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SPIRE
Brokerage event
October 22nd
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SUSTAINABLE PROCESS
INDUSTRY
EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL
COMPETTIVENESS THROUGH
RESOURCE AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY

New inline measurements and

closed loop process control

Organization
VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut (BFI) is one of the leading European providers of
application-focused R&D in the field of steelmaking and neighbored industries located in Dsseldorf, Germany, with a staff of 130 people. BFI's field of activities
covers the entire production process chain, from charged materials to the final
products. Core competences lie in the fields of process engineering, energy and
resources and measurement techniques / process automation.
Division Measurement & Automation: Measurements in the liquid phase
Measurements in the solid phase
Process automation in liquid phase
Process automation in solid phase
Quality Control and Information technology

VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut GmbH
Sohnstrasse 65
40237 Dsseldorf
Germany
www.bfi.de

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Measuring, testing (process and

product, mechatronics, always
online)
Control (setup, open loop, closed
loop, manual support)
Monitoring, supervision, diagnosis,
optimisation
HMI, communication, protocols,
data acquisition, Data Mining, etc.
especially through-process

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CALL TOPIC YOU WILL ADDRESS.

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Relevant Call: SPIRE 1 Integrated Process Control

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High temperature processes (> 500C; in steel area e.g. sinter process, blast furnace, scrap
melting, secondary metallurgy; in other industries .)

3.

Local and distributed processes with uncertainties regarding quantity and quality of input
materials; sometimes long dead times, non-linear process behaviour

4.

Inline measurement and modelling of properties of input materials (in steel area e.g.
chemical composition and metallic yield of scrap, bulk density of scrap or coke, etc.; in other
industries.)

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Fast inline measurement of product properties (in steel area e.g. continuous fiber-optical
temperature measurement at high accuracy, etc.; in other industries: )

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Continuous process monitoring by analysing results from new measurement techniques

(Sensor Fusion if necessary) in combination with dynamic process models, application of
soft-sensors if necessary

7.

Advanced closed loop process control (e.g. control under uncertainties) for optimisation of
product quality and resource efficiency, based on the above measurements, monitoring
tools and predictive models

8.

Demonstration of new integrated process control solutions in process industries

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Project Idea Concept

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SPIRE ROADMAP AVAILABLE AT HTTP://WWW.SPIRE2030.EU/ . INDICATE AS WELL THE
CALL TOPIC YOU WILL ADDRESS.

closed loop
control

intelligent
monitoring

complete
description of
input
material

online, closed loop

control actions

new / fast inline

measurements

raw material,
input material

other industries
any kind of high temperature
processes

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improved resource efficiency

better product quality
increased productivity
lower production costs

Idea Impact
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CHARACTER OF THE IDEA.

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4.
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New real-time measurements and closed-loop control tools

in the field of high temperature processes
New solutions for monitoring of input materials as well as
properties of final products in high temperature processes
Improved process operation with respect to resource and
energy efficiency
Improved quality of final product and at the same time
reduced production costs
Strengthening of European industry

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Idea Impact
Relation to SPIRE roadmap:
SPIRE key component 2, Process
Key action 2.3: Process monitoring, control and
optimization
Realisation areas:

Implementing measurement devices for all aspects of intermediate/final

product quality and their integration into process control

Robust optimization methods to local targeted process control and energy

supply

Cross-sectorial aspects:
Applicable in all industries with high temperature
processes and the necessity to describe better the input
materials and to measure online additional product
features to optimise process control
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Existing Project Consortium

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BFI as applied research institute

Industrial partners from steel industry
Research partners from steel industry
Supplier of measurements devices (SME)

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Looking for partners

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LOOKING FOR AND THEIR ENVISIONED ROLE

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Industrial partners from outside steel industry with similar

tasks in the field of high temperature processes (e.g. nonferrous metals, glass, cement, .)
Suppliers of measurement devices to monitor input materials
or product properties outside steel industry (SME)
Supplier of Automation solutions

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Contact details
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Peters
Tel: 0049 211 6707 311
harald.peters@bfi.de

Head of Division Measuring

Techniques and Automation
Member of ESTEP WG1

General Manager of the Research Institute: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralph Sievering

Member of AIAG in SPIRE, Tel: 0049 211 6707 200, ralph.sievering@bfi.de
VDEh-Betriebsforschungsinstitut GmbH, Sohnstrasse 65, 40237 Dsseldorf, Germany

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