The 15th Freiberg Refractories Forum 2024 took place on 11 December 2024 under the motto Decarbonisation and recycling strategies of the refractory industry.
105 experts from industry and several universities and colleges took part. The Theodor Haase Prize was also awarded.
Programme
Opening and Meeting of the DGM/DKG
Technical Committee "Refractories"
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Christos G. Aneziris
(TU Bergakademie Freiberg, IKFVW)
Recycling based Macarbon Lining Concepts
for Steel Ladles and Electric Arc Furnaces
Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schemmel (Refratechnik Steel, Göttingen)
Hydrogen technologies for decarbonisation
of industrial heating processes
M.Sc. Tobias Tillmann (GHI, RWTH Aachen)
Use of metallurgical residues
as potential raw materials
for high performance refractory castables
Dipl.-.Ing. Mathilda Derensy (GHI, RWTH Aachen)
Digital TWINs for Green Hydrogen transition
in steel industry
Dr.-Ing. Thorsten Tonnesen (GHI, RWTH Aachen)
Advancing High-Temperature Materials
through Interdisciplinary Research:
Exploring Refractory Recyclates and Metal/Ceramic Composites for CO2-Reduction in Metallurgy
M.Sc. Matheus R. Bellé (IEST, TU Bergakademie Freiberg)
THEODOR-HAASE-AWARD
M.Sc. Natalie Röhrig
M.Ed. Nicole Moritz
M.Sc. Dinesh Kumar Gunasekar
Postersession
BMWK joint project Hybrid-FIRE
DFG priority programme SPP 2419
ESF Junior Researcher Group "AddWasserstoff
At the end of the 15th Freiberg Refractories Forum 2024, three Theodor Haase Awards were presented for outstanding theses (master's or diploma theses) in the field of high-temperature materials. The Theodor Haase Prize is sponsored by the MORE-Freiberg e.V. association.
Award winner
M.Sc. Natalie Röhrig
(Institute of Energy and Climate Research IEK-1 - Team, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Supervisor: Prof. Olivier Guillon)
Master's thesis: "Reactive sintering of stoichiometric and non-stoichiometric YAG ceramics using FAST/SPS and their behaviour in the plasma etching process"
M.Ed. Nicole Moritz
(Institute of Integrated Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry, University of Koblenz, supervisor: Prof. Peter Quirmbach)
Master's thesis: "Solid-state NMR spectroscopic investigation of hydrated refractory cements. Correlation of 1H, 27Al and 29Si
NMR signals with results from XRD analysis"
M.Sc. Dinesh Kumar Gunasekar
(Institute of Ceramics, Refractories and Composite Materials, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Supervisor: Prof. Christos G. Aneziris)
M.Sc. Aneziris)
Master's thesis: "Synthesis and Characterisation of Coarse-grained Refractory Composite Material Nb / Al2O3 using Additive Manufacturing technique"
Dinesh Kumar Gunasekar has been doing his doctorate in the Research Training Group GRK 2024 since 07/2024.