Ares Cleantech® Digital Twin
Digital Transition in the Circular Economy for EAF Powders
ARES Cleantech® Digital Twin is the digital technological system for monitoring the status of the Cleantech® plant, which optimizes energy recovery and its management.
AIT Europa Engineering
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The ARES Project
In summary
AIT Europa Engineering S.r.l. built a Cleantech® plant for transforming steel mill fume abatement dusts. Through the ARES project, it integrated a control system with a digital twin (DT) to:
O1) optimise heat exchange between furnace fumes and incoming dusts, maximising energy efficiency;
O2) develop and test the DT of the plant, optimising reduction and ferroalloy recovery, high-value mineral wool production, and energy recovery from hot fumes;
O3) validate and integrate the DT into plant operation.
The project activities involved 4 work packages:
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WP1. Complete modelling of the CleanTech® system (RI)
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WP2. Digital Twin of the CleanTech® system (RI)
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WP3. Testing and verification of system operation and sustainability analysis (SS)
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WP4. Management, Promotion, and Communication (SS)
The activities focused on the first 3 WPs. In the period under review, WP1 was completed, WP2 developed, and WP3 initiated.
From 1 October 2024, the start date of my activities in the ARES project, I participated in the activities launched in the initial phase and interfaced with project partners, including Gruppo Sigla (now Relatech) and the University of Genoa.
Technical settings were shared, and a two-level identification of the CleanTech® system components was defined: the complete process (level one) and the three macro-areas into which it is divided (level two):
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Material Handling System;
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Cleantech® Furnace;
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FUMEX plant.
University of Genoa Project Partner
Thermochemical Power Group
A new component was introduced: the dust preheating system. The plant built under the Hephaestus project was equipped with a system that utilised the heat from furnace exhaust fumes to preheat the charge.
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Through the Thermochemical Power Group of the University of Genoa, verification and integration of the preliminary calculation model produced by AIT regarding the heat exchange envisaged in charge preheating within the CleanTech® process were carried out.
In collaboration with Relatech, the architecture of the ARES Digital Twin solution was designed. The main KPIs were defined, along with interfaces for data acquisition and storage, as well as their representation on graphical dashboards. The functionality for managing the asset inventory through a flexible hierarchical structure was also discussed.
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