At the Green Steel World Expo, Kanthal met the world’s leading experts, decision makers and companies currently working to decarbonize the steel industry and used the opportunity to share the benefits of electric heating.
Collectively the steel industry is one of the world’s biggest sources of CO2 emissions and it is clear that changes need to be made. However, the challenge facing many manufactures is knowing where and how to make reductions.
“The good news is that electric heating can play a significant role when it comes to carbon reductions,” said Robert Stål, CEO of Kanthal. “By replacing conventional gas heating in heat treatment processes with electric, manufacturers can make significant savings in energy consumption and emissions. In fact, with the solutions available today, electric heating represents one of the fastest ways steel manufacturers can have a meaningful impact on their carbon footprints.”
At the Green Steel World Expo that was held in Essen in Germany on 4-5 April, Dilip Chandrasekaran, Business Development Manager at Kanthal, gave a presentation on the benefits and advantages of electric heating. This included an outline of some of the technical challenges and how they can be overcome, as well as some tangible examples of companies that have successfully switched from gas heating to electric. He also addressed some of the misconceptions about electric heating.
“There is still a widespread belief that electric heating cannot deliver the power output and temperatures required for steel production, but we have already proven time and time again that our electric heating solutions have no problems with this,” says Dilip Chandrasekaran. “There are a lot of processes within steel manufacturing that can already be electrified today and are successfully being done. And there are other processes that are close to being electrified with just some additional development work. We’re ready to work together with manufacturers to help develop bespoke solutions to suit their needs.”
