Process metallurgy Research unit

1. Process metallurgy Research unit

2. Process metallurgy Research unit Professorship since 1991 • Jouko Härkki, 1991-2010 • Timo Fabritius, 2010- Total 30 employees • Approximately half of them in post doc –positions Scientific publications • 25-35 articles annually (2015-18) • 2-3 doctoral degrees annually (2015-18) Professor Timo Fabritius making adjustments on the gas flow rates to the Blast furnace simulator (BFS).

3. Education(Bachelor-level) Learning outcomes • Part of general studies of process and environmental engineering • Focus on fundamentals, terminology, chemical equilbria as well as solid state structures and properties Courses • Introduction to process and environmental engineering, 5 ECTS • Thermodynamic equilibria, 5 ECTS • Solid inorganic materials, 5 ECTS Lecturer Eetu-Pekka Heikkinen explains the concept of eutectic equilibrium in binary phase diagrams.

4. Education(Master-level) Learning outcomes • Methodological skills required in Research & Development • Experiments, analyses • Phenomenon- and process-based modelling • Applied in the production and treatment of inorganic materials • Especially metals production (process metallurgy) • High temperature processes Courses (mostly in Finnish) • High temperature processes, 5 ECTS • High temperature chemistry, 5 ECTS • Exp. methods of high temperature research, 10 ECTS • Thermodynamic and process modelling in metallurgy and mineral processing, 5 ECTS • Current and future trends in metal production, 5 ECTS Students of metallurgy also study one supporting topic, e.g.: • Automation, chemical engineering, materials science and engineering, industrial management, mineral processing, etc.

5. Research Research topics • Metals production • Materials involved in metals production • Raw materials, products, by-products, waste, construction materials, etc. • Environmental issues of metals productions • High temperature processes and treatments in general Focus areas • Reductants and reduction metallurgy • e.g. iron production and bioreducers • Primary and secondary steelmaking metallurgy • e.g. modelling of steelmaking and stainless steelmaking processes • Circular economy and metallurgical processes • e.g. slag and dust valorisation • Advanced measurement and treatment technologies in metallurgy • e.g. utilisation of optical and microwave techniques

6. Research Research methods • Laboratory scale experiments • High temperature behavior of oxidic and metallic materials as well as reductants • Analyses of laboratory and industrial samples • Chemical and mineralogical compositions • Material structures • Modelling • Reaction modelling (CTD, kinetics) • Computational fluid dynamics • Phenomenon-based process modelling Research is heavily focused on the production of iron, steel and ferroalloys • Close co-operation with e.g. SSAB Europe and Outokumpu Stainless

7. Anne Hietava Reduction metallurgy FeCr production Aki Koskela Reduction metallurgy Bioreducers Tuomas Alatarvas Reaction modelling Inclusions Eetu-Pekka Heikkinen Education Reaction modelling Process metallurgy research unit Riku Mattila Laboratory facilities Tommi Kokkonen Laboratory facilities Kaisa Heikkinen Webmaster Mikko Iljana Reduction metallurgy BF burden materials Ville-Valtteri Visuri Process modelling Reaction modelling Primary and secondary steelmaking processes Henri Pauna Advanced measurements Aleksi Laukka High temperature oxidation Petri Sulasalmi CFD- and process modelling Primary and secondary steelmaking processes Professori Timo Fabritius Head of the unit