Towards a sustainable future with green steel

Steel sector in transition

A circular, CO22-neutral and high-tech steel sector in 2050: that’s the mission of the consortium ‘Groeien met Groen Staal’. Dutch universities, research institutes and industrial parties will jointly develop new technologies for an accelerated transition towards green steel.

We choose an integrated approach, with attention for both technological innovations throughout the entire value chain, and for the required societal changes. We are striving to become the internationally recognized technological lead, while staying economically competitive.

Themes

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System change: The transition towards green and high-qualitative steel requires alignment of technological, economical, societal and political issues. This theme focuses on the availability and scalability of technologies, the cooperation within the value chain and the required contextual conditions.

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Production: Decarbonisation, waste- and emission-free production and circularity demand for technological innovations. Among other things, we investigate the use of hydrogen in production as well as application of electric melting technologies, as well as maximum scrap recycling, with the goal of producing high-quality green steel.

III

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Processing: A new production process leads to a different composition of steel, with consequences for its processing. Steel will behave differently: this must find its resonance in new processing technologies to continue to guarantee high-quality products.

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Use: Green steel will have different properties, with consequences in the use phase. This requires research into various aspects such as hardness, strength, ductility, fatigue, corrosion resistance, service life, and so on.

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Recovery: Optimal recovery depends on the composition of steel scrap. Research into the possibilities for increasing scrap utilization and preventing loss of quality is the focus of this theme.

News / Agenda

Positive advice

On June 30th, the Nationaal Groeifonds committee gave a positive advice for the granting of the Groeien met Groen Staal (Growing with Green Steel) proposal. This programme is a plan to make the Dutch steel sector more sustainable by 2030,…

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Team

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eindhoven university of technology
utwente
rugr
tno
nhl stenden
universiteitleiden
universiteitutrecht
nova college
avans hogeschool
insumma
mpie
philips
bosch
tata steel
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bouwen met staal
nedschroef
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nof
fn steel
sgs
arn
ke works
dillinger
ex mente
cmt
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alleima
researchable
devcontrol
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Contact

Please contact us if you have any questions or are interested in the Groeien met Groen Staal project. Mail your question via info@groeienmetgroenstaal.nl.