Themes

Asset life cycle (studies, technical specification, procurement, maintainability, improvements and disposal)

Asset management (ISO 55000 / Risk Management)

Automation, simulation, modeling, specific consumption, quality, maintenance and cost optimization in ironmaking

Automation, simulation, modeling, specific consumption, quality, maintenance and cost optimization in ore agglomeration

Blast furnace ironmaking

Cargo monitoring technology

Ceramic materials

Chemical reagents for the mining industry

Coke Plant, by-products and Carbonization

Composite materials

Condition-based maintenance

Contract management

Conventional and alternative steelmaking reductants: mineral coal, charcoal, natural gas, PCI and others

Corrosion

Direct reduction and DRI/HBI production

Electric power generation, distribution and sales

Electric Steelworks

Energy efficiency as a tool to reduce GHG emissions

Energy efficiency programs and projects

Energy planning with a focus on energy mix optimization

Environment Management

Environmental control and rational use of energy in ironmaking

Environmental control and rational use of energy in ore agglomeration

Ferrous metal products

Foundry

Gas analyzers and instrumentation

Geometallurgy

Heat treatment

I4.0 (Data analysis and Big Data; Robotics; Simulation; Vertical and horizontal integration systems; Internet of things (IOT); Cyber safety; Cloud computing; Additive manufacturing; Augmented reality)

Innovation and knowledge management

Innovation in the mining industry

Innovations in industrial gas production process and consumption control

Instrumentation (Conventional, Analytical, Special; SIS)

Iron ore agglomeration: sintering, pelletizing and briquetting

IT/AT business solutions and tools (MES, LIMS, PIMS, ERP, SCM, CRM, APS, MMS, WMS, EH&S and Energy & Utilities Management)

IT/AT Governance (GRC; Project Management; Performance Analysis; Benchmarking)

Lubrication management

Mine exploration and operation

Mining and exploration geology

Mining process control and simulation

MPSC - Maintenance Planning, Scheduling and Control

Nanotechnology

New maintenance technologies

New water treatment technologies and water reuse in the industry

Non-ferrous metal products

Non-Ferrous Metallurgy

Occupational safety and health management

Optimization of Supply Chain Processes

Optimization systems (stochastic; Deterministic; Computational (AI))

Ore dressing and processing

Other issues in ironmaking

Other metallurgical processes

Other ore dressing processes

Oxygen Steelmaking

Physical metallurgy and material behavior at high temperatures

Polymers

Port/Navigation Technology

Powder metallurgy

Process development with a focus on cost reduction and efficiency

Quality management

R&D, innovation and new technologies in ironmaking

R&D, innovation and new technologies in ore agglomeration

Railroad Technology

Reliability

Road Technology: Legislation monitoring

Root Cause and Failure Analysis (RCFA)

Secondary Refining of Steel

Shape-memory materials

Shared Logistics Solutions

Solidification and Casting of Metals

Spare parts / inventory management

Storage Technology: Automated Warehouses, RFID, Virtual Reality, among others

Surface engineering

Tailings disposal and environmental aspects in the mining industry

Technological innovations in energy and utilities

Thermal, wind and solar energy for optimized energy mix

Thermodynamic and phase diagrams applied to material processing development

Transportation and supply logistics in the mining industry

Tribology

Undergraduate Research

Use of air gases for increased productivity at lower costs

Welding