Room: Lumituuli
Session 3 - Circular Economy
of Metals
Chair: Dr. Benjamin Wilson
Co-chair: Prof. Kerstin Forsberg

Room: Kaleva
Session 4 - TOCANEM
Chair: Prof. Ari Jokilaakso
Co-chair: Lassi Klemettinen

8:30 Session Keynote
Circular Economy:
“Hype Word” or long-time development work?

Dr. Nani Pajunen, Sitra, Finland
-Online-
Session Keynote
Gasification of biochar for reduction purposes
Prof. Timo Fabritius, University of Oulu, Finland
-Onsite-
9:00 Improve silver refining quality and quantity regenerable ion-exchange resin for highly selective palladium capture in nitric acid
Vladimir Parfenov, Krastsvetmet, Russian Federation
-Onsite-
Towards carbon neutral nickel smelting
Petri Latostenmaa, Boliden Harjavalta, Finland
-Onsite-
9:20 Hydrometallurgical recovery of secondary raw materials
Arsi Saukkola, Kuusakoski, Finland
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Energy saving in China's copper smelting industry
On behalf of Prof. Zhihong Liu, CSU, China, Zulin Wang (Aalto University, Finland) gives the presentation
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9:40 Statistical Entropy Analysis: an Engineering Tool for the Circular Economy
Prof. Rodrigo Serna, Aalto University, Finland
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Alternative reductants for non-ferrous slag cleaning
Prof. Ari Jokilaakso, Aalto University, Finland
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10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:20 Circularity of battery materials from a chemical engineering perspective
Prof. Kerstin Forsberg, KTH, Sweden
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Improving inorganic circular economy – Case studies from the University of Oulu
Prof. Ulla Lassi, University of Oulu, Finland
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10:40 The kinetics of pyrite destruction by nitric acid
Prof. Herman Potgieter,
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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Sustainable development towards carbon lean ironmaking and steelmaking
Prof. Yongxiang Yang, TU Delft, the Netherlands
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11:00 Integrated metallurgical processing in research
Dr. Anna Klemettinen, Aalto University, Finland
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SSAB Raahe Conversion to Fossil-free Steelmaking
Jarmo Lilja, SSAB, Finland
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11:20 Role of secondary streams in circular economy of metals
Dr. Lotta Rintala, VTT, Finland
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Thermodynamic modeling as a tool in understanding carbon-free pyrometallurgical processes
Prof. Daniel Lindberg, Aalto University, Finland
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11:40 Business models for circular economy
Dr. Esko Hakanen, Aalto University, Finland
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Towards fossil free metallurgy - how can gaseous reductants be efficiently used for smelt reduction
Prof. Caisa Samuelsson, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
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12:00 LUNCH