Workshop at the Royal Society in London
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February 7th, 2024
Professor Knut Marthinsen participated on 5-6 February at a two-day scientific discussion meeting on Sustainable metals and systems in London UK. The meeting was organised by Professor Julian M Allwood FREng, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Cambridge and Professor Dierk Raabe, Max-Planck Institute for Iron Research, and gathered more than 80 experts from around the world, with physical presence or online. The meeting was hosted by the Royal Society, London, and took place in venerable and historic locations in central London, with big paintings of Sir Isac Newton, Ernest Rutherford and Stephen Hawkings on the wall.
The meeting was structured in the form of 14 plenary talks and a poster session with 9 posters – the latter were also presented through 5 mins flash talks for each. The meeting aimed to nucleate a new research community focused on scalable solutions that will allow the global metals system to function with zero emissions by 2050. Examples of topics covered by the presenters were:
- Decarbonising the global steel industry in a resource-constrained future, – a systems perspective
- A key feedback loop: electrifying metals production to electrify society
- Recycling innovations to utilise waste into sustainable green metal manufacturing
- Fossil-free ironmaking, recycling oriented alloys design, lean and impurity-tolerant alloys
- Matching metal supply and demand when electricity and carbon storage are constrained
Marthinsen presented the SFI PhysMet centre – aims and main research areas and gave examples of ongoing relevant research activities.
Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.
More details about the program and the presenters
