How math can make for better metals
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How math can make for better metals
More than 50 experts on the metallurgical industry met in Kristiansand to discuss how mathematical models can improve metal production. The two-day conference, Mathematical Modelling in Metallurgical Industry, is part of a cooperation within SFI Metal Production, a Centre for Research-Based Innovation (SFI), hosted by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), with SINTEF and Teknova as research partners.
Mathematical models are used throughout the metallurgical industry to improve production processes in order to increase quality and reduce cost. A better understanding of reactions and material transport within the hot smelters producing different metals, could provide more consistent quality and less productions errors, thus improving competitiveness and profitability.
“This conference is an important meeting place for industry and academia, where the industry makes leading researchers understand industry challenges, and scientific partners present new research and findings. One important issue is how physics-based insight and data-driven analysis may complement each other. The conference aims at improving the communication between industry and academia, which will be of great value for both communities,” says Svenn Anton Halvorsen, Chief Scientist, Modelling and Simulation at Teknova (from 1 October part of NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS).
Keynote speakers were Prof. Dr. Dietmar Hömberg from Weierstrass Institute in Berlin, Germany, and Prof. Harald Martens from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim (NTNU). The conference included speakers from South Africa and Iceland, in addition to several presentations from the Norwegian metallurgical industry and research institutions.
More details of this conference will be presented in our next newsletter.