Digitalization and Advanced Software Support of the Steelmaking Industry
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Computation and Simulation on Metals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 6549
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electric arc furnaces; modelling; optimization; software support
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Digitalization, advanced software support and optimized manufacturing practices are becoming a must in modern efficient industry. The areas of ironmaking and steelmaking are no exception since the increased market and environmental demands are higher than ever. High product quality standards, lower resource use, and the goals of reaching CO2 neutrality in the not-so-far future are encouraging researchers all over the world to devote extensive efforts to finding improved manufacturing practices and more efficient processes.
In the field of steelmaking, data acquisition and control systems, which are considered a prerequisite for digitalization and development of different process-improvement methods, have been present for decades; however, for a long time, their purpose was merely to provide basic process control, monitoring, and data storage. However, in the sense of the Industry 4.0, the potential of these systems is much greater. Large quantities of acquired process data, development of the advanced software solutions, which partially or completely rely on this data, and their integration into existent or new industrial IT and OT systems, can lead to improved process efficiency in many of the steelmaking fields.
Advanced software support solutions can in this sense reduce the role of the operators and their experience, which are in the steelmaking industry not negligible, and often lead to suboptimal process operation. Reduced insight into many of these processes due to the lack of process measurements represents another challenge for reaching the optimality of the processes. In this sense, the integration of different digital solutions into industrial infrastructure can thus lead to substantial improvements in either product quality, process reliability, or energy efficiency.
This Special Issue addresses new approaches and solutions in the digitalization of the steelmaking industry, which aim to improve different steelmaking processes in terms of their control, efficiency, reliability, and environmental impact. Manuscripts dealing with the practical implementation of the proposed solutions, their practical validation, and the before/after evaluation of their efficiency for a given process are highly desirable.
Dr. Vito Logar
Dr. Amirhossein Fathi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Advanced Software Support
- Digitalization
- Digital Twins
- Energy Efficiency
- GHG Emission Reduction
- Informatization
- Modelling
- Optimization
- Process Monitoring
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