minor alterations and improvements parallel to developing longer term options . However , any technology change today should be ready for future use of hydrogen . Increase of the energy-efficiency immediately reduces the carbon footprint in the electric arc furnace ; the AOD converter ; ladle preheating ; reheating and annealing . Moreover , it minimizes the future need for hydrogen when used as fuel . Flameless Oxyfuel can reduce the fossil fuel consumption in ladle preheating and reheating and annealing furnaces by 20-50 %, proven in several hundreds of installations , many in the stainless steel industry , Full-scale production tests with hydrogen as fuel in Flameless Oxyfuel combustion have been carried out at stainless and engineering steel
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producers , and the first permanent installation will be commissioned this year . Moreover , successful tests with using hydrogen for cutting at continuous casting have been carried out at stainless steel production , showing excellent results . |
Biography : Joachim von Schéele is Global Director of Commercialisation at Linde , focusing on decarbonisation including use of hydrogen , in supporting Linde ’ s customers in metals and other hard-to-abate sectors to achieve measurable progress and success . He received his MSc in Process Metallurgy and PhD in Production Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology ( KTH ) in Sweden . He has made most of his career in the industrial gases industry , serving in different technical and commercial management roles and doing business in more than 40 countries . After a decade in Asia , since 2020 he has been based in Munich , Germany . Joachim von Schéele is a well-known speaker and has published more than 200 papers and served as a member of more than 30 boards of companies , associations , and research and education organisations .
Dr Liane Smith , Larkton Ltd , United Kingdom
Plenary lecture 5 : Materials engineering challenges of carbon capture and storage Wednesday , 27 September , 10:30
CO 2 may be captured from various power and industrial processes , transported in a pipeline or ship and injected into a range of well types . Besides CO 2
, the streams may include oxides of sulphur and nitrogen , which can be highly corrosive . Depending upon the pressure and temperature , the phase can be gas or a liquid or dense phase fluid , all
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of which have different solubility for water and hence capability to support aqueous corrosion . Materials engineers have a lot to think about to achieve a successful design .
Biography : Dr Liane Smith is an internationally renowned engineer and entrepreneur . Her working experience covers 40 years , working globally , mostly in the upstream oil and gas sector . An expert in corrosion analysis and materials selection , she was made a Commander of the British Empire in 2022 for her contributions to corrosion engineering and material science . Working with colleague Dr Mike Billingham , she first evaluated the materials choices for handling CO 2
-rich streams for the International Energy Agency in 2010 and has retained an involvement with this industrial sector since then .
Dr Stefano Sgobba & Katie Buchanan , CERN , Switzerland Plenary lecture 6 . Stainless steels for particle accelerators , detectors and fusion magnet systems Thursday , 28 September , 09:30
This plenary addresses the highly demanding construction of the particle accelerator and fusion magnet system , requiring a wide application of tightly specified stainless steel products and grades . It will be illustrated by a broad spectrum of examples from the construction of large vacuum and cryogenic systems and structural components . The requirements , and in turn the metallurgical processes applied to guarantee the final stringent properties , will be discussed - dictated by mechanical , magnetic or vacuum compatibility constraints and often by a combination of these . Examples will also be given of the CS tie plates successfully produced for ITER structural components . A case study illustrates the challenges and solutions of applying stainless steel to upgrade the detector structure of the Compact Muon Solenoid ( CMS ) experiment , one of the two large experiments at LHC , that required a cost-effective production of 600 tons of stainless steel plates with a tight specification in terms of magnetic permeability . The lecture will conclude with several relevant failure analysis cases and their root causes .
Biography : Dr Sci . Tech . Stefano Sgobba is Section Head of Materials , Metrology and NDT , EN-MME-MM ,
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