Room: Lumituuli
Session 3 - Circular Economy of Metals
Chair: Prof. Rodrigo Serna
Co-chair: Tommi Rinne

Room: Kaleva
Session 4 - Carbon neutral metallurgy
Chair: Prof. Daniel Lindberg
Co-chair: Fabiola Lasar

8:30 Session Keynote
Markus Reuter, SMS Group, Germany
Digital Twinning & Exergy of Circular Economy Systems: Examples from industry
Session Keynote
Esa Peuraniemi, Boliden Harjavalta, Finland
Technological solutions and their challenges
9:00 Sami Virolainen, LUT University, Finland
Process options to recover lithium from primary and secondary sources
Jarmo Lilja, SSAB, Finland
Transition of SSAB’s Nordic strip production to fossil-free mini-mill based operation
9:20 Eero Jokinen, Kuusakoski, Finland
What’s in the horizon for the recycling industry
Yongxiang Yang, TU Delf, the Netherlands
Assessment of energy requirements for future green ironmaking processes
9:40 Simon Michaux, GTK, Finland
An evolution of the circular economy
Timo Fabritius, University of Oulu, Finland
Role of hydrogen in future steelmaking
10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:20 Songhak Yoon, Fraunhofer IWKS, Germany
Li-ion battery recycling by direct regeneration process
Longgong Xia, Central South University, China
The flash reaction behavior of goethite residue in Kivcet process - in honor of Prof. Ari Jokilaakso
10:40 Nima Emami, Turku University, Finland
Designing battery recycling processes with the aid of machine learning
Safoura Babanejad, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Sustainable Recycling of Spent Lithium-ion Batteries An In-situ Approach for Recovery and Alloying of Valuable Metals
11:00 Jyri Hanski, VTT, Finland
Insights into circular economy potential of lithium by dynamic material flow analysis
Desmond Attah-Kyei, Aalto University, Finland
Biochar reductants in non-ferrous metallurgy
11:20 Minerva Vierunketo, Aalto University, Finland
A new circularity parameter combining mass and energy preservation
Sunjoong Kim, Chosun University, Republic of Korea
Utilization of renewable carbon resources for reduction of mill-scale from industry
11:40 Bart Verrecht, Umicore, Belgium
Towards sustainable battery recycling – an industry perspective
Fiseha Tesfaye, Åbo Akademi, Finland
Developments on pyrometallurgical recycling of metals and the journey to carbon net-zero
12:00 LUNCH