SPIRE Brokerage event October 22 nd 2013 Project Idea Presentation SPIRE 6 – 2015 Energy and resource management systems for improved efficiency in the process industry

Organizations  ESTEP is the Steel Community's European Steel Technology Platform 2 THIS PROPOSAL IS PRESENTED BY ESTEP, ON BEHALF OF ITS MEMBERS ET AL; LISTED BELOW;

Project Idea Concept 3 Practical tools to implement efficient energy and resources networks management in EU process industry: Several assessment methodologies and tools (e.g. KPIs, LCA, etc..) are being tested and will also be investigated within other SPIRE calls ( e.g. SPIRE ): they provide metrics and methods to evaluate the different design solutions. Process industry ALSO needs practical tools to IMPLEMENT optimal and flexible exploitation of energy, water and by-products both inside their own facilities and through a cross-sectorial approach. holistic modeling tools must support a fast formulation of energy and materials flows whose efficiency needs to be optimized possibly on a cross-sectorial basis Different possibly counteracting factors (also time varying) need to be taken into account (technical, environmental, economic, ….)  a multi- objective optimization problem must be formulated and then solved

General objectives 4 Introducing the concept of „resources network“ develop a general-purpose approach and tool to model „resource networks“ (including energy) applicable to different resources within a single sector and at cross-sectorial level o tools for single resource (e.g. energy, off-gases, water) exist but often devoted to a particular industrial sector, thus unsuitable for application outside such sector and to model cross-sectorial exchanges and interactions o a single „carrier“ conveys different „resources“ (e.g. water can convey valuable by- products, water and by-products can have an energetic value) o the exploitation of process integration concepts need to be straightforward provide such tool with the possibility to formalize dynamic optimization problems accounting multiple different objectives and constraints provide (optional) links with monitoring system for real time operations select and implement suitable multi-objective optimization technique demonstrate the applicability of such tool on real applications (dealing with one or more resources) including both scenario analyses and case studies (final implementation of the selected solution can also be foreseen

Impact 5 „Expected outcomes for the SPIRE stakeholders“ for W2R taken from SPIRE Roadmap page 87f. Relevance to project idea Waste streams like BF slag, fly ashes and recycled end-of-life materials are valorised as secondary raw material. Addressed. By 2020 modeling tools and cross-sectorial databases for more holistic and systematic analysis of the viability of recycling opportunities developed Addressed: modelling of resource networks needs to embed holistic models to allow the evaluation of different solution and the implementation of optimization strategies Enlargement of waste heat recovery systems, specifically designed for different industrial sectors Indirectly adressed as energy flows optimization is considered Directly adressed if recovery of waste heat is adressed in one of the cases study More efficient water usage in water intensive process industries by fit-for-purpose and water cascade approaches, thus significantly improving the economic and environmental performance. Addressed New recycling business opportunities. Availability of selected raw materials improved. Less use of virgin materials,reduced footprints of production. Addressed. Recovery efficiency and process economy improved. Amounts of residues to landfill reduced. Indirectly adressed as improvement of by-products reuse is one of the objectives of the project. Directly adressed if recovery of landfilled material is one of the cases study Improved sustainability scores over the whole value chain due to more sustainable production Addressed Mature framework and methodology to realise cross-sectorial technology transfer of ideas and practices. Addressed.

Project Consortium A real “consortium” is not yet finalized, but several expressions of interest on related topics have been received so far from. Steelmaking Companies (AM, Tata Steel, ILVA, Lucchini) Plant builders (Tenaris) Research centers (BFI, CSM, ISQ, TECNALIA, IVL) Universities (SSSA, ULG) 6

Looking for partners… 1.To support the formalisation of potential cross-sectorial resource networks.. 2.To provide knowledge for investigation of single and cross-sectorial resource networks 3.To provide potential application to case studies (e.g. on water, energy, by-products, etc.) 7

Contact details Valentina Colla Scuola Superiore Sant‘Anna - Institute for Communication Information and Perception Technologies Deskphone: Mobilephone: Address: Via Moruzzi 1, Pisa, Italy 8

9 Organization The work force consists of around 110 professors (incl. assistant) and a research staff of people. SSSA is structured in 6 Institutes: dealing with Technologies for Communication, Information and Perception (TeCIP), Biorobotics, Life Sciences, Management, Economics and Law. TeCIP institute is particularly active in: IT technologies, Optical Communications and Industrial automation (including Iron and Steel sector). Research on environmental topics and technologies for better sustainability of industrial processes. Deep experience in EU research within the past FPs as well as RFCS. Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA) is an autonomous special-statute university located in Pisa (Italy). It was established in 1957 and operates in the field of applied sciences. SSSA is a college of honours and research university where students, researchers and professors form part of a scientific community aimed at combining a diversity of knowledge and creativity with advances in scientific discoveries and technological innovation.