Innovations
Department of Innovative Metallurgy and Digital Technologies
- Research on the potential of using hydrogen in the metallurgical industry of the Slovak Republic in order to reduce CO2 production
- Transformation of the metallurgical industry with a focus on innovation and decarbonisation of the metallurgical industry
- Development of spherical impact pads in ladles and tundishes for casting of high quality steels
- Study of steel flow processes in continuous casting process and analysis of high temperature interactions in complex metallurgical systems by application of thermodynamic and physical tools with the support of mathematical simulations
- Technological and ecological aspects of the production of coke, sinter, pellets, pig iron, steel and ferroalloys
- Optimization of metallurgical technologies for the production of iron, steel and ferroalloys
- Optimization of melting technologies on furnace equipment (resistance and induction furnaces)
- Implementation of new modern approaches in the field of secondary metallurgy and continuous steel casting
- The use of new slag refining systems for the area of continuous steel casting
- Development of new metallurgical technologies for complex processing of fine-grained iron-bearing secondary raw materials
- Development and use of new carbonaceous products in iron, steel and ferroalloy metallurgy (electrode materials, electrodes, reducing agents, carburizers)
- Research on the formation of titanium carbides and nitrides under conditions of pig iron production
- Simulation of continuous steel casting using a water model
- Modelling of production of various agglomerates based on Fe, Mn, Ti by means of complex and analytically equipped sintering aggregate
- Implementation of biomass in the agglomeration and blast furnace process
- Innovation and implementation of new methods for the study of technological processes based on iron, steel and ferroalloys (thermal imaging, high-temperature analyses and observations, physical and mathematical modelling, thermodynamic balances, etc.)
Department of Sustainable Energy and Industrial Processes
- Combustion of fuels in order to increase the efficiency of thermal aggregates and reduce emissions in the combustion process
- Study of the influence of flue gas recirculation on the combustion process
- the influence of magnetic or electromagnetic fields on the combustion process
- the use of reburning in the reduction of nitrogen oxides in the outgoing flue gases, low-emission combustion and oxy-combustion
- Heat flow and heat exchanges in thermal aggregates
- Thermal work and balancing of thermal processes, furnaces and thermal aggregates
- Mathematical modelling and optimization of energy conversion and heat transfer processes in thermal aggregates
- The use of renewable and non-conventional energy sources
- Biomass gasification
- Transport and distribution of energy media