Department of innovative metallurgy and digital technologies
- Implementation of basic and applied research within the framework of structural projects APVV, VEGA and SF EU, as well as solutions of research projects for practice,
- Transformation of the metallurgical industry with a focus on innovation and decarbonisation of the metallurgical industry,
- Modelling of production of various agglomerates based on Fe, Mn, Ti by means of complex and analytically equipped sintering agglomerating laboratory equipement,
- Implementation of biomass in the agglomeration and blast furnace process,
- Technological and ecological aspects of the production of coke, sinter, pellets, pig iron, steel and ferroalloys,
- 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),
- Optimization of metallurgical technologies for the production of iron, steel and ferroalloys,
- Research on the formation of titanium carbides and nitrides under conditions of pig iron production,
- Optimization of melting technologies on furnace equipment (resistance and induction furnaces)
- Study of steel flow processes in the 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,
- 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,
- Simulation of continuous steel casting using water models,
- 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.),
- Development of spherical impact pads in ladles and tundishes for casting of high quality steels,
- Research on the potential of using hydrogen in the metallurgical industry of the Slovak Republic in order to reduce CO2 production.