Project ID:	APVV-21-0142
Date of submission:	2. 6. 2022
Project title:	The potential ofhydrogen utilization in metallurgical industry of SR aimed on decrease of CO2 production
R&D specialization:	20806-Metallurgy
R&D characterization:	Basic research
Project start:	01.07.2022
Project end:	30.06.2025
Co-ordinating organization:	Technical Universityof Kosice Faculty of Materials, Metallurgy and Recycling
Acronym:	Hydrogen
Statutory representative:	Dr. h. c. prof.h. c. prof. Ing. Stanislav Kmeť, CSc.

Annotation:
The long-term innovative goal of the metallurgical industry in Slovakia is to increase product quality, implement IT into technological processes, minimize energy and environmental demands and produce products with the highest possible added value. In the presented project from the point of view of reducing the impact of ecological load on the environment, the emphasis will be on metallurgical technologies in the conditions of the Slovak Republic. The aim of the project will be the development of new metallurgical technologies using hydrogen and its impact on the technological and ecological parameters of the production processes of iron, steel and ferroalloys. From the point of view of the Slovak Republic, such a project would be completely new with a great perspective in the future to apply its results to the operating conditions. The research laboratories of the project submitter will participate in the development of completely new technologies, which would create products with high added value (DRI and steel, metallic manganese, silicon carbide and ultrapure silicon), which would be in future produced in the Slovak Republic. To achieve these goals, it will be necessary to carry out thorough materials research, develop and optimize technologies for the production of metallurgical products with suitable qualitative, energy and environmental indicators that are acceptable to industrial practice. The submitted project will include the application and dissemination of knowledge from the solution of previous APVV projects from current researchers, which were focused on the impact of biomass on the quality of the iron ore agglomerate and the quality of the environment.

Key words:
hydrogen, metallurgy,carbon dioxide, ecology, DRI, steel, reduction, industry

Project objectives:

1. Study of knowledge, within the framework of previous projects in the world, the application of hydrogen in metallurgical processes of steel, ferroalloys and silicon. Energy use of hydrogen.
2. Development of thermodynamic models for the reduction of iron and manganese oxides using hydrogen.
3. Creation of a thermodynamic model of the reaction mechanism of CH4 with a process gas from the production of silicon, in which hydrogen and silicon carbide are formed. Utilization of generated hydrogen for energy and reduction processes.
4. Design of experimental methods for the implementation of laboratory experiments in the production of DRI and steel, manganese, silicon carbide and silicon using hydrogen.
5. Implementation of laboratory experiments focused on the development of a new technology for the reduction of Fe and Mn ores using hydrogen.
6. Implementation of laboratory experiments focused on the use of silicon carbide from the process reaction of hydrogen formation in the technology of production of ultrapure silicon.
7. Proposal of possibilities of application of selected metallurgical technologies using hydrogen for use in operating conditions.

Name and surname:	Jaroslav Legemza
Academic and scientific degree:	prof. Ing. PhD.
Phone:	+421 55 602 3155, +421 902 562 525
E-mail:	jaroslav.legemza@tuke.sk

Category	Outcomes	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026	2027	2028
Publications and citations	1.02 Interantional current contents publications		1	1	2
Publications and citations	1.04 SCI citations of the publications originated within project in international current contents journals			1	2	1
Publications and citations	1.06 Publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals in SR		1	2	2	2
Publications and citations	1.07 Publications in international peer-reviewed scientific journals		1	2	2
Publications and citations	1.10 Scientific monographs in SR				1
Publications and citations	1.12 University textbooks issued in SR				1
Applied outcomes	3.1 Models			1
Outputs into education and popularization of science	4.3 Master theses accomplished within project				1
Outputs into education and popularization of science	4.4 PhD students which will be trained within project				1
Outputs into education and popularization of science	4.6 Popularization activities		4	4	4
Other outcomes	5.3 Electronic documents		1	1	1
Other outcomes	5.6 Other outcomes (conceptual frameworks, methodologies, studies, etc.)		1	1	1