Presentation title: Mathematical model and industrial validation of blast furnace ironmaking with hydrogen injecting process

Wei Zhang is an Associate Professor for Department of Metallurgical Engineering at Wuhan University of Science and Technology (WUST). He is one of the youth editorial board members for several professional journals such as Journal of Iron and Steel Research International and so on. He became an engineer at Pangang Group after finished his master’s degree from Northeastern University (NEU) in 2009. He had got his Ph.D. in Ferrous Metallurgy at NEU before he joined WUST in 2015. He worked as a visiting scholar and a program researcher in Åbo Akademi University (Finland) in 2019 and in 2022, respectively. His main researches are in the ironmaking field including hydrogen and oxygen enriching blast furnace, top gas recycling blast furnace, non-blast furnace and so on. He is interested in utilizing physical chemical method and computational modelling method to interpret or optimize ironmaking process, and putting every effort for innovative sustainable ironmaking technologies.