Smelting Symposium
September 29 / 30, 2026 in Aachen
The Smelting Symposium was first organized in 2023 as an online event under the name SAF/OSBF Symposium by the Department for Industrial Furnaces and Heat Engineering (IOB) at RWTH Aachen University. After the renaming to Smelting Symposium and another online event in 2024, the 3rd Smelting Symposium will take place as a face-to-face event on September 29 and 30, 2026 in Aachen. You are welcome to register for the mailing list below.
The symposium will be used to present the current status of research & development and plant technology for electric smelting furnaces (ESF, including SAF and OSBF) and to discuss the future tasks and challenges of the industries (ferroalloys, steelmaking, recycling, etc.). To this end, specialist lectures from science and industry will be presented and discussions held.
Submerged Arc Furnace by Viktor Mácha / viktormacha.com
Previous Smelting Symposia
SAF/OSBF Symposium 2023 — online — December 15th, 2023
Smelting Symposium 2024 — online — October 11th, 2024
Registration for the mailing list
Scientific Committee
Moritz Eickhoff (RWTH Aachen University)
Ville-Valtteri Visuri (University of Oulu)
Geoffrey Brooks (Swinburne University of Technology)
Organization
Dr.-Ing. Moritz Eickhoff
Group Manager High Temperature Flows
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