International Conference on energy and material efficiency and CO2 reduction in the steel industry

Date:  June 07, 2022

Time: 8:35 - 12:45

Place: Auditorium Gerdau

8:35 - Openning:

Horacidio Leal Barbosa Filho - Executive presidente - ABM - Brazil

José Noldin - Chairman 4th EMECR; Head CSN INOVA TECH Technology and Decarbonization - Brazil

José Carlos D’Abreu - Coordinator Scientific Comittee 4th EMECR - Emeritus Professor at PUC-RJ - Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

8:50 - EMECR's Host Company Speech:

Guilherme Abreu - General Manager of Institutional Relations and Sustainability - ArcelorMittal - Brazil

9:00 - Honoree and Lecture

Decarbonizing steel production: challenges and opportunities - Pinakin Chaubal - Group CTO - ArcelorMittal - USA

9:36 - Honoree and Lecture

Converting blast furnace to self-reduction smelting mode - Marcos Contrucci - Founder - Gavea Tech - Brazil

11:05 - Plenary Session:

Introduction: José Noldin - Chairman 4th EMECR; Head CSN INOVA TECH Technology and Decarbonization - Brazil

Aço Verde do Brazil is the world’s first carbon neutral steel plant - Ricardo Carvalho Nascimento - CEO Aço Verde do Brasil S/A - Brazil

Modelling the costs of a green transition for steel - Julia Attwood - Head of sustainable materials - Bloomberg Nef  - USA

Approaches to find the lowest cost & most reliable decarbonization pathway - Steve Potter - Director metallics - Vale - Brazil