3d TWINGHY General Assembly
The partners of the TWINGHY project met on the 21st and 22nd of February 2024 at the premises of RWTH Aachen University (Germany) to exchange research results and to review
Digital TWINs for Green Hydrogen transition in steel industry
About
#TWINGHY aims to introduce hydrogen as a fuel to replace natural gas in the reheating furnaces of the steel sector.
The project will develop a Digital Twin to control the behaviour of the furnaces and optimize the operations.
Period of time
2023-2027
Total budget 8575321€
EU contribution:
4287661€
9 Partners
Coordinator
Compañía Española de Laminación (Celsa)
Funding from the European Union’s RFCS Big Ticket programme under Grant Agreement Nº 101099158. 12
Objectives
The main objective of the TWINGHY project is the demonstration of an advanced heat transfer process in the reheating furnaces of the steel sector, by the utilization of hybrid burners in order to increase the introduction of hydrogen for direct combustion with oxygen, while controlling the process with a Digital Twin of the furnace.
News & Events
Kick-off meeting for Twinghy project
At Celsa’s headquarters in Barcelona, all the entities involved launched the Twinghy project to further advance the decarbonisation of the steel sector: the Digital TWINs for Green HYdrogen transition in