1. Introduction
2. Environment and pollutants : Basic concepts and principles of environmental protection, environmental legislation. Basic classification and characteristics of pollutants. Environmental impact assessment.
3. BAT-Best Available Technology. BREF for iron and steel production. Life Cycle Assessment-LCA method and its application in metallurgy. Clean Industry Agreement. Green Deal for Europe.
4. Industrial production: environmental pollution and waste. Legislation. Air, soil, water pollution. Basic classification of waste. Waste laws. Characteristics of industrial waste. Industrial waste recovery options. Recycling.
5. Metallurgical production: production of coke, sinter, pellets - process characteristics, generation of emissions and pollutants, environmental impact. Decarbonization and recycling options. BAT-measures integrated into the process.
6. Ironmaking and the environment: Characteristics of blast furnace production, pollutants in blast furnace ironmaking, recycling of wastes from secondary metallurgical production. BAT-measures integrated into the process.
7. Blast furnace process innovation: injection of alternative fuels, blast furnace gas recycling, furnace volume change. Alternative raw materials and fuels. ULCOS process, oxygen blast furnace - characteristics, emissions, wastewater, solid waste, by-products.
8. Steelmaking and the environment: Current methods of steelmaking from an environmental perspective. Production of emissions and pollutants, solid wastes, by-products. BAT-measures integrated into the process. Green steel.
9. New trends in iron production. Process characteristics, environmental impact. Energy saving and environmentally friendly ways of energy saving and CO2 minimisation in ironmaking. New technologies for iron production using hydrogen. HYBRIT-breakthrough ironmaking technology.
10. Alternative /green metallurgical production technologies: Direct and smelting reduction processes. Basic principles, classification and characteristics of individual processes. Environmental impact. Use of low-emission and other alternative fuels.
11. Decarbonization of industry: characteristics, basic directions : replacement of thermal energy sources, reduction of emission intensity of production processes, CO2 capture (CCS technology). Possibilities of replacing fossil fuels.
12. New methods of pollutant capture: electrostatic and bag filters. Characteristics and legislative framework. Use of captured particles. New possibilities of using fine grain waste.
13. Application of LCA method within the environment. Basic concepts of LCA: ecophilosophy, sozology, sociotechnics, sustainable development, carbon footprint, ecological efficiency, environmental footprint, definition of LCI, tools for performing LCA analysis, environmental management systems.
2. Environment and pollutants : Basic concepts and principles of environmental protection, environmental legislation. Basic classification and characteristics of pollutants. Environmental impact assessment.
3. BAT-Best Available Technology. BREF for iron and steel production. Life Cycle Assessment-LCA method and its application in metallurgy. Clean Industry Agreement. Green Deal for Europe.
4. Industrial production: environmental pollution and waste. Legislation. Air, soil, water pollution. Basic classification of waste. Waste laws. Characteristics of industrial waste. Industrial waste recovery options. Recycling.
5. Metallurgical production: production of coke, sinter, pellets - process characteristics, generation of emissions and pollutants, environmental impact. Decarbonization and recycling options. BAT-measures integrated into the process.
6. Ironmaking and the environment: Characteristics of blast furnace production, pollutants in blast furnace ironmaking, recycling of wastes from secondary metallurgical production. BAT-measures integrated into the process.
7. Blast furnace process innovation: injection of alternative fuels, blast furnace gas recycling, furnace volume change. Alternative raw materials and fuels. ULCOS process, oxygen blast furnace - characteristics, emissions, wastewater, solid waste, by-products.
8. Steelmaking and the environment: Current methods of steelmaking from an environmental perspective. Production of emissions and pollutants, solid wastes, by-products. BAT-measures integrated into the process. Green steel.
9. New trends in iron production. Process characteristics, environmental impact. Energy saving and environmentally friendly ways of energy saving and CO2 minimisation in ironmaking. New technologies for iron production using hydrogen. HYBRIT-breakthrough ironmaking technology.
10. Alternative /green metallurgical production technologies: Direct and smelting reduction processes. Basic principles, classification and characteristics of individual processes. Environmental impact. Use of low-emission and other alternative fuels.
11. Decarbonization of industry: characteristics, basic directions : replacement of thermal energy sources, reduction of emission intensity of production processes, CO2 capture (CCS technology). Possibilities of replacing fossil fuels.
12. New methods of pollutant capture: electrostatic and bag filters. Characteristics and legislative framework. Use of captured particles. New possibilities of using fine grain waste.
13. Application of LCA method within the environment. Basic concepts of LCA: ecophilosophy, sozology, sociotechnics, sustainable development, carbon footprint, ecological efficiency, environmental footprint, definition of LCI, tools for performing LCA analysis, environmental management systems.