SEMINARS ABM

3rd International Meeting on Ironmaking

VENUE
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Av. Avicênia, nº 1 - Praia do Calhau 
65071-370  São Luís City, Maranhão State - Brazil
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OFFICIAL PROGRAMME

September, 22
Special Opening Session, with presentations and homages
07:00 - 09:00pm - Luis de Camões II room

* Welcome words from ABM 
* Welcome words from Vale, as host company
* Ministry of Mines and Energy  
* Companhia Siderúrgica Vitória - CSV (Miguel Bentes - General Manager) 
* Companhia Siderúrgica do Atlântico - CSA (Heyno Smith - COO) 
* Homage to Univ. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinrich Wilhelm Gudenau (Aachen 
   University)
* Awards

23/9/08 – MORNING – LUÍS DE CAMÕES I ROOM
BLAST FURNACE

08:30 – 08:55
HOT BLAST STOVES HIGHER EFFICIENCY AND LONGER CAMPAIGN LIFE THANKS TO ENDOSCOPIC SURVEYS: ”THE REACTOR STRIP-TEASE”
Didier Mersch, Michel Vreysen (ADI Industrial Services, Belgium)


08:55 – 09:20
GLOBAL CHALLENGE ON EFFICIENT BLAST FURNACE OPERATION BY USE OF MODERN MEASURING TECHNOLOGY : DIFFERENT DATA FOR DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHIES
Jochen Grisse, Frank Stehling (TMT GmbH, Siegen, Germany), Claude Bodeving (TMT Sarl, Luxembourg) 

09:20 – 09:45
NEW GAS CLEANING SYSTEM OF THE BLAST FURNACE “A” AT ARCELORMITTAL MONLEVADE
Haroldo Lacerda de Brito, Carlos Eduardo de Souza, Raimundo Nonato Batista, Braga, Ailton José de Freitas, Jair Pereira Caixeta Filho,  Rui Carlos Malta, Magalhães, Fabiano Harley Araújo (ArcelorMittal Monlevade, Brazil)

09:45 – 10:10
EXPERIENCE IN RECOVERY OF CHILLED BLAST FURNACES
R.G. van Oudenallen, J.E. van Stein Callenfels, G.J. Gravemaker (Danieli Corus BV), H.A.M. Geerdes, A.A. Spiering (Geerdes & Partners BV), J.A. Wise–Alexander (Danieli Corus BV) – The Netherlands 

10:10 – 10:40 – Coffee-break sponsored by ENFIL 

10:40 – 11:05
QUICK RECOVERY FROM A CHILLY HEARTH OF COSIPA #1 BLAST FURNACE
Eduardo Maurell Lobo Pereira, Ivanir Torres de Lima, Vinícius Martins Vilela, Filipe Varvela Paschoalini, Josemar Veiga Pedro (COSIPA/SISTEMA USIMINAS, Brazil), Ton Spiering, Geert Jan Gravemaker (Danieli Corus, Luxembourg)

11:05 – 11:30
EXTENSION OF CAMPAIGN   BLAST FURNACE Nº2 OF THE NATIONAL STEEL COMPANY
Sebastião Jorge Xavier Noblat, Francisco Nóbrega de Aguiar, Reginaldo de Souza Roma, Marcio José Mariano da Silva, Marco Polo da Silva Peixoto, Sandro Junior Batista (CSN, Brazil)

11:30 – 11:55
THE CHALLENGES OF BLAST FURNACE REBUILD
Fabiana Fonseca (Siemens VAI Metals, Brazil), Martin Smith (Siemens VAI Metals, United Kingdom)

11:55 – 12:20
THE NEWEST GENERATION OF PAUL WURTH BELL-LESS TOP® BLAST FURNACE CHARGING SYSTEMS
Joerg Brinckmann, Robert Goffin, Paul Kinsch, Guy Thillen (Paul Wurth Luxembourg), Romain Dele (Paul Wurth China), Mário Cunha (Paul Wurth Brazil)

23/9/08 – MORNING – LUCY TEIXEIRA ROOM
Technological trends and new processes


08:55 – 09:20
A NEW APPROACH FOR PRESHAPED BLOCKS FOR COMBUSTION CHAMBERS IN IRON ORE PELLETS INDURATING FURNACES
Heraldo Lucio D’Avila, Marley Magalhães, João Henrique da Silva, Tarcísio Sérgio Andrade, Marcos Aurélio Góes (Saffran Group), Carlos Alberto Corato Gabriel (Vale) – Brazil

09:20 – 09:45
EVALUATION OF NEW POSSIBILITIES OF UTILIZATION OF MANGANESE ORE AND IRON ORE IN THE DIRECT AND SMELTING REDUCTION PROCESSES
Karla Ohler-Martins (ThyssenKrupp Steel AG, Germany ), Elena Jipnang Njamen, Dieter Senk, Heinrich-Wilhelm Gudenau (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), José Carlos D’Abreu (PUC-Rio., Brazil)

09:45 – 10:10
REDUCTION BEHAVIOR OF CHROMITE CARBON COMPOSITE PELLETS, AT TEMPERATURE OF 1873K
Adolfo Pillihuaman Zambrano, Cyro Takano, Alberto Eloy Anduze Nogueira,
Tiago Ramos Ribeiro, Marcelo Breda Mourão (University of São Paulo, Brazil)

10:10 – 10:40 – Coffee-break sponsored by ENFIL
  

10:40 – 11:05
REDUCTION OF ZINC FERRITE CONTAINED IN STEELMAKING DUSTS BY CO - CO2  GAS MIXTURES
Mery Cecilia Gómez Marroquín, José Carlos D’Abreu, Hélio Marques Kohler (PUC-Rio, Brazil)

11:05 – 11:30
IRON & STEEL MAKING FOR NICHES QUALITY PRODUCTS
Christian Bartels v. Varnbüler, Michael Lemperle, H.-Jaan Rachner (Kuettner GmbH & Co. KG, Germany)


23/9/08 – MORNING – LUÍS DE CAMÕES II ROOM
ENVIRONMENT

08:30 – 08:55
INFLUENCE OF ADDING IRON-STEEL WASTE MATERIALS  ON HOT METAL QUALITY
Fernando Vernilli, Eduardo Saito, Maxwell Pereira Cangani (Engineering School of Lorena – EEL/USP), Sidiney Nascimento Silva, Vinicius Franco Nascimento (CSN), Elson Longo (CMDMC/UNESP) 

08:55 – 09:20
BINDING PROPERTIES OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF IRONMAKING SLAGS
Vsévolod Mymrin (Russian Academy of natural Sciences, Moscow, Russia), Ronaldo Belinovski Ferreira, Ramon Cortez Paredes, Haroldo Araújo Ponte, (Federal University of Paraná, Brazil)


09:20 – 09:45
IRONMAKING SLAG – NATURAL SOILS INTERACTION DURING ROAD BASE CONSTRUCTION
Vsévolod Mymrin (Russian Academy of natural Sciences, Moscow, Russia),
Ronaldo Belinovski Ferreira, Ramon Cortez Paredes, Haroldo Araújo Ponte
(Federal University of Paraná, Brazil)

09:45 – 10:10
REDUCTION IN EMISSION LEVELS IN SINTER PLANTS WITH LÜHR CONDITIONING ROTOR – RECYCLE PROCESS FOR PARTICLES (ALKALINES), DIOXINS/FURANS, SOx, HEAVY METALS
Ruediger Margraf (LÜHR FILTER GmbH & Co., Germany), Patrick Pottie (Kuttner do Brasil, Brazil)

10:10 – 10:40 – Coffee-break sponsored by ENFIL
  

REFRACTORY TECHNOLOGY AND APPLICATION


10:40 – 11:05
MAIN RUNNERS COOLED BY FORCED AIR: EXPERIENCE TERNIUM PLANT GENERAL SAVIO
Pablo Marinelli, Juan J. Mirabelli, Darío Beltrán, Oscar D. Gómez (Ternium Planta General Savio), Silvia Camelli, María J. Rimoldi (Instituto Argentino de Siderurgia) – Argentina 

11:05 – 11:30
OLIVINE AS SLAG CONDITIONER IN IRONMAKING, AND ITS EFFECT ON PROCESSING CHARACTERISTICS AND CO2-EMISSION
Steinar Slagnes (North Cape Minerals AS,  Norway), Lena Sundqvist Ökvist (Mefos, Sweden)

11:30 – 11:55
REFRACTORY LINING IN PELLETIZING FURNACES MAINTENANCE PHILOSOPHY - Robson Luis Alves Silva (Athenas Isolantes Consultancy, Brazil)

11:55 – 12:20
BLAST FURNACE TROUGH AND RUNNERS: TECHNIQUES FOR MINIMIZING THE WORKING LINING OXIDATION PROCESS
Douglas Fernando Galesi, Carlos Ferreira Leão, Wiliam Alves, Ricardo Vicente Azevedo,  Eudes Mendes (Saint-Gobain do Brasil)

12:20 – 14:00 – LUNCH sponsored by CERÂMICA SAFFRAN
  

23/9/08 – AFTERNOON – LUÍS DE CAMÕES I ROOM
Auxiliary injections in blast furnace

14:00 – 14:25
CONSUMPTION OF COALS AND CHARCOAL BY SECONDARY REACTIONS AT THEIR INJECTION INTO BLAST FURNACES
J. Machado, J. Pohlmann, E. Osório, A. Vilela (UFRGS, Brazil), A. Babich, D. , Senk, H.-W. Gudenau (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

14:25 – 14:50
EVALUATION OF THE MIXTURE OF MINERAL COAL AND TIRES FOR ITS INJECTION INTO THE BLAST FURNACE TUYERES
Fernando de Freitas Siqueira, Weslei Viana Gabriel, Fabrício César de Mendonça Cordeiro, Felipe Gustavo de Faria Pinto, Paulo Santos Assis (UFOP, Brazil)

14:50 – 15:15
EFFECT OF BLENDING PET-COKE ON COMBUSTION CHARACTERISTICS OF PCI COALS
Trilochan Gill, Sushil Gupta, Veena Sahjawalla  (Centre for Sustainable Materials Research & Technology, The University of New South Wales-UNSW) – Australia

15:15 – 15:40
18 MONTHS OF CHARCOAL FINES’ INJECTION INTO GUSA NORDESTE’S BLAST FURNACES
Ricardo Nascimento (Ferroeste Group), Alessandro Almeida, Eliardo Oliveira, Adriano de Jesus (Gusa Nordeste), Ricardo Luchese de Moraes (Consultant), Daniel Joseph Anderson (Clyde Materials Handling) – Brazil 

15:40 – 16:10 – Coffee-break sponsored by ENFIL
  

16:10 – 16:35
EVALUATION OF USE OF MIXTURES OF SUGAR CANE BAGASSE WITH CHARCOAL INTO THE TUYERES OF BLAST FURNACES
Janaína Solvelino Brum, Eric Rafael dos Reis, Natália Carolina da Silveira, Thiago Lucas da Silva, Paulo Santos Assis (UFOP, Brazil)

16:35 – 17:00
EFFECT OF THE TYPE OF COAL INJECTED IN THE BLAST FURNACE TUYERES ON THE FUEL-RATE
Mauro Vivaldino Fernandes (USIMINAS), Varadarajan Seshadri (UFMG) - Brazil


17:00 – 17:25
EVALUATION OF THE USE OF MIXTURES OF CHARCOAL AND RICE RIND FOR ITS INJECTION IN THE TUYERES OF BLAST FURNACES
Luiz Felippe Teles Ribeiro, Carolina das Graças Graciano Guimarães,                                                                                                    Hugo Linhares Mendes, Paulo Santos Assis  (UFOP, Brazil)

17:25 – 17:50
HOT OXYGEN INJECTION – INCREASING PCI (POWDER COAL INJECTION) RATE IN BLAST-FURNACES - HOT OXYGEN INJECTION FOR BLAST FURNACES
Pedro Athias Zagury (White Martins, Brazil)



23/9/08 – AFTERNOON – LUCY TEIXEIRA ROOM

Refractory and Sintering technology

14:00 – 14:25
RELINING HOT BLAST STOVE #1 OF COMPANHIA SIDERÚRGICA NACIONAL (CSN) BLAST FURNACE # 2
Sidiney Nascimento Silva, Oscar Rosa Marques, Ecy Cardoso Romão, Renata Costa Pereira, Giancarlo Sterhling Barbosa, Waldir Benedito da Costa, Jorge Roberto Reis de Oliveira (CSN, Brazil)

14:25 – 14:50
IMPROVEMENT OF THERMOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF ALUMINA-CARBON-SILICON CARBIDE REFRACTORY MATERIALS USED IN TORPEDO CARS
Achiles Tolomei Souza dos Santos, Augusto Celso Amoedo, Benicio Miranda, Eduardo José Togni Cardillo, Taner Augusto Maia (Togni S/A, Brazil)

14:50 – 15:15
INFLUENCE OF COOLING ON THE PHASES DEVELOPMENT IN INDUSTRIAL SÍNTER
Soledad Oreggioni, Silvina Ramos (IAS-Argentine Iron and Steel Institute), Pedro Etchevarne, Ariel Rapetto (Ternium Siderar) – Argentina

15:15 – 15:40
DIAGNOSTIC STUDY AND CAMPAIGN LIFE EXTENTION OF COMPANHIA SIDERÚRGICA NACIONAL (CSN) # 2 BLAST FURNACE HOT BLAST STOVES
Sidiney Nascimento Silva, Oscar Rosa Marques, Giancarlo Sterhling Barbosa (CSN), Fernando Vernilli Junior ( Engineering School of Lorena – EEL/USP), Elson Longo (CMDMC/UNESP) – Brazil 


15:40 – 16:10 – Coffee-break sponsored by ENFIL  

16:10 – 17:00 Invited Lecture: ARCELORMITTAL : EXPANSION PLAN

17:00 – 17:25
DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF HIGH RADIATIVE COATING TECHNOLOGY IN BF HOT STOVE
Huiming ZHOU (Shandong Huiming Science & Technology Co. Ltd.), Daqiang CANG, Yanbing ZONG, Hao BAI, Zhigang DAN (University of Science and Technology Beijing) – China
 

17:25 – 17:50
POST MORTEM STUDY OF THE HEARTH CARBON REFRACTORIES OF TERNIUM BLAST FURNACE # 2
Maria José Rimoldi, Silvia Camelli, Adrián Vázquez (Instituto Argentino de Siderurgia), Pablo Marinelli, Enrique Doro, Juan J. Mirabelli (Ternium Planta General Savio) – Argentina 

23/9/08 – AFTERNOON – LUÍS DE CAMÕES II ROOM
Control and automation, simulation, mathematical modeling and fundamentals

14:00 – 14:25

IMPROVING IRON MAKING PROCESSES WITH MULTIVARIABLE PREDICTIVE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY
Garry Lee, Neil Freeman (Honeywell Process Solution, USA)

14:25 – 14:50
MODELING THE MINI BLAST FURNACE PROCESS BASED ON SELF-REDUCING AGGLOMERATES
José Adilson de Castro, Franciene Teixeira de Souza, Alexandre José da Silva (Federal Fluminense University, Brazil)

14:50 – 15:15
BLAST FURNACE HEARTH MULTIDIMENSIONAL WEARING MODEL
Henrique Guilherme Lucas Bastos (Gerdau Açominas), Luiz Fernando Andrade de Castro (UFMG) – Brazil

15:15 – 15:40
TRANSPARENT ONLINE TRACKING AND PLANNING IN MATERIALS HANDLING PLANTS
Dieter Wild (Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Germany)

15:40 – 16:10 – Coffee-break sponsored by ENFIL 


16:10 – 16:35
THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF CORIOLIS FORCE ON THE TRAJECTORY OF BURDEN FLOW FOR BELL-LESS TOP BF
WU Shengli (University of Science and Technology BeiJing, School of Metallurgical and Ecological Engineering. Baosteel Research Institute (R&D Center), China), CHEN Hu, YU Xiaobo, XU Jian (Baosteel Research Institute (R&D Center), China), Dauter Oliveira (Vale, Brazil)

16:35 – 17:00
SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF PROCESSES TECHNOLOGY FOR BRAZILIAN STEELMAKING: COMPANIES THAT ARE ALREADY USING IT & PANEL OF THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS
Alain de Norman et d’Audenhove, Michel d’Audenhove, Marcelo Fugihara (Belge Engenharia e Simulação)


17:00 – 17:50
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Pinakin Chaubal (ArcelorMittal)
The challenges for Sustainable Ironmaking at ArcelorMittal


Cocktail Party sponsored by PAUL WURTH DO BRASIL 


24/9/08 – MORNING – LUÍS DE CAMÕES I ROOM
II Panel on Pig Iron Industry – Independent Producers

08:30 - 08:40 - Opening Session

08:40 - 09:00 - Opening Lecture 
                      Paulino Cícero de Vasconcelos
                      (ASIBRAS and SINDIFER President)

09:00 - 09:20 - Carbon Credits 
                       Fabiana Fonseca
                       (Siemens and  member of ABM Technical Division on 
                        Ironmaking)

09:20 - 09:40 - The forest base for the sustainable development           
                       Rodrigo K Valladares
                       (Viena Siderúrgica and  member of ABM Technical Division
                        on Ironmaking)

09:40 - 10:00 - The route for the auto sufficiency in raw materials       
                       Gustavo Trindade Correa
                       (Vetorial Siderurgia)

10:00 - 10:20 - Coffee Break sponsored by INBRÁS-ERIEZ

10:20 - 10:40 - The Financing for Reforestation
                       Luiz Vitor Constant de Almeida
                       (BNDES: Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico 
                        e Social)

10:40 - 11:00 - Aspects that Relate the Use and Production of 
                            Charcoal with Reforestation
                      Sergio W. Garcia Scherer
                      (Minitec and  member of ABM Technical Division on 
                       Ironmaking)

11:00 - 11:20 - Coke and Mini Blast Furnaces
                      Henrique Carlos Pfeifer
                      (Minitec)  

11:20 - 11:40 - Experience in the importation and partial coke use 
                            in mini high ovens
                      Paulo Afonso Gomes (Grupo Queiroz Galvão) and Juarez 
                      Linhares (Viena Siderúrgica)

11:40 - 11:50 - Technicals Divisions on Ironmaking and Mineral 
                            Technology homage to Prof. José Carlos D’Abreu
 
                       (PUC-Rio)

11:50 - 12:40 - DEBATE

12:40 – 14:00 - LUNCH sponsored by CYBERTÉCNICA

24/9/08 – AFTERNOON – LUÍS DE CAMÕES I ROOM
Technological trends and new processes


14:00 – 14:25
DEVELOPMENT AND CURRENT STATUS OF THE COREX® PROCESS WITH SPECIAL FOCUS ON COREX BAOSTEEL
D. Siuka, J. Schenk, C. Böhm (Siemens VAI Metals, Austria)

14:25 – 14:50
AN UPDATE ON FINEX® PLANT OPERATIONS
Hoo-Geun Lee, Sanghoon Joo, Myoung-Kyun Shin (Posco,  Korea)


14:50 – 15:40
KEYNOTE SPEAKER : Heinrich Wilhelm Gudenau
                             (Aachen University, Germany)
                             Aspects of Iron making research at IEHK

15:40 – 16:10 – Coffee-break sponsored by INBRÁS-ERIEZ
 

16:10 – 16:35
TECHNICAL PROGRESS IN NORTH AMERICAN IRONMAKING
Frederick C. Rorick (Rorick, Inc.) Joseph J. Poveromo (ArcelorMittal Mines Canada) – Canada
 

16:35 - 17:00
INVITED LECTURER: JOSÉ HENRIQUE NOLDIN JÚNIOR 
                                   (TECNO-LOGOS, BRAZIL)
TECNORED IRONMAKING – FROM DEMONSTRATION TO LARGE SCALE PLANTS
José Henrique Noldin Júnior, Ian J. Cox, Marcos A. Contrucci

17:00 – 17:25
INVITED LECTURER: STEPHAN WEBER (RIO TINTO)
THE HISMELT PROCESS - THE KWINANA PLANT OPERATION 
    
17:25 – 17:50
KEYNOTE: Hans Bodo Lüngen / Helmut Schulte
               (VDEh/ThyssenKrupp, Germany)
Actual Status and Future Aspects of Coke and Ironmaking in Europe


24/9/08 – AFTERNOON – LUÍS DE CAMÕES II ROOM
Coal, cokemaking and by-products


14:00 – 14:25
INVITED LECTURER: GARY LEE (MACARTHUR COAL, AUSTRALIA)

PERSPECTIVES FOR LONGER TERM METALLURGICAL COAL SUPPLY FROM QUEENSLAND

14:25 – 14:50
STUDY CONCERNING THE INFLUENCE OF ADDING BIOMASS AND INCREASING THE COAL BLENDING BULK DENSITY OVER THE QUALITY OF HARD COKE PRODUCED IN THE PILOT COKING OVEN
Agenor Medrado da Silva, Andre Tarcizo de Oliveira, Swami Botelho Medrado (CSN), Paulo Roberto de Oliveira (Ecobriquetes Reciclagem) – Brazil

14:50 – 15:15
TECHNOLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF COALS FOR COKE PLANTS
Odilon José da Silva, Poliana Cristina Araújo, Nayara Franciele Silva, Fernando Bueno Guerra, Paulo Santos Assis (UFOP, Brazil)

15:40 – 16:10 – Coffee-break sponsored by INBRÁS-ERIEZ  

Control and automation, simulation, mathematical modeling and fundamentals

16:10 – 16:35
OPTIMIZING THE SCHEDULING OF TORPEDO CARS TO FEED STEELMAKING WITH HOT METAL
Denise Araújo Gomes, Renato Froes (V&M do Brasil S/A) , Gilberto de Miranda Júnior Mauricio Cardoso de Souza, Fábio Lucas Carneiro de Moura, Gustavo Gabriel Santos Sobrinho, Henrique Oliveira e Rocha, Leandro Guimarães Duca (UFMG)

16:35 – 17:00

THE PRACTICES ON THE INTEGRATIVE SYSTEM WHICH INCLUDE AUTOMATIC CONTROL AND MES OF IRONMAKING IN BAOSTEEL
Yang Guangfu (Baosteel/CSV, Brazil)

17:00 – 17:25
COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION OF FLUIDIZED BED COAL COMBUSTOR BY A 3D FLUID DYNAMICS TRANSIENT MODEL
Anderson Willian de Souza Baltazar, José Adilson de Castro, Alexandre José da Silva (EEIMVR/UFF, Brazil)

17:25 – 17:50
BI-FACTORIAL ANALYSIS OF THE REDUCTION PROCESS IN IRON BLAST-FURNACES
Fernando Tadeu Pereira de Medeiros, Sérgio Sodré da Silva (Universidade Federal Fluminense), Ana Maria Frattini Fileti (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) – Brazil 

DINER sponsored by Siemens-VAI
 

25/9/08 – MORNING – LUÍS DE CAMÕES I ROOM
Sintering technology


08:30 – 08:55
REDUCTION OF DUST FROM SINTER PLANTS
Mads Kirk Larsen (FLSmidth Airtech, Denmark)

08:55 – 09:20
IMPROVEMENT OF DRUM MIXER ABILITY FOR THE BETTER AGGLOMERATION OF RAW MATERIALS
Byung Jun Chung (Posco, Korea)

09:20 – 09:45
EVOLUTION OF COSIPA’S SINTER PLANT Nº3  PRODUCTIVITY
Ulisses Tetti, Miguel Rume Neto (COSIPA/SISTEMA USIMINAS, Brazil)


09:45 – 10:10
BENCH-SCALE MICROPELLETIZING TESTS OF SINTERING MIXTURES
Efrem Martins Ribeiro, Raimundo Nonato Batista Braga, Wander de Oliveira Borges, Aércio Januzzi (ArcelorMittal Monlevade, Brazil)

10:10 – 10:40 – Coffee-break  sponsored by Calorisol

10:40 – 11:05
MICROSTRUCTURE AND REDUCTIBILITY OF TWO MANGANESE ORES AND SINTER PRODUCED FROM THEM
Gisele Buaszczyk, Daniela Marquesini Silva, Anna Zymla, Victor Zymla (École Centrale Paris, France)  
     

11:05 – 11:30
DEDUSTING SYSTEM FOR ARCELORMITTAL MONLEVADE SINTERING PLANT’S PRIMARY MIXER – JOÃO MONLEVADE PLANT: A PIONEER APPLICATION
Hideo Kimura, Marcelo Ozawa, Jairo Rocha da Costa (ENFIL), Raimundo Nonato Batista Braga, Geraldo Eustáquio da Silva, Ronaldo Carlos da Silva
Carlos Eduardo de Souza (ArcelorMittal Monlevade) – Brazil 

11:30 – 11:55
INTEGRATED PROJECT TO INCREASE THE ARCELORMITTAL TUBARÃO SINTER MACHINE PRODUCTIVITY
Antonio Marcos Maximiano Ferreira, Edson Luiz M Harano, Marcos Antonio Alves Medeiros, João Bosco Mendes, Roney Gonçalves Rezende (ArcelorMittal Tubarão, Brazil)

11:55 – 12:20
A NEW DESIGN OF FURNACE FOR INTRODUCTION OF CURTAIN FLAME IGNITION SYSTEM FOR SINTER IGNITION IN SINTER PLANT
A.K.Bhattacharya, P.Chintaiah, T.S.Reddy, P.K.Tripathy, L.Tiwari, D.P.Chakraborty, J.Singh (SAIL-Steel Authority of India)

12:20 – 14:00 - LUNCH

25/9/08 – MORNING – LUÍS DE CAMÕES II ROOM                                     
Control and automation, simulation, mathematical modeling and fundamentals


08:30 – 08:55
STUDIES AND APPLICATIONS OF DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD AGAINST BLAST FURNACE
Taihei Nouchi ,  Akinori Murao, Takeshi Sato, Michitaka Sato, Kanji Takeda (JFE Steel Corporation,  Japan)

08:55 – 09:20
THE NEW POWER DISTRIBUTION SUPERVISORY SYSTEM OF ARCELORMITTAL TUBARÃO
Lorena Donati Zanchetta, Fernando Dummer Silva, Willye Bonfá de Lima,
Sávio Marcos Alfano, Fabio Luiz Valle (ArcelorMittal Tubarão, Brazil)


09:20 – 09:45
IMPROVING BF OPERATION THROUGH SACHEM® (INTELLIGENT SUPERVISION SYSTEM) AND PROCESS OPTIMIZATION MODELS
Claude Thirion (Paul Wurth, Luxembourg), Gianluca Odicino, Piergiorgio Fontana (Paul Wurth, Italy)

09:45 – 10:10
CHARCOAL BLAST FURNACES PERFORMANCE MONITORING IN CORPORATE SYSTEMS
Giovanni Felice Salierno, Alexandre Fonseca e Silva, Francisco Javier Alvarado Águila, Mário Cesar Pinto Peraça (AST KÜTTNER, Brazil)

10:10 – 10:40 – Coffee-break sponsored by Calorisol

Auxiliary injections in blast furnace

10:40 – 11:05
NATURAL GAS AND COAL INJECTION TECHNOLOGY FOR BRAZILIAN BLAST FURNACES
A. Babich, H.-W. Gudenau, D. Senk (RWTH, Germany)
J. Machado, E. Osório, A. Vilela (UFRGS, Brazil)

11:05 – 11:30
COAL INJECTION SYSTEM FOR 2 BLAST FURNACES – NOVEL CONCEPT AND OPERATIONAL PRACTICE
Arno Habermann, Elmar F. Schuster, Christian Bartels von Varnbüler (Voestalpine Stahl Donawitz GmbH&CoKG,  Austria)

11:30 – 11:55
EVALUATION OF THE USE OF ALTERNATIVE FUELS IN MIXTURES OF MINERAL COALS FOR INJECTION IN THE BLAST FURNACE
Henriquison Magela Bottrel Reis, Mauro Vivaldino Fernandes, Afonso Henrique Pinto (USIMINAS, Brazil)

11:55 – 12:20
DEVELOPMENT OF COMBUSTION AND ASH BEHAVIOR OF PULVERIZED COALS INJECTED IN ARCELORMITTAL TUBARÃO BLAST FURNACES
Jorge Isamu Gushiken, Mauro Correa da Silva, Ricardo Jose Tauffer Barros,
Roberto da Cruz Junior, Roney Rezende (ArcelorMittal Tubarão), Eduardo Osório, Maurício  Bagatini (UFRGS) – Brazil 

12:20 – 14:00 - LUNCH


25/9/08 – AFTERNOON – LUÍS DE CAMÕES I ROOM 
Coal, cokemaking and by-products
                                   
14:00 – 14:25
QUANTIFICATION OF COAL RECEIVED: A RESOLVED PROBLEM ?
EVALUATION OF COAL MEASUREMENTS METHODS USED TODAY
Andrea Torrealba (Woodtech S.A., Chile)



14:25 – 14:50
PARAMETERS OF THE COKEMAKING PROCESS CONTROL
Luiz Cláudio Costa (COSIPA/SISTEMA USIMINAS), Francisco Javier, Ramirez-Fernandez (USP University) – Brazil


14:50 – 15:15
STRATEGIC COKE BATTERY MAINTENANCE PROVIDES BATTERY LIFE EXTENSION
Ernest D. Goffi, Richard A. Randolph (Fosbel Inc., USA), Peter D.Kerr (Fosbel, Brazil)


15:15 – 15:40
A CHARCOAL PRODUCTION AND COLLECTION SYSTEM THROUGH A PROPOSED COOPERATIF METHOD
Paulo César da Costa Pinheiro (UFMG), Ronaldo Santos Sampaio (RS Consultants) - Brazil

15:40 – 16:10 – Coffee-break sponsored by Calorisol

16:10 – 16:35
PRODUCTION OF PETCOKE AT REFINARIA DO NORDESTE
Luiz G. de Medeiros, Hedewandro A. Lucredi, Francisco Carlos da C. Barros, José Mauro B. Cabral (Petrobras, Brazil) 


16:35 – 17:00
STUDY OF CANDIOTA MINE DRY COAL PROCESSING
C.H. Sampaio, W. Aliaga, E.T. Pacheco, E. Petter (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), H. Wotruba (Technical University of Aachen, Germany)


17:00 – 17:25
SOLID FUEL SYSTEM OF ARCELORMITTAL TUBARÃO
Marco Antonio de Souza Mayrink, Ebenezer Silva de Oliveira, Luis Gustavo Ferrão (ATAN Sistemas), Luiz Afonso de Andrade, Gilmar de Oliveira Dornelas (ArcelorMittal Tubarão) – Brazil


17:25 – 17:50
REACTIVITY OF COKE USED IN THE ELECTRIC FURNACE FOR FERROALLOYS PRODUCTION
Fernando Lucas Gonçalves e Oliveira, Victor Zymla (École Centrale Paris, France), Nelson Jannotti (Vale, Brazil)


25/9/08 – AFTERNOON – LUÍS DE CAMÕES II ROOM
Blast Furnace and Auxiliary injections


14:00 – 14:25
OPERATION OF THE BLAST FURNACE N.3 CSN WITH HIGH RATES OF COAL INJECTION
André José de Souza Monsôres, Agenor Medrado da Silva, Heracliton Antonio Fernandes, Sebastião Jorge Xavier Noblat, Francisco Nobrega de Aguiar  (CSN, Brazil)


14:25 – 14:50
INSTALLATION OF A ‘STATE OF THE ART’ SLAG GRANULATION PLANT
Martin Smith (Siemens VAI Metals, United Kingdom), Fabiana Fonseca (Siemens VAI, Brazil)

14:50 – 15:40
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Koen Meijer (Tata-Corus)
ULCOS - The European initiative to reduce CO2 emissions from steelmaking

15:40 – 16:10 – Coffee-break sponsored by Calorisol

16:10 – 16:35
REDUCTION IN THE COKE-RATE AT CSN´S BLAST FURNACES BY DECREASING THE PULVERISED COAL MOISTURE CONTENT
Ricardo Sebastião Nadur Motta, Carlos Hilton Zanetti, José de Souza Filho, Alcides José Lucena Silva, Valmir Soares de Carvalho, Leandro Nonato Vianna (CSN, Brazil)

16:35 – 17:00
KEY DESIGN ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH LARGE BLAST FURNACES
Martin Smith (Siemens VAI Metals, United Kingdom), Fabiana Fonseca (Siemens VAI, Brazil)


17:00 – 17:25
SUCCESSFUL BLOW-IN OF ESSAR STEEL ALGOMA’S BLAST FURNACE 7
Lorne Jones, Diana Vanmarrum, Jonathan Tuomi, Peter Kuuskman (Essar Steel Algoma Inc.), Alex Krasavtsev, Kelly Quigley, J. Barry Hyde, Ian Cameron (Hatch) – Canada

17:25 – 17:50
DEVELOPMENT OF A MEASUREMENT SYSTEM OF BLAST FLOW RATE IN THE TUYERE BREAST IN ARCELORMITTAL MONLEVADE BLAST FURNACE A
Fabiano Cristeli de Andrade, Arilson de Oliveira Mol, Carlos Roberto Gomes, Fabiano Harley Araújo, Seleme Marlon Benício Dias, Márcio Inácio dos Anjos, Rodrigo Junqueira dos Santos (ArcelorMittal Monlevade), Roberto Parreiras Tavares (UFMG) – Brazil 

17:50 – 18:00 : CLOSING REMARKS : LUÍS DE CAMÕES II ROOM

Registration Fees   (registrations in advance until 17/09/08)

In Reais
http://www.abmbrasil.com.br/seminarios/ironmaking/2008/inscricao/inscricao.asp
In Dollars
http://www.abmbrasil.com.br/seminarios/ironmaking/2008/inscricao/registration.asp

Fees for the conference and for the courses shall be known below:
    
Category          Conference R$ / US$     Course     Conference + Course 
Non ABM/AIST          R$ 1.750               R$ 950               R$ 2.320  
member                   US$ 1000              US$ 600             US$ 1360  
                           
Non ABM/AIST          R$ 1.400               R$ 950                R$ 1.970 
member                   US$ 870                US$ 600             US$ 1160
presenting paper
           
ABM/AIST member     R$ 1.100               R$ 600               R$ 1.460  
                              US$ 720               US$ 400             US$ 860  

ABM/AIST member 
presenting paper        R$ 800                 R$ 600               R$ 1.160  
                              US$ 520               US$ 400             US$ 680  

Junior ABM member         R$ 300                 --------          --------  

SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION 
Simultaneous translation English / Portuguese / English will be available.

AWARDS
The published and presented papers of ABM members in the event will be awarded by: 

• Vale 
   Ironmaking preparing  

• Intendente Câmara – USIMINAS
   Ironmaking  

• MULTISERV LTDA. 
   Economic value recovering of metal residues spawned in siderurgy  

• SAMARCO MINERAÇÃO S.A.
   Extraction and processing of iron ore  

• SIEMENS-VAI
   Environment

HELD BY
ABM - Associação Brasileira de Metalurgia e Materiais
(Brazilian Association of Metallurgy and Materials )

HOST

Vale

ORGANIZATION
ABM Events Management 

SUPERVISION
Technical Division on Ironmaking
Director: Miguel Angelo da Gama Bentes (BAOSTEEL/CSV))
Vice Director: José Henrique Noldin Júnior (TECNO-LOGOS)

GENERAL INFORMATION
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Tel.: +55 11 5534 4333, ext. 119 - Fax : +55 11 5534 4330

Marli Ferreira
marli@abmbrasil.com.br
Tel.: +55 11 5534 4333, ext. 175 - Fax : +55 11 5534-4330























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