Swerim is a research institute that conduct needs-based industrial research and development concerning metals and their route from raw material to finished product. We offer leading research in projects defined by industry funded by public or contract work. We lead research programs and networks to reach our vision of a fossil-free and circular industry. One of our newly started networks is of extra interest in the context of the goals set up in TWINGHY.
Arena for hydrogen in process and materials
The network “Arena for hydrogen in process and material” is a forum with a focus on dissemination of results and exchange of experience on hydrogen in process and material. We offer the opportunity to disseminate results and exchange experience with other networks, e.g. by monitoring conferences and workshops and providing feedback from the research front to our participants. We also organize an annual workshop for our participating companies with experience exchange and knowledge dissemination between different initiatives and projects.
In the TWINGHY project, Swerim will develop a digital twin of a walking beam reheating furnace with the capability to use hydrogen as fuel. It is our aim that this model will be able to predict dynamic events in the furnace, such as the inertia of the entire system due to dynamically regulating the gas mixture and production rate. Swerim has developed a generic simulation tool to compute temperature evolution in solid materials based on finite element analysis. This model will be coupled to a gas combustion model where the energy balance between gas, furnace walls and heating stock will be computed to determine the heat exchange via thermal radiation and convection at any position and time. The result is a dynamical responsive, physics based, simulation model using real production data.
Authors: Johan Lindwall and Ida Heintz
Johan Lindwall is a researcher at Swerim on the department of Heating and Metal with a Doctoral Degree in Material Mechanics from Solid Mechanics dept. at Luleå University of Technology. He has over ten years of experience in applied research in the steel manufacturing process and is leading various publicly funded projects.
Ida Heintz is group manager of Environment and Energy within the Metallurgy department at Swerim. She has a background in Chemical Engineering and metallurgy, with over 15 years of experience from research and development from different roles in Metal industry. Since 2019 she has worked exclusively with industrial transformation focusing mainly on hydrogen and CCUS solutions in metal industry in her roles as group manager and Research Area leader at Swerim.