VDZ Congress 2024

 
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Programme

OPENING
 

• Welcome
  Christian Knell, President of VDZ
   
• The decarbonisation of concrete design – what we need from the cement and concrete sector
  Paul Astle, Ramboll
   
• The role of SCMs in tomorrow's cement and concrete
  Hendrik Möller, SCHWENK
   
• Closing the material and CO₂ loop of concrete
  Jan Skocek, Heidelberg Materials
   
• Grinding – state of the art and beyond
  Karl-Heinz Boes, Holcim / Stefan Seeman, VDZ
   
• The carbon capture value chain
  Kristina Fleiger, VDZ

DECARBONISATION THROUGH CARBON CAPTURE
 

• The role of CCS
  Katherine Romanak, University of Texas
   
• Experiences from carbon capture projects at Holcim
  Laurent Seyler / Michael Weihrauch, Holcim
   
• CCUS – lessons learned at CRH
  John Glynn, CRH
   
• Catch4climate project – the first of its kind pure oxyfuel pilot plant
  Tobias Kaschke, CI4C Consortium
   
• IFESTOS: lessons learned so far
  Faidon Prokopios, TITAN
   
• The Rohrdorfer race to net zero cement production
  Helmut Leibinger / Christopher Ehrenberg, Rohrdorfer

DECARBONISATION THROUGH PROCESS DEVELOPMENT
 

• Net zero decarbonisation levers: global status and outlook
  Claude Loréa, GCCA
   
• Sinoma – its future cement plant
  Sui Tongbo, Sinoma
   
• Meca-clay, a promising alternative technology to activate any clay as SCM
  Luc Rudowski, thyssenkrupp Polysius
   
• Industrial experience of the Vicat Group in the production of calcined clays
  François Avet, Vicat
   
• Clinker Micronisation – CO₂ emissions reduction by enhancing the grinding process
  Nestor Isaias Quintero Mora / Yuly Natalia Cajamarca, CEMEX

DIGITALISATION TO INCREASE EFFICIENCIES
 

• Digital transformation – unifying data structures in cement plants
  Kevin Treiber, VDZ
   
• Cement plant prescriptive maintenance in 3D; transforming data into dollars in the digital era
  Scott Ziegler, TITAN
   
• Enhancing efficiency – standardising delivery notes in the cement industry to meet evolving supply chain demands
  Wolfgang Peseke, Dyckerhoff
   
• Improving kiln stability and fuel efficiency with artificial intelligence
  Daniel Summerbell, Carbon Re

PROCESS CONTROL – EMISSION ABATEMENT
 

• Successful generational change at Alpacem Austria
  Florian Salzer, Alpacem
   
• Mercury emissions – control and measurement
  Robin Harrass / Ute Zunzer, VDZ
   
• UltraTech's experience in using roller presses for slag grinding
  E.R. Raj Narayanan / Mahendra Mutyapwar, UltraTech
   
• Unicorn hunting – how to attract and keep talents for our industry
  Stefan Puntke, Refratechnik
   
• Retrofitting of a pot calciner – impact on thermal efficiency and CO₂ emissions
  Martin Oerter, Dyckerhoff

BINDER TECHNOLOGY – EXISTING AND NEW CONCEPTS
 

• Carbon upcycling – unlocking a new generation of SCMs
  Apoorv Sinha, Carbon Upcycling
   
• Co-reactive – turning captured CO₂ into pozzolanic material
  Orlando Kleineberg, Co-reactive
   
• Fortera - ReAct^® Green Cement Ecosystem
  Craig Hargis, Fortera
   
• Cemvision – electrified cement production
  Claes Kollberg, Cemvision
   
• MgO based binders as a CO₂ sink
  Barbara Lothenbach, Empa
   
• Calcined clays of different origin – its performance as SCM in cement
  Simone Schulze, VDZ

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