1、炼铁用绿色原料技术研究

◆ 炼铁用块状原料绿色制备工艺开发

◆ 绿色原料高温反应行为研究

2、炼铁用低碳燃料技术研究

◆ 炼铁用低碳燃料绿色制备工艺开发

◆ 低碳燃料高温反应行为研究

3、低碳炉料高效使用技术

◆ 低碳炉料冶炼行为历程解析

◆ 低碳炉料使用标准及技术开发

4、钢铁生产流程高效使用生物质能技术研究

◆ 生物质高效预处理技术研究

◆ 生物质能替代化石燃料的低碳冶炼技术研究

5、中低温余热有效利用技术研究

◆ 中低温余热资源高效利用的技术路径研究

◆ 钢铁流程中低温余热资源利用技术开发

6、二氧化碳制冶金用合成气技术研究

◆ 低成本低能耗的CO₂制取冶金用合成气技术开发

◆ CO₂耦合冶金余热及生物质制取冶金用合成气技术研究

7、高温冶金熔渣有价元素低碳高值资源化利用技术研究

◆ 高温熔渣高值资源化基础研究

◆ 多组分有价元素低碳利用工艺技术开发

8、高效低能耗膜法二氧化碳捕集技术研究

◆ 高性能二氧化碳捕集膜材料开发

◆ 适用于冶金煤气/烟气中二氧化碳的高效低能耗的膜分离工艺技术研究

◆ 冶金煤气/烟气中CO₂的膜分离强化机制研究

9、不锈钢母液低碳冶炼应用基础研究

◆ 不锈钢原料绿色低碳处理技术

◆ 不锈钢母液低碳冶炼技术

10、青年项目

◆ 研究方向为低碳冶金基础与应用基础研究

◆ 选题不受本次指南方向限制

◆ 申请人年龄要求为1989年1月1日以后出生

Release of the 2023 Project Guideline of China Baowu Low-Carbon Metallurgy Innovation Fund

China Baowu has set up the Low-Carbon Metallurgy Innovation Fund since 2021, which provides RMB 35 million annually mainly to the fundamental and applied fundamental research of low-carbon metallurgy, promoting green and low-carbon development. The 2023 Project Guideline of China Baowu Low-Carbon Metallurgy Innovation Fund will be released at the Global Low-Carbon Metallurgical Innovation Alliance Conference on October 15, 2023.

The Low-Carbon Metallurgy Innovation Fund (hereinafter referred to as the Low-Carbon Fund), established by China Baowu, aims to focus on the green and low-carbon metallurgical processes and technologies, subsidize the fundamental and applied fundamental research of low-carbon metallurgy and the exploration, major innovations and practices of low-carbon metallurgical processes and technologies, and support the progress in low-carbon metallurgy technologies and industrial transformation and upgrading.

In August 2023, China Baowu Low-Carbon Metallurgy Innovation Center (hereinafter referred to as the Low-Carbon Center) started to compile the 2023 Project Guideline of the Low-Carbon Fund. It collected opinions from all sectors of society on the project guideline, receiving 127 suggestions in total. Experts from the technical committee of the Global Low-Carbon Metallurgical Innovation Alliance evaluated the most suitable and urgent research and identified 10 directions based on scores given to the received opinions. They will be released on the Global Low-Carbon Metallurgy Innovation Forum 2023 on October 15.

This year’s project guideline focuses on areas like the green raw material of low-carbon metallurgy, low-carbon fuel, biomass energy, comprehensive utilization of metallurgical resources, and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS). It encourages the fundamental and applied fundamental research of new materials, new products, new technologies, and new processes in steel and related fields.

In the meantime, in response to the call of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to strengthen the cultivation and utilization of young scientific and technological talents, China Baowu initiated a “Youth Program” in this year’s project guideline. The Youth Program focuses on the fundamental and applied fundamental research of low-carbon metallurgy, and its topics are not subject to the directions in the project guideline. Only young people under 35 years old are qualified for application. Aiming to encourage young scientific and technological talents to shoulder the responsibility and take the lead, the Youth Program guides young people to pay close attention to the national carbon peaking and carbon neutrality strategy and the demands of the steel industry and to contribute wisdom to achieving the carbon neutrality goal of the steel industry.

When compiling the project guideline, the Low-Carbon Center invited experts from the technical committee of the Alliance to carry out democratic evaluations while taking both the distribution of specialties and the systematic and balanced contents of the project guideline into account, ensuring a transparent and traceable decision-making process.

The 2023 Low-Carbon Fund will accept applications from October 16 to December 31, 2023. China Baowu Low-Carbon Metallurgy Innovation Fund is administered by the Low-Carbon Metallurgy Innovation Center of China Baowu Steel Group Corporation and is subject to public supervision.

The project guideline and application method are listed as follows:

I.2023 Project Guidelines of China Baowu Low-Carbon Metallurgy Innovation Fund

1. Research on green raw material technology for ironmaking

◆Development of green preparation process of lumpy raw materials for ironmaking

◆Research on the high-temperature reaction behavior of green raw materials

2. Research on low-carbon fuel technology for ironmaking

◆Development of green preparation process of low-carbon fuel for ironmaking

◆Research on the high-temperature reaction behavior of low-carbon fuel

3. Technology for the efficient use of low-carbon furnace burden

◆Analysis of the smelting behavior of low-carbon furnace burden

◆Utilization standard and technology development of low-carbon furnace burden

4.Research on the efficient utilization of biomass energy technology in the steel production process

◆Research on the efficient pretreatment technology of biomass

◆Research on the replacement of the low-carbon metallurgy technology of fossil fuel by biomass energy

5.Research on the effective utilization of medium- and low-temperature waste heat technology

◆Research on the technology path of the efficient utilization of medium- and low-temperature waste heat resource

◆Development of the utilization of medium- and low-temperature waste heat resource technology in the steel process

6.Research on technology using carbon dioxide to produce synthesis gas for metallurgy

◆Development of low-cost and low-energy technology using CO₂ to produce synthesis gas for metallurgy

◆Research on CO₂-coupled metallurgical waste heat and biomass technology to produce synthesis gas for metallurgy

7.Research on low-carbon and high-value resource utilization technology of valuable elements in pyrometallurgical slag

◆Fundamental research on high-value resource utilization of high-temperature slag

◆Development of the low-carbon utilization process and technology of multi-component valuable elements

8.Research on carbon dioxide capture technology using high-efficiency and low-energy membrane process

◆Development of membrane materials for high-performance carbon dioxide capture

◆Research on the high-efficiency and low-energy membrane separation process and technology for carbon dioxide in metallurgical gas/fume

◆Research on strengthening the membrane separation mechanism for CO₂ in metallurgical gas/fume

9.Applied fundamental research on low-carbon smelting of stainless steel mother liquor

◆Green and low-carbon treatment technology of stainless steel raw materials

◆Low-carbon smelting technology of stainless steel mother liquor

10.Project for young researchers

◆Research direction is the fundamental and applied fundamental research of low-carbon metallurgy

◆Topics are not subject to the directions in the project guideline

◆Applicants shall be born after January 1, 1989.

II. Project Application and Contact Information

1.Applicants can download the “Project Application and Management Guideline of China Baowu Low-Carbon Metallurgy Innovation Fund” and the “Project Application for China Baowu Low-Carbon Metallurgy Innovation Fund” from (1) Annexes 1 and 2 at the end of the text or (2) the official website of the Global Low-Carbon Metallurgical Innovation Alliance at www.baowugroup.com/glcmia/.

2.Please submit the project application to China Baowu Low-Carbon Metallurgy Innovation Center by email at lcmic@baosteel.com.

3. Deadline: December 31, 2023

4. Contact Person: Lu Zhengdong

5. Tel: 021-26641446

Note: The 2021 and 2022 Project Guidelines of China Baowu Low-Carbon Metallurgy Innovation Fund can be found at the end of the text in Annexes 3 and 4. Please note that, in principle, research that has been funded by the guidelines in the previous two years will not be funded by the Low-Carbon Fund.

China Baowu Steel Group Corporation will select and fund the outstanding projects according to the application and evaluation.