Jamshedpur, October 4: A two-day National Conference on “Circular Economy Conference-Industrial By-Product Utilisation and Value Creation” was organised on October 3 and 4 at SNTI auditorium. The focus area of the conference was geopolymer technology, steel slag usage, fly ash valorisation, red mud utilisation, refractory waste recycling, critical metal recovery from by-products, and uses of by-products in cement and concrete
The event was organised by Tata Steel, Indian Ceramic Society, Jamshedpur Chapter and CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory.
The focus area of the conference was Iron & steel slag usage, fly ash valorisation, red mud utilization, geopolymer technology, refractory waste recycling, critical metal recovery from by-products, and uses of by-products in cement and concrete.
Dr. L. P. Singh, Director General NCCBM Haryana, Dr. Sandip Ghosh Chowdhary, Director CSIR-NML, Jamshedpur, Dipankar Das Gupta, EIC IBMD Tata Steel and Chairman CIRCON-2024 Dr. Sanjay Kumar, Chief Scientist, CSIR-NML, Jamshedpur inaugurated the Conference.
Dr. Singh delivered inaugural address on “Role of Cement/construction industry circular economy framework”. Dr. Sandip Ghosh Chowdhury emphasised the importance of circular economy approach. Dipankar Dasgupta motivated participants through his inspirational talk. He also emphasized the need of such Conferences for updating knowledge of different by-product generating during the iron and steel production and there is a need of emerging technology/ research in this fields.
Dr. Atanu Ranajan Pal ,CTO Process Tata Steel , Dr D.K Singh, HoD, Materials Group, Mr. Ulhas Parlikar, Former Director, ACC Ltd , Dr. Sanchita Jindal, Former Adviser (MoEFCC) and others speakers from different academia and industry has emphasized the circularity in each and every by-product generated at plant. Dr Sanjay informed that more than 15 experts and 35 contributory paper from different industry and reputed Institutions i.e. HIL, Resustainability , TRL, RHI, Refratechnik ,HZL CSIR-IICT, IIT Kanpur, IIT KGP etc. of India deliberated on utilisation of by-product and value creation in two days of conference.
The Conference was attended by more than 150 PG Students, Research Scholars and technocrats, and industry professionals.
