Stahlinstitut VDEh https://vdeh.de/en/steel-academy/seminars/programme/seminar/ – 14.09.2026

Technical Chairman

Jochen Schlüter

Seminar's target

Europe wants to become climate-neutral by 2050 and already save 55% of greenhouse gases by 2030 compared to 1990. The EU Climate Act sets these targets in law for the first time. For large parts of the European steel industry, these targets mean a far-reaching technological change. The technical solution has been found and is: Replace coal with hydrogen! But how does the new process route work in detail? What are the challenges? In three days, the seminar will provide a technical overview of the biggest technology change in the steel industry for decades.

Content

• Future role and availability of steel scrap and DRI
• Technology of natural gas and hydrogen direct reduction
• Hydrogen as an atmosphere for refractory materials
• Electric arc furnace technologies (AC / DC)
  ► Excursus: EAF power supply
• Melting of DRI and HBI in the EAF
• Hydrogen production, storage and transport
• Slags of CO2 neutral steel production
• Decarbonisation of downstream processes: hydrogen burners
• From direct reduction to plasma smelting reduction
• Introduction to the the 3 new German direct reduction sites:
  • tkH2Steel in Duisburg: DR – smelter – converter
  • SALCOS in Salzgitter: DR – EAF
  • Power4steel in Dillingen: DR – EAF

Registration Fee

EUR 790,00* registration fee VAT-free plus
EUR 119,00 conference package (total amount 1.408,00 EUR)

EUR 890,00 registration fee VAT-free plus
EUR 119,00 conference package (total amount 1.608,00 EUR)

* for employees of member companies and individual members of the   Steel Institute VDEh. Scientific staff of universities gets a 50 % off
+++ as part of the VDEh youth development sponsorship young engineers (up to 28 years) of member companies receive a 50 % discount +++

Catering during seminar: 2 x Lunch, 1 x dinner, soft drinks, coffee, tea.  

A free withdrawal from the seminar is possible until two weeks prior to the start. Then, 25 % of the seminar fee must be paid.

Cancellation

A free with-drawal from the seminar is possible until two weeks prior to the start. Then, 25 % of the seminar fee must be paid. The total registration amount will be charged for no show or cancellation from the first day of the event. The participant has to bear the cancellation costs of the seminar hotel.

ORGANISATION / Registration

Steel Academy   Steel Institute VDEh
Sohnstraße 65     40237 Düsseldorf, Germany
Fon +49 (0)211 6707-478
event_at_vdeh.de   www.steel-academy.de

Venue

Steel Institute VDEh
Sohnstr. 65
40237 Düsseldorf
Germany

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