BIO of Paulo Assis

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Paulo Santos Assis; Born in Rio Espera, Brazil, 18/03/1953
Metallurgical Engineer; M.Sc, Dr-Ing.
He holds a degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1975), a Gold Medal “Alcindo Vieira Prize”, a Master's Degree in Metallurgical and Mining Engineering from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1978) and a PhD in Metallurgy from Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochschule / Aachen (1991). He worked as a researcher at Acesita (now APERAM) from 1975 to 1984, as researcher and Head of Technical Steel Service at Mannesmann (now Vallourec) from 1984 to 1993. He collaborated at the Federal Fluminense University, as Visiting Professor, in Volta Redonda between 1993 and 1995 in the implementation of the Steel Excellence program through of his graduate program in metallurgy. He was advisor to CA-TEC: Engineering and Architecture Chamber of the Research Support Foundation of the State of Minas Gerais between 2001 and 2005 and Director of the Minas Gerais regional of the Brazilian Association of Metallurgy and Materials from 1996 to 2001. He was awarded three times in the Student Contest in the USA in 2009 in St Louis for the third best contribution in this section and in 2011 in Indianapolis for the second best contribution also in the same section and in 2014 in Indianapolis for the third best contribution in the area of biomass. He has coordinated more than 60 research and development projects and presented more than 240 technical contributions to national and international seminars, national and international indexed journals. He has been awarded six times in papers presented by his excellency in Brazil, respectively in 1995, 1996, 2008, 2010, 2013 and 2017, for papers; in the area of iron ore, blast furnace, energy, innovation and the environment. He has been a Full Professor at the Federal University of Ouro Preto since 1994, Honorary Professor at Hebei Technology University, Tangshan (China). Permanent Professor of REDEMAT (UEMG / UFOP) since 1996, besides being a researcher in Energy, Iron and Steel Manufacturing, Environment and Quality. Researcher at CNPq. He has experience in the area of Materials Engineering and Metallurgy, with emphasis on Extractive Metallurgy, working mainly in the following topics: steel industry: reduction and refining, injection of pulverized materials, development of new materials, environment, projects for quality improvement and increase productivity. Member of the board of EcoEnviroX. Reviewer of Technology in Metallurgy, Materials and MIneração Journal. Associate Editor of REM. Ad-hoc advisor at USP: Escola Politécnica. Coordinator of the Nucleus of Steel, Energy and Environment of the School of Mines of UFOP. Director of ABM: Brazilian Association of Metallurgy, Mining and Materials, 2013. Member of the Board of ABM, 2015 and 2017. President of the board of REDEMAT (2013-2017). Expert assistant in legal and administrative processes of the state and the federal government, in its area of competence. Participated in teacher selection competitions of USP, UFRGS, UFOP and CEFET-MG, University in Australia and in India (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore). Status: January 2019.

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BIO of Mery-Cecilia Gomez-Marroquin

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MERY CECILIA GOMEZ MARROQUIN D Sc. Eng.
Metallurgical Engineer (2001), by Universidad Nacional de Ingenieri-UNI (Peru), with a Master's (2004) & Doctor Science (2008) in Materials Engineering and Metallurgy by Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro-Brazil, and post-doctorate by six months at same university (2008). Senior Technological Researcher I at "Instituto General de Investigacion - UNI" . Is a Professor at UNI at Materials and Metallurgical Department FIGMM UNI and founding partner and president of the board of directors of Minerals, Materials and Metallurgy Peruvian Association-APMMM. Has published 2 papers in scientific journals, and more than 40 papers and 30 abstracts in conference proceedings.
Has been working on the following subjects: characterization and reduction by CO-CO2 mixtures gases of zinc ferrite pure and the zinc ferrite present into Electric Arc Furnace Dusts - EAFD using different techniques as such: X Ray Diffraction (using the Rietveld method), Transmission Microscopy Electronics and Scanning Microscopy Electronics. Has researches that had been reported onsets with the characterization of the compounds present in EAFD - Iron (III) oxide, zinc oxide & zinc ferrite - using techniques, methodologies and equipments for thermal characterization (DTA-TGA), structural (XRD), microscopic (SEM-TEM coupled to EDS), physical (briquette porosity, specific gravity, average size & particle specific surface) and chemical analysis.

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BIO of Shuji Kitayama

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Kitayama Shuji joined Kobe Steel in 1982. He was in charge of the ironmaking process at the Kobe Works, and carried out operation improvement and technical development of sintering plant and blast furnace.
In 2010, he became the manager of ironmaking department at the Kakogawa Works, afterwards served as deputy director of the Kobe Works. From 2018, he became the Executive Officer, and the Director of Kobe Works.

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BIO of Hirokazu Konishi

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He studied physical chemistry and electrochemistry in Kyoto University from 1997 to 2002. The title of doctor thesis is “Formation of Dy Alloy Films by Molten Salt Electrochemical Process”. He received PhD (Doctor of Energy Science) from Kyoto University on January 2003. He worked new copper recycle process using electrolysis from ammonia solution as a research associate in National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST in Japan) from 2002 to 2003. He has been working ironmaking, sintering of iron oxide and recycling of rare earth as an assistant professor in Osaka University from 2004 up to now. His main works are (1) Formation and Phase Control of Dy Alloy Films by Electrochemical Implantation and Displantation,
(2) Formation of Dy-Fe Alloy Films by Molten Salt Electrochemical Process, (3) The Preparation and Reduction Behavior of Carbon Composite Iron Oxide Pellets Using Semi-coal-char, (4) Effect of Residual Volatile Matter on Reduction Reaction between Semi-coal-char and Iron Oxide, (5) Effect of Residual Volatile Matter on Reduction of Iron Oxide in Semi-charcoal Composite Pellets, (6) Characteristic of Proton Conductor Prepared by Spark Plasma Sintering in the Simulated Coke Oven Gas, (7) Selective Separation of Rare Earth Metals by Molten Salt Electrolysis and Alloy Diaphragm, (8) Kinetics of Iron Carburization via Slag Containing Sulfur at 1723 K, (9) Combustion Behavior of Coated Cokes with Fine Fe3O4 and CaO, and (10) Electrochemical Reduction of Rare Earth Ions in Molten Chloride,
He recieved Molten Salt Young Researcher from Molten Salt Committee of the Electrochemical Society of Japan in 2009, ISIJ Young Researcher Award in 2010 and Nishiyama Commemorative Prize to be in March, 2019, both from The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan.

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BIO of Akinori Murao

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Dr. Akinori Murao belongs to JFE Steel Corporation in Japan. He is currently a Senior Researcher of Ironmaking Research Department in Steel Research Laboratory. He learned fatigue crack of steel material as bachelor degree student under the supervision of Professor Takashi Miyata in 1997, and process metallurgy, especially the blast furnace process as master degree student from 1998 to 1999 under the supervision of Professor Mamoru Kuwabara in Nagoya University.
After graduation, he Joined to the NKK Corporation in 1999 and was assigned to Ironmaking research department in Material & Processing Research Center on Fukuyama district. He was in charge of development of pulverized coal injection and combustion technology in lower part of blast furnace. In 2003, NKK Corporation merged with Kawasaki Steel Corporation. After inauguration of JFE Steel Corporation, he moved to Chiba district in the same affiliation to 2007. In Chiba district, he was in charge of development of burden distribution control technique of blast furnace and new ironmaking process so-called Rotary hearth furnace “Hi-QIP” in national project. In 2007, he was back to Fukuyama district and he enrolled in Tohoku University for studying Chemical Engineering as doctor’s course student under the supervision of Professor Hideyuki Aoki in 2015 --- at the same time working in JFE Steel. In 2017, he received the doctor degree, and he now continues to develop technology of blast furnace operation and equipment as researcher of JFE Steel Corporation for reduction of CO2 emissions.

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BIO of Seiji Nomura

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Seiji Nomura, General manager, Head of Division, Ironmaking Research Laboratory, Nippon Steel Corporation (formerly Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation) holds M.Sc in Chemical Engineering from Tokyo University and Ph.D in Chemistry from University of Newcastle upon Tyne in U.K. He started his career as a researcher in Ironmaking R&D division of Nippon Steel Corporation in 1989 and worked as a manager of the cokemaking plant at Nagoya works. After the merger of Nippon Steel Corporation and Sumitomo Metal Industries in 2012, he has been in the present position. He is an author or co-author of around 100 papers and 150 patents. He also won several prizes for his technical contribution, such as Josef S. Kapitan Award – Coke (2007) and AIST Hunt-Kelly Outstanding Paper Award (2008) both from AIST (Association for Iron & Steel Technology, USA), Nishiyama Commemorative Prize (2015) and Tawara (The Best Year’s Paper) Award (2015) both from ISIJ (The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan) and The Japan Institute of Energy Award for Progress (2006). From April 1, 2019, the company is renamed as Nippon Steel Corporation.

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BIO of Hideki Ono

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He studied ferrous metallurgy in the University of Tokyo from 1990 to 1996 and got the degree of Doctor of Engineering in March, 1996 from the University of Tokyo.
He worked in Osaka University from 1996 to March, 2018. From April, 2018, he has chaired a laboratory on metallurgical engineering of iron and steel materials in University of Toyama. Targets of his laboratory are elemental technologies of the production of high performance iron and steel materials. The main subjects are 1) energy saving and reduction of environmental loads in iron- and steel-making processes, 2) development of high purity refining method, 3) control of inclusions in steel, and 4) recycling of ferrous scraps. His main works are (1) Kinetic Studies on the Dissolution of Nitrogen in CaO-Al2O3, CaO-SiO2, and CaO-CaF2 Melts, (2) Effect of Water-Gas Shift Reaction on Reduction of Iron Oxide Powder Packed Bed with H2-CO Mixtures, (3) Gaseous Reduction Behavior of Iron Oxide in Mineral Phases and in CaO-SiO2-FeO Slag Powder, (4) Separation of Fe and Sn-Cu Phases in an Fe-Sn-Cu-B System, (5) Improvement of Gas Utilization Ratio in the Gaseous Reduction of Iron Oxide and Suppression of Dioxins Formation in Combustion Processes by the Enhancement of Carbon Deposition, (6) Effect of Mineral Composition and Pore Structure on Reducibility of Composite Iron Ore Sinter, (7) Rate of Iron Carburization by Carbon in Slags through Carbon/Slag and Slag/Metal Reactions at 1723K, (8) Oxidative removal of Cu from carbon-saturated iron via Ag phase into B2O3 flux, (9) Formation Conditions of Ti2O3, MgTi2O4, Mg2TiO4, and MgAl2O4 in Ti–Mg–Al Complex Deoxidation of Molten Iron, and (10) Copper Transfer from Molten Iron to Sodium Sulfide through Silver.
He received Nishiyama Commemorative Prize in 2009 from The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan and The Japan Institute of Metals and Materials Meritorious Award in 2013.

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BIO of Henrik Saxen

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Henrik Saxén; Born in Turku/Åbo, Finland, 06/11/1959
Henrik Saxén is professor at the Thermal and Flow Engineering laboratory of Åbo Akademi University in Turku/Åbo, Finland. He graduated from the same university in 1983 with a master’s thesis (with distinction) on Process Control. In 1988 he defended his doctoral thesis (Chem. Eng.) on modeling of the blast furnace. After holding different positions at the university, he became Full Professor in Heat Engineering in 1997 and has since then been the Head of the laboratory, which today has a staff of 20-25 people, of which four are permanent staff. He has given lectures on many topics, including thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, refrigeration engineering, modeling, optimization and neural networks and has supervised more than 90 master’s thesis works and 17 PhD works.
Henrik has been a member of the board of the university, the faculty board, and has represented the university and academic community in several foundation boards. He has also been a member of audit groups of other universities. During 1998-2000 he was Dean of the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and in 2006-2009 he was Vice Rector (research) of the university. Since 2017, he is Visiting Professor at Shanghai University.
As for scientific activities, he has been the reviewer/external examiner of more than 35 doctoral theses in Finland and abroad and a reviewer of 50 different scientific journals. He was a member of the International Scientific Board of ISIJ International, is presently a member of the editorial boards of Heliyon and Metals, and has also been guest editor of several special issues. He has been acting in many organizing committees/advisory boards of conferences and as reviewer for academic positions and project applications in Finland, Sweden, Norway, South Africa, Austria, Estonia, Luxembourg, Ireland, Kazakhstan and the Netherlands.
Henrik’s main research activities are on mathematical modelling and optimization of industrial processes, with particular focus on ironmaking technology and energy issues. On these research topics he has an active collaboration with academia and industry, both nationally and internationally, and has contributed to eight European projects under Research Funds for Coal and Steel (former ECSC). He has published more than 150 papers in international referee journals (ISI Thomson) and more than 250 conference papers.

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BIO of Kazuhiro Seto

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Kazuhiro Seto is a Senior Vice President and the Director of Steel Research Laboratory in JFE Steel Corporation. He has earned his Bachelor and Master of Engineering degrees from the Department of Materials Engineering in the University of Tokyo in 1984 and 1986, respectively. He was assigned as a researcher of Sheet Steel Laboratory in former Kawasaki Steel (present JFE Steel) in 1986, and then assumed the present post in 2018. He has been active in the development of high strength steel including coated steel for automotive use. He spent a couple of years in Oxford University to analyze grain boundary segregation in interstitial free steels with 3D atom probe tomography from 1996 to 1998. He has earned his Doctor of Engineering degree from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Kyushu University in 2010. He is currently a delegate of The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan.

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BIO of Jun-ichi Tani

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Jun-ichi Tani is Executive Officer and the Head of Yawata Works of Nippon Steel Corporation (formerly Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation).
He was educated at Osaka University, graduating from the Department of Metallurgy, (late) Prof. Munekazu Ohmi’s Laboratory, in March, 1985. He subsequently graduated from the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Department of Metallurgy, Associate Prof. Tateo Usui’s Group, in March, 1987.
After receiving master degree in metallurgy at Osaka University, he joined Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. in April, 1987 and his career started as an engineer in the field of steel making in Kashima Works. During his work in Kashima for 23 years, he had been improving converter operations, and especially he developed converter blowing control models, which have been contributing largely to steel making process until now and are widely used for a large amount of steel works.
Then he became General Manager of Steel Making Department in Kashima Works in 2008 and in Wakayama Works in 2010. After the merger of Nippon Steel Corporation and Sumitomo Metal Industries in 2012, he became General Manager of Production & Technical Control Div. in Wakayama Works. After transferred to Yawata Works as General Manager of Steel Making Department in 2014 and Deputy General Superintendent in 2016, he became Executive Officer as Head of Safety Div. in 2017. From April 2018, he is the Head of Yawata Works and in command of production for many kinds of steel products, which are used all over the world. From April 1, 2019, the company is renamed as Nippon Steel Corporation.
Yawata Works started the Blast Furnace operation in 1901 for mass production of iron as a government enterprise, and still now Yawata Works is working as an Integrated-Steel Works and increasing the capacity as a result of integration with Kokura Works in 2014. Four buildings in Yawata Works are included as parts of the World Heritage for Japanese Industrial Revolution in Meiji Era at Kitakyushu registered since 2015.

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