Welcome to "Bergsmansafton" via Teams with Sridhar Seetharaman who is Professor and Department Chair for Materials Science and Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States of America (USA).
At this evening's presentation, titled “Pathways for Steel Decarbonisation - A Comparative Study and A Few Case Studies from a US Perspective”, Sridhar will share insights from fieldwork on LCA based assessment of the competitiveness of decarbonisation in steel sheet production compared to alternative materials such as aluminium and reinforced polymer composites for the automotive industry.
This will be a joint event between the Swedish and Finnish Metal & Mining Associations (SBF and VMY).
Time: March 3, 2026 at 6:30-8:00 PM.
Venue: Digital (Teams)
Language: English
If various regions around the world implement carbon taxes (or credits for carbon avoidance or mitigation), we assert that the competitiveness of steel products in the marketplace will shift according to individual manufacturers’ ability to control CO2 emissions as measured by cradle-to-gate Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). The talk discusses the future costs scenarios based on carbon taxes and hydrogen cost for the case study of producing automotive sheet. The pathways to decarbonize steel in comparison to alternative materials such as aluminium and reinforced polymer composites were evaluated. Normalized global warming potential (nGWP) estimates were calculated assuming inputs from the current USA electricity grid, and a hypothetical renewable-based grid. From the cost point of view, the current cheapest decarbonized production routes are identified and some ongoing research in USA is discussed.
BIO: Sridhar Seetharaman is a Professor and Department Chair for Materials Science and Engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology. He was the PI, and designated CEO, of EPIXC, Electrified Processes for Industrial Excellence, DOE’s 7th Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute. Throughout his 23-year career, he has successfully built strategic partnerships and executed key initiatives across industry, government, and the academic community. He is a member of US DOE Secretary’s Industrial Technology Innovation Advisory Committee (ITIAC) and Chairs NIST (US Dept. of Commerce) Manufacturing Council. He currently hold a Joint Faculty Appointment at NREL and Idaho National Laboratory. He is an international member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, a Distinguished Member and Fellow of the Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST) and a MERCATOR Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG). Previous appointments include: Senior Advisor at US DOE (EERE), POSCO Chair at Carnegie Mellon, NETL Faculty Fellow and Royal Academy Chair of Low C Technologies at Warwick University. He has significant experience with road mapping and strategic planning, including participation in the Roadmaps for US DOE’s NAWI Water HUB, AIST’s Steel Roadmap for NIST, US DOE’s EPIXC Institute and US DOE’s MYPP (Multi-Year-Program-Plan). He received his Ph.D., Materials Science & Engineering, MIT, 1998 and B.S., Materials Science & Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), 1994
Bild: Sridhar Seetharaman, Professor and Department Chair for Materials Science and Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
Anmälan senast den 2 mars
Inte medlem? Som medlem har du tillgång till flera förmåner, medlemstidning och även tillgång till alla våra evenemang där många av dem även är gratis för dig som medlem.
Läs mer och anmäl dig HÄR innan du bokar dig.
Varmt välkomna önskar
SBF:s Stockholmskretsen